Atlas
This is a hand-coloured copperplate map atlas published in Amsterdam in 1707 by the Danckerts family, a Dutch firm of cartographers and print sellers, and intended for merchants, scholars and armchair geographers. Its maps cover German and central European regions in dense detail, with rivers, borders, towns and decorative cartouches. A designer can draw on the fine engraved linework, the pale wash colouring of borders, and the heraldic shields and allegorical title panels framing each sheet.
