Historical views of Bratislava

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 2418   Yvert: 2251   Scott: 2152  

Perforation type: 11 ¾x11 ¾

Subject:

3 crowns. A reproduction of an engraving "Bratislava" by Joris Hoefnagel*

At the center of the engraving there is a mill-ship (see an engraving and a fragment of stamp below)

 

Additional:

Joris Hoefnagel or Georg Hoefnagel (Antwerp, 1542 - Vienna, July 24, 1601) was a Flemish painter and engraver, the son of a diamond merchant.

He travelled abroad, making drawings from archaeological subjects, and was a pupil of Hans Bol at Mechlin. He was afterwards patronized by the elector of Bavaria at Munich, where he stayed eight years, and by the Emperor Rudolph at Prague. He died at Vienna in 1601.

He is famous for his miniature work, especially on a missal in the imperial library at Vienna; he painted animals and plants to illustrate works on natural history; and his engravings (especially for Braun's Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572, and Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1570) give him an interesting place among early topographical draftsmen.

During his travels to England, c. 1569-71, he painted his only known large-scale panel painting, a panorama of English society in the Elizabethan era called variously A Fête at Bermondsey, A Marriage Feast at Bermondsey, or A Wedding at Bermondsey.

 

 

The engraving used in stamp the artist has painted per 1574. Now it is in Art gallery of Bratislava.

The increased fragment of the stamp: