Lot #: 82663
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Bern in der Eydgnoschafft an dem Wasser Aar gelegen, figuriert nach ihrer gelegenheit. |
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Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020 |
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Description
This well rendered bird's-eye view depicts the fortified Swiss city of Bern. The detailed plan shows the Arola Fl or Aare River wrapping around the city with scores of individual buildings, churches, towers, and named streets.
Fields and forests spread beyond. Engraved by Hans Rudolph Manuel, whose initials (RMD) appear in the banner title. The 'Cosmographia' is famous for its many highly attractive double- or even four-page cityscapes.
Many of these illustrations are remarkable for their almost house-for-house level of accuracy, and as a collection, the uniformity of quality was unprecedented at that time. The level of detail accomplished by the artists who prepared the woodblocks is amazing: children play, soldiers drill, fishermen and farmers work, and criminals dangling from the gallows.
We see ships on nearby waterways, or in battle, windmills, waterwheels, lighthouses, vineyards, and of course the majestic city walls.
Fields and forests spread beyond. Engraved by Hans Rudolph Manuel, whose initials (RMD) appear in the banner title. The 'Cosmographia' is famous for its many highly attractive double- or even four-page cityscapes.
Many of these illustrations are remarkable for their almost house-for-house level of accuracy, and as a collection, the uniformity of quality was unprecedented at that time. The level of detail accomplished by the artists who prepared the woodblocks is amazing: children play, soldiers drill, fishermen and farmers work, and criminals dangling from the gallows.
We see ships on nearby waterways, or in battle, windmills, waterwheels, lighthouses, vineyards, and of course the majestic city walls.