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Portrait of Gerard Mercator
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Portrait of the geographer Gerard Mercator, in an oval with an inscription border. Mercator measures the distance between two places on a globe with a compass. Below the portrait a laudatory poem.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit linePortret van Gerard Mercator. 1669. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
