ENNS: Total. 'Ens Austriae Civitas Superiorem ab inferiorediuidens',

old colored and enlarged copper engraving v. Anna Beek n. Hoefnagel / Braun-Hogenberg (1617), around 1700, (red border) 44 x 51

Nebehay-Wagner 108/VI/23. Lower fold approx. 8 cm torn. For Anna Beek, see Wurzbach, Niederl. Artist, I,68. - Commissioned by the Dutch governor and English king William III of Orange-Nassau, Anna Beek (1657-1717) colored and 'enlarged' a series of views by cutting out the original sheet, mounting it on larger paper - with space in between - and then colored with their well-known, strong (bright) colors. They related views by Braun-Hogenberg, or , which were then colored and combined into one large work of views. The quality of the coloring is roughly comparable to the legendary coloring of van Santen from the Atlas van der Hem. The atlas was published in the 1950s. Dissolved at the end of the 19th century and the volume of Austrian (and South Tyrolean) views came into the possession of the former Artaria employee Hans Philipp Gutacker, and his heirs also sold them as a whole to an antiquarian bookshop in the Rhineland. All sheets are unique in this way.





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Nebehay-Wagner 108/VI/23. Lower fold approx. 8 cm torn. For Anna Beek, see Wurzbach, Niederl. Artist, I,68. - Commissioned by the Dutch governor and English king William III of Orange-Nassau, Anna Beek (1657-1717) colored and 'enlarged' a series of views by cutting out the original sheet, mounting it on larger paper - with space in between - and then colored with their well-known, strong (bright) colors. They related views by Braun-Hogenberg, or , which were then colored and combined into one large work of views. The quality of the coloring is roughly comparable to the legendary coloring of van Santen from the Atlas van der Hem. The atlas was published in the 1950s. Dissolved at the end of the 19th century and the volume of Austrian (and South Tyrolean) views came into the possession of