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Plans of Cologne and Palmanova, Civitates Orbis Te...
Map, Engraving, Hand colouringThe Civitates Orbis Terrarum was created by George Braun and Frans Hogenberg in the late-16th and early-17th centuries, ...
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View of London in Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, ImageThis is a contemporary image of the London in which Shakespeare lived and worked for much of his life. As we can see, it...
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View of Messina in Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, ImageThis beautifully hand-coloured view of 16th-century Messina (or ‘Messana’) shows a large port city at the north-eastern ...
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View of Venice in Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, ImageThis is a beautifully hand-coloured view of 16th-century Venice – the setting for two of Shakespeare’s plays, The Mercha...
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View of Verona in Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, ImageThis image shows a bird’s-eye view of the city of Verona, in what is now Northern Italy. It illustrates some of the hist...
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View of Vienna in Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Map, View, Illustration, Engraving, ImageThis is a hand-coloured view of 16th-century Vienna – the setting for Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. The view is pa...
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Views of Wittenberg and Elsinore in Civitates Orbi...
Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, ImageThese beautifully hand-coloured views show key locations in Hamlet – one bird’s-eye view of the German university city o...
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