Description
This is plate 11 from a set of twenty numbered plates (plus title) showing prespective views of streets, palaces and interiors after designs by Hans Vredeman de Vries, etched by Johannes and Lucas van Doetecum. The series was first published in Antwerp in 1560 by Hieronymus Cock who re-published three years later. Other editions were published by Theodoor Galle (1601) and Johannes Galle (after 1636). The preparatory drawings by Vredeman de Vries are all in Vienna, dated between 1557 and 1558.
Literature: Joris van Grieken, in J. van Grieken – G. Luijten – J. van der Stock, “Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print”, exh.cat. Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and Fondation Custodia in Paris, New Haven and London, 2013, cat.nos.3 and 81.
