Fontana su la Piazza della Mad.a de Monti
| Reference: | S11754 |
| Author | Jeremias WOLFF |
| Year: | 1720 ca. |
| Measures: | 300 x 200 mm |
€130.00
| Reference: | S11754 |
| Author | Jeremias WOLFF |
| Year: | 1720 ca. |
| Measures: | 300 x 200 mm |
€130.00
Description
Etching, circa 1720, signed at lower right with the imprint I. Wolff exc. Aug. Vind.
After Giovanni Battista Falda, Le Fontane di Roma, circa 1680.
A fine impression, on contemporary laid paper, with margins, good condition. Rare.
Jeremias Wolff was a print publisher in Augsburg (fl.1686-1724). Originally a clock and automat maker; later turned print publisher, though never an engraver himself, and became the biggest Augsburg publisher of his day.
Plates inherited by his son-in-law, Johann Balthasar Probst, who married his only daughter. He published under the name 'Erben/Heredes Jeremias Wolff'
He went to school in the Augsburg St. Anna Gymnasium and then learned to become a watchmaker. He never made his Master-title, but instead started to make automatons, till the Guild of the Watchmakers complainted and had the city-council forbid the making of these machines. Wollf then became 'Kunsthändler', which in this time meant, publisher of copper engravings and Einblätter. His oldest printing privilege dates from 1697.
Bibliografia
Benzing, Werner Schwarz, 'JW und seine Nachfolger' in 'Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagswesen', ed. Helmut Gier & Johannes Janota, Wiesbaden 1997, pp.587-620.
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Merchant, engraver and publisher Jeremias Wolff produces and distributes views of cities, German French and Italian since the end of the seventeenth century. After Wolff's death, his son in law G. Wolff B. Probst took over the management of the company.
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Merchant, engraver and publisher Jeremias Wolff produces and distributes views of cities, German French and Italian since the end of the seventeenth century. After Wolff's death, his son in law G. Wolff B. Probst took over the management of the company.
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