Brixia Tyrolis, Laubinga Sveviae (Brixen, Lauingen)
Manufacturer / MakerCreated by
Georg Braun
(1541 Cologne, Germany - 1622 Cologne, Germany)
Manufacturer / MakerCreated by
Frans Hogenberg
(1535 Mechelen, Belgium - 1590 Cologne, Germany)
Date1582
Mediumhand colored etching on paper
Dimensions16 × 20 1/2 in. (40.6 × 52.1 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation from the Lucia v. B. Batten Estate
Object numberPC2015.26.53
DescriptionThis set of landscape maps depicts the towns of Brixen in modern-day Italy and Lauingen in modern-day Germany from an aerial view. The top map of Brixen situates the viewer on a hill overlooking the town with nearby forests and agricultural scenes depicted such as plowing, Four figures stand in the lower left in the foreground in aristocratic clothing and a river winds through the town made of churches and red-roofed buildings. The map of Lauingen below this is drawn from a lower angle looking at the town with agricultural land in the foreground with two women close to the viewer, and a town with large churches and red-walled houses in the background. The text is in Latin.On View
Not on view
after 1911
