Old city plan of Jerusalem, 1942

Old city plan of Jerusalem, 1942The map was created by Steimatzky in 1942. Steimatzky is a well established bookstore chain in Israel, and it has a long history dating back to its founding in 1925 by Yekutiel Steimatzky. By 1942, during World War II, the bookstore would likely have been operating in Jerusalem, which was under British control at the time. Jerusalem has been a historically significant city for centuries, with religious, cultural, and political importance to multiple

served as a vital trading hub and source of commodities such as tin and spices

They were known for their maps of various regions around the world

It is an important work in the development of Russian art

It was published in Amsterdam in the year 1700

It vividly captures the city's burgeoning infrastructure

abstract style typical of Picasso's work during his Surrealist period

Blome also published a map of London titled "Blome's New Mapp of London" in 1689

It is a seminal work in the history of abstract art and is considered one of Kandinsky's most important works

each of which is signed and numbered by the artist

including Babylon

drawing the viewer's eye closer to the forms and shapes on the page

Matthäus Albrecht Lotter (1741-1810) was a German mapmaker