151 - Affiche Ancienne Original antique engraving - Novigrad - City of the Venetians in Dalmatia / Cataro - City of the Venetians in Dalmatia - Published by Pieter Mortier (1661–1711) and illustrated by Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) featuring a boat moored on a beach at the foot of the hilltop fortress of Novigrad. Striking and highly detailed interesting 1704 Pierre Mortier's copper engraved plate featuring, on one sheet, two panoramic views of the city of Novigrad, Croatia, at the top, and of the city of Kotor, Montenegro, at the bottom, under the dominion of the Venetian Republic. Novigrad is a village and municipality in Croatia in the Zadar County. In 1386, the Hungarian and Croatian sovereign Mary and her mother, Elizabeth of Bosnia, were imprisoned in Novigrad. Elizabeth was strangled in Novigrad in 1387 but Mary was liberated. It was part of Republic of Venice in 1409. Venetian rule in Novigrad briefly interrupted by Ottoman occupation between 1646 and 1647 during Cretan War. Kotor (Cyrillic: ?????), historically known as Cattaro, is a town in Coastal region of Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Bay of Kotor. The city was part of the Venetian Albania province of the Venetian Republic from 1420 to 1797. Four centuries of Venetian domination have given the city the typical Venetian architecture, that contributes to make Kotor a UNESCO world heritage site. In the 14th and 15th centuries, there was an influx of settlers from the oblasts of Trebinje (the region around forts Klobuk Ledenica and Rudina) and the Hum lands (Gacko and Dabar) to Kotor. The Italian name of the city is Cattaro. Under Venetian rule, Kotor was besieged by the Ottoman Empire in 1538 and 1657, endured the plague in 1572, and was nearly destroyed by earthquakes in 1563 and 1667. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the customs of the local administration of Kotor, such as the right of the popolari to elect urban representatives, were unchanged and tolerated by the Provveditore of the city, despite Venetian laws prohibiting such institutions. In 1627, during a dispute between the populari and Kotor's nobility, this right was revoked. Each view shows the city with its buildings harbor, fortifications and surrounding landscape. Two simple titles, several inhabitants and several sailing ships adorn the sheet. Printed first time by Johann Blaeu, this view has been republished by Pierre Mortier. Joan Blaeu published during his life three town-books of Italy: Citta del Vaticano, Rome and Napoli. By the year 1672 a fire largely destroyed the main Blaeu workshop, and much of the prepared material. However, work on the town-book continued, and in 1682 the completed work was published in Amsterdam by the heirs of Joan Blaeu. The town-book was a great success and reissued several times by different publishers in Amsterdam, as late as 1726. Pierre Mortier re-issued all the Blaeu plates in the years 1704/05 in an atlas comprising four volumes. Fair condition, folds, creasing, tears, staining, foxing, 2 pages stuck together. Country of issue: Netherlands, designer: Pierre Mortier, Joan Blaeu, size (cm): 53x64, year of printing: 1704.