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Pieter van der Keere

Also known as: Pieter van der Keere; primary name: Keere, Pieter van der; other name: Kaerius, Peeter; other name: Kerius, Pieter
Details: individual; printmaker; publisher/printer; Dutch; Male
Life dates: 1570/71-1645 or later
Address: 'Kalverstraat in den onseeckeren Tyt' in Amsterdam
Biography: Print- and mapmaker and publisher. Born and died in Ghent. Because of religious persecution, he fled to England and worked in London as an engraver (e.g. title page and a bird's eye view of London for John Norden, Speculum Britanniae; probably also published a royal coat-of-arms, a bird's eye view of Westminster and a map of Middlesex for the same volume). 1596 settled in Amsterdam; started publishing in 1609. In 1617, the atlas of the Netherlands "Germania inferior" appeared, bearing his name as the publisher and his full signature on several of the maps. In addition to various topographical folio pages, including those of Amsterdam (1618) and Nuremberg (1619), Van den Keere engraved a world map ("Nova totius terrarum orbis...") in 1621, which was printed by Jan Janszoon in Amsterdam.
Bibliography: P. van der Brick & J.Werner (eds), 'Gesneden en gedruckt in de Kalverstraat', Utrecht 1989, pp.39-40

Title: Amburbica armata sacracolarum agminis pompa, Lutetiæ 1593 |
Museum number: 1871,1209.931 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cornelis Danckerts IPrint made by:Pieter van der Keere |
Production date: 1625

Title: Danzigk |
Museum number: 1872,0113.589.1-4.+ |
Producer name: Print made by:Pieter van der KeerePublished by:Pieter van der Keere |
Production date: 1618 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Title: Verclaringe des Herauts vande Afcomste der Graven van Hollandt etc. |
Museum number: Mm,3.77 |
Producer name: After:Hendrik GoltziusPublished by:Pieter van der Keere |
Production date: 1609-1630 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Museum number: 1873,0712.92 |
Producer name: Print made by:Claes Jansz. VisscherPublished by:Pieter van der Keere |
Production date: 1609

Museum number: 1900,1019.206 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pieter van der KeerePublished by:Pieter van der Keere |
Production date: 1617 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)