Lot 20

František a Filip Hegerovi (1766 - 1831) TWO PRAGENSIAS

Filip Heger was an architect, builder, and draughtsman of the late Baroque period, who realized many projects and reconstructions. He published a series of engravings - a self-published thirty-page watercoloured graphical print album of important Prague buildings, which he created together with his son František Heger. The engravings were reproduced by Kašpar Pluth. The sheet is dedicated to Antonín Jakub Suchánek, general and grand master of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star.

Originally named after the Irish Franciscans, the Palace of the Hyberns has changed its use considerably over time. In 1786 the monastery was dissolved, the entire property of the order was confiscated and redistributed to the so-called religious fund. Eventually, entrepreneurs took over the premises and encouraged the creation of a new theatre. The leaf is dedicated to John Francis Christian, Count Swéerts-Sporck, who acquired a palace complex of two buildings in the neighbourhood, which also appear in the engraving. Framed under anti-reflective glass with UV filter.