Print Description
Medium: Woodcut on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 20.8 x 21.5 cm (8.19 x 8.46 inch). Image size: 13.4 x 9.4 cm. (5.28 x 3.7 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Damp stain upper right corner just affecting image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
DUCHY OF BRABANT-NETHERLANDS | LADENKAST-SHELVE 1
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From; “Cosmographiae Universalis Lib VI. In Quibus Iuxta Certioris Fidei Scriptores…” Authore Sebastiano Munstero. Cum Gratia & Privilegio Caes. Maiest. Basileae, ex Officina Henricpetrina.
Biography artist: Sebastian Munster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread by a production of woodcuts created of it by a variety of artists.
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