... AD HISPANIAE ET HVNGARIAE REGES TERMAXIMOS. DE LEONE BELGICO, eiusq[ue] Topographica atq[ue] histo=rica descriptione liber: Quinq[ue] partibus Gubernatorum Philippi Re=gis Hispaniarum ordine, distinctus

Aitzing, Michael von, Hogenberg, Franz [Ill.] · 1588 · 172 pictures

This is a 1588 Latin topographical and historical account of the Spanish Netherlands, written by Michael von Aitzing and illustrated by Franz Hogenberg for readers under the rule of Philip II of Spain. The pictures are black-and-white engraved plates of sieges, fortified towns and troop movements, drawn in an aerial panoramic view with crowded detail. A designer could draw on their dense cross-hatched line work, bird's-eye city layouts and the massed rows of pikemen for historical or military graphic motifs.

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