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Title: SALTZBURGK
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1657
Description: 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 Salzburg with river in foreground. Legend box, bottom right, reads: Recens et Accvratis-/sima Vrbis Salisbvr-/gensis Delineatio. Three human figures in contemporary dress in foreground. Verso has printed text, description of Salzburg, 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.

Title: Vienna Austriae / Wien in Ostenreyk
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1657
Description: 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 Vienna with Danube in foreground. Includes central shield and legend boxes left and right at top. Verso has printed text, description of Vienna, 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.

Title: Die Statt Leypzig
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1657
Description: 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.