Köln (Cologne) – Colonia Agrippina
by
Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg
Hometown of the mapmakers!
Detail
Date of first edition: 1572
Date of this edition: 1572
Dimensions (not including margins): 33 x 48 cm
Condition: Good. Sharp copper engraving printed on paper. Old coloured. Centre fold as published. Wide margins.
Condition rating: A+
Map reference: Taschen, Br. Hog., p. 102
From: Civitatis Urbis Terrarum, Liber primus, first published 1572, this edition 1572
Price (without VAT): €1 200,00 (FYI +/- $1 404,00 / £1 092,00)
We charge the following expedition costs in euro:
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– Rest of Europe: 30 euro
– Rest of the World: 50 euro
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A surprising and unexpected beauty!
Cologne (Köln) by Braun and Hogenberg
Cologne was the home town of Braun and Hogenberg and the birthplace of the Civitates. Essentially a ground plan, the engraving also shows oblique elevations of the buildings. These are taken, not from a single viewpoint that would have over-emphasized the foreground, but from a fictitious moving vantage-point that leaves each building true to scale. If the ordinary dwellings are stylized, the city’s monuments are portrayed from the life. The cathedral, destined to remain unfinished for a further three centuries, and the city walls, since demolished to make way for the Ringstrasse, are clearly visible.