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1588 VON AITSINGER, M. - Eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, including the famous "Leo Belgicus" map
Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. |
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ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings from a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, including the famous "Leo Belgicus" map, here in its second state. One of the major sources for the history of the Low Countries during the beginning of their struggle for independence. This history of the religious wars in Belgium and Holland from 1559-87 is illustrated with Hogenberg's engravings (from his "Geschichtsblättern"), whereby the engravings for this edition were printed without the lower text panel and have Latin text on the reverse. They mostly show siege scenes of the most important cities in the Netherlands, e.g. Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bergen op Zoom, Breda, Brussels, Haarlem, Leiden, Maastricht, Mechelen, Middelburg, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Zuthphen and some from France.
The Austrian author Michael Aitsinger (1530 ?-1598 ?) followed the tradition of 'newsletters' published on the occasion of the regular trade fairs and began to issue a series of half-yearly publications. Written with unusual impartiality for the time, this work was repeatedly updated and reprinted. Aitsinger witnessed the execution of Egmont and Hoorn and became a partisan historian of the Dutch Revolt. The fame of the book owes much to the 208 fine engravings by Frans Hogenberg (1536-1590) which depict many places and historical events in the Netherlands and Germany with great reliability.
The splendid "Leo Belgicus," i.e., folding engr. map of the Low Countries as a lion became a symbol of the unity and strength of the 17 Provinces and served as the prototype for numerous similar maps until the beginning of the 19th century; here it is presented in its second state, with the name of Elisabeth (of Valois) added.
Reference: VdHeijden, Leo Belgicus 1.2.
Frans Hogenberg
Frans Hogenberg was born in Mechelen around 1535 into an artistic family and became one of the most prolific engravers of the second half of the 16th century. He is remembered less as an original cartographer than as the hand behind some of the period's most important printed images: the maps of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the town views of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, and a long series of engraved news prints recording the religious and political upheavals of his day. His brothers Johannes and Remigius were also engravers, and Remigius later worked on English county maps.Hogenberg worked in Antwerp; here he engraved plates for Ortelius, including maps for the first edition of the Theatrum (1570)
Like many Netherlandish artists and printers, Hogenberg was affected by the religious conflicts and the Dutch Revolt. He left Antwerp and settled in Cologne, where he worked as an engraver and publisher for the rest of his life. His best-known project is the Civitates Orbis Terrarum ("Cities of the World"), published from 1572 and completed in six volumes by 1617.
From the late 1560s, Hogenberg also produced a large series of engraved news sheets (Geschichtz Blätter) covering events such as the Dutch Revolt, the wars of religion in France and the German Empire.
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