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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
.
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.
1 5 7
ERIK PONTOPP IDAN :
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
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.
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