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Landshut > General view
"Landtshutt"
View of Landshut, seen over the Isar river,
in the background the castle, at lower part
some explanations.
Copper engraving by Matthäus Merian, from
'Topographia Bavariae', Frankfurt on Main 1644,
24,5 x 38 cm.
Perfect, dark impression, on strong handmade
paper, vertical fold at the right side a little
bit brownish, otherwise very good condition.
€ 450,-
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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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