Auction 110 - Tag 3
Fine Art, Ceramics, Metalware & Sculptures
By Auktionshaus Mehlis
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May 27, 2023
Hammerstraße 30, 8523 Plauen, Germany
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LOT 3719:
Johann Baptist Homann, Map of Thuringia
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Sold for: €90
Start price:
€
80
Buyer's Premium: 27%
VAT: 19%
On commission only
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Johann Baptist Homann, Map of Thuringia
Figurative cartouche at lower right and inscribed here "Landgraviae Thuringiae Tabula generalis ... per Joh. Bapt. Homa ...(partly covered by figures)", depicting the area between Strasbourg in the north, Gera in the east, Meiningen in the south and Göttingen in the west, Erfurt is about in the middle, partly coloured copper engraving, about 1720, nice strong impression, neat folding line in the middle, framed under mount and behind glass, dimensions of depiction about 47,5 x 57 cm. Artist's impression: German engraver, publisher and Jesuit (1664 Kambach to 1724 Nuremberg), probably pupil of David Funck, founded his own publishing house "Homännisches Landkarten-Offizin" about 1702, 1715 member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences, Emperor Charles VI. awarded him the title of "Imperial Geographer" and the Russian Tsar Peter the Great appointed Homann as "Imperial Russian Agent", active in Vienna, Leipzig and Nuremberg, among other places, source: Thieme-Becker and Internet.
