(CAT 218 PT; Fig. 4) Nicholas Berchem. Allegory of America

Image Identification

Nicholas Berchem. Allegory of America, black chalk, brush, black ink, gray wash; incised for transfer, c. 1662. Designed as title page for second volume of an atlas on the Americas, Joan Bleu’s Atlas Major (Amsterdam, 1662). Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959.