Praag, de Hooftstadt van Bohemen, leggende op de rivier Molda.
Pet: Schenk Amsteld.C.P. [n.d., c.1702.]
Engraving, 210 x 265mm. 8¼ x 10½". Slightly faded, from a worn plate.
Panoramic view of Prague in central Bohemia, with travellers and a peasant family with their sheep in the foreground. Engraved and published in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenk (1660 - 1718/1719). Titles in Dutch, to left, and Latin. Numbered '40' lower right. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
Hollstein, vol XV, nos.1306-1405.
[Ref: 11524] £220.00
Engraving, 210 x 265mm. 8¼ x 10½". Slightly faded, from a worn plate.
Panoramic view of Prague in central Bohemia, with travellers and a peasant family with their sheep in the foreground. Engraved and published in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenk (1660 - 1718/1719). Titles in Dutch, to left, and Latin. Numbered '40' lower right. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
Hollstein, vol XV, nos.1306-1405.
[Ref: 11524] £220.00