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HEYDT, Johann Wolfgang(Middle Franconia 18th century)
Prospect der Hochfürstlichen...Universitäts-Stadt Erlangen
27.5 x 38 cm, 28 x 39 cm.
Two colored copper engravings with different views, large bilingual script cartouches and legends in German-French. One engraving dated: 1746. passepartout.
Heydt, draftsman and engraver of the 18th century in Wilhermsdorf near Fürth. About 1733-1740 in the service of the Dutch East India Company, from 1741 Hochgräflicher Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürstlicher Baudirektor and Geometer * Partner auction miner.
Literature : Thieme-Becker (1907-1950).
Provenance : Franconian private estate of a former antiquarian.