Africa ancient map print by Nicolaes Visscher

Africae Accurata Tabula by Nicolaes Visscher is a 17th-century Dutch map of Africa, produced as a hand-colored engraving. It shows the continent with dense place names, rivers, coastlines, ships, sea routes, and decorative cartouches with allegorical figures. The map reflects Dutch Golden Age cartography and Europe’s expanding geographic knowledge of Africa.

Nicolaes Visscher was a Dutch engraver, publisher, and mapmaker from a prominent Amsterdam cartographic family. His maps are admired for their fine detail, rich ornament, and balance between information and visual elegance. Visscher’s atlases helped define the decorative style of 17th-century Dutch mapmaking.