File:1730 Homann Map of the Upper Rhine ( Frankfurt, Cassel, Coblentz, Darmstadt ) - Geographicus - RhenanusSuperior-homann-1730.jpg

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Johann Homann: S.R.I. Circulus Rhenanus Superior in quo sunt Landgraviatus Hasson Casselensis, Darmstadiensis et Rhenofeldensis Abbatia Fuldensis…   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Johann Homann  (1664–1724)  wikidata:Q62706
 
Johann Homann
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 Edit this at Wikidata 1 July 1724 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kammlach Nuremberg
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Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q62706
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S.R.I. Circulus Rhenanus Superior in quo sunt Landgraviatus Hasson Casselensis, Darmstadiensis et Rhenofeldensis Abbatia Fuldensis…
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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
date QS:P571,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Dimensions height: 19.2 in (48.8 cm); width: 22.7 in (57.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,19.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,22.75U218593
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Geographicus link: RhenanusSuperior-homann-1730
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Major Atlas Scholasticus Ex Triginta sex Generalibus et Specialibus Mappis Homannianis..., c. 1750. / Also issued in Homann's Grosser Atlas

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