Lot 20
Martin Engelbrecht (1684 - 1756) CONVOLUTE OF PRAGENSIA

1740
copper engraving, paper
21,5 x 31,5 cm (h x w)
sign. lower right in a plate: Mart. Engelbrecht

Starting price

30 000 CZK
| 1 250 €

Price realized

39 000 CZK
| 1 625 €

price without premium

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An impressive set of 14 sheets with Prague motifs, focusing on Prague palaces. Description in Latin and German in the bottom legend. Martin Engelbrecht was a German copper engraver, engraver, draughtsman and publisher of the Baroque and Rococo period, an important creator of three thousand graphic designs of figural compositions, portraits, vedutes, patterns of ornaments and caricatures. Engravings from drawings by F. B. Werner, published in Augsburg. Graphics from this particular edition are mostly found individually, larger sets are rather rare.

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