‘MIDDELBURGUM SELANDIAE OPP: SITU, OPERE, ET MERCIMONIIS FLORENTIIS.’

– Original antique plan of Middelburg in Zeeland, The Netherlands. With coat of arms. Text in latin on verso.

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Description

Original antique plan of Middelburg in Zeeland, The Netherlands. With coat of arms. Text in latin on verso.

Made by Frans Hogenberg after Braun.

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

Sheet size: 50.5 x 38 cm (19.88 x 14.96 inch). Image size: 35 x 31 cm. (13.78 x 12.2 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Original middle fold as issued. Several crinkles or creases but mainly in the margins. Minor tears in margin restored. Light foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

PLAN-MIDDELBURG-ZEELAND-NETHERLANDS | RBOS-A9-03

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum (…) by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg in Cologne Germany ca 1575.

Biography engraver: Frans 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, and may have been responsible for originating the project. 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.

Biography artist: Georg Braun (1542-1622), a German publisher and Frans Hogenberg issued the famous six volume town book ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ between 1572 and 1618. The volumes originally published in Latin, follow by German and French translations. The plates passed to Jan Janssonius who reissued the town books in 1657 while removing the costume figures on the plates.