Title Print for Portfeau 19 from Atlas Ottens (Artsia, Hainaut, Hainaut, Namen, Limburg, Luxembourg and Spanish Gelderland), Jacob Folkema, After Johannes Hilarides, 1720 - 1772 print This print was used here as a title print of a part of an unbound atlas; A collection of cartographic and topographical prints and drawings. Originally, however, the print was intended as a title page for a bound atlas with maps of Friesland, which means that part of the subsequent description relates to that context. On the pedestal in the middle is the personification of the cartography, with a globe in her han

Title Print for Portfeau 19 from Atlas Ottens (Artsia, Hainaut, Hainaut, Namen, Limburg, Luxembourg and Spanish Gelderland), Jacob Folkema, After Johannes Hilarides, 1720 - 1772 print This print was used here as a title print of a part of an unbound atlas; A collection of cartographic and topographical prints and drawings. Originally, however, the print was intended as a title page for a bound atlas with maps of Friesland, which means that part of the subsequent description relates to that context. On the pedestal in the middle is the personification of the cartography, with a globe in her hand that she measures with a passer. A leaf rests on her thigh with the handwritten part of the Atlas (originally a map of Friesland). At her feet a measuring chain, a round (country) geometric instrument and a portrait of William IV of Oranje-Nassau. Below that the handwritten title of this part of the Atlas. She holds a waking eye on fickleness (Wispeltuer), bottom left. Originally he faces the fickle that the Frisian land had to comply with: a forest could suddenly be flooded, because his body melts through the salty water of the sea. At the top left his head a coat of arms with the coat of arms of Friesland (with slanting beams and pompeblêden). The threat of the sea is depicted at the bottom right by a boisterous Neptune (sea cattle). Left and right of cartography even more figures that originally related to Friesland and its fertile nature, fishing and agriculture. Leaning, with her arm leaning on a jug where water flows out, a power goddess (power guard) with the personification of fisheries (fishing chest) to the right of her. Above them from left to right: a Sater with flute as a personification of nature (Natuer), the personification of the forests with oak -lights (Woudman) and personification of peat extraction (wife Veenbrand). At the bottom right of her wife Onland, who mourns the damage caused by the peat extraction to the country. To the right of cartography is f

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