Name: Antique Map-NIJMEGEN-CITY-PLAN-OLD-COLORING-GERMAN-Hogenberg-Braun-1581
SKU: PICTURA-06973
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Antique Map-NIJMEGEN-CITY-PLAN-OLD-COLORING-GERMAN-Hogenberg-Braun-1581

€575.00

‘NOVIOMAGIUM SEU NOVIOMAGUM VULGO NIMWEGEN …’

– A detailed bird’s eye view map of Nijmegen, Netherlands, with city map, city walls and important buildings. In the foreground two figures in historical clothing. The Waal is depicted at the top of the map, with ships on the river.

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Description

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

Sheet size: 50 x 38 cm (19.69 x 14.96 inch). Image size: 39 x 32.5 cm. (15.35 x 12.8 inch).

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

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

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, 1581, the first city atlas in the world. .

Reference: Van der Krogt 4, 2921: Nijm 1.

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.