Description
Old coloured map of Styria by Johann Baptist Homann. Shows the area around the Drau and Mur river from the Wolfgangsee and Hallstätter See in the northwest, Klagenfurt with the Wörthersee in the southwest, along the Drau river to the confluence with the Mur near Legrad (Croatia). In the northeast up to Wiener Neustadt. With the cities Graz, Leoben, Kapfenberg, Bruck an der Mur, Feldbach, Gratwein-Stregel, Knittelfeld, Leibnitz, Deutschlandsberg, Weiz, and even small towns are named. Three beautiful cartouches and a large city view of Graz.
Condition
Excellent condition with striking old colours. Never framed before.
Cartographer
Johann Baptist Homann was born 1664 in Oberkammlach. He founded his business 1702 in Nuremberg, Germany. After a long period of Dutch domination in map publishing, the Homann publishing house became the most important map and atlas producer in Germany. He became a member of the Academy of Science in Berlin just after he published his first atlas in 1707. After his death 1724 in Nuremberg, the company was continued by his son Johann Christoph. The publishing firm was bequeathed to his heirs after his death in 1730 and was traded under the name Homann Heirs until the next century.
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