Artist: Robert Dudley
Size: 54 x 83 cm
Museum: Kalakriti Archives (Hyderabad, India)
Technique: Engraving
An exquisitely engraved sea chart depicting Southern India, printed in Florence by the English exile Sir Robert Dudley.This chart of Southern India is quite impressive for the time, as while it is not based on systematic surveys, it shows a relatively advanced 17th Century mariners’ understanding of the nature of the coastlines of the Indian Peninsula. Dudley relied on a variety of Dutch and English antecedents, although his mapping does not precisely correspond to any other known chart. It is thought that Dudley had access to some of the manuscript maps made by the navigator John Davis (c. 1550-1605), who made three voyages to South and Southeast Asia between 1598 and 1605.The chart is from Robert Dudley’s Dell
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