Name: Antique Map-TRAIECTUM-AD-MOSAM-MAASTRICHT-Hogenberg-Bellomonte-1575
SKU: PICTURA-06854
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Antique Map-TRAIECTUM-AD-MOSAM-MAASTRICHT-Hogenberg-Bellomonte-1575

€1,295.00

‘TRAIECTUM AD MOSAM URBS ET NATURA LOCI, MUNITIONIBUSQUE, ET POPULI FREQUENTIA, ET EDIFICIIS, ET AMPLISS. CANONICOR. COLLEGIIS NOBILIS SPECIEM PREBET URBIUM DUARUM CONJUNGENTE EAS PONTE MAGNIFICO. CUIUS ICONEM AD TOPOGRAPHICUM HOC OPUS EXORNANT. VENERANDUS ET EGREGIUS VIR D. SIMON A BELLO MONTE ECCLESIAE S. SERVATII TRAIECTENSIS SACCELLANUS, SUA INDUSTRIA ET PENICILLO AD VIVUM ACCURATISSIME EXPRESSUM CONTULIT.’

– A richly detailed and hand-colored 16th-century map of Maastricht, showing the city from the east (Latin: “Traiectum ad Mosam”). The foreground features local figures and decorative cartouches, while the cityscape is presented in a bird’s-eye perspective with fortified walls, the Maas River, and surrounding landscapes. A personification of the city sits in the clouds above. Based on a sketch by Simon de Bellomonte around 1570. First published in Part 2 of Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1575) by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. This map is one of the earliest detailed views of Maastricht.

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Description

Medium: Engraving, original hand-colored on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 52 x 39 cm (20.47 x 15.35 inch). Image size: 50 x 36 cm. (19.69 x 14.17 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Slight discoloration and some minor stains, but overall in good condition with well-preserved coloring. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MAASTRICHT, 16TH CENTURY MAP, BRAUN & HOGENBERG, DUTCH CITY MAPS, CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM, HISTORICAL TOPOGRAPHY, EARLY CARTOGRAPHY, NETHERLANDS HISTORY | EXPO-MAPS-LARGE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum vol.II, p.21, 1575.

Biography engraver: Georg Braun (1542-1622), a German publisher and Frans Hogenberg issued the famous six volume town book ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ between 1572 and 1618. The volumes originally published in Latin, follow by German and French translations. The plates passed to Jan Janssonius who reissued the town books in 1657 while removing the costume figures on the plates. Franz Hogenberg (1533-1588) was the son of a Munich engraver who settled in Malines. He engraved most of the plates for Ortelius’ Theatrum and the majority of those in the Civitates, and may have been responsible for originating the project. Worked and died in Cologne/Germany. He was a prolific copper engraver and etching artist of maps and town views. In cooperation with Georg Braun he created the first four volumes of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum in 1572. The fifth and sixth volume was created by Simon van den Neuwel (Novellanus). This map was made by the Dutch cartographer Jan van Liefrinck, who was active in Leiden in 1567 and died there in 1599. He received payment on 22 August 1580 from the Leiden Magistracy for his map and view of the city, which was destined for Plantijn’s edition of Guicciardini’s Descrittione, 1581.

Biography artist: Simon de Bellomonte (1526-1615) was a canon of the St. Servatius Church in Maastricht and a skilled cartographer. He produced one of the earliest printed maps of Maastricht, which was later engraved and published by Braun & Hogenberg.