Sibenik, Porec and Modon

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    Antwerp (?)
    possibly by Frans Hogenberg
    from 1572 to 1618
    Paper, copperplate-engraving, three plates
    plate: 16.9 x 24 cm
    plate: 17 x 24 cm
    plate: 17.1 x 48.9 cm
    paper: 39.3 x 52.2 cm

    Three views in one frame: in the upper left part Sibenik, upper right part Porec and in the lower part over the whole width Modon. Titles: 'Sibinium, Ptolemeo Sicum vulgo Sibenicho. Dalmatiae opp.', 'PARENS, Siue Parentium vulgo, Parenzo Histriae opp:', 'MODON, Siue Modona, quondam / Methone, ciuitas est littoralis Pelop: / ponesi, in Morea.'. There is no signature.

    Views come from the same series as the view of Kostajnica.

    Bought in 1932 from Izidor Steiner in Zagreb.


    HPM/PMH-004718
    HPM/PMH/G-1628


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