KøbenhanskeMotiver_1587-1807

1 5 7 ERIK PONTOPP IDAN :

ing the city landmark and the Dock (cat. nos. 45 and 4 4 ), but on the other hand including the huge panorama (cat. no. 60 ). Hafnia Hodierna is a more popular book in quarto, and unlike Vitruvius it is not provided with ground plans. Re-issued with an epilogue by Steffen Linvald, Copen­ hagen 1 9 6 7 .

DEN DANSKE ATLAS II, COPENHAGEN 1764 W ith Pontoppidan's Atlas the dream of a topographical description of the whole country was realized, but the originator of the project, Vice-Chancellor Erik Pontoppi- dan, only managed to see two of the seven volumes come out. Besides the exhaustive text this volume has 40 views of Copenhagen of which 23 have been exhibited here (cat. nos. 84 - 10 6 ). The engravings were done by various artists, and are usually of a rather poor quality - some of the views relying on older sketches, for example by J. J. Bruun. The work was re-issued in full with a genetic history by Sv. Cedergreen Bech, Copenhagen 1 9 6 9 .

1 5 6 JOHAN JACOB BRUUN:

NOVU S ATLAS D AN LE , COPENHAGEN 1 7 6 1 The book was intended as the first of a series of volumes covering the whole of the kingdom, but this project was not realized either. W ith the exception of Jacob Lange- baek's foreword the work only consists of views, 50 in all, of which 18 are of Copenhagen. Bruun himself supplied the prepatory drawings for all the engravings - nine of these drawings can be seen in this exhibition (cat. nos. 68 - 7 6 ), while cat. nos. 67 and 7 7 are engravings done after drawings for this book, executed by Hans Qvist and Jonas Haas.

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