- Conservator Claire Thomson works on the map, which has eight sections and is more than 2m wide. She describes it as “the most difficult project I have ever tackled”
“Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula (new map of all the world) was designed by the Amsterdam-based cartographer Gerald Valck and was probably published in London by George Wildey in around 1690. It is similar to the highly decorated maps that hang on the walls in some of Vermeer’s paintings. “
Mocht u een dezer dagen in Edinburgh zijn, tot en met 17 april wordt de kaart getoond in de National Library of Scotland.