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HIRSCHVOGEL, Augustin. Hanc Viennae quam vides geometricam faciem Archimedem Siracusanum Augustinus Hirsfogel a suo depictam radio imitatus est. Vienna: 1552.
Etched plan of Vienna on six sheets (overall 880 x 880mm.). The plan set in the round, walls, bastions, gates and other defences neatly drawn and named, streets and passages accurately drawn across the city.
First accurately surveyed plan of Vienna. principal thoroughfares, churches and civic buildings named, large roundel cornerpieces enclosing title, scale, arms of the city and Ferdinand I, the latter unfinished. (Light spotting, discolouration along sheet joins, some misregistration along join lines, several small unobtrusive worm holes.)
The first accurately surveyed plan of Vienna drawn up by Augustin Hirschvogel using triangulation techniques. In 1546 the Major of Vienna commissioned Hirschvogel to draw up a plan of the city, in which he employed triangulation for the first time, The task was finished in 1549 and the resultant plan published in 1552. Hirschvogel (1503-53) came from Nuremberg where he trained as metal cutter, spent 6 years travelling around Italy from 1530-36, and then settled in Laibach. He produced his first map in 1539 and his famous map of Austria in 1542. He moved to Vienna in 1544, obtained recognition with his survey of Vienna and later worked for Ferdinand I as a cartographer, engraver and glassworker. Schwarz p.43-47, p.185 S.143 (records 12 copies in Budapest and Vienna); Thieme-Becker XVII, 138-139.
Etched plan of Vienna on six sheets (overall 880 x 880mm.). The plan set in the round, walls, bastions, gates and other defences neatly drawn and named, streets and passages accurately drawn across the city.
First accurately surveyed plan of Vienna. principal thoroughfares, churches and civic buildings named, large roundel cornerpieces enclosing title, scale, arms of the city and Ferdinand I, the latter unfinished. (Light spotting, discolouration along sheet joins, some misregistration along join lines, several small unobtrusive worm holes.)
The first accurately surveyed plan of Vienna drawn up by Augustin Hirschvogel using triangulation techniques. In 1546 the Major of Vienna commissioned Hirschvogel to draw up a plan of the city, in which he employed triangulation for the first time, The task was finished in 1549 and the resultant plan published in 1552. Hirschvogel (1503-53) came from Nuremberg where he trained as metal cutter, spent 6 years travelling around Italy from 1530-36, and then settled in Laibach. He produced his first map in 1539 and his famous map of Austria in 1542. He moved to Vienna in 1544, obtained recognition with his survey of Vienna and later worked for Ferdinand I as a cartographer, engraver and glassworker. Schwarz p.43-47, p.185 S.143 (records 12 copies in Budapest and Vienna); Thieme-Becker XVII, 138-139.