Londinum Celeberrimum Angliae Emporium.
Amsterdam,
[c.1639-1641].
Copper engraving.
image: 410 by 510mm (16.25 by 20 inches). sheet: 445 by 545mm (17.5 by 21.5 inches).
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notes:
A print of the London skyline, with the crests of the Prince of Wales and the City of London. It is a copy after Rombout van den Hoeye's bird's eye print of the same subject, which in itself is a variant of Matthias Merian's view (BM). It shows the old St Paul's Cathedral and the Globe Theatre, suggesting a date before the Fire of London and before the Puritans closed the Globe in 1642. The British Library example is catalogued with a possible date of 1670, but no justific...
bibliography:
BL Maps *3518.(6.); BM 1880,1113.1128 (van den Hoeye); Scouloudi, p.50 (Merian).
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