“Perigrinatie ofte Veertich-Iarige Reyse der Kinderen Israels.” Double-page hand-colored copperplate map.

STOOPENDAAL, DANIEL

Dordrecht Amsterdam, 1729

See Laor 807.

From: Biblia… Dordrecht, Hendrick, Jacob and Pieter Keur, and Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick and Pieter Rotterdam.”Dese Kaerte wert gestelt voor het 33. Capittel Numeri”. Between fols. 74-75. Derived from the Nicholas Visscher map of 1650. The elaborate decorative engraving work in the lower quadrant of the map is the work of Daniel Stoopendaal (1672-1726) a Dutch engraver and mapmaker active in Amsterdam during the late 17th and early 19th centuries. His imagery depicts various scenes from Exodus including Moses receiving the Tables of Law, the encampments of the Israelites, Moses producing water from a stone, etc. Title cartouche upper right, includes a distance scale of “English miles” alongside two putti.