GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

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Ville Bordeaux (Gironde, 33)
Subject(s) Town
  View of the town (with the amphitheatre and the Pillars of Tutela)
Author(s) Hem, Herman van der
  Dutch artist (1619-1649)
Resource type Drawing (pen, ink and wash), 319 x 195 mm.
Date 1638-1649
Inscription « Burdigala Aquitaniæ metropolis »
References Vienna, Österreische nationalbibliothek, Atlas Blaeu, V, pl. 2
Bibliography

Reinach 1893 ; Bordeaux 1904, p. 19 ; Labadie 1910, pp. 33-34 ; Étienne 1962 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 38, 103-105

Remarks

Van der Hem's drawing, reproduced in the 1904 edition of Bordeaux (pl. II), shows the town seen from the village of Cenon, situated to the north-east

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