Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, a galleon and a flying fish, off the coast of Brazil.

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Date:1619

Description:Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries sailed to America.

English ships were famed for their ease of manoeuvrability and sea-worthiness, on which sailors and explorers depended as they travelled to America and beyond. Shakespeare was described by Thomas Fuller in Worthies of England (1662), for his facility with words, as a quick-turning 'man’o war', by comparison with the slower, more stately galleon, of Ben Jonson, his leading rival in the London playhouses.

Full title: America Map of the Americas, from Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius Atlas, France, 1619.(hand-coloured)

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Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619 Map of the Americas - whole map, hand-coloured.

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