Transylvania

Reference: S39997
Author Gaspar BOUTTATS
Year: 1670 ca.
Zone: Transylvania
Printed: Wien
Measures: 400 x 330 mm
€275.00

Reference: S39997
Author Gaspar BOUTTATS
Year: 1670 ca.
Zone: Transylvania
Printed: Wien
Measures: 400 x 330 mm
€275.00

Description

Unsual map showing Transylvania.

With detailed representation of all cities, forests and mountains. Transilvania is a historical region located in what is today the central part of Romania.

Taken from the Historia di Leopoldo Cesare, continente le cose più memorabili successe in Europa, dal 1656. sino al 1670. Descritta dal Co: Galeazzo Gualdo Priorator. Con le scritture, lettere, trattati, accordi, e capitulationi, printed in Wien, G. B. Hacque, 1670-1674.


Gaspar Bouttats the Elder was a Flemish printmaker and engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Antwerp in a family of engravers. He was the son of the engraver Frederick Bouttats the Elder and Marie de Weert. His uncle Philibert Bouttats as well as his younger brother Frederik Bouttats the Younger built reputations as engravers.

Copperplate, good condition.

Gaspar BOUTTATS (Anversa, 1640 circa – Anversa, 1695 o 1696)

Was a Flemish printmaker and engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Antwerp in a family of engravers. He was the son of the engraver Frederick Bouttats the Elder and Marie de Weert. His uncle Philibert Bouttats as well as his younger brother Frederik Bouttats the Younger built reputations as engravers. He engraved chiefly for the booksellers, and also made some plates after different masters. They are principally etched, and some finished with the burin.

Gaspar BOUTTATS (Anversa, 1640 circa – Anversa, 1695 o 1696)

Was a Flemish printmaker and engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Antwerp in a family of engravers. He was the son of the engraver Frederick Bouttats the Elder and Marie de Weert. His uncle Philibert Bouttats as well as his younger brother Frederik Bouttats the Younger built reputations as engravers. He engraved chiefly for the booksellers, and also made some plates after different masters. They are principally etched, and some finished with the burin.