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Dec 13, 2021 · German for “museum embankment,” Frankfurt’s Museumsufer is a collection of world-class museums lining either side of the Main river. At the center is the historic Städel—one of the leading art museums in Frankfurt, if not Germany, with around 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, 100,000 drawings, and 5,000 photographs.
Nov 27, 2017 · Courtesy of Christie’s. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created a map unlike any other ever drafted in Europe. To the west, across the Atlantic, his map included the ...
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Jul 3, 2018 · Eventually, one remaining map was discovered in 1901 by Father Joseph Fischer, a professor in history and geography, in Wolfegg Castle, Germany. It was this map, sometimes referred to as ‘the ...
America septentrionalis oder Mitternächtiger Theil von America, Scale not given. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Map in English, cartouche in German. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 113 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault.
Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1378 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2. Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De. Date:1750. Map. Tybee Island. Covers part of Tybee Island (Ga.) and part of surrounding islands and waters.
The collection represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean. Most of the items presented here are documented in Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789: A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress compiled by John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen van Ee in 1981.
Jan 8, 2023 · The Etzlaub Rome-Way Map (named after its maker, Erhard Etzlaub ), is thought to be the real breakthrough.Made so that pilgrims could find their way to Rome in the year 1500, the so-called Rome-Way Map of 1500 is the first truly accurate map of Germany, by which I mean one could get around with it, and its glaring mistakes (like the overly sharp bend of Italy) are mainly outside of the German ...
