Kostajnica


drawn and engraved by Georg Hufnaglius, before 1600 printed in 1617 Copperplate-engraving on paper; plate 32.6 x 44.5 cm paper, hand coloured: 42,1 x 54,7 cm A view of Kostajnica at the time of the Turkish occupation. In the foreground there are ploughed fields, an elevated small hill on the left, in the background the riverbank with an island and a fortress on it, and the other bank with a larger settlement. Both banks are connected with a wooden bridge. On a stone on the left the signature reads: 'Communicauit / G. Houfnaglius / Ao. 1617.', the title top centre reads: 'CASTANOWIZ / Croatiae Propugnaculum'. Georg Hufnaglius (Antwerpen, 1542 - Vienna, 1600), a miniaturist and sketcher, had designed numerous town views and plans of European cities for the work by Georg Braun (1541 - 1622) and co-author Frans Hogenberg (1535 - 1590) 'Civitates orbis terrarum', published in Antwerp between 1572 and 1618. Two town views, of which the Graphics Collection holds several examples, and a print combining three views - Sibenik, Porec and Modon, are from that work. Bought in 1908 from K. Th. Volcker in Frankfurt/M.




HPM/PMH-003621 HPM/PMH/G-0534