Cybele and Geografia next to a globe with personifications of the four continents, Title page for: Frederik de Wit, Atlas Maior, after 1706, On the left on a throne sits Cybele, the personification of earth, with a mural crown and a key. Geography, the personification of geography, sits next to her on the floor with a book. She is surrounded by various measuring instruments and a lion lies at her feet. Behind Geography there are four putti as personifications of the continents on a globe. On the left, Fama blows a trumpet. In the left background, Neptune, god of the sea, sails on the water

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