print;
title-page
- Museum number
- Y,5.156
- Description
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Titlepage to the fifth volume of Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg's 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', with the heading 'Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi' and Georg Braun's name as author, with allegorical figures on an architectural frame
Engraving with professional hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1574-1594
- Dimensions
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Height: 365 millimetres
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Width: 233 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a set of six plates from the Banks collection serving as title-pages to the five parts of the series (Y,5.156 to 161). All share the same high-quality colouring.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cologne, 1572-1594)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,5.156