The carte à figures at its fullest: two hemispheres framed on every side by the peoples of the world in their dress, with the elements personified in the corners. Visscher was selling geography as a spectacle of variety — this is a map you hang, not one you navigate by. The great southern continent is still drawn as an unbroken coast, because nobody had yet sailed far enough south to disprove it.

Maker: Claes Janszoon Visscher
Date: 1652
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: David Rumsey Map Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
Credit: David Rumsey Map Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00342

As chosen: 20 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	20 x 16 in
Outside size	21.6 x 17.6 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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	910	Excellent	Trimmed 4.8%
14 x 11 in	650	Excellent	Trimmed 6.5%
20 x 16 in	455	Excellent	Trimmed 4.8%
30 x 24 in	303	Excellent	Trimmed 4.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
16 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
24 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop
40 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
48 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 21% crop