Melita Insula Diui Pauli Apostoli quondam hospita - UC Berkeley GeoData
- Description:
-
Antonio Lafreri. Relief shown pictorially. Figurative illustration of troups, war scenes, and war ships. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. A graphic depiction for news reporting of the Turkish forces attacking the Christian defenders of Malta during the 1565 Siege. Lafreri takes the story of the 1565 Siege a stage further. Here the Christian troops are attacking the Turks. A hasty, but lively engraving. There is a later impression by Hendrik van Schoel, Rome, 1602. SW at the top. Mason and Willis 5; LDOSJ: 1308.
- Creator:
- Lafréry, Antoine, 1512-1577 and Douillier, J, d. 1838
- Publisher:
- Hendrik Van Schoel
- Provider:
- Stanford
- Resource Class:
- Maps
- Subject:
- History
- Date Issued:
- 1565
- Spatial Coverage:
- Malta
- Rights:
- Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection – Maps of Malta courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
- Rights Holder:
- This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
- License:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- Access Rights:
- Public
- Format:
- JPEG2000
- Georeferenced:
- false
- More details at:
- https://purl.stanford.edu/xh942kf4662