Print Description
Large and beautifully engraved map centered on Salzburg and covers the present-day Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bavaria and Austria. The area extends from Strasburg east to beyond Vienna and from above Prague to the Adriatic and Venice. Great detail throughout shows mountains, watershed, roads, villages and towns including Milan, Strasburg, Nuremberg, Prague, and Vienna. The large and very decorative allegorical cartouche is adorned with cherubs, figures, and five coats of arms (Austria, Tyrolis, Carniolia, Carinthia, and Stiria). At lower right is a second cartouche with legend and seven distance scales, all surrounded by a decorative border.
Made by an anonymous engraver after Homann.
Medium: engraving/etching with original old hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 61 x 51 cm (24.02 x 20.08 inch). Image size: 53 x 45 cm. (20.87 x 17.72 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Some brown spots, mainly in the margins. A few tiny holes in the bottom margin, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY-BAVARIA-CZECH REPUBLIC-SALZBURG | DP-A1-002-09
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This antique map by Homann heirs was published ca. 1747. .
Biography artist: Following the long period of Dutch domination, the Homann family became the most important map publishers in Germany in the eighteenth century, the business being founded by J.B. Homann in Nuremberg about the year 1702. Soon after publishing his first atlas in 1707 he became a member of the Berlin academy of Sciences and in 1715 he was appointed Geographer to the Emperor. After the founder’s death in 1724, the firm was continued under the direction of his son until 1730 and was then bequeathed to his heirs on the condition that it trades under the name of Homann Heirs. The firm remained in being until the next century and had a wide influence on map publishing in Germany. Apart from the atlases the firm published a very large number of individual maps. The Homanns produced a Neuer Atlas in 1714, a Grosser Atlas in 1737, and an Atlas Maior with about 300 maps in 1780. They also issued a special Atlas of Germany with full sized plans of principal cities, school atlases and an Atlas of Silesia in 1750 with 20 maps.
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