Cartographic Wonders
Europa Regina
Europe as a crowned queen.
- Map
- Europa Regina
- Mapmaker
- Johannes Putsch; popularized by Sebastian Münster
- Date
- 1537 (later editions)
- Held by
- Cosmographia
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Turn the map on its side and a continent becomes a queen. In this famous conceit, first devised in 1537, Europe is drawn as a crowned woman: Spain her head, Italy and Denmark her arms — one holding Sicily as a royal orb — Bohemia her heart, the whole robed body reaching east. It cast Europe as a single sovereign lady at the very moment the continent was tearing itself apart over faith. Cartography as portrait, propaganda, and poetry all at once.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Cosmographia — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag or textured laid stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on stock made to outlive its owner.
Complete the set
Cartographic Wonders
The map at its most magical — a queen, a lion, the land of love, and a world drawn as a heart.
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