Antique Print-THURR-SWITSERLAND-PORTRAIT-GRAUBUNDEN-Munster-1598

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Tags: 18.0 1800-1899 1865 21.0 7.1 8' 3'' Antique Original Atlas Map Black, White Heinrich Petri Landscape Maps Sebastian Munster Small Switzerland Thematic Map Unframed wood block engravings Woodcut Woodcut & Block

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Specifications

Country/Region	Switzerland
Format	Atlas Map
Type	Thematic Map
Cartographer/Publisher	Heinrich Petri
Printing Technique	Woodcut
Original/Reproduction	Antique Original
Date Range	1800-1899
Year	1865
Subject	Maps
Cartographer	Sebastian Munster
Publisher	Heinrich Petri
Medium	Woodcut & Block
Framing	Unframed
Color	Black & White
Size	Small
Orientation	Landscape
Height (Inches)	7.1
Width (Inches)	8.3
Height (Centimeters)	18.0
Width (Centimeters)	21.0

Description: This antique city view or map originates from Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender'. These prints are from the 1592 German edition, published in Basel by Henrichum Petri (Heinrich Petri). Artists and Engravers: The author of this work is Sebastian Munster, 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.

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Antique Print-THURR-SWITSERLAND-PORTRAIT-GRAUBUNDEN-Munster-1598

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