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 |
| Reference: | S40022 |
| Author | Pieter SCHENK |
| Year: | 1702 ca. |
| Zone: | Oxford |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 260 x 210 mm |
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.)
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Petrus Schenck, or Pieter, or Peter Schenk the Elder (baptized: 26 December 1660 – between 12 August and 17 November 1711 in Leipzig) was a German engraver and cartographer active in Amsterdam and Leipzig. The engraver and map publisher Peter Schenk was born in 1660 in Elberfeld. He moved to Amsterdam in 1675 and became a student of Gerard Valck specializing in mezzotint. Valck was married to Maria Bloteling, the sister of the Amsterdam engraver Abraham Bloteling. In 1687 Schenk married Gerard's sister Agatha Valck. In 1694, together with Valck, he bought some of the copperplates of the artdealer and cartographer Johannes Janssonius. Along with Valck and Bloteling, he produced prints for the London market, though it is not known if he ever went there with them. Until 1700 he lived in the Jordaan, then he moved to Dam Square or to Leipzig, where he opened a shop, selling maps and art. He was a regular visitor to the trade fair Leipziger Messe in Leipzig, where he died. He had three sons who became engravers. His eldest son Peter Schenk the Younger was also a noted cartographer and art dealer who continued his father's shop in Leipzig. His sons Jan and Leonard stayed in Amsterdam and probably continued their father's workshop. His daughter Maria married Leonard Valck, the son of Gerard, who continued Gerard's workshop.
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Pieter SCHENK (1660 - 1718 ca.)
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Petrus Schenck, or Pieter, or Peter Schenk the Elder (baptized: 26 December 1660 – between 12 August and 17 November 1711 in Leipzig) was a German engraver and cartographer active in Amsterdam and Leipzig. The engraver and map publisher Peter Schenk was born in 1660 in Elberfeld. He moved to Amsterdam in 1675 and became a student of Gerard Valck specializing in mezzotint. Valck was married to Maria Bloteling, the sister of the Amsterdam engraver Abraham Bloteling. In 1687 Schenk married Gerard's sister Agatha Valck. In 1694, together with Valck, he bought some of the copperplates of the artdealer and cartographer Johannes Janssonius. Along with Valck and Bloteling, he produced prints for the London market, though it is not known if he ever went there with them. Until 1700 he lived in the Jordaan, then he moved to Dam Square or to Leipzig, where he opened a shop, selling maps and art. He was a regular visitor to the trade fair Leipziger Messe in Leipzig, where he died. He had three sons who became engravers. His eldest son Peter Schenk the Younger was also a noted cartographer and art dealer who continued his father's shop in Leipzig. His sons Jan and Leonard stayed in Amsterdam and probably continued their father's workshop. His daughter Maria married Leonard Valck, the son of Gerard, who continued Gerard's workshop.
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