Perspective view of a town

Etching, 1562 circa, unlettered. First state, before numbering.

Good example, printed on the contemporary laid watermaked paper, white margins, very good conditions.
Bird’s-eye view of a town with a street going up hill from bottom right to top left.

This plate belongs to a set of twenty eight plates showing small architectural perspective views engraved by J.van Doetecum after designs by Hans Vredeman de Vries, and the dedication plate to Atoine Perrenot, cardinal Granvelle.

Drawing in reverse, signed and dated 1561, right half traced for transfer, in Berlin (KB, Hdz 1195).
The series was first published in Antwerp in 1562 by Hieronymus Cock.

Other editions were published by Theodoor Galle (1601), with the title “Variae architecturae formae…”, who published later another edition, with plates numbered; a fourth edition was published by Johannes Galle, circa 1636-1640.