City Views, Germany, Leipzig, Braun, Hogenberg
Leipzig. - "Leibzick - Lipsia Litterarum Studiis et Mercatura Celebre Misniae Oppidum"
General view of this important Saxonian city.
Hand-colored copper etching.
Published in "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"
By author and publisher Georg Braun (1541-1622)
and engraver and publisher Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590)
Cologne, 1572.
On half the reverse side is text n Latin about Leipzig with a short hand-written sentence written with antique brown ink.
Original antique print
Right margin added. Vertical centerfold. Minor signs of age and use in maegins.
Image: 15,5 x 47,2 cm (ca. 6.1 x 18.5")
keywords: Saxon; Saxony; Sachsen; Lipsk; Leipsic; Lipsia; Lipetsk; Liepāja; Heldenstadt; horse; three horsemen; Schloss; castle; Sankt Thomas; Moat; Horse market; Rossmarkt; Kornhaus; Paulinerkloster ; Sankt Nicolas; Jacobskirche; Pleißemühlgraben, Pleiße und Weiße Elster; Graben befestigte Vorburgsiedlung (Suburbium); Rathaus; Colegium;
„Mein Leipzig lob’ ich mir! Es ist ein klein Paris und bildet seine Leute.“ – Goethe, Faust I, Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig
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