Bodenehr, Gabriel
Chamb in der oberen Pfaltz.
- Published: Augsburg
- Published date: 1704
- Technique: Copper engraving / Uncolored
- Issue date: 1704-20
- Type: map
- Category: Chamb
- Size: 135 by 496mm (5¼ by 19½ inches).
- Stock number: 23630
- Condition: The sheet margins with traces of usage, some water stains, the right side of the picture with repairs.
Article description
Original antique copper engraving, uncolored as published. This fine engraving was published in Gabriel Bodenehr's famous serious ,Europeans Macht und Pracht', a series of engravings depicting city views, plans, fortresses and castles in Europe. Many plates often are showing fortifications in Hungary and Southeast Europe, Spain, Belgium, Austria and Germany. Gabriel Bodenehr was during this period a successful publisher for maps and prints in Augsburg in Southern Germany. Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder (1664-1758 or 1673-1765) was a German map maker and member of a famous engraver and publisher family of Augsburg. His main work was "Atlas Curieux" first published 1704. He was the son of Johann Georg Bodenehr (1631-1703). Gabriel's son was Gabriel Bodenehr the Younger (1705–1792). (Wikipedia)