Bidspirit auction | VISSCHER, NICHOLAS.

VISSCHER, NICHOLAS. - De Heylige en Wytvermaerde Stadt Ierusalem Eerst Genaemt Salem. Hand-colored, double-page copperplate map. 15.5 x 18 inches (39 x 45.5 cm). Amsterdam, 1650: This imaginary plan of ancient Jerusalem has a descriptive key at lower left, locating 36 noteworthy Jerusalem sites. Solomon’s Temple appears in the upper center of the composition, at far left is the Palace of Herod, lower left is Golgotha. Central foreground is Mount Gihon and at lower right a scene representing the anointing of King Solomon by Zadok the Priest. The fisherman emblem of the Visscher family in found above the descriptive key.