Architectural Layout
View of Krakow from the north-west
Mateusz Merian (?) or an engraver from his workshop
A copperplate included in the work of Jan Ludwik Gotfried Neuwe archontologia cosmica, das ist Beschreibung aller Käyserthumben…from 1638 and in the work by Jan Anioł Werdenhagen De rebuspublicis hanseaticis tractatus...published in 1641. The view of Krakow was probably based directly on the copperplate Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World) by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, and indirectly on the copperplate by Mateusz Merian (1593-1650).
The original concept by the author is the showing of the depth of perspective.
1638, Frankfurt
Copperplate, paper
Historical Muzeum of the City of Krakow, ref. no 918/II