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Antique Moon Map c. 1702 — Doppelmayr, Tabula Selenographica

Name: Antique Moon Map c. 1702 — Doppelmayr, Tabula Selenographica
Brand: Old Map Studio
SKU: RIJKSRPPAO296
Price: 14.9 USD
Availability: InStock

CODE: RIJKSRPPAO296

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Description

An antique moon map, not a map of the Earth

The title on the sheet reads Tabula selenographica in qua lunarium macularum exacta descriptio — a selenographic table in which the lunar spots are exactly described. The Rijksmuseum gives Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr as the man who drew it and an anonymous printmaker for the plate, and names Johann Baptist Homann of Nuremberg as publisher, or possibly Homann's heirs. It is a map of another body, laid out with the same care a cartographer of the period gave to a coastline.

What the catalogue records

Rijksmuseum, object number RP-P-AO-29-6. Engraving and etching on paper, sheet 492 × 590 mm, dated between 1702 and 1742. The record also places the print in the Neuer Atlas bestehend in auserlesenen und allerneuesten, Nuremberg 1707, and in Doppelmayr's Atlas Coelestis in quo mundus spectabilis, Nuremberg 1742. About coloring it says nothing.

How large it prints

You get two frames of the same sheet, so there are two numbers. The map, cut to the outer border, prints to 42 cm (17 in) on the long side at 300 dpi; the full sheet with its margins to 48 cm (19 in). Both numbers come from the museum's own scan and not from an upscale.

Your file

Original	Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, Nuremberg, c. 1702, engraving and etching, published by Johann Baptist Homann
Sheet	492 × 590 mm in the museum record
Scan	5708 × 4884 px, from the museum's own scan, not an upscale
Print size at 300 dpi	the map prints to 42 cm, the full sheet with margins to 48 cm
You download	six ZIP archives: full sheet, trimmed, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 and ISO A
Inside each one	one JPEG at 300 dpi, the restoration passport as a PDF, a READ ME

How to print

Print at 300 dpi at the size above and do not let the shop scale the file up.
Pick the archive whose proportions match your frame, so nothing is cropped or stretched.
Ask for matte fine-art paper, sRGB, auto-enhancement off.
Where to print it: print shops near you and checked prices at online labs.

Source and rights

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, object number RP-P-AO-29-6. The museum marks the sheet as public domain, so it may be reproduced, altered and distributed, commercially too. Archive and object number are named in the passport inside every ZIP. Catalogue record: Rijksmuseum →

Every map is a scan of a real sheet held in a named archive — library, shelfmark and year, all stated. Nothing generated, nothing redrawn.

Questions

What exactly do I get after payment?

Six ZIP archives, each with one JPEG at 300 dpi, the restoration passport as a PDF and a READ ME. There is no TIFF master in the package.

How large can I print it?

The map to 42 cm (17 in) on the long side at 300 dpi, the full sheet with margins to 48 cm (19 in) — from the scan's own resolution, not an upscale.

Why does the listing say about 1702?

The record dates the sheet between 1702 and 1742 and names two atlases it appeared in, of 1707 and 1742. We give the earlier year with a "c." in front of it.

Who published this impression?

The record names Johann Baptist Homann of Nuremberg and adds that it may be his heirs instead.