OXFORT, een vermaerde Stadt in Engeland… / Oxonium urbs Angliae Clarissima…

Reference: S40022
Author Pieter SCHENK
Year: 1702 ca.
Zone: Oxford
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 260 x 210 mm
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Reference: S40022
Author Pieter SCHENK
Year: 1702 ca.
Zone: Oxford
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 260 x 210 mm
Not Available

Description

This is a rare view from Schenk's important town atlas, called "Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; exquisite collecta atque eleganter depicta".

The veduta recognizes as a source the contemporary French production (Aveline, Chereau le Jeune, Carel Allard) which in turn is based on the prototype of Braun and Hegenberg; however, it is personalized by an effective and accurate graphic rendering, attributable to the expert hand of an engraver of Peter Schenk's workshop.

Below the title is in Dutch and Latin and you can read the name of the publisher. The exemplar has produced numerous subsidiaries throughout the eighteenth century and beyond, so it can also be considered a prototype.

Peter Schenk (Elberfeld 1645 - 1715), a well-known Dutch engraver and publisher, was a pupil of Gerard Valck in Amsterdam, married his daughter and together with him bought many slabs of the Blaeu company in 1683. He produced various atlases and collections of plants and city views, for which he engraved many new maps: at the beginning of the eighteenth century he was appointed court engraver by Augustus of Saxony, he produced many portraits of famous people, many engravings from his printing house, which in the meantime had expanded considerably and housed the best engravers of the time, bear his signature only as a publisher. At his death the activity was continued by his son Peter, called the Younger.

Copperplate, good condition.

Pieter SCHENK (1660 - 1718 ca.)

Peter Schenk the Elder (1660-1711) moved to Amsterdam in 1675 and began to learn the art of mezzotint. In 1694 he bought some of the copperplate stock of the mapmaker Johannes Janssonius, which allowed him to specialize in the engraving and printing of maps and prints. He split his time between his Amsterdam shop and Leipzig and also sold a considerable volume of materials to London. Peter Schenk the Elder had three sons. Peter the Younger carried on his father’s business in Leipzig while the other two, Leonard and Jan, worked in Amsterdam. Leonard engraved several maps and also carried on his father’s relationship with engraving plates for the Amsterdam edition of the Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences.

Pieter SCHENK (1660 - 1718 ca.)

Peter Schenk the Elder (1660-1711) moved to Amsterdam in 1675 and began to learn the art of mezzotint. In 1694 he bought some of the copperplate stock of the mapmaker Johannes Janssonius, which allowed him to specialize in the engraving and printing of maps and prints. He split his time between his Amsterdam shop and Leipzig and also sold a considerable volume of materials to London. Peter Schenk the Elder had three sons. Peter the Younger carried on his father’s business in Leipzig while the other two, Leonard and Jan, worked in Amsterdam. Leonard engraved several maps and also carried on his father’s relationship with engraving plates for the Amsterdam edition of the Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences.