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Coloured map „Civitas Embda, eo modo situata cum essit controversia inter ipsam et suum Comitem anno“

Lost Art-ID
598221
Author
Guicciardini, Lodovico
Title
Coloured map „Civitas Embda, eo modo situata cum essit controversia inter ipsam et suum Comitem anno“
Date of publication
1589 (vor)
Object type
Map / Floor plan
Group of reported objects
Maps / Globe
Material / Technique
Paper / printed (etching)
Height
36.40 cm
Width
31.50 cm
Inventory number
GS Kunst 4204
Description
This coloured etching measures 36.4 cm in width and 31.5 cm in height. It has been preserved with a mount of yellowed white paper measuring 38.1 x 46.1 cm. On the sheet there is a handwritten note in pencil referring to Lodovico Guicciardini (19.8.1521 Florence - 22.4.1589 Antwerp) as the artist or map engraver.
Provenance

Previous owner unknown

Confiscated by Wilhelm Meyer, employee of the Reichskommissariats, Abteilung Geschäftsführung, The Hague, 1942, on behalf of the city of Emden in exchange for an advance of RM 500 to purchase "cultural assets"; subsequently Emden, Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst und Vaterländische Altertümer / Sammlungen des Ostfriesischen Landesmuseums Emden (Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities / Collections of the East Frisian State Museum Emden)

Literature / Source

Stadtarchiv Emden, Akte StAE KA 46;

Objektdatenbank des Ostfriesischen Landesmuseums Emden, Objekt GS Kunst 4204;

Henk Deys, Mathieu Franssen, Vincent van Hezik, Fineke te Raa und Erik Walsmit: Guicciardini illustratus. De kaarten en prenten in Lodovico Guicciardini’s Beschrijving van de Nederlanden, Utrecht, 2001;

Pierre Jodogne: Lodovico Guicciardini (1521–1589). Actes du colloque international des 28, 29 et 30 mars 1990. Leuven, 1991

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