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Matthäus Merian: English: Frankfurt (Great Bird's Eye View as seen from the south)

Deutsch: Frankfurt (Große Vogelschau von Süden)

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Artist



Description	Swiss copperplate engraver and publisher
Date of birth/death	22 September 1593	19 June 1650
Location of birth/death	Basel	Bad Schwalbach
Work period	1608 –1650
Work location	Switzerland (Zurich, Basel), France (Nancy, Paris), Netherlands, Germany (Strasbourg, Augsburg, Stuttgart, Oppenheim,Frankfurt)
Authority file	: Q57968 VIAF: 32000392 ISNI: 0000000121266236 ULAN: 500010137 LCCN: n50035966 NLA: 35706082 WorldCat

Title

English: Frankfurt (Great Bird's Eye View as seen from the south)

Deutsch: Frankfurt (Große Vogelschau von Süden)

Date

1628

Medium

copper engraving print

Dimensions

reproduction: height: 71.5 cm (28.1 in); width: 102.6 cm (40.3 in), original: height: 71.8 cm (28.2 in); width: 103.7 cm (40.8 in)

Collection

Historical Museum Frankfurt

	Native name	Historisches Museum Frankfurt
	Location	Frankfurt
	Coordinates	50° 06′ 34.92″ N, 8° 40′ 57″ E
	Established	2012
	Website	Historisches Museum Frankfurt
	Authority file	: Q198347 VIAF: 127156675 ISNI: 0000000122545173 ULAN: 500305358 LCCN: n50066765 NLA: 36530169 WorldCat

Accession number

C 93970

Inscriptions

top:

FRANCOFURTI AD MOENUM, URBIS IMPERIALIS, ELECTIONI ROM: REGUM ATQ. IMPERATORUM CONSECRATAE, EMPORIIQUE TAM GERMANIAE QUAM TOTIUS EUROPAE CELEBERRIUMI, ACCURATA DELINEATIO.

top right:

Gallia Lugdunum miratur, at Itala tellus
Rem Venetam, Hispanos, operosa Sevillia iactat,
Londinum Tamesis, speciosa Antverpia Scaldem.
Ast ego Teuthonicas inter caput altius Vrbes
Effero Francfvrtum, qua Pons tua Moene fluenta
Saxeus, Urbis opus, quindeno fornice sternit
Saxonibus Francos clarißima nomina jungens
Sola ego Cæsaribus quondam delecta creandis
Glorior, et celebris mercatu duplices nomen
Vsque ad Hamaxobios peregrina merce propago.
Est foecundus ager, populus cum divite censu,
Cæsaribus seruata fides, prudensque Senatus.
Hæc mihi si constent, quis me neget efie beatam?
Sis, voveo, / I L Gotofredus.

bottom:

Matthaeus Merianus Basiliensis, Civis et Calcographus
Francofurtensis mensus est, delineauit, expreßit, cae-
lauit, iurisq. publici fecit, Anno
1628.

bottom right:

Vrbs ego Mercurio sacra sum, Phoeboq. Ioviq.
Castalijs Musis, Palladiaeq. Deae.
Me Bromius, me flaua Ceres, Pomonaq. blando
Lumine respiciunt, me quoque magna Pales.
Nec Charites Nymphasq. mihi Venus alma negauit:
Quis charum superis me neget eße locum.
I. L. G.

bottom left:

Nobilissimis, Magnificis, Amplissimis,
Prudentissimisq. D Dnn. Praetori, Consulibus,
Scabinis, et Senatoribus, inclytae Vrbis et Reipubl.
Francofurtensis: Nec non Vniversis eiusdem Ciuibus
Viris Praestantißimis, Humanißimis, Integerrimisq.
Dominis Fautoribus. et Amicis suis, in Reuerentiae,
Subiectionis, Gratitudinis, Amoris et Bene-
uolentiae Signum, lubens merito, Donat,
dicat, Consecrat.
Matthæus Merianus. Anno,
M D C XX VIII.

Notes

1. Auflage

Source/Photographer

Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Dezernat Planung und Wirtschaft, Stadtvermessungsamt, Dezernat Kultur und Wissenschaft, Institut für Stadtgeschichte (Hrsg.): Mein Frankfurt >> Historische Karten. CD-ROM. Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main / Institut für Stadtgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main 2007.

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