Collected Item: “Planisphère A Dieppe par Nicolas Desliens, 1566”
Title
Planisphère A Dieppe par Nicolas Desliens, 1566
Alternative title
World Map, 1566
Genre of image
Map
Medium
Vellum/ parchment
Creator
Nicolas Desliens
Era
Early Modern
Date
1566
Region and/or country (additional to map location)
Dieppe, France
Brief description/ overview
Portolan world map synthesizing Norman hydrographic knowledge in the mid-16th century. It is "South up:" a visual that mends modern northern hemisphere bias.
Website
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40767000m
More detail about the image
This is one of two world maps by Desliens known to exist; the other dates from 1541. La Nouvelle France occidentalle (Western New France) is written in large letters over an arc-shaped newly "discovered" North America, reflecting political bias of the time. Territories claimed by France are indicated by flags with fleurs-de-lis, in Canada (Labrador), Florida (on the May River), and Brazil (on the Rio de la Plata). Desliens is known only from his work and inscriptions on his maps indicating that he worked in Dieppe (hence the map locator) and Arques; no biographical information about him survives. (Information from Library of Congress)
Source of image
Bibliothèque nationale de France, GED-7895 (RES)
Identifier (accession number, Digital Object Identifier DOI, etc)
ark:/12148/btv1b55002609p
Provenance
Previous owner Viel-Castel
Image rights
Public Domain