Generalis Lotharingiae Ducatus Tabula, qua accuratissime often duntur Ducatus Lotharingiae Propriae et Barrensis, nec non Metensis, Tullensis,..

Title

Generalis Lotharingiae Ducatus Tabula, qua accuratissime often duntur Ducatus Lotharingiae Propriae et Barrensis, nec non Metensis, Tullensis,..

Description

Map of the Duchy of Lorraine and Barre, as well as Metz, Toulouse, Verdun and the neighbouring regions. It also features a magnificent allegorical title cartouche, bearing a coat of arms and a distance indicator. On the left is a list of names and on the right is an index of regions in Dutch.

ca. 1685

Artist

Visscher (1618-1679)

Nicolaes Visscher I (1618 -1679) Amsterdam was a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher. He belonged to the Dutch art dealer, engraver and publisher dynasty founded by his father Claes Janszoon Visscher. After his father's death in 1652, he took over his father's art publishing house and initially continued publishing the atlases and maps that his father had begun. He then began publishing works under his own name. Together with his son Nicolaes Visscher II (1649-1702), he engraved a large number of printing plates, further replenishing the publisher's stock. The atlases "Atlas Contractus", "Atlas Minor" and "Germania Inferior" contain about 170 plates. After N. Visscher's death, some of Visscher's copper plates passed to Petrus Schenk II (1693-1775), who used them for numerous reprints.

Historical Description

The area around the Moselle, populated mainly by Celtic tribes, was conquered by Gaius Iulius Caesar in the Gallic War between 58 and 51 BC and later became part of the Roman province of Gallia Belgica. From a division of the Frankish Empire into three parts, the Lotharii Regnum, the "Empire of Lothar" or Lotharingia, named after its king, emerged in 843. s lay in the middle between the East and West Frankish Empires and originally stretched as an elongated territory from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. In 870, the area was again divided between the East and West Frankish Empires.