A plan of Venice after Ughi’s great plan

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Iconografica rappresentatione della inclita citta di Venetia

Iconografica rappresentatione della inclita citta di Venetia Icongrafica rappresentatione della inclita citta di Venetia: con tutti i canali Ry. Chiese Ponti. isolette, division de sestieri, i.e., vrbs Venetiarum ad exemplar typi majoris qui serenissimo senatui Veneto consecratus Venetÿs 1729 prodÿt.

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HOMANN, Johannes Baptist, after UGHI, Ludovico
Nurnberg,
Homannianis Heredibus Norib. Cum P.S.C.M.,
1762
Double-page engraved plan (383 by 545mm) with panorama beneath (9 by 545mm), full margins, with contemporary hand-colour in full (lower margin with two short tears affecting the image, lightly spotted).
530 by 630mm. (20.75 by 24.75 inches).
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A fine and detailed plan of Venice, based on Ludovico Ughi's monumental 12-sheet map of Venice published in 1729, as stated in the title. This reduced version, with the added panorama was published in the "Stadt - atlas, oder: Schauplatz beruhmter Stadte, Verstumgen, Prospekte, Gegenden, Grundrisse, Belangerungen, etc: Welche by denen Hommaniscen Erben", Nuremberg, 1762.

Despite its smaller format the Homann plan of Venice is still remarkably detailed, showing al...

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