Kaart van het eiland Java, 1596 - Public domain old map
Summary
Kaart van het eiland Java, 1596. Linksonder een cartouche met de titel, rechtsonder de schaal. Behoort niet tot de oorspronkelijke illustraties in het reisverslag van de Eerste Schipvaert van Cornelis de Houtman naar Oost-Indië in 1595-1597. No. 15.
A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.