Description

Scarce copper engraving with 10 miniature maps and prints shows the events of 1717: Siege of Belgrade, Venice wins a sea battle, Spain occupies Sardinia, flood in Germany etc. 

The engraving belongs to a series, representing famous European events from the years 1700-1722 in images, views and maps. The engravings, usually composed from ca 12 small images, were first issued by Christoph Weigel in Nuremberg every year as broadsides in small folio format. In 1739 his widow republished the series in a much smaller format with this title page. Both the broadsides and the smaller versions of them are very rare on the market.

Seltene Graphik mit 10 Ansichten auf einem Blatt: Der Alberon hoch steigt, Des Görtzens List sicht zeigt, Mardyk nicht lange stehet, Der Czar in Franckreich gehet, Die grosse Wasserfluth, Belgrad fählet nach der Schlacht, Venedig siegt mit Macht, Sardinien kost Bluth, Des Königs Doctor…Huth. Aus: “Memorabilia Seculi XVIII P. C. N. in Tabulis annalibus aeri incisis. Denckwürdige Begebenheiten des 18ten Jahrhunderts nach Christi Geburt…”.

Knapp beschnitten, leichte Faltspur, ansonsten gut erhalten.