Die Statt Leypzig
1657
- Title
- Die Statt Leypzig
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Fine Art Photographs
- Identifier
- FA-PR-0136
- Dates
- 1657
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- Copperplate engraved print, hand colored. Folio from a Latin edition of Braun and Hogenberg’s atlas, Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Atlas of Cities of the World), published originally in Cologne between 1572 and 1618. Bird’s-eye view of the city of Leipzig. Verso has printed text, description of Leipzig, in Latin. Pencil note in donor’s hand: “Jansson 1657. Coloring probably not contemporary.” Note indicates the plate is from Jan Jansson’s reissue of the atlas in Amsterdam in 1657. Gift of Earnest C. Watson, 1952.