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Period: 16th Century
Map of Nemavsus - Etching by George Braun - Late 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This Map of Nemavsus is an original etching realized by George Braun (1541 – 1622) The state of preservation of the artwork is good and aged on the edges of the sheet with a few sm...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

St. Jerome in the Desert
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving by Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum (Deventer active by 1551 - circa 1569 Haarlem) in the manner of Peter Bruegel the Elder
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Map of Arras - Etching by George Braun - Late 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This Map of Arras is an original etching realized by George Braun (1541 – 1622) The state of preservation of the artwork is good but aged with trace of foxing that doesn't affect t...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Map of Aldenburgum Holsatie - From "Civitates Orbium Terrarum" - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Aldenburgum Holsatiae, or Stade, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Braun Hogenberg. Precious hand-colored aquatint, hand watercolored, showing a view of Stade, indicat...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint, Watercolor

Mirror - Etching After F. Bibiena - Late 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Mirror is an original etching on paper realized by Ferdinando Bibbiena in the XVI century, with the inscription on the lower left " Ferdinando Bibbiena INV, Carlo Buffagnotti" In v...
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Etching

Map of Calcaria - From "Civitates Orbium Terrarum" by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Machelen", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest print...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Jerusalem, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Jerusalem, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: cm 32.8 x 41; dimensions: cm 41 x 54; Passepart...
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Sala, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Sala", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest printed a...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Jale with the Sisera's Head - Original Etching by M. Greuter
By Matthaeus Greuter
Located in Roma, IT
Jale with the Sisera's Head is a copper engraving on laid paper in 1586 by the German engraver Matthaeus Greuter. Representing one of the terrible heroines of the Old Testament, Gia...
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Northern Renaissance 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Tangiaria (Tanger), Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"-by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G. and Hogenberg F., Tingis, or Tangier, from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: 18.5 x 24 cm; dimensions: 21.5 x 2...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Venus and the Rose (2nd State)
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Luca Penni
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Nuremberg, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Nurnberg or Nuremberg, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Very fine B/W aquatint showing a view of Nuremberg. Strongly influenced by Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicles...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Cascale, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Cascale, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Good conditions expect tue usual central fold. The “Civitates Orbis...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Luneburg, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Luneburg", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest print...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Quiloa, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Quiloa", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest printed...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Septa, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Septa", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest printed ...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Map Tabula Asiae IX Pakistan Afghanistan Iran Indian Ocean
Located in Florham Park, NJ
“Tabula Asiae IX Pakistan, Afghanistan, E. Iran” Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 – 1566) Venice, 1561 V. Valgrisi. publisher Copper Engraving with Later Hand-Color Born in Viterbo, Italy, Ruscelli was an Italian polymath, humanist, editor, and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He is well known for his exacting revision of Ptolemy's Geographia. He was influenced by the 1548 Gastaldi edition. The work was illustrated with 64 double page engraved maps. Twenty-seven were Ptolemaic and thirty-seven were considered “modern maps”. These showed early glimpses of North and South America...
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Realist 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Copper

Leyden, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Leyden, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was th...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Machelen, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Machelen", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest print...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Stade, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Aldenburgum Holsatiae, or Stade, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Precious hand-colored aquatint showing a vi...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Rotomagus, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1572/1617
Located in Roma, IT
Rotomagus, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Good conditions. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the se...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Ypra, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Ypra (Ypres), from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) ...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Stade, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Aldenburgum Holsatiae, or Stade, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Precious hand-colored aquatint showing a vi...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Dunkirk, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1572/1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Duynkercke or Dunkirk, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Very fine B/W aquatint showing a view of the port and...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Burdigala, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Burdigala", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest prin...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Heraklion, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Candia, (Heraklion, Crete) from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Very fine B/W aquatint showing a view of Heraklio...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Granada, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Granada", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. Very nice B/W Aquatint, representing a View of Granada, from the East, which was perhaps t...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Broversavia, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Broversavia", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest pr...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Goricum, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
"Goricum", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1575. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second oldest printe...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Salzburg, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"-by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Aquatint black and white showing the antique map of "Saltzburg", Salzburg. One of the first views of the famous Austrian city of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Good conditions, some disco...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Bonn, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Vienna or Bonn, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Very fine B/W aquatint showing a wonderful view of the German city Bonn, named after its antique name...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Aden, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Aden, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Good conditions except some stains on margins and a central fold. The ...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Modon, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Modon, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Good conditions. The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities of the World) was the second...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Caluppanus - Etching by Johannes Sadeler
Located in Roma, IT
Caluppanus is a beautiful black and white burin on copper) on ivory-colored paper, realized at the end of XVI century by the Flemish artist Joan or Johannes Sadeler (Brussels, 1550 -...
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Orleans and Bourges, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"-by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Orleans, Bourges", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image Dim: cm 37 x 46.5 Dim: cm 40.5 x 53.5. Interesti...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Oxford, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Oxonium or Oxford, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Very fine and interestig B/W aquatint showing a view of O...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Kolkata (Calecut), Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Calecut", (Kolkata) from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image Dim: cm 18.5 x 48 Dim: cm 21.5 x 53 . Very Fine...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Toledo, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F. Hogenberg - 1575
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Toledo", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image Dim: cm 19 x 48 , Dim: cm 22. 5 x 52.5 . Very nice B/W Aqu...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Bremen, Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - by F.Hogenberg - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G. and Hogenberg F., Brema, from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: 10.5 x 23.5 cm. Dimensions: 15 x 26 cm. Very f...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Malchus of Chalcis as Hermit - Etching by Johannes Sadeler
Located in Roma, IT
Malchus of Chalcis as hermit is a beautiful black and white etching ( on copper) on ivory-colored paper, realized at the end of XVII century by the Flemish artist Joan or Johannes Sa...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Danzig, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Dantziat, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: cm 32.8 x 47.9; dimensions: cm 42 x 55.3; passep...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Corfu, Big Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G. and Hogenberg F., Corfu, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: cm 19 x 48; dimensions: cm 40 x 70. Very lovely ...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Two Fools (or Fool and Foolish Woman)
Located in New York, NY
Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), an engraving after Beham’s Two Fools (or Fool and Foolish Woman), engraving, c 1540, a copy or impression in reverse of Pauli 215, Bartsch 213, the cop...
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Munchen, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful black and white aquatint showing an antique view of Munchen, capital of Bavaria. From the collection by Braun G. and Hogenberg F., "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. ...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Utrecht, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Traiectum or Utrecht, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Very fine B/W aquatint showing a view of Utrecht, with...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Prague and Egra, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G. & Hogenberg F., Praga, Egra, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: 39.5 x 47.5 cm. Dimensions: 41 x 52.5 cm. Wo...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Buda, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., Buda, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Very fine B/W aquatint showing a view of Buda, an actual part of Budap...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Prague and Egra, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - 1572-1617
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G. & Hogenberg F., Praga, Egra, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: 39.5 x 47.5 cm. Dimensions: 41 x 52.5 cm. Wo...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Windsor, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Vindesorium" or Windsor", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image Dim: cm 18 x 48 , Dim: cm 20.5 x 54. Very...
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16th Century Prints and Multiples

