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Johann Homann: Imperii Romano-Germanici in suos Status et Circulos Divisi Tabula Generalis in Ustus Iuventutis Erudiendae…   (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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Imperii Romano-Germanici in suos Status et Circulos Divisi Tabula Generalis in Ustus Iuventutis Erudiendae…
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English: A beautifully detailed c. 1740 J. B. Homann map of those parts of Europe dominated by the Holy Roman Empire or the German Empire. Depicts most of central Europe from the Netherlands eastward as far as Poland and Hungary and as far south as northern Italy and the Gulf of Venice. Elaborate title cartouche in the upper left quadrant features the Emperor surrounded by angels and heraldic symbols. Map scales in upper right hand quadrant. Key to color coding outside border on lower margin. Alternative title in French in top margin, L’ Allemagne, distinguee en ses Cercles & subdivisee en ses Etats, contenant ... los Elements de Geographiae de Mr. Shatz. This map was drawn in Nuremberg by J. B. Homann and included in the 1752 Homann Heirs Maior Atlas Scholasticus ex Triginta Sex Generalibus et Specialibus…. .
Date circa 1720s or 1730s or 1740s(undated)
Dimensions height: 18.7 in (47.6 cm); width: 21 in (53.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,18.75U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,21U218593
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Geographicus link: ImperiiRomanoGerman-homann-1740
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Major Atlas Scholasticus Ex Triginta sex Generalibus et Specialibus Mappis Homannianis..., c. 1730. / Also issued in Homann's Grosser Atlas

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