English: Title:Avenio Vulgo Avignon

This plate is from the Atlas Van Loon, which contains two volumes of the French edition of the Willem Blaeu's Atlas Maior, covering France and Switzerland, from 1663.

The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) has an uncoloured version of this engraving: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40571320g A scan of this copy is available from the Gallica website: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53079287p The BNF gives the date as 1690 and the size as 50 x 60 cm.

In the BNF copy, the cartouche at the bottom right containing the scale bar includes the text "A Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, Avec Privilege". In addition, at the bottom right hand corner of the engraving is the number: "LXXI"

According to the BNF, plate number LXXI is from the second volume of the Nouveau theatre d'Italie ou description exacte de ses villes, palais, églises ... et les cartes géographiques de toutes ses provinces...sur les Desseins de feu Monsieur Jean Blaeu that was published by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam in 1704.

A copy of an uncoloured versions of this engraving is reproduced as Plate 2 in: Gagnière, S.; Granier, J. (1978). Images du Vieil Avignon (in French). Avignon: Rullière-Libeccio. Plate 2. This copy includes additional text in the cartouche at the bottom right: "A Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, Avec Privilege, LXXI" (the LXXI is included within the cartouche)

The engraving is a copy of an earlier map in 8 panels dated 1618 in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Va 84 Tome 1 H 159061-8). This is not currently available from Gallica. The panels of the 1618 map are reproduced in the 1958 book Évocation du Vieil Avignon by Joseph Girard. The 1618 map gives the authors as Marcus Antonius Gandolfus (Marco Antonio Gandolfo) and Theodorus Hochstraie (Théodore Hoochstraten, an engraver from The Hague) (Girard 1958, pp. 76-77). A low quality image of the 1618 map is available online on page 10 in the document available here. For more information on the 1618 map see: Breton, Alain (1986) "Prix-fait de la gravure du plan de 1618", Annuaire de la Société des amis du Palais des papes et des monuments d'Avignon, pp. 63-64.