Antique Maps, Schenk, Saxony, Erzgebirge, Ore Mountains, 1752-56: Carte von Ertzgebürgischen Creysse in Churfurstenthum Sachssen mit allen derinnen befindlichen Aembtern und Herrschafften...

Carte von Ertzgebürgischen Creysse in Churfurstenthum Sachssen mit allen derinnen...

Old coloured map of the Ore Mountains, Erzgebirge. Printed in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenk in 1752.

Reference 12589

Description

Monumental historical mining map of Saxony and the Erzgebirge by Pieter Schenk after Adam Friