Parys: Matthäus Merian 1654

Title: Parys Author: Matthäus Merian Date: 1654 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Excellent Inches: 17 1/2" x 13 3/4" Centimeters: 44.87 x 35.26 Product ID: 003517 Lovely Plan in Elevation of the City of Paris The plan is printed on the diagonal, with north in the bottom right.  Scale approximately 1/15,000.  Hospitale de S.Louis, founded by King Henry IV (1553–1610), King of France and Navarre, in 1607 to relieve the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris during the plague, shown to the lower left, just outside the vast but now long-vanished fortifications of Etienne Marcel.  Across the city to the southeast The Bastille overlooks the Canal Saint-Martin.  Notre Dame is just left of center, the Louvre Palace and the Tuileries gardens to the west.  The plan continues across the Seine to the left-bank and the open countryside beyond. Matthaus Merian the Elder was born in Basel, Switzerland on the 22nd of September 1593. He began his career in the arts with the engraver Fried