Paulus Swaen old Map auction and galleries
The next auction will be March 11 - 18th 2014. 
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Allegory of geography. Oil painting on canvas, diameter : 88 cm.,
by Joseph Van den KERKHOVE, Bruges, ca. 1700.
Two putty studying a terrestrial globe, one of them holding a pair of dividers. The information on the globe is clearly imaginary but the two cartouches and ships are typically 16th century in appearance. Was van den Kerkhove perhaps inspired by his countrymen Gerard Mercator, Hondius and Blaeu.
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![PTOLEMY,C., [Untitled world map] 'Insculptum est per Iohanne Schnitzer de Artmsheim' ], antique map, old maps](os/thumbs/23731.jpg)
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