Sebastian Munster. Map of Paris, c. 1550s. Cartographer_Jean-Baptiste de Couagne 1606 or later

1606 or later

and all of the Davis Strait

Bowen after John James Audubon (1785 - 1851)

And the basic format of this painting reappears in one of his last Boston pictures

Decorative embellishments

Sebastian Munster. Map of Paris, c. 1550s. Cartographer_Jean-Baptiste de Couagne 1606 or laterSebastian Mnster (14881552)ParisFrom Cosmographia, Basel: c. 1550sWoodcut on paper[Sheet size: 12 1 2 x 15 3 4 in.] This detailed woodcut view of Paris, published in the mid 16th century in Sebastian Mnsters seminal Cosmographia, presents one of the earliest printed urban panoramas of the French capital. Mnsters Cosmographia was among the first modern encyclopedias to blend scientific geography with rich illustration, and this depiction of Paris