Catalogue information

LastDodo number
4137269
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
Namurcum
Artist
Technique
Year
1609
Print run
Signed
Dimensions
31,1 x 23,0
Printing office
Details

City view of the city of Namur, with uprights of houses and buildings. Title top center in beautiful scroll cartouche, flanked by the crowned coat of arms of Philip II of Habsburg (left) and the city arms of Namur in simple cartouche (right). At the bottom left, the Latin title in a beautiful scroll cartouche. Published in Amsterdam by Cornille Nicolas, MDCIX (1609), in the famous description of the Netherlands by Lodovico Guicciardini (1521-1589): 'Description de Tous les Pays-Bas, autrement appelez la Germanie Inferieure, ou Basse Allemange; by Messire Loys Guicciardin Gentil Homme Florintin, (...) '.

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