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Lot 172 172* Poland. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Franz). Cracovia Metropolis Regni Poloniae, Cologne, [1617 or later], hand coloured large engraved city panorama on two conjoined sheets, old folds, slight creasing, 360 x 1050mm, mounted, framed and glazed
173* Poland. Cluver (Philip), Prussiae Nova Tabula, Amsterdam, circa 1697 - 1729, hand coloured map, engraved by John Harris, with another five versions of the same map after M. Merian and Pieter Van der Aa, each 270 x 325mm, displayed in a six aperture mount, framed and glazed
A rare prospect of Krakow, less common than most of the other plans in the ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ because it only appeared in the sixth and last volume and its size and the fact that it was folded predicated against it surviving in good condition. It shows the city from the west, with the neighbouring towns of Kazimierz & Kleparz. Their names are given on banners in the sky alongside their armorials. It is possible that the scene in the foreground represents the entry of the Polish king accompanied by knights and ecclesiastical dignitaries. The banderole celebrating Cracow as the royal residence would seem to confirm this, however, Georg Braun was ill-informed, for Cracow had been replaced as the capital by Warsaw under Sigismund III between 1596 and 1611 (Taschen). (1) £1,000 - £1,500
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