Nice print titled Place Joseph a Vienne, from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, approx. page size is 21 x 13 cm, approx. image size is 16.5  x 9 cm. Print was published in a volume in series L'Univers Pittoresque. Histoire et Description de Tous les Peuples, de leurs Religions, Moeurs, Coutumes, Industries.

Hofburg

The Hofburg is the former principal imperial palace of the  Habsburg dynasty rulers and today serves as the official residence and workplace  of the President of Austria. It is located in the center of Vienna and was built  in the 13th century and expanded several times afterwards. It also served as the  imperial winter residence, as Schönbrunn Palace was the summer residence.

Since 1279 the Hofburg area has been the documented seat of government. The  Hofburg has been expanded over the centuries to include various residences (with  the Amalienburg and the Albertina), the imperial chapel (Hofkapelle or  Burgkapelle), the imperial library (Hofbibliothek), the treasury (Schatzkammer),  the Burgtheater, the Spanish Riding School (Hofreitschule), the imperial mews  (Stallburg and Hofstallungen).

The palace faces the Heldenplatz (Heroes Square) ordered under the reign of  Emperor Francis Joseph I, as part of what was planned to become the Kaiserforum  but which was never completed.

Numerous architects have executed work at the Hofburg as it expanded, notably  the Italian architect-engineer Filiberto Luchese, Lodovico Burnacini and Martino  and Domenico Carlone, the Baroque architects Lukas von Hildebrandt and Joseph  Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, Johann Fischer von Erlach, and the architects of the  Neue Burg built between 1881 and 1913.