Paskaerte Zynde t'Oosterdeel Van Oost Indien, met alle de Eylanden daer ontrendt geleegen van C. Comorin tota aen Iapan
Striking example of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea, and India. It was published in Goos' Zee Atlas.
The chart is one of two which encompass the sea routes from Southern Africa to the Far East, as typically followed by ships of the Dutch East India Company in this period. This east-oriented chart shows the regions from Cape Comorin to Japan.
New Holland (Australia) extends northward nearly to New Guinea, suggesting they are one large landmass. The discoveries made by Tasman in Northern Australia in during the course of his second voyage (1644) are included, as are other early seventeenth-century Dutch encounters with western and southern Australia.
A decorative cartouche in the lower left corner is adorned with putti. At sea, three Dutch ships sail eastward.
Goos' map served as a prototype, both in its detail and orientation for subsequent Dutch charts of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. The chart also served to propagate knowledge of Tasman's second voyage more widely.
Frame size: 72cm x 60cm - Glass
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