Antique Map of Groningen by Schenk (c.1700)

Description: Antique map titled 'Groningae et Omlandiae Dominium vulgo de Provincie van Stadt en Lande'. Old map of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. This map originates from 'Atlas Contractus sive Mapparum Geographicarum Sansoniarum auctarum et correctarum Nova Congeries'. 

Artists and Engravers: Published by P. Schenk after N. Visscher II. After the death of Nicolas Visscher II, his widow passed the business to Pieter Schenk. Pieter Schenk / Petrus Schenck ( 1660-1718/19) was born in Germany, but settled in Amsterdam where he first became a pupil of Gerard Valck, the engraver. In 1687 he married Valck's sister and thereafter the Schenk and Valck families were active over a long period with a wide range of interests as print sellers, publishers of books, maps, topographical and architectural drawings and globes.