Bodenehr, Gabriel
Staedlein und Schlos Albeck
Eigenschaften
- Published: G. Bodenehr , Augsburg
- Published date: 1704
- Type: Antique Map, map
- Technique: Copper engraving / Uncolored
- Issue date: 1704-20
- Category: Langenau - Schloß Albeck
- Size: 160 by 173mm (6 by 6 inches).
- Bibliography: In good condition upper corner and right side with water stains.
- Stock number: 23712
- Condition: In excellent condition. 160 by 173mm (6 by 6 inches).
Article description
Article description
Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. Nice view of the small town Albeck with the castle, before the destruction of 1704. With several topographical notes on the view and small historical text to the left of the view. 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).In good condition upper corner and right side with water stains.
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