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Donauwörth > Town plan
"Thonauwerth"
Decorative town plan of Donauwörth, bird's-eye-view,
with a title cartouche above and explanations
at the right side.
Copper engraving by Matthäus Merian, from
'Topographia Bavariae', Frankfurt on Main 1644,
24,5 x 29 cm.
Perfect, dark impression, on strong handmade
paper, very good condition.
€ 280,-
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Matthäus Merian (1593 - 1650) - Draughtsman,
engraver and publisher from Basle
In 1623 Merian took over the publishing house
of his father-in-law Johann Theodor de Bry (1561
- 1623) in Frankfurt on Main.
Merian made illustrations for the German
Bible translated by Martin Luther in 1545 and
he created maps and views for the 'Gottfried
Chronicle', first published 1629-1632.
From 1629 he published his 'Theatrum Europaeum'
in several volumes containing many town and
landscape views of Europe mostly depicting incidents
of the Thirty Years' War.
From 1642 he published - together with the
writer Martin Zeiller (1589-1661) - his 'Topographia
Germaniae' with hundreds of maps and views.
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