German engraver, who worked as a royal engraver for Friedrich Wilhelm ogf Brandenburg. Johann Gottfried Bartsch died around 1690. A fine and clear impression of this engraving by Johann Gottfried Bartsch after Tizian.
Original copper engraving engraved by Pieter de Ballieu after Pieter Breugel. This antique copper engraving shows the shoemaker and his wife as schoolmasters.
Original antique copper engraving. Allegorical representation of battles from the Thirty Years' War. In the middle there is a globe, above it an eagle on a cross and several angels. Vienna in the background. The figures are by Mathias van Werm. Very rare sheet, not bibliographically verifiable for us; The only copy we have verified is in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Isaak Major (born in Frankfurt am Main around 1576, died in Vienna in 1630), a skilled painter and even more skilled engraver, who learned the basics of his art in Vienna and then went to Prague to complete his training with R. Savery, who was working for Emperor Rudolph II in Prague at that time. In Prague he gave up painting and concentrated entirely on engraving, an art in which the famous Sadeler, who was also very busy at Emperor Rudolph II's court at the time, was involved. became his master. M. seems to have worked in Sadeler's house for a long time and several of his sheets are said to be labeled with Sadeler's name. M. later went to Vienna, where his work was little appreciated and he fell into the usual fate of artists, poverty, in which he died at the age of around 54. (Wikipedia)
Original antique copper engraving, hand colored. Very rare antique map of the Roman Empire, hand colored, with a large inset map of the region around Rome, engraved by Jacopo Ruphon. Very decorative and detailed map with many place names (illustrated with small drawings of houses and fortresses), rivers and mountains shown. In the upper left corner a title cartouche and a beautifully ornamented desriptive cartouche. Philippe Briet (Philippus Brietus) (1601-1668) was a seventeenth-century French Jesuit historian and cartographer. (Wikipedia)
8vo. Engraved renaissance title page, 8 unnumbered leaves (praefactio) and 68 (instead of 70) full page engravings, all with accompanying text printed on the reverse of the previous engraving, followed by seven unnumbered pages (index) and one unnumbered leave (censura & impressum). The book is beautiful illustrated by the famous Dutch engraver Adriaen Collaert, these all in very dark and clear impressions, they are all depicting crucifixion of martyrs, arranged by the feast days for the individual saints. Bound in a beautiful brown Dutch renaissance leather binding, with gilt decorations on the spine, the covers and edges.
