The Field of Mars showing the Lines of Waes and the Lines of Brabant, after 1731

Item — Oversize_Folder: 8

Identifier: id189628

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Scope and Contents

(Wright Belgium/Holland Map No. 8)

Arena Martis in Belgio. Qua Provinciae X Catholicae Inferioris Germaniae cum vicinis Episcopatisbus Coloniensi et Leodiensi aliisque finitimis Regionibus novissime proponuntur

[Field of Mars in Belgium. When the Province of Liege: for the 10 and the Catholic and other neighboring districts which are the lower of Cologne, Germany, at the end of Bishoprics are proposed with the neighbors]

Relief shown pictorially.

Johann Baptiste Homann, Nuremboug - geographer

Johann Baptiste Homann, Nuremboug - publisher

copper engraving, hand-colored, decorative cartouche, canvas backed folding map of 4 sheets

48 cm x 57 cm

1 : 820,000

Inset: Liege under siege

Map appears in atlas titled : Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia Regna et Status Exactis Fabulis Geographice Demonstrans - Johann Baptiste Homann, Nuremberg

Dates

Creation: after 1731

Creator

From the Collection: Wright, John Womack, 1876-1953 (Collector, Person)
From the Collection: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Saint Helene, Placide de (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Senex, John, d. 1740 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 (Cartographer, Person)

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