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Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: enquiries@caburden.com
This is one of the most famous portraits of a cartographer. Engraved by Philip Galle, it is of Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) at the age of about 50. It was first published in his atlas the ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’ in 1579. A fine ornate portrait likely taken from the painting by Paul Rubens currently displayed in the Plantin-Moretus Museum. Hind I p. 157. pl. 91; Van den Broecke (1996) pp. 14-15.