Decem et tria loca confoederatorvm helvetiae (Thirteen Place of the Confederation of Switzerland)
Manufacturer / MakerCreated by
Georg Braun
(1541 Cologne, Germany - 1622 Cologne, Germany)
Manufacturer / MakerCreated by
Frans Hogenberg
(1535 Mechelen, Belgium - 1590 Cologne, Germany)
Date1572
Mediumhand colored etching on paper
Dimensions19 × 23 in. (48.3 × 58.4 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation from the Lucia v. B. Batten Estate
Object numberPC2015.26.38
DescriptionThis collection of maps show thirteen views of towns that form Switzerland. The towns illustrated are Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Glarus, Basel, Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, Uri, Fribourg, Solothurn, Schaffhausen, and Appenzell. The colorful town depictions are rectangular illustrations in a horizontal format and take up half a folio page. While some have unique features such as rivers that wind around the town and rolling mountains that form behind the town, there are uniform features such as red and green-roofed buildings, a red border around each map, and greenery, a coat of arms, and a perspective of someone looking at the village from a nearby hill as a bird's eye view.On View
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