Antique Print-GORINCHEM-VIEW-ZUID HOLLAND-NETHERLANDS-Hogenberg-Braun-1572

Medium: Engraving/etching with original old hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 26.5 x 19.4 cm (10.43 x 7.64 inch). Image size: 23.8 x 15.5 cm. (9.37 x 6.1 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Slightly faint impression. No left margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

GORINCHEM-VIEW-ZUID HOLLAND-NETHERLANDS | PCOA55-13

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572.

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.