Brightstowe [cartographic material].
1581
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Title
Brightstowe [cartographic material].
Created/published
[Cologne] : [Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg], [1581]
Description
1 map : engraving ; 34 x 43 cm
Associated name
Scale
Scale not given.
Material base
paper
Summary
Bird's eye view of Bristol. Includes the Bristol coat of arms and a numbered key to churches. In the foreground, three costumed figures.
Note
Includes descriptive text in cartouche: Brightstowe, vulgo; quondam venta, flore[n]tissimum Angliae emporium.
Oriented with the northwest at top.
Relief depicted pictorially.
Appears in part 3 of Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum, 1581, and subsequent editions. (Krogt)
Source was a drawing with watercolour wash by William Smith in The particular description of England, now in the collection of the British Library (Sloane MS 2596) (Braun, G. Civitates orbis terrarum, 2008).
Oriented with the northwest at top.
Relief depicted pictorially.
Appears in part 3 of Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum, 1581, and subsequent editions. (Krogt)
Source was a drawing with watercolour wash by William Smith in The particular description of England, now in the collection of the British Library (Sloane MS 2596) (Braun, G. Civitates orbis terrarum, 2008).
Cited/described in
Krogt, P.C.J. van der. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, v. 4-2, 651 (state 1)
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Germany.
Call number
ART 229- 985 no.9 (size L)
Folger-specific note
Letterpress text in Latin on back; this impression from 1599 edition of part 3 of Civitates orbis terrarum, printed by Bertram Buchholtz in Cologne. (Krogt, v. 4-1, 41:1.3 (2))
Folger accession
229985.9