Weimar, Jen, Erfurt, Gotha, Fulda (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

18th–19th century
European
Prints
Works On Paper
hand-colored etching on laid paper
Sheet: 15 1/2 × 21 in. (39.37 × 53.34 cm)
Plate: 13 3/4 × 18 1/8 in. (34.93 × 46.04 cm)
40.9.40
Not on view
Inscribed in graphite upper right: 6/27- 300. Inscribed in graphite lower right: 42 (in circle). Printed within upper image at top: WEIMARIA. Printed within upper image lower right: WEIMARIA NOBILE THU/ RINGIA OPP. ILLUST. SAX/ ONIAE DVCVM SAEDES. Printed within center left image at top: JENA Thuringia vrbs, cum propter Musas, cum vineta clara et celebris. Printed within center right image at top: ERDFORDIA, magnifica atq,/ celeberrima Thuringorum vrbs. Printed within lower left image at top: GOTHA. Printed within lower left image, lower right: GOTHA, percelebri muror ambitu pro/ pugnacusis, formis planis, et arce, omnium fir/ missimu Thuringiae oppidum, Eius castrum, quia/ à Sacro Romano Imperio proscriptis, latibulo/ fuit, funitus euersum est.... Printed within lower left image at top: FVLDENSIS CIVITATIS, & ceberrima/ abbatiae eiusdem imago. Letterpress text on verso.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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