Rare-Antique Map-FRIESLAND-FRISIA OCCIDENTALIS-Hogenberg-1579

This print shows a detailed map from a pocketatlas of Friesland, Frisia in the North of the Netherlands.

Made by Frans Hogenberg after own design.

Medium: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 23.5 x 18 cm (9.25 x 7.09 inch). Image size: 19.5 x 14.5 cm. (7.68 x 5.71 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Brownish. Crinkles in left margin. Creases and fold in right margin. Numbered in pen 44. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MAP-FRIESLAND-FRISIA-NETHERLANDS | RBOS-A8-18

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This map is a reduced version of the map in Ortelius’ ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’ and engraved by Frans Hogenberg c. 1579-1580. As this plate is unnumbered, and blank rear it is probably a first state and originates from an Anonymous work published in Cologne 1579/1580-1590: ‘Itinerarium Orbis Christiani.’ It was then later used in works by Georg Braun, Michael von Eitzing and Metellus in the period 1587-1602, with added numbering and often rear text.

Reference: Blonk-van der Wijst p.124-128 (based on similar map Hollandiae); Meurer IOC 1-4.

Biography engraver: Franz Hogenberg (1533-1588) was the son of a Munich engraver who settled in Malines. He engraved most of the plates for Ortelius’ Theatrum and the majority of those in the Civitates. He worked and died in Cologne/Germany. He was a prolific copper engraver and etching artist of maps and town views. In cooperation with Georg Braun he created the first four volumes of the ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ in 1572.