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Braun & Hogenberg Edinburgh c1581

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Stock Code 29232

Price: £ 1125

Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

c1581

EDENBURG / EDENBURGUM, SCOTIAE METROPOLIS

45 x 34 cms. Coloured. Overall fine condition. Short repaired tear at top centre in blank margin. Feint brown line from aperture of old mount running around image in blank margin on all four sides. French text verso.

Derived from an engraving in Ralph Holished’s Chronicles [1574], the Scottish Capital of Edinburgh during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots. Viewed from the South, it includes the dominant hilltop Castle, entitled Castrum puellarum (Fortress of the young maidens). This is probably reference to the royal Court of Mary which, ever her first departure from Scotland to wed the Dauphin of France in 1548, had included many young female members of the Scottish nobility. The walled Old Town with its tall tenement buildings encircled by medieval walls lies below the Citadel & the Cathedral of St.Giles, with its distinctive crowned spire, is visible mid-centre. The Palace of Holyrood, ransacked during the English raids at the end of Henry VIII’s reign, lies just outside the City Walls on the right.

Goss Pl.18, pp 42-43

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