Antique Master Print-NIJMEGEN-VIEW-CITYSCAPE-Hogenberg-Braun-1572

Medium: Copper engraving, hand-coloured on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 52 x 40 cm (20.47 x 15.75 inch). Image size: 48 x 29.5 cm. (18.9 x 11.61 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Old coloured copy, with wide margins and fold as issued. Verso: city description in Latin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

NIJMEGEN, CITYSCAPE, HISTORICAL MAP, BRAUN HOGENBERG, CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM, 16TH CENTURY, NETHERLANDS, CITY MAP | MAPS-LARGE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, 1572, the first city atlas in the world. .

Reference: Van der Krogt 4 – p. 1223, #3066; Taschen (Br. Hog.) – p.166; Fauser – #9903.

Biography engraver: Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590) was a Flemish-German engraver and mapmaker, known for his collaboration with Georg Braun on Civitates Orbis Terrarum, an important atlas of cityscapes.

Biography artist: Georg Braun (1541-1622) was a German geographer and editor-in-chief of the first large atlas of cityscapes, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, published in six volumes between 1572 and 1617.