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Extremely rare print series engraved by Simon Frisius
BRIL, Matthaeus.Topographia variarum regionum. Inventa a Mathaeo Bril, aeri incisa à Simone Frisio. Ab C.J. Visscherio excusa.    (Amsterdam), Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1651. Oblong 8vo. Later half cloth with green boards and white label with title in ink in ms. pasted on front cover. Engraved title, and 24 engraved full-page numbered plates, numbered 1-25 (ca. 110 x 158 mm. (borderlines: ca. 95 x 150-5 mm). Extremely rare second edition of this fine print series after the pastoral landscapes and Italianised city views designed by Mathaeus (Mattheus) Bril and executed by Simon Frisius. Mathaeus Bril (II) was born in Antwerp, ca. 1550 and died in Rome in 1583. He was the son of the painter Mathaeus Bril (I) and brother of the painter Paulus Bril (1554-1626). Mathaeus is less famous than his brother: at an early age he traveled to Italy and became successful in Rome where he painted frescoes, a.o. in the rooms of the Foconi in the Vatican, a fresco with the Four Seasons in the Sala di Consistorio, and a decorative series of paintings in the Torre dei Venti. But Mathaeus died young; it is said that he drowned in the Tiber in Rome where he worked most of his life. Simon Wynouts Frisius was born in ca. 1580 at Harlingen and died in The Hague in 1629. He has travelled in France (Paris 1598-9, 1620) and Germany and settled in The Hague in 1612, where he stayed for the rest of his life. The first edition of this print series was published by H. Hondius in 1611 in The Hague, with the same title platecontaining the text: 'Topographia variarum regionum. Inventa a Mathaeo Bril, aeri incisa a Simone Frisio. Ab H. Hondio excusa'. Only one copy of this first edition is recorded in the STCN (in the University Library, Leiden). No copy of our second edition, however, is present in a Dutch public library! We could only trace a copy in the British Library, London, while Hollstein mentions a copy in the library in Dresden. Adding to the rarity of the series is the fact that it apparently is the last work published by the famous publisher and engraver of maps and views Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652). The Thesaurus by Gruys and De Wolf mentions 1647 as the year of his last published work (as does the STCN)! An other series with the same title was published in 1614 by H. Hondius in The Hague (second and third edition in 1652; Hollstein VII, p. 27, nrs. 64-91). Some views contain New Testament scenes (nrs. 14 and 15 (Nativity), 18) and nr. 11 a half-hidden erotical scene. Fine series.- (Sm. and insign. marginal water stain in some lvs).
Hollstein VII, p.26, nrs. 40-63; Wurzbach, I, p. 183; A. Mayer, Das Leben und die Werke der Brüder Matthaeus u. Paul Bril (1910).
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