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Rare Clement De Jonghe view of Krakow.
The view includes 6 coats of arms, including the arms of the city and Poland and depicts the thriving city of KraKow on the Vistula River. The view provides a fine contemporary depiction of Krakow and the neighboring towns of Casimiria (Kazimierz) and Clepardia (Kleparz) and smaller villages beyond.
Apart from the buildings, often depicted with great care of architectural detail, it also shows the network of roads, rivers, suburbian fields, gardens and broad pastures, as well as the details of everyday occupations of the inhabitants, such as raftsmen going on their raft down the Vistula River.
Kazimierz was a Jewish town established for the Jewish community in Krakow by the Polish Kings. Location number 37 on the map is Oppid Iudeorum (Jewish Settlement). Below and to the right of the number 37 is the Porta Iudeorum, with a group of buildings which have a wall in front of them, to the left of a the steepled church marked #38 (S. Laurentij). This is the Jewish section, including a building which still survives, the oldest extant synagogue building in Poland, whose origins date back to the fourteenth century, the building itself to the fifteenth century.
Key at the lower right locats 46 points of interest.
Rarity
The view is very rare. We cannot find another example at auction or in dealer catalogs.
![[ Gdansk Environs ] Schweetsche Schans Auff Den Weyselstrom ongefehr neun Meilen von Dantzig gelegen Ao. 1626.](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/68842.jpg)
