City Views, Germany, Nuremberg, Braun, Hogenberg

Nürnberg. - "Nurnberg" - "Norenberga"

General view of this proud old Franconian City in Bavaria

Copper etching with outstanding original hand coloring

Published in "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" by author and publisher Georg Braun (1541-1622)

and engraver and publisher Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590)

Cologne, 1572

Nuremberg was an important, wealthy and productive Freie Reichsstadt (Free Imperial city in the Holy Roman Empire).
Nuremberg was the city of Albrecht Dürer and many other important German Renaissance artist.
Nuremberg is the city where the Schedel Chronicle was printed in 1493. Nuremberg was a wealthy business city
with rich, proud, influential  and powerful patrician families - (whom we see depicted in this print)

The reverse side has Latin text celebrating the fame and importance of this Franconian city (now in Bavaria)
A few leters on th left side of the text have been covered.

Original antique print 

The condition is superb. The original hand coloring outstanding. There is, not touching
the image, a minor crease in the lower right margin corner, as the only blemish (if you choose to call it that).
And there is a repaired little tear in the left margin, again not touching the image.

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