print
- Museum number
- 1898,0725.8.894
- Title
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Object: Aden in Arabia
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Series: Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose Città di tutto il Mondo
- Description
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Schematic view of the town of Aden surrounded by hills. c.1598
Etching with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1598 (ca.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 85 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 137 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The first of a large number of views of cities of the world, with varying register numbers and provenances, that have been collected together and arranged in alphabetical order in a post-binder. They all derive from the series 'Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose Città di tutto il Mondo', of which there are four copies in the British Library (Maps C.24.a.5; C.25.d.10; C.27.a.32; 28.a.11). These copies have a titlepage giving the title and the name of Donato Rascicoti in Venice as publisher, but no date. The BL gives a date of c.1600, and the overlap of the careers of Valegio and Rascicoti suggests c.1598. The plates were frequently reprinted: for example, they were included in Raffaello Savonarola in 'Universus Terrarum Orbis' of 1713.
The plates were engraved by Francesco Valegio, with a few added by other hands such as Martin Rota. It is not clear what a complete copy should contain: that at C.25.d.10, for example, has 312 plates. There seems never to have been any letterpress.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Acquisition notes
- The group of prints registered under 1898,0725.1 to 8 was recorded as being given by Franks, although it was registered a year after his death. This is because the prints were already in the BM in 1897 as a proposed gift. But they are recorded here as having being bequeathed by him.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1898,0725.8.894
