Africa
Willem Blaeu, c. 1617
$270
Print check at 24 x 18 in: 279 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 1.5% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Along the coasts, Blaeu's Africa is precise; across the interior, it is a magnificent guess — elephants and lions roam a near-empty heart, and the mythical mountains of the Moon feed the Nile. Around the edges run city views from Tangier to Alexandria and figures of the continent's peoples. It is a portrait of a continent Europe traded with but had barely entered, at once a triumph of engraving and a map of everything the mapmaker did not yet know. One quarter of the four-continent set.
- Maker
- Willem Blaeu
- Date
- c. 1617
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
- Credit
- University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00325
| Picture | 24 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 19.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 628 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.7% |
| 12 x 8 in | 567 | Excellent | Trimmed 9.8% |
| 14 x 11 in | 457 | Excellent | Trimmed 6% |
| 16 x 12 in | 419 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.5% |
| 18 x 12 in | 378 | Excellent | Trimmed 9.8% |
| 20 x 16 in | 314 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.7% |
| 24 x 16 in | 283 | Excellent | Trimmed 9.8% |
| 24 x 18 in | 279 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.5% |
| 30 x 20 in | 226 | Excellent | Trimmed 9.8% |
| 30 x 24 in | 209 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.7% |
| 36 x 24 in | 189 | Good | Trimmed 9.8% |
| 40 x 30 in | 167 | Good | Trimmed 1.5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 48 x 36 in | 139 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 113 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 6,810 x 5,031 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 66, lights 208 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 19.89
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