Accession number
PML 88580
Published
[Augsburg : Martin Engelbrecht, 17--]
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 2015.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Attributed to the firm of engraver and publisher, Martin Engelbrecht, Augsburg. He obtained an imperial privilege to publish peep-shows from 1719, thereby eliminating any competition from other publishing houses. Artists Jeremias Wachsmuth or David Nessenthaler may have collaborated on the illustrations. The peepshows were published in three formats: Large format, ca. 15.5 x 20.8 cm ; medium format, ca. 9.2 x 14.3 cm ; and small format, ca. 7.3 x 9.0 cm. The large and medium formats were published with a title page, while no title pages are known to have been printed for the small format. Also, the small format cards do not have any serial numbers, possibly due to cropping of the margins.
This peepshow is in the medium format. It contains six separate etchings, not mounted in accordion form; all of the views are hand-colored and have been cut out, except for the sixth which forms the backdrop and has a 6 printed at lower margin. The prints are without any text, title page, or impressum extant in the lower margins.
The prints show gentlemen and scholars in a library, book shelves along the walls, four globes and busts of ancient scholars on a top shelf, and the backdrop opening into a garden setting.
The library owns a copy of the Bibliothek in the small format, but the six prints are different (PML 88505.1).
Library's copy in loose sheets, without optical box, but has a modern lucite stand with six slots for display.
Attributed to the firm of engraver and publisher, Martin Engelbrecht, Augsburg. He obtained an imperial privilege to publish peep-shows from 1719, thereby eliminating any competition from other publishing houses. Artists Jeremias Wachsmuth or David Nessenthaler may have collaborated on the illustrations. The peepshows were published in three formats: Large format, ca. 15.5 x 20.8 cm ; medium format, ca. 9.2 x 14.3 cm ; and small format, ca. 7.3 x 9.0 cm. The large and medium formats were published with a title page, while no title pages are known to have been printed for the small format. Also, the small format cards do not have any serial numbers, possibly due to cropping of the margins.
This peepshow is in the medium format. It contains six separate etchings, not mounted in accordion form; all of the views are hand-colored and have been cut out, except for the sixth which forms the backdrop and has a 6 printed at lower margin. The prints are without any text, title page, or impressum extant in the lower margins.
The prints show gentlemen and scholars in a library, book shelves along the walls, four globes and busts of ancient scholars on a top shelf, and the backdrop opening into a garden setting.
The library owns a copy of the Bibliothek in the small format, but the six prints are different (PML 88505.1).
Library's copy in loose sheets, without optical box, but has a modern lucite stand with six slots for display.
Description
1 peepshow (6 prints) : ill. (etchings, handcol.) ; 9 x 15 cm (each print)
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