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Published: Augsburg
Published date: 1704
Technique: Copper engraving / Uncolored
Issue date: 1704-20
Type: map
Category: Presburg
Size: 162 by 208mm (6 by 8 inches).
Stock number: 29316
Condition: The engraving cut close to the image and mounted on old atlas paper, else in very good condition. 162 by 208mm (6 by 8 inches).

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Original antique copper engraving, uncolored as published. Decorative panoramic view of the slovak city Pressburg. 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).