Print Description
‘”Govda Hollandiae Opp isa lam amnem quo Gouda fluvius a quo vrbs nomen babet euoluitur fitum”.’
Etching / engraving on handlaid paper.
Sheet size: 59 x 19,5 cm. (23,2 x 7,7 inch). Image size: 48,5 x 17,5 cm. (19,1 x 6,9 inch).
This attractive print was published by Braun and Hogenberg. In 1572 they published the 1st edition of the City Atlas: ‘civitates orbis terrarum’ in Cologne. This engraving is in volume 3, which was published in 1581. This was a latin edition. Discriptive text is printed on the reverse.
Made by ‘Frans Hogenberg’ after own design. Georg Braun (1541-1622) was born in Cologne. After his studies in Cologne he entered the Jesuit Order as a novice. In 1561 he obtained his bachelor’s degree and in 1562 his Magister Artium. Although he left the Jesuit Order, he studied theology, gaining a licentiate in theology. Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590) was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker. He was born in Mechelen as the son of Nicolaas Hogenberg. By the end of the 1560s Frans Hogenberg was employed upon Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, published in 1570; he is named as engraver of numerous maps. In 1568 he was bannend from Antwerp by the Duke of Alva and travelled to London, where he stayed a few years before emigrating to Cologne. There he immediately embarked on his two most important works, the Civitates published from 1572 and the Geschichtsbl?tter, which appeared in several series from 1569 until about 1587.
Thanks to such large scale projects as the Geschichtsbl?tter and the Civitates, Hogenberg’s social circumstances improved with each passing year. He died as a wealthy man in Cologne in 1590.
Condition: Good, given age. Fold as published. Small restored tear in lower margin. Remains of brown tape on reverse. Small pieces of paper in upper corners missing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Keywords: GOUDA-GOUDE-PANORAMIC VIEW
RBOS-A6-42
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