Braun & Hogenberg Copenhagen

Braun & Hogenberg.
Hafnia. Kobenhagen.
Cologne, c.1588. 370 x 420mm. Coloured.
£1,200
Two prospects of Copenhagen, from land and sea, published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans. Drawn by Heinrich von Ratzau and dated 1587, the year before Christian IV came to the throne and undertook an extensive rebuilding programme. The upper prospect looks from the road to Roskilde to the west of the city and the lower from the Amager side. Prominent are the Vor Frue Kirke, the Petri Kirke, the St.Nikolaj Kirke and the old castle on Slotholmen built in 1043.

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