FREE
WORLDWIDE
SHIPPING
No products
- Home
- Antique Maps
- Antique Prints
- Antique Views
- Natural History
- Architecture & Design
- Landscape
- Professions
- Art & Master
- Maritime
- Religion
- Emblems & Satire
- Medical & Anatomy
- Romance
- Ethnology
- Military & Political
- Science & Educations
- Fashion & Costumes
- Music & Instruments
- Figures & Portraits
- Sports & Leisure
- Other antique prints
- Travel & Transport
- Frontispiece
- Bartele's Blog
-
PCT-54813
Antique Print of Bourtange (1675)
- Condition: Good, given age. Margins cropped close to the image edge. Soiling in the lower margin. Paper damage in the lower right corner, backed with paper and acid-free archival tape. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- Date: 1675
- Overall size: 20.3 x 13.1 cm.
- Image size: 20.3 x 13.1 cm.
Worldwide
shipping
Description: Antique print, titled: 'Fort op Bourtang.' - A plan of the fortification of Bourtange in Groningen, the Netherlands. Very rare. "Hollandischer Mercurius …", Frankfurt: J.W. Ammon & W.Serlin, 1672. The illustrations in this particular work are woodcuts after the etchings of Matthaus Merian.
Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after 'Matthaus Merian'. Matthaus Merian the Elder (1593-1650) was born in Basel. He studied drawing and copper engraving from the engraver Friedrich Meyer in Zurich. 1619 he went to Frankfurt where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry, whose daughter he married. He took over and completed the editions of "Grand Voyages" and "Petit Voyages" which de Bry started in 1590. Together with Martin Zeiller he produced the popular series of "Topographia" with total 21 volumes. The work was continued by his sons Matthaus the Younger and Caspar.