Flandria Borealis. Eigentliche Verzeichnus der Graefschafft Flandern, [...]. Im Jahr Christi 1604.

Engr., 34 x 23 cm, hand-coloured (central folding).

Under passe-partout.

According to Frederick Muller's "Topographie de l'Europe" (1903): a very rare south-up oriented map of Sluis, Bruges and Ostend, attributed to Franz Hogenberg (1536-1590). It was published with a text below the image in the series "Hogenbergische Geschichtsblätter", but this is a copy without that text extracted from the "Topographica atque historica leonis Belgici continuatio" (Köln, G. von Kempen, 1605, pp. 29-30 on verso), published after the death of its author M. Eytzinger (1530-1598). Depicting the Revolt against the Spanish Catholic rulers of the Low Countries in 1604 in particular, all during the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). Given the fact that it represents the war situation in 1604, after the death of both Hogenberg and Eytzinger, it was probably executed by Hogenberg's son Abraham who continued publishing Hogenberg's broadsides into the early 17th century. He took over the publishing house from his mother Agnes Hogenberg-Lomar from around 1605.
Ref. Muller I:413. 340. - Atlas van Stolk 21347.