Barcelona, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"
Wonderful B/W Aquatint showing a remarkable view of Barcelona from the hills of Montjuich d uring an unusual rainy day, with a big rainbow on the port . Very Good conditions with a usual medial fold and browned paper.
Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Barcelona ", from the collection " Civitates Orbis Terrarum ", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image Dim: cm 16.5 x 47, Dim Passepartout: cm 40 x 70.
Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Barcelona ", from the collection " Civitates Orbis Terrarum ", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image Dim: cm 16.5 x 47, Dim Passepartout: cm 40 x 70.
Wonderful B/W Aquatint showing a remarkable view of Barcelona from the hills of Montjuich d uring an unusual rainy day, with a big rainbow on the port . Very g ood conditions with a usual medial fold and browned paper.
The “ Civitates Orbis Terrarum ” ( Atlas of Cities of the World ) was the second oldest printed atlas in the history of world cartography and the first atlas totally dedicated to topographical views . The first volume of this collection was published in Cologne in 1572; the others following in 1575, 1581, 1588 and 1598. The sixth and final volume appeared in 1617, just before the extensive devastation wreaked by the Thirty Years’War.
“The most original and magnificent of all city-atlases, which drew on the work of accomplished topographical artists; and…reproduced it in pictorial compositions of great charm and individuality”. R.A.Skelton
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