Hierosolyma, Clarissima totius Orientis ciuitas, Iudaee Metropolis.

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

BRAUN, GEORG, HOGENBERG, FRANS.

Place

Frankfurt, 1572 (or later)

Description

Hand-colored copperplate double-page twin plans of Jerusalem.

references

Laor 1039.

summary

Two Jerusalems are depicted; on the left, the city during the Second Temple Era; on the right, the contemporary city. Lower left, Moses receives the Decalogue at Mount Sinai, surrounded by a prostrating nation. This first appeared in Braun and Hogenberg’s ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum.’

17 x 22 inches (43 x 56 cm).

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