“De Heylige en Wytvermaerde Stadt Ierusalem, Eerst Genaemt Salem.” Hand-colored copperplate map.

VISSCHER, CLAES JANSZOON

Amsterdam, 1650

cf. Laor 1155.

This imaginary plan of ancient Jerusalem has a descriptive key at lower right. Solomon’s Temple appears in the upper center of the composition, at far left is the Palace of Herod, lower left is Golgotha. Central foreground is Mount Gihon and at lower right a scene representing the anointing of King Solomon by Zadok the Priest. Of interest is the fisherman emblem of the Visscher family in the lower left corner. Other, later versions do not include this emblem.