Die Konigl Polnische u Preusische Hansee - und Handels-Stadt Dantzig (The Royal Polish and Prussian Hanseatic League and trade town of Dantzig)
Artist
Homannianis Heredibus
Date1739
Mediumhand-colored copper engraving on paper
Dimensions22 1/2 × 26 in. (57.2 × 66 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation from the Lucia v. B. Batten Estate
Object numberPC2020.51.84
DescriptionThis colored aerial map of Danzig (now known as Gdańsk, Poland) and the surrounding area is in pink, red, blue, and yellow. The upper edge of the map is east. There is a black line frame drawn around the map with a yellow shade around this frame. The fortified city center is near the center top of the map and is colored in pink and red with a blue wall. Inside a narrow pink ribbon running horizontally across the top of the map, there is a shield with the double cross coat of arms of the Free City of Danzig. Inside the ribbon, on the left side of the shield it indicates how Danzig falls in the realm of the Hanseatic League, a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. There is a key inside a white box in the lower right corner of the map. Along the left edge of the map is a body of water labeled vertically: "OST SEE." There is a yellow compass rose between OST and SEE. There are two ships in the water that have just shot cannons toward the land. Across the bottom of the page, there is a black and white illustration showing the city of Danzig, with the Baltic Sea in the distance.On View
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