{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1106742"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1106742/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2008BV5421/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2008BV5421/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2008BV5421","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1106742/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1106742","accessionNumber":"SP.323","objectType":"Print","titles":[{"title":"Aegypyus Hodierna","type":"assigned by artist"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Etching, engraving, and stipple, coloured by hand, depicting an illustrated map of Egypt.  Lettered in Latin with title, in German and Latin with key and descriptions, and 'Ex itinerario Celeberrimi Viri, Pauli Lucae Franci defumta, ac novissime repraesentata Iohanne Baptista Homann S.C.M. Geogapho Norimbergae. [From the itinerary of that most famous man, the Frenchman Paul Lucas, selected and newly printed by Johann Baptist Homann S.C.M.  Geographer of Nuremberg.] Ioannes Christophorus I.B Homanni Filius delineavit.  Cum Privilegio Sac.Caes. Majestatis'. ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Johann Christoph Homann","id":"AUTH324149"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Homann, H A","id":"AUTH337290"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Homann & Sons","id":"AUTH337289"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"AAT14109"},{"text":"pencil","id":"x30347"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53225"},{"text":"stipple","id":"x38052"},{"text":"colouring","id":"AAT133555"},{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Etching, engraving, and stipple, coloured by hand ","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Maps","id":"THES252964"},{"text":"Architecture","id":"THES48993"},{"text":"Theatre","id":"THES250537"},{"text":"Ornament","id":"THES266277"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2008BV5421"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"SC","shelf":"52","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Etchings","id":"AAT41365"}],[{"text":"maps","id":"AAT28094"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Germany","id":"x28873"},"association":{"text":"published","id":"x30682"},"note":"probably"},{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1719-1730","earliest":"1719-01-01","latest":"1730-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"circa 1900","earliest":"1895-01-01","latest":"1904-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"The gift of Jillian Lees","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"49.2 ","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"58.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from departmental notes","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Etching, engraving, and stipple entitled 'Aegypyus Hodierna', by Johann Christoph Homann, depicting an illustrated map of Egypt.  German School, ca. 1719-1730.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Paul Lucas (1664 1737), a French traveller in the Near East and Europe, on some occasions travelling officially for the King, published accounts of three major journeys.  The course of the Nile from Cairo to the Cataracts in Homann's map corresponds to the map in Lucases, 'Voyage du Sieur Lucas au Levant, The Hague, 1709', first published in 1704, which includes a description of Upper Egypt.  Homann's Nile delta corresponds to another map, made by Lucas in 1717, in vol.2, facing p.2, of 'Voyage du Sieur Paul Lucas, fait en M.DCCXIV', 3 vols., Rouen, 1719. \r\n","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Egypt","id":"x29512"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"maps","id":"AAT28094"},{"text":"cartography","id":"AAT53163"},{"text":"pyramids","id":"AAT4838"},{"text":"rivers","id":"AAT8707"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["SP.323"],"accessionNumberNum":"323","accessionNumberPrefix":"SP","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2009-07-01","availableToBook":false}}