Erlustierender Augen-Weyde zweyte Fortsetzung, vorstellend, die weltberühmte Churfürstliche Residenz in München, als...

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With illustr. Copper title, 42 num. Copper plates and 3 n.n. Copper plates with interior views. Engraved by Johann August Corvinus and Carl Remshart based on drawings by Matthias Diesel. Transverse folio. (approx. 29 x 42 cm). Half parchment of the period with colored paper cover, 46 sheets. The third (and final) part of Diesel's table work on palace and garden architecture. It contains views of the buildings and gardens of the Munich Residence (plates 1-10) as well as the palace and gardens of Nymphenburg (11-25), Fürstenried (26-28) and Schleißheim (29-32) built under Elector Maximilian Emanuel incl. Lustheim (33-34). Also a view of Hohenburg Castle (35), built on behalf of Count Ferdinand Joseph von Herwarth. Tables 36-42 show ideal designs or floor plans of model facilities. The 3 interior views after the title page: 1. Court chapel, on an organ gallery, with dedicated dedication to Maria Amalia of Austria. 2. Marian Hall of the "Citizens' Hall Church". 3. Tournament house in the residence. - "The historical value of D.'s work is that it provides the first German models of the new French garden style; the engravings of the third volume are extremely important as the only contemporary views of Max Emanuel's buildings and parks" (Thieme Becker). Diesel (1675-1752) was an engineer at the court and pleasure gardens in Munich from 1718 and was able to complete his training in pleasure and flower gardening as well as the creation of water features in France between 1706 and 1710.

Thieme/Becker IX, 249 f. (Diesel) und XXVIII, 151 (Remshard). Nebehay-W. 146. Wimmer 225 f.