Author: Pieter van der Borcht (c. 1530–1608) [?] or Frans Hogenberg (1535–1590) [?]
Title: [Antique print, engraving] The Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp/Onze-lieve-vrouwekathedraal in Antwerpen, published 1612.
Description: Appeared in the 1612 edition and later of Guicciardini's Beschryvinghe of all the Netherlands; (...), this plate numbered as 6 on the bottom right represents the Cathedral of our Lady in Antwerp. Some citizens on the bottom right are conversing with a cripple sitting in front of the church.Titled above in a panel held by two angels TEMPLE D. VIRGINIS / MARIAE VERA DEINEATIO. Therefore, this is the second version of the plate (Antwerpen-Kathedraal 3.2 in Guicciardini Illustratus, p. 137) which appeared at first in the 1612 Blaeu Dutch edition, until Janssonius' in 1648. Copper engraving on paper with margins; plate mark: 237 x 318 mm, total: 258 x 346 mm; state II/2; two pages joined together in the middle. On verso transfer traces of fresh ink due to the piling of sheets after pressing. Watermark with foolscap on the right.

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