DETECTA - the TASMAN EFFECT

CAMPEN, Jacob van; and Jacob VENNEKOOL

De Grondt en Vloer vande Groote Burger Sael.

Publication Amsterdam, Dancker Danckerts, 1661.

Description

Engraved panorama of a mosaic tile floor map, on three joined sheets, some offsetting, [with] engraved allegorical titlepage for the complete work.

Dimensions 445 by 765mm (17.5 by 30 inches).

References Forsyth, ‘Australian Dictionary of Biography’, online.

This very early commemoration, in mosaic tile, of the discoveries of Abel Tasman was first laid on the floor of the Civic Hall in the Stadt Huys in Amsterdam in 1648, only four years after Tasman’s second voyage. It consists of the world in two hemispheres, either side of the northern night sky. Vennekool’s magnificent engraving was published in Jacob van Campen’s work on the Stadt Huys, ‘Afbeelding van’t Stadt Huys van Amsterdam’ (1661).

It was followed by a second depiction of Tasman’s discoveries on a floor at the entrance to the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia.

CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria

Nuova Zelandia, o Terra degli Stati, detta dagl’ Hollandesi het

Niew Zelandt Scoperta dagli Medemi l’anno 1654.

Publication

Napoli, Del P. Coronelli, …Con licenza de’ Superiori, 1706.

Description Engraved chart.

Dimensions

180 by 270mm (7 by 10.75 inches).

References

Tooley, ‘Mapping of Australia’, 1979, cf353.