Eigentliche Delineation Der Insulen S. Margarite und St. Honorat, sampt den Vestungen und…

Title

Eigentliche Delineation Der Insulen S. Margarite und St. Honorat, sampt den Vestungen und…

Description

Map depicts the island Ile Sainte-Maguerite and Ile Saint Honorat (Iles de Lèrius) as bird´s eye view with all spanish fortress and the french offshore ships attacking the island. Lower map depicts the city Cannes and the fortess Croisette with the islands Margarit and St. Honorat.

ca. 1640

Artist

Merian (1593-1650)

Matthäus Merian (1593 – 1650) , born in Basel, learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zurich and subsequently worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Paris, before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry. He married his daughter, Maria Magdalena 1617. In 1620 they moved back to Basel, only to return three years later to Frankfurt, where Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry's death in 1623. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He is the father of Maria Sibylla Merian, who later published her the famous and wellknown studies of flowers, insects and butterflies.