16619

Antique Map Tirol Weigel, Christoph

Tirol

Title: Principali Dignitate Comitatus Tirolis cum plurimis quibus cingitur Regionibus extant qq cursus publici permutationes curante Christophor Weigelio Noribergae.

Cartographer: Weigel, Christoph

Published: Nuernberg, Chr. Weigel

Date: 1719

Size: [33,2 x 40 cm]

Technic: Copper engraving / Original color.

Description: Copper-engraving handcolored in outline and wash when published. Decorative map of the principality of Tirol with its neighbouring countries. The map with many details like placenames of smaller villages, castles, mountains, rivers, etc. Ornated with a decorative allegoric title cartouche (hunting scene) in the upper left corner. The cartographer Christoph Weigel worked around 1719 in Nuernberg and his maps are showing the typical style of this period in mapmaking in Southern German. He worked very close as with Johann B. Homann in Nuernberg. All his maps were handcolored in outline and decorative body color immediatelly in his printing house, after they were printed.

Notes: In excellent condition.

Condition: Excellent

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