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De Humana Physiognomonia
Located in Roma, IT
De Humana Physiognomonia - Libri IIII Original Title: Io: Bap-tistae Portae Neapolitani. De Hum. Physiognomonia. Libri IIII. Ad Aloysium Card. Estensem Vici Aequensis, Apud Iosephum Cacchium, 1586. Vol. In-4° / cm. 32x22 272 pp (typographic mystake for page 265 indicated as 272 an vice-versa) Circulation: Rare First Edition Format: In-4° Pages: 272 Cover on ancient parchment, with title in ink (ancient calligraphy) on spine and “archivistic” decorations in leather and rope on same spine. Binding restored using original contemporary cover. Frontispiece fully engraved with portrait of author within an imaginary composition; portrait of Cardinale d’Este, whom the work is dedicated to, follows with full page engraving. Includes 85 engravings 4 of which full page, showing human physiognomies compared to animals’ in order to demonstrate the relationship between physical aspects and moral features. Good and clean copy, in a nice state. Black stain on p. 97 and minor tear on p. 198. Some whitening on 3-4 pages which do no affect reading. Rare first edition of a pillar of modern anthropology, and one of the most popular essays of Italian Renaissance, with important influence during the following 300 years. First book to be printed in Vico Equense...
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Paper

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white etching and drypoint on wire rod paper, representing the myth of the sacrifice of Iphigenia. On the altar is inscribed "Iphigenia" in capital letters. On the lower left margin is inscribed "N. Beatrizet Lo Taringus F.", slightly discolored (Beatrizet usually signed his plates with the letters "N. B. L. F."). At the center of the lower margin is inscribed "Romae, Michaelis Tramezini formis cum privilegio summi Pont. M.D.L.III". After a drawing attributed to either Michelangelo Buonarroti, Salviati, or Baccio Bandinelli...
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Portrait du Prince de Phalsbourg
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark: Lion and Star (Lieure 38) References: Lieure No. 505 Notes: An early impression of the only state of this major work. According to Lieure (Jacques Callot: Catalogue de l...
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Medea and Jason
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Provenance: Grimes References And Exhibitions: From: "Greek Heroines" Landau 48 Hollstein 121 i/II Bartsch 71 Condition Notes: Good impression, trimmed to plate
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

16th c. woodcut map - Tabula Asiae Vlll
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1488-1652) ASIAE TABVLA Vlll 1540 (45) Woodcut from Munster's edition of Geographia Universalis, Basel, Henri Petri. 1545 edit...
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Allegorical Figure, Holding a Ball
Located in Chicago, IL
Provenance: Edouard Schultze (Lugt 906) References: Bartsch 34 Boorsch & Lewis 38 Notes: A fine impression of this engraving. Boorsch and Lewis state that this work dates from “the mid-1560s” and suggest that it was after a work by Giulio Romano...
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Farnese Hercules
By Jacob Bos
Located in Chicago, IL
448 x 315 mm.; 17 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches Watermark: Eagle, close to Briquet 207 (Rome 1573-76) Notes: Bos was born in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in southern Netherlands (in French, the city’s name is “Bois-le-Duc”), and was active in Rome for a number of years from circa 1549 onward. His works were influenced by Marcantonio Raimondi (near Bologna 1480 – died between 1527 and 1534: see our no. 11). The inspiration for this magnificent and extremely rare engraving was the famous so-called Farnese Hercules...
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Matthew the Evangelist
By Georg Lemberger
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Georg Lemberger (German, c. 1490 – 1540) Matthew the Evangelist Woodcut on paper 5.3/4 x 3.3/4in. (14.5 x 9.6 cm. ) Hollstein, 7. This is from the New German bible...
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Two Trophies With a Cuirass Lower Left
Located in New York, NY
Enea Vico (1523-1567) engraving, Two Trophies With a Cuirass Lower Left, 1550, Bartsch 449, with the name of the publisher Ant[onio] Lafreri at bottom, first state (of 2) before numb...
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Old Masters 16th Century Prints and Multiples

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