[Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].
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Description
- Title
- [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].
- Published / Created
- [early 20th century]
- Publication Place
- Austria
- Abstract
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A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507).
Evidence of the forgery includes the superimposition of the gores over glue already on the paper surface, which suggests use of a sheet removed from a period volume, as well as details that replicate gores from an authentic woodcut print formerly owned by Austrian cartographer Franz Hauslab and acquired by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota in 1954
- Description
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A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with little distortion.
Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1519) was a German cartographer. His wall map Universalis Cosmographia (1507) and printed globes contemporarily derived from it were the first published globular maps of the Western Hemisphere and the first maps on which the name America appears in honor of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512).
In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger.
Publication place and date of creation supplied by the cataloger. - Provenance
- From the collection of Arthur Bruno Drescher. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2018.
- Extent
- 1 print : image 177 x 350 mm on sheet 305 x 430 mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- GEN MSS 1486 (Oversize)
- Container / Volume
- Box (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Maps
Globes (cartographic spheres)
Gores (Maps)
Photomechanical prints - Material
- photomechanical, black-and-white ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- America
- Subject (Name)
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Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883.
Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519 - Subject (Topic)
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Forgeries
Globes
World maps
Discovery and exploration
Name - Subjects
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Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883
Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519 > Forgeries
Globes > Early works to 1800 > Forgeries
World maps > Early works to 1800 > Forgeries
America > Discovery and exploration > Maps > Early works to 1800 > Forgeries
America > Name
Drescher, Arthur Bruno, 1895-1986 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Globe Gores Forgery after Martin Waldseemüller. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13581335
- Object ID (OID)
- 32335781
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