Stefan (Etienne) du Perac (c.1525-1604) was a French artist and architect who settled in Rome sometime before 1560. He is known for fine prospects of Rome, Naples and this fine view of modern Jerusalem from the west for inclusion in a contemporary `Lafreri school’ composite atlas. A survey of Laor reveals this to be the earliest accurate panorama of Jerusalem. Only three reliable images pre-date this in print; Munster 1550, Ligorio Pirro 1559? and Bertelli 1561? All are smaller in size. Only six other views pre-date Du Perac and these are fictitious and virtually all are very small. Du Perac’s view of Naples, 1566, was described in the “History of Cartography” with high praise. It stated that “from a technical and an artistic point of view, it fully merits a place among the other great works or urban iconography that were being produced throughout sixteenth-century Europe”. Like ours it was engraved on two sheets. Du Perac was so highly rated that he is the artist behind the thirteen mural maps painted in the east wing of the Terza Loggia in the Vatican. Laor 1016; Tooley’s Dictionary; Woodward “History of Cartography” pp. 816-8, 956-8.