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Conrad Peutinger. Geb.d 14 Oct. 1465, Gestorb.d 24 Nov 1547.
C.A. Schwerdgeburth sculps. Weimar.
[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]
Stipple. Plate 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾").
Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547), a German humanist and antiquarian best known for his ownership of the Peutinger Table, a 13th-century manuscript copy of a road map of the Roman Empire. It is believed that Agrippa (64/63 - 12 BC, grandfather of Emperor Caligula) ordered the original to be drawn, but it seems to have been continally updated, as it marks Pompei (destroyed AD 79) and Constantinople (founded 328). It remains one of the very few example of Roman mapping to survive, having passed from the Peutinger family to Prince Eugene of Savoy and to the Habsburg Imperial Court Library. The portrait was engraved by Carl August Scwerdgeburth (1785-1878) and published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29548] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
C.A. Schwerdgeburth sculps. Weimar.
[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]
Stipple. Plate 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾").
Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547), a German humanist and antiquarian best known for his ownership of the Peutinger Table, a 13th-century manuscript copy of a road map of the Roman Empire. It is believed that Agrippa (64/63 - 12 BC, grandfather of Emperor Caligula) ordered the original to be drawn, but it seems to have been continally updated, as it marks Pompei (destroyed AD 79) and Constantinople (founded 328). It remains one of the very few example of Roman mapping to survive, having passed from the Peutinger family to Prince Eugene of Savoy and to the Habsburg Imperial Court Library. The portrait was engraved by Carl August Scwerdgeburth (1785-1878) and published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29548] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Adrian von Riedl. Köngl. Bairl. Obrist und Director des Geograph. topograph. Bureau zu München. Geb. zu München den g: May 1746. Gestorb. daselbst im Februar 1809.
C.A. Schwerdgeburth sc.
[Weimar: n.d., c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½").
Adrian von Riedl (1746-1809), a German military surveyor, best known for his 'Reise-Atlas von Baiern' (Road Atlas of Bavaria) , Munich 1796-1805. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29611] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
C.A. Schwerdgeburth sc.
[Weimar: n.d., c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½").
Adrian von Riedl (1746-1809), a German military surveyor, best known for his 'Reise-Atlas von Baiern' (Road Atlas of Bavaria) , Munich 1796-1805. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29611] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
C. B. Wadström. Geb. zu Stockholm i. J. 1746. Gestorbl. zu Paris.
C.A. Schwerdgeburth sc.
[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½").
Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746-1799), Swedish traveller and slavery abolitionist active in England. In 1787 King Gustaf III of Sweden sent an expedition under Wadström to Guinea to find a suitable location for a colony. In 1789 he publish 'Observations on the Slave Trade, and a Description of some part of the Coast of Guinea', with the purpose of “exposing to the world the atrocious acts committed in that part of the globe to which I have been eye-witness'. However he was vocal in his support of repatriation of poor blacks to Sierra Leone: in his 'An Essay on Colonization' (1794) he wrote 'it was necessary they should be sent somewhere, and be no longer suffered to invest the streets of London', showing a less charitable side. After the failure of a cotton factory in Manchester Wadström relocated to France, becoming a citizen and a leading member of the French abolition society, receiving a state funeral in 1799. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29608] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
C.A. Schwerdgeburth sc.
[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½").
Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746-1799), Swedish traveller and slavery abolitionist active in England. In 1787 King Gustaf III of Sweden sent an expedition under Wadström to Guinea to find a suitable location for a colony. In 1789 he publish 'Observations on the Slave Trade, and a Description of some part of the Coast of Guinea', with the purpose of “exposing to the world the atrocious acts committed in that part of the globe to which I have been eye-witness'. However he was vocal in his support of repatriation of poor blacks to Sierra Leone: in his 'An Essay on Colonization' (1794) he wrote 'it was necessary they should be sent somewhere, and be no longer suffered to invest the streets of London', showing a less charitable side. After the failure of a cotton factory in Manchester Wadström relocated to France, becoming a citizen and a leading member of the French abolition society, receiving a state funeral in 1799. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29608] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)