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Braun Hogenberg Civitates orbis terrarum Avignon 1575
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Braun Hogenberg Civitates orbis terrarum Avignon 1575

A hand-coloured copper engraving showing the town of Avignon by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg published as plate 13 in Civitates orbis terrarum Volume 2. In French sources this map is sometimes referred to as "aux personnages" because of the two figures depicted at the lower left. The has a copy of Civitates orbis terrarum: The plate showing Avignon is here: The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a French edition of Volume 2 with the title Theatre des principales villes de tout l'univers: A scan is available on Gallica: Plate 13 is here: The engraving is reproduced as Plate 1 in: Gagnière, S.; Granier, J. (1978). Images du Vieil Avignon (in French). Avignon: Rullière-Libeccio.

Date
1575
Mapmaker / publisher
Georg Braun, Franz Hogenberg
Place
Avignon by Braun & Hogenberg
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,588 × 1,759 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Braun Hogenberg Civitates orbis terrarum Avignon 1575" (1575). Georg Braun, Franz Hogenberg, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Braun_Hogenberg_Civitates_orbis_terrarum_Avignon_1575.jpg

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