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Assisi Title: Assisium - Assisi Patria di S. Francesco Artist: Hondius, Jodocus, Jr. Published: Leiden, Abraham Elsevir Date: 1627 Size: [18,8 x 26,8 cm] Technic: Copper engraving / handcolored. Description: Copper engraving, finely hand colored. This historic city view of Assisi shows the old fortified town with its walls and its nearby surrounding as a bird's eye view. Streets, places, towers, churches, etc. are detailed shown. Assisi was the birthplace of 'S. Francesco of Assisi', the famous Italian saint. This city view is decorative ornated with a renaissance title cartouche. Further this antique print is highly decorative engraved and some of the town views from 'Nova et Accurata Italiae ...' are engraved after earlier city views from the famous series 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' by Braun & Hogenberg. Also they are occasionally ornated with rural figures in the foreground, a coat of arms, ships or a decorative landscape. This antique print is finely hand colored in wash and outline. Printed on good paper on the full sheet as published. In 1626 Jodocus Jr. published 'Nova et Accurata Italiae Hodiernae Descriptio', a description of Italy with 31 small maps (16 x 23 cm) and 66 town views interspersed between the pages. (Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici Vol. I Pag.35) Notes: In excellent condition. Condition: Excellent Reference: Price: /
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