Allegory of America, mid-17th?late 17th century, Black chalk, brush, black ink, gray wash. Incised for transfer. , 17 5/8 x 11 13/16 in. (44. 8 x 30 cm), Drawings, Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, Haarlem 1621/22?1683 Amsterdam), This drawing served as a model for an engraved title page in the second volume of an atlas on the Americas, Joan Blaeu?s Atlas Maior (Amsterdam, 1662). Berchem, a prolific draftsman and painter who specialized in landscapes, reconfigured the New World allegory for a Dutch context by including a detailed setting alluding to trade and religion