Old Mull Map
This is a reproduction of a vintage map of Scotland which focuses on the the Isle of Mull. This Blaeu Map was originally titled ' Mvla Insvla'.
Beautiful reproduction of the Blaeu map based on the cartography of Timothy Pont, famous surveyor of Scotland in the late sixteenth century. The map displays modern-day Tobermory, Kilchoan, Isle of Mull, Kintyre, Craignure, Calgary, Salen, Scarinish, Ellenabeich, Arduaine, Lochaline, Arinagour, Toberonochy, Acharacle, Kintra, Balvicar, Fionnphort, Dervaig, Bunessan, Lochbuie, Mull, Isle Of Mull, Chart Mull, Craobh Haven, Ardfern, Strontium.
This map was made by the most important mapmaker in the Golden Era of Dutch map making, Willem Janzoon Blaeu based on work by Timothy Pont. The Blaeu maps of Scotland are well regarded for their spectacular ornate cartouches, employing vivid imagery
Blaeu was born at Uitgeest or Alkmaar, the son of a herring salesman anddestined to succeed his father in the trade, but his interests lay more in Mathematics and Astronomy. Between 1594 and 1596 he was a student of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and qualified as an instrument and globe maker. In 1600 he discovered the second ever variable star now known as P Cygni. On his return to the Netherlands, he published his own maps. He ran his own printing works which allowed him to continually update his own atlases such as his, Atlas Novus published in 1635.
He died in Amsterdam in 1638 and his business was continued by his two sons, Johannes and Cornelis Blaeu.
Timothy Pont (c. 1560–c.1627)
Pont was a Scottish minister, cartographer and topographer. He was the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland. Pont’s maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an actual survey
Available as:
24 x 18 inches
32 x 24 inches
42 x 32 inches
Available on 170gsm matt poster paper
or 200gsm silk poster paper.
Printed using pigment ink.
*Frame not included*
