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Nemasus, Nismes, civitas Narbonensis Galliae vetustissima, View of Nîmes from a bird's-eye perspective, print, album page, This print is part of an album., printmaker, after design by, publisher, colorer (graphic design artist), Amsterdam, The Hague, Joris Hoefnagel, Johannes Janssonius, paper, engraving, etching, hand coloring, etching and engraving, hand-colored, cut within the plate edge and pasted in a hand-colored frame, title cut out of the image and glued above, surrounding sky and clouds hand-painted, height 365 mm x width 233 mm, height 532 mm x width 320 mm, This print has been used in several atlases. Among others in: Braun, Georg & Frans Hogenberg. Civitates orbis terrarum. Slsn, 1572 (and in the later editions of 1574 and 1575), and in: Theatrum exhibens celebriores Galliae et Helvetae urbes. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius, 1657., city-view in general, 'veduta', Nîmes, A hand-colored illustration of a walled circular city seen from an elevated viewpoint, surrounded by countryside and hills, with clustered buildings inside the walls depicted in shades of pink, red, and blue, tall towers and churches rising above the densely packed houses, gates and bastions along the fortified perimeter with a moat or water channel at the front, winding roads and pathways leading up into the surrounding green hills dotted with trees and scattered small structures, a colonnaded structure or aqueduct visible on a distant hillside, and a pale sky above with soft bands of blue and pink and faint cloud shapes near the top.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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Keywords

Nemasus Nismes civitas Narbonensis Galliae vetustissima View Nîmes bird's-eye perspective print album page part album printmaker design publisher colorer graphic design artist Amsterdam Hague Joris Hoefnagel Johannes Janssonius paper engraving etching hand coloring hand-colored cut within plate edge pasted hand-colored frame title cut image glued surrounding sky clouds hand-painted height 365 mm x width 233 mm height 532 mm x 320 mm several atlases Braun Georg & Frans Hogenberg Civitates orbis terrarum Slsn 1572 later editions 1574 1575 Theatrum exhibens celebriores Galliae et Helvetae urbes 1657 city-view general veduta hand-colored illustration walled circular city elevated viewpoint surrounded countryside hills clustered buildings inside walls depicted shades pink red blue tall towers churches rising densely packed houses gates bastions fortified perimeter moat water channel front winding roads pathways leading up surrounding green hills dotted trees scattered small structures colonnaded structure aqueduct visible distant hillside pale sky soft bands faint cloud shapes near top