Zwolle Braun & Hogenberg Swol Civitatus Orbis Terrarum. 1572
Title: Swol.
1572 Swol, Braun & Hogenberg old map.
Description: Attractive birds eye view the town of Zwolle Holland founded around 800 CE by Frisian merchants and troops of Charlemagne. The name of Zwolle has its origin from the word Suolle, which means "hill". It was situated on a hill between the three rivers surrounding the city, the rivers IJssel, Vecht, and Zwarte Water.
In 1230 Zwolle received city rights from his landlord the Utrecht bishop Wilbrand van Oldenburg as a thank you for helping to build a stronghold in Hardenberg.
This map represents the old city with his fortification walls and surrounding hinterland as it was in the 16th century. Thomas à Kempis spent the greatest part of his life and died in 1471.
Cartographers: Georg Braun (1541 – 1622) was a topo-geographer. Braun corresponds with map sellers and scientists around the world. From 1572 to 1617 he edited the Civitates orbis terrarum, which contains 546 prospects, bird's-eye views and maps of cities from all around the world. He began work with Frans Hogenberg but was the main publisher of the book. He acquired the plates, hired artists and wrote the texts. He died as an octogenarian in 1622, as the only survivor of the original team to witness the publication of volume VI in 1617.
Frans Hogenberg (1535 - 1590) was a Brabant cartographer. Hogenberg drew maps and made drawings for publishers in the Netherlands, Germany and England. Besides being a draftsman, painter and engraver, he was also a publisher himself. Like his brother Remigius, Frans probably got lessons from his stepfather, the mapmaker Hendrik Terbruggen. The plates of Le Civitas Orbis Terrarum were engraved by Frans Hogenberg and Simon Novellanus after the original drawings of Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600) who travelled with Ortelius through Europe.
Copper engraved birds eye view in watercolor of the town from the first Latin volume of Braun & Hogenberg's "Le Civitas Orbis Terrarum. " Latin text to verso.
Sheet app.: 22 x 16.5 inches. 56 x 42.5 cm. Image app:. 16.75 x 13.25 inches. 42 x 34 cm.
