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Panoramic view of Nijmegen

WERNER, Friedrich Bernard.
View of Nimmegen.




Augsburg, Heirs of Jeronymus Wolff, 1729. (35 x 99 cm). Framed.

Fine large-scale panoramic view of Nijmegen, by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690 - 1776). Werner has made a large series of engravings of European cities in this format. Depicting the city from a slight elevation, not quite a bird's-eye view, but related to the tradition of earlier cartography that combined maps and landscape drawing published by Braun & Hogenberg (1572-1617), Jan Jansson (1596-1664) and others. Werner has included a numbered key at the bottom of the map identifying important sites and buildings as the 'Hunner Poort' and 'Belveder'. The large size of the print allows considerable architectural and landscape detail, such as the hills south of the bens in the river Waal and the ferry.
Friedrich Bernhard Werner was a German printmaker, draftsman and writer from Silesia. As a young man he lived an itinerant and rather bohemian existence as a writer, translator and working in theatre. Eventually he settled in Augsburg, the European centre for this kind of city scapes. Werner drew views for the publishing houses of a Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756), Johann Christian Leopold (1699-1755), but especially for the printer/publisher Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724). From 1726, he specialized in panoramic views of towns and he travelled around Europe till ca. 1731, making nearly 100 views for the Augsburg publishers known as the "Wolff heirs," which included members of the Probst family and their brother-in-law's father, Johann Georg Hertel, among them: our beautiful view.
Very fine condition.
Thieme/Becker 35, p. 406; Paul Bretschneider, Der Zeichner, Stecher und Chronist Friedrich Bernhard Werner. (1921); Angelika Marsch, 'Friedrich Bernhard Werner und die Ansichtenserien europäischer Städte aus Augsburg', in: Marsch & Eckhard Jäger (eds.), Lüneburger Beiträge zur Vedutenforschung 2: Beiträge zum II. Vedutenkolloquium in Lüneburg 7.-9.X.1983, III. Veduten-Colloquium in Regensburg 3.-6.X.1985 (2001), p. 235-48

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Related Subjects: Prints - 18th Century  Prints - Dutch Towns  Prints - Framed 

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