Live auction - Lot 455
Live auction - Lot 455
[Belgium - Brussels]
Bruxella nobillissima Brabantiae Civitas.
C. 1695
Hammer price: €
1.000
€ 400 / 500
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Engr., 58 x 93 cm, hand-coloured (traces of glue on central joint, sm. tears in left and right marg.).
Large bird's-eye view of Brussels, oriented to the east, depicting the medieval ramparts with the gates and the fortifications including fort Monterey, the court of the Archdukes with the Warande, the townhall, the churches and convents, etc. Engraved by J. Harrewijn after J. Laboureur & J. Vander Baren, surveyors, decorated with a large cartouche and a perspective view with allegorical figures, dedicated to Maximilian-Emanuel of Bavaria (1662-1726). In all a very detailed and interesting topographical view.
Ref. Danckaert 1989, n. 35. - Les géomètres-arpenteurs, KBR, 1976, n. 70.