Cybele and Geografia next to a globe with personifications of the four continents, Title page for: Frederik de Wit, Atlas Maior, after 1706, On the left on a throne sits Cybele, the personification of earth, with a mural crown and a key. Geography, the personification of geography, sits next to her on the floor with a book. She is surrounded by various measuring instruments and a lion lies at her feet. Behind Geography there are four putti as personifications of the continents on a globe. On the left, Fama blows a trumpet. In the left background, Neptune, god of the sea, sails on the water. Behind it the giant Atlas carries the sky., print, print maker: Laurens Scherm, (mentioned on object), after drawing by: Laurens Scherm, (mentioned on object), publisher: Frederik de Wit, (mentioned on object), publisher: Amsterdam, London, in or after 1706, paper, engraving, height, 483 mm × width, 292 mm
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