Early overhead view of Amsterdam; "Amstelredamum" by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, hand-colored engraving circa 1572, extracted from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Liber Primus"; framed to the trimmed margins in a panel screwed to frame with hardware for exhibition use on a pole. Height of art 13 1/2 inches (34.3 cm.) X width of art 19 inches (48.3 cm.). TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: "Amsterdam is a well-known city in Lower Germany that has arisen in recent times to accommodate merchants and is inhabited by people engaged in trade. It is almost impossible to think of a commercial activity that is not practised here. Hence profit seeking businessmen are drawn to this city from the most far-away lands and transship various goods, first and foremost grain, to Brabant and other parts of the world. Vast riches result from trade of this kind."

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