View of Antwerp
Joris Hoefnagel (Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, publishers), 1572–1594
$270
Print check at 24 x 18 in: 154 dpi, good. Trimmed 5.3% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572–1617) did for cities what Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum did for the whole world: gathered uniform, engraved bird's-eye views of Europe's great urban centers into one systematic, wildly popular atlas. This plate, drawn by Joris Hoefnagel, maps Antwerp at the height of its 16th-century power as northern Europe's dominant commercial port — its street grid, star-shaped fortifications, and harbor rendered in obsessive, countable detail, dozens of merchant ships crowding the Scheldt river at left. What to notice: four small figures in Flemish dress stand in the foreground margin, a compositional device Braun and Hogenberg used across the entire atlas to humanize what would otherwise read as a pure surveyor's diagram — a reminder that these were sold as much for civic pride and travel fantasy as for cartographic accuracy.
- Maker
- Joris Hoefnagel (Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, publishers)
- Date
- 1572–1594
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00297
| Picture | 24 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 19.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 326 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.2% |
| 14 x 11 in | 253 | Excellent | Trimmed 9.6% |
| 16 x 12 in | 231 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.3% |
| 18 x 12 in | 217 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.2% |
| 24 x 16 in | 163 | Good | Trimmed 6.2% |
| 24 x 18 in | 154 | Good | Trimmed 5.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 130 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 108 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 92 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 77 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 65 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,917 x 2,783 px, srgb, sRGB.icc
- Tone
- Darks 107, lights 240 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 38.54
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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