The Inn Valley from the series Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. V, plate 59
Medium
Etching with hand coloring
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 in. × 21 1/8 in. (40.7 × 53.7 cm) Plate: 14 9/16 × 19 7/8 in. (37 × 50.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1961
Accession Number
61.650.36
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, where *The Inn Valley* from *Civitates Orbis Terrarum*, volume V, plate 59 (1590), offers a captivating bird's-eye vista of the scenic Inn Valley in the Tyrol region of present-day Austria. This etching with hand coloring, measuring about 16 by 21 inches on its sheet, is part of the most ambitious urban atlas of the Renaissance era—a six-volume masterpiece published between 1572 and 1617, documenting over 500 towns and landscapes across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Compiled by canon Georg Braun, with engravings by ...
About the Artist
Simon Novellanus|Frans Hogenberg|Georg Braun|Joris Hoefnagel ( |Netherlandish|Netherlandish) · 0016 |1525 |1542 –0016 |1569 |1600
Netherlandish, 16th century|Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels|Netherlandish, Antwerp 1542–1600 Vienna