Gabriel Bodenehr

AG 1966

Latvia > Riga

"Riga wie es Ao. 1700 aus dem Polnischen Lager communicirt worden."

Copper engraving from and by Gabriel Bodenehr, Augsburg about 1720, 15,7 x 24,5 cm.

Very good impression and condition.

Literature: Kunstantiquariat Schmidt: Augsburger Vedutenstecher und -verleger. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Schloss Haimhausen 1982, No 105.

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Plan of Riga with its fortifications, seen over the Duna. At the left side text about the history of the town in German, at the lower left side a decorative cartouche with some explanations to the buildings of the town.

Gabriel Bodenehr (1664 - 1758) was a copper engraver and publisher. 1716 he bought the copper plates of Johann Stridbeck (1640 - 1716), revised and completed them with his own maps, views and plans, and published them in several editions. 1758 Georg Christian Kilian (1709 - 1781) took over his the publishing house.

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