File:Braun Hogenberg Civitates orbis terrarum Avignon 1575.jpg

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English: A hand-coloured copper engraving showing the town of Avignon by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg published as plate 13 in Civitates orbis terrarum Volume 2. In French sources this map is sometimes referred to as "aux personnages" because of the two figures depicted at the lower left.

The Library of Congress has a copy of Civitates orbis terrarum: https://www.loc.gov/item/2008627031/ The plate showing Avignon is here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00128a/?q=Avignon&sp=174

The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a French edition of Volume 2 with the title Theatre des principales villes de tout l'univers: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb43503260w A scan is available on Gallica: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k326845g Plate 13 is here: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k326845g/f48.item

The engraving is reproduced as Plate 1 in: Gagnière, S.; Granier, J. (1978). Images du Vieil Avignon (in French). Avignon: Rullière-Libeccio.
Date First published 1575
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Downloaded from the Historic Cities website. A scan of the engraving is also available from the University of South Carolina

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Author Georg Braun, Franz Hogenberg
Other versions
File:Braun Hogenberg Avignon 1575 crop bridge.jpg
Detail from a different copy of the same print showing the bridge
File:Avignon - Plan aux personnages (1572).JPG
A low quality scan
File:Avignon Carte aux personnages par Braun et Hogenberg 1575.jpg
A lower resolution scan
File:Avignon Belleforest 1575.jpg
A closely related version by François de Belleforest also published in 1575

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