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17th century colouring and artwork

The maps and prints of the original are decorated with gold leaf, and beautifully hand coloured by the well-known Dirck Jansz. Van Santen and other contemporary colourists.

Furthermore the atlas many fine pieces of original artwork by well-known artists such as: Andries Beeckmann, Caspar Bouttats, Jacques Callot, Cornelis Dekker, Cornelis Jansz., Adrian Matham, Reinier Nooms gen. Zeeman, Bonaventura Peeters I or II, Jan Peeters, Willem Schellinks, Seeger de Vries and many work from Vingboons’s workshop.