Antique Plan of Amsterdam by Munster (c.1580)

Description: Antique print, untitled. Bird's-eye plan of Amsterdam portrayed on a sheet of German text. Remarkably detailed for its size, hundreds of individual buildings and houses are rendered. Dozens of tall ships ply the harbor and the Amstel River, which bisects the city. A coat of arms decorates the plan. There is German text also on the verso.Source unknown, to be determined.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Sebastiaan Munster' after an anonymous artist. Sebastian Munster was a German cartographer, cosmographer and Christian scholar. He is best known for Cosmographia, the earliest German description of the world (in 6 parts. He was also the author of Horologiographia, Organum Uranicum and Rudimenta Mathematica. The woodcuts in this publication were made by a group of artists, among which Hans Holbein, Conrad Schnitt, David Kandel and Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch.