Atlas editor and engraver
Braun & Hogenberg
The Cologne cleric and the Flemish engraver who made the first great atlas of the world’s cities.
On Picturepops™ cards · 61
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Alexandria: The Harbor and the Locksby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Antwerp: Place Verte and the Cathedralby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Bergen, View from Walkendorff's Towerby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Bruges Canal and Belfryby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Budapest: View over the Danubeby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The Römer, Frankfurtby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Genoa Harborby A. H. Payne$13.00$18.00 -
The Alhambra and Sierra Nevada, Granadaby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The Cloth Hall, Krakowby an unknown postcard artist$13.00$18.00 -
Lisbon, Commerce Square from the Tagusby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The Kremlin from the River, Moscowby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The Bay of Naples and Vesuviusby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The Giralda, Sevilleby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Toledo Cathedralby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Verona: Ponte Pietra and San Giorgioby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Zurich from St. Peter's Churchby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Algiers and Its Bayby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Aachen Cathedralby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The Old Town Hall, Bambergby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Pont d'Avignon and the Papal Palaceby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Basel Minster Above the Rhineby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Pressburg on the Danubeby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Bordeaux: Place Pey-Berland and the Cathedralby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Burgos: Plaza Mayor and the Cathedralby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristolby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
St. Martin's and the Old Market, Brunswickby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The Great Mosque of Cordobaby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Constance on the Lakeby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The East Gate, Delftby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Exeter Cathedralby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Dordrecht: The Grote Kerk over the Harborby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Windmill De Adriaan, Haarlemby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
View of Groningenby Gerrit Battem$13.00$18.00 -
Heidelberg, View from the Philosophers' Walkby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Koblenz and Ehrenbreitsteinby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Leipzig Old Town Hall and Marketby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Pont des Arches, Liègeby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The Holstentor, Lubeckby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Lyon, the Hill of Fourvièreby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
General View of Luneburgby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Leuven Town Hallby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
View of Malaga from the Northby Adrien Dauzats$13.00$18.00 -
Magdeburg Across the Elbeby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Mainz Cathedral over the Rooftopsby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Piazza del Duomo, Milanby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
The Strait of Messinaby Braun & Hogenberg$13.00$18.00 -
Namur: The Citadel over the Meuseby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00 -
Palermo Cathedralby Photoglob Co.$13.00$18.00
The life
Braun 1541–1622, Hogenberg 1535–1590Born Cologne (Braun) and Mechelen, Flanders (Hogenberg)
Georg Braun, a Catholic canon in Cologne, edited the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, six volumes of city views and plans published between 1572 and 1617, and Frans Hogenberg, a Protestant engraver from Mechelen who had settled in Cologne, engraved most of the plates for the first four. Together the volumes show more than 500 cities, from Antwerp and Seville to Cairo and Mexico City. Many plates were drawn after other artists, above all the Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel, who sketched the towns of Spain on his travels, and also Marcus Gerards, Jos Murer and John Speed. Our Famous Cities cards open onto 61 of their views, among them Seville, Granada and Toledo after Hoefnagel, Bruges after Gerards, Zurich after Murer and York after Speed.