nuremberg municipal museums

The Graphic Art Collection holds comprehensive visual documentation of the former Free City of the Empire, Nuremberg, and its lands.

Graphic Art Collection

Topics - Topography and Cultural History

Johann Adam Delsenbach: Prospect of the stone bridge newly erected in AD 1728, coloured copperplate engraving.

Topography

Comparable with the City Archives, which deal with written documentation, the Graphic Art Collection comprises a comprehensive store of graphic material depicting the former Free City of Nuremberg and its lands.

The collection's stock of topographic views (prospects) illustrates the development of the cityscape between the late 15th century and the present day.

G. J. Schneider: Two-headed calf, about 1700.

Cultural History

Likewise, comprehensive material illustrating Nuremberg's cultural history is kept in the collection, ordered according to various key words.

 

 

 

 

 

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