Lublin in Poland

The view is out of the album of Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder Curioses Staats und Kriegs Theatrum in Polen, durch unterschiedliche Geographische, Topographische und Historische Land-Carten, Grundrisse und Prospect, Erläutert, published in Augsburg around 1730. The work includes views and plans of Polish cities made in copperplate in the years 1710-1730. There are two coloured maps of Poland, a family tree of Polish rulers from the times of Mieszko to Stanisław Leszczyński, and views of Kraków, Warsaw, Piotrków Trybunalski, Kamieniec Podolski, Vilnius, Grodno, Lublin, Zamość, Jasna Góra, Elbląg, Królewiec, Toruń, Gdańsk, the Wisłoujście fortress and the plans of Poznań, Warsaw, Brest, Krzyżtopor and Malbork.
The panorama of Lublin included in Bodenehr’s album is a replication of Braun and Hogenberg’s engravings presented in Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1618). It unfolds, and was printed from two plates, with its height significantly reduced compared to the original. It differs from the Hogenberg / Braun panorama in details. Above the towers of the Jesuit Church and the Kraków Gate is a ribbon with the inscription: LUBLIN In Pohlen. On the sides, in places of the heraldic cartouches, there are small ‘floating’ askew shields. In the lower part, two rectangular fields were introduced, covering part of the foreground of the composition, containing information about Lublin and a legend in German.