PETER SCHENK, Superioris ac inferioris Bavariae tabula elegantissima, ca 1700
Zeeuwsch Flanders and East Flanders in the Netherlands and Belgium at the end of the 17th century. Outside the Scheldt or the Honte, cities such as Terneuzen, Sas van Gent, Axel, Hulst, Biervliet, IJzendijke, Gent, Oudenaarde, Ninove, Aalst, Dendermonde, Lillo and Antwerp are on the map.
Petrus Schenck (Elberfeld, Wuppertal 26 December 1660 - Leipzig, Saxony 1711) was a German engraver and mapmaker. During the first half of the 18th century, Schenck was one of the most important figures in Saxon cartography.The mapmaker entered the service of the Amsterdam engraver and map publisher Gerard Valck. Schenck lived in the Jordaan on the Lauriergracht in amsterdam. The couple had six children, all of whom were baptized in the Westerkerk.
Around 1700, he settled in Leipzig as a globetrotter, mapmaker and art dealer.
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