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Title
Novissima, et Accuratissima Leonis Belgici, seu Septemdecim Regionum Descriptio. Auct: N.I. Visschero.
Description
English: The Sitting Leo Belgicus or Dutch Lion
日本語: レオ・ベルギクス（オランダの獅子）をかたどった地図。（1611年から1621年頃）
Date In or between 1611 and 1621
Source https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/5f/5d/745f5d6e2655a1832c8dbbeab70f6842.jpg
Creator
Claes Janszoon Visscher II  (1586–1652)  wikidata:Q1094674
 
Alternative names
Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), Claes Janszoon Visscher, Joannes Piscator, Nicolas Jansz. Visscher (II),
Nicolas Joannis Visscher (II)
Description Dutch publisher, printmaker and drawer
Date of birth/death 1587 / 1586 / between 1586 and 1587
date QS:P,+1586-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1586-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1587-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 Edit this at Wikidata		 19 June 1652 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
Work period between circa 1601 and circa 1652
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1601-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1652-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Amsterdam (1605–1652) Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q1094674
 Bibliographic data
Publication
Leo Belgicus: An Illustrated and Annotated Carto-bibliography
Author
H. A. M. van der Heijden
Page(s) 5.2
Place of publication Alphen aan den Rijn
Publisher
Canaletto
 Archival data
Accession number
24558
Dimensions height: 47 cm (18.5 in); width: 57.5 cm (22.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,47U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,57.5U174728
artwork-references Van der Heijden (Leo Belg) - 5.2; Schilder 6 - 53.2
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Leo Belgicus (1611), by Visscher, an emblematic map of Belgium

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