Title
LONDINUM FLORENTISSIMA BRITANNIAE URBS; TOTO ORBE CELEBERRIMUM EMPORIUMQUE. / C.J. Visscher Delineavit.
Creator
Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652, artist, printmaker.
Publication details
AMSTELODAMI, : Ex officina IUDO HONDII sub signo Canis vigilis, Anno 1616.
Physical details
1 print : etching ; sheet 60.4 x 213.3 cm, on support sheet 65 x 217 cm, on four sheets 64.8 x 55 cm, 65 x 53 cm, 64.8 x 52.5 cm, 65 x 56 cm
Description
Panorama of London from South Bank, with old St Paul's in the mid-distance at centre left, St Mary Overie at Southwark and London Bridge in the foreground at centre right. With descriptive text in 16 columns printed below the view. Stored flat. Originally rolled, with a pencil note 'The only copy in existence in Gough' on the marker sheet stored in volume 21 of the King's Topographical Collection. Together with a photographic reproduction at Maps C.5.a.4.(2.).
Place
London (England)
Other persons
Hondius, Jodocus, 1594 or 1595-1629, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps C.5.a.6.