The Inn Valley from the series Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. V, plate 59
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 14 15/16 x 20 5/16 in. (38 x 51.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.591.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of's Drawings and Prints department, where *The Inn Valley* (from *Civitates Orbisarum*, vol. V, plate 59, 1590) offers a captivating glimpse into 16th-century European topography. This etching, measuring nearly 15 by 20 inches, was a collaborative masterpiece by Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg, J Hoefnagel, and Simon Novellanus., a Cologne canon, spearheaded the monumental *Civitates Or Terrarum*—the first comprehensive world atlas of cities, published between 1572 and 1617 with over 500 detailed views—while Hogenberg excelled in bird's-eye urban panoramas, Hoe...
About the Artist
Joris Hoefnagel|Simon Novellanus|Frans Hogenberg|Georg Braun · 1542–1600
Joris Hoefnagel, also known as Georg Hoefnagel, was born in 1542 in Antwerp to Jacob Hoefnagel, a prosperous diamond and luxury goods dealer, and Elisabeth Vezelaer, daughter of the Antwerp mint master. Intended for the family trade, he received a humanistic education, mastering languages, poetry, and music, but pursued art as a self-taught draftsman and miniaturist, receiving his first lessons fr...