Currently on display in the Graniteville Room of Thomas Cooper Library are hand-colored engravings of Renaissance French cities from the John Osman Collection of Braun and Hogenberg City Views, donated to USC by Mary C. Osman in 1991.
The engravings were issued by the Dutch engravers Braun and Hogenberg in six volumes from 1572 to 1618. The Osman Collection has two of the complete volumes (Vols. 1 and 6), as well as more than 400 individual maps and city views.
Braun and Hogenberg included some 35 French cities in their great series. The current exhibition focuses on a selection of 21 plates, illustrating in all 26 different French cities (two appearing twice, in different volumes).
The display has been mounted for the 37th annual meeting of the North American Society for 17th-Century French Literature, which met at USC April 14–16. The display continues through May 6.
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