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Johann Homann: S.R.I. Circulus Rhenanus Superior in quo sunt Landgraviatus Hasson Casselensis, Darmstadiensis et Rhenofeldensis Abbatia Fuldensis… (

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Alternative names	Johann Baptist Homann; Ioannis Baptista Homann; Johann-Baptista Homann; Johann Baptista Homann
Description	German cartographer, publisher and copperplate engraver
Date of birth/death	20 March 1664	1 July 1724
Location of birth/death	Kammlach	Nuremberg
Work location	Nuremberg
Authority file	: Q62706 VIAF: 47031432 ISNI: 0000000121313581 ULAN: 500034027 LCCN: n50028168 NLA: 45371339 WorldCat

Title

S.R.I. Circulus Rhenanus Superior in quo sunt Landgraviatus Hasson Casselensis, Darmstadiensis et Rhenofeldensis Abbatia Fuldensis…

Description

English: A beautifully detailed c. 1730 Homann Heirs map of Upper Rhine region. Covers from Coblentz eastward as far as Schweinfurt, Schmalkalden and Mulhausen; northwards as far as Gottingen; and southwards as far as Darmstadt and Wertheim. Includes the cities of Cassel, Hirschfeld, Fulda, Frankfurt am Oder, Darmstadt, Nassaw, and Marpurb. The map details fortified cities, villages, roads, bridges, forests, castles and topography. The title cartouche in the upper left quadrant features twenty-one heraldic crests, each representing a major city. Curiously, four are blank. Legend with cherubs in lower right quadrant. This map was drawn in Nuremberg by J. B. Homann and issued in Homann’s Grosser Atlas as well as in the Homann Heirs’ Maior Atlas Scholasticus ex Triginta Sex Generalibus et Specialibus…. .

Date

circa 1730(undated)

Dimensions

height: 19.2 in (48.8 cm); width: 22.7 in (57.7 cm)

Accession number

Geographicus link: RhenanusSuperior-homann-1730

Source/Photographer

Major Atlas Scholasticus Ex Triginta sex Generalibus et Specialibus Mappis Homannianis..., c. 1750. / Also issued in Homann's Grosser Atlas

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