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Description: | Coloured engraving. This bird's-eye view map of the city of Moscow includes a key to 20 locations within the city. The image was published as part of ‘Theatri Praecipuarum Totius Mundi Urbium’, the final part of the six volume city atlas ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ published in Cologne, Germany, between 1572 and 1617. The atlas was edited by German geographer and cleric Georg Braun (1541-1622) and the maps were engraved by the German engraver Frans (Franz) Hogenberg (1535-1590). In total the atlas contained 546 plates of cities of the known world. Most were birds-eye view maps (or perspective maps), like this example. | Subjects: | church horse house compass horseback soldier topography musket smoking map coat of arms bridge (urban) townscape/cityscape man sword river | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Franz Hogenberg | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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