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MERIAN,  MATTHÄUS: DANUBE BASIN

MERIAN, MATTHÄUS: DANUBE BASIN

Inventory number 436
Original title: Totius Regni Hungariae, Maximae que Partis Danubii Fluminis
Publishing year: 1660
Place of publishing and publisher: Frankfurt
Format: 31 x 59 cm
Technique: Copper engraving

The map represents one of many variants of a very popular flow of the Danube River from Regensburg to the Black Sea. Merian, as he very often did, used a slightly older map of J. Blaeu and reduced it by slightly more than 1/3. He also moved the cartouche from the upper right corner to the lower left, but left the same motif, i.e. a symbolic division of the Christian West and the Islamic East, embodied in the character of the Austrian Emper.or and the Turkish Sultan. The map was made very cizelized and given the large area it displays, it contains a lot of information and toponyms, including the entire coast to Dubrovnik.

MERIAN, MATTHÄUS
MATTHÄUS MERIAN (1593-1650) a German topographer, graphic artist, and editor. He studied in Zürich, and worked in Frankfurt. His most famous work, "Theatrum Europeam" went through many editions between 1629 and 1718, and "Archeologica Cosmica" reissued as well several times during the period from 1638 to 1649.
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