https://earlymoderneurope.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/090dde0b7cd53a6c6119b027f139937f.jpeg 97d92e569a29546b9ec416628ab12abb Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Print engraving Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 387 mm x 520 mm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map of Flanders and Hainaut, 1555, Jacob Bos, after Gerardus Mercator, after Jacob van Deventer, 1555 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jacob Bos (printer) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Adam Smart Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1555 Description An account of the resource This map of Flanders and Hainaut was constructed by Mercator following surveys by Jacob van Deventer. The above engraving is one of many engravings of this map, which became the standard map for the region. Historians have postulated that the depiction of the entire region of Flanders as unified was politically motivated, especially considering the anti-Spanish revolts in the city of Ghent which occurred during the map’s creation (Karrow 380). This situation reveals how maps reflect the view individuals had on their political situation. Historian Barbara E. Mundy examined the relationship between individual cityscapes (chorographic maps) and geographic maps in the early modern period. According to Mundy, this relationship “followed the fault lines between regionalism and nationalism [during the 16th century]” (Mundy 5). Maps were tools to reinforce a specific attitude about the power structures in Europe: individual cityscapes stressed the city as the location of power, while national maps attempted to create a picture of a broader, unified nation-state. Mercator and van Deventer were both mapmakers from the Low Countries. Mercator’s most famous contribution to mapmaking was his world map projection, which was published in 1569. The projection used on this map was most useful to sailors (Karrow 389), however it has since become popular (and criticized) outside of this context. Van Deventer’s works illustrate the duality of chorographic and geographic maps well. Earlier in his career, Van Deventer worked on projects which mapped wider regions and provinces in the Low Countries. In the latter part of van Deventer’s career, King Philip II of Spain hired him to create maps of cities in the Netherlands (Karrow 142). In van Deventer’s life the creation of both wider regional maps meant to inspire provincial unity and insular cityscapes which reinforced the independence of the city can be seen. Works Cited: Karrow, Robert W., Jr, Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps. 142-158, 376-406. Speculum Orbis Press, 1993. Mundy, Barbara E., “Spain and the Imperial Ideology of Mapping,” The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas. 1-9. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/90402/RP_P_BI_2756.html">https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/90402/RP_P_BI_2756.html</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This item is in the Public Domain.