Antique Map-PLAN-MAP-UTRECHT-Guicciardini-1633

Description

Plan of Utrecht.

Made by an anonymous engraver after Lodovico Guicciardini.

Medium: Engraving / Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 13.8 x 13.2 cm (5.43 x 5.2 inch). Image size: 13.2 x 11 cm. (5.2 x 4.33 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, soilng and creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

PLAN-MAP-UTRECHT | PCO-E14-43

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: Ludovico Guicciardini’s ‘Belgicae, sive Inferioris Germaniae Descriptio’, published in Amsterdam by Blaeu in 1633.

Biography artist: Lodovico Guicciardini (1521-1589): an Italian merchant from aristocratic descent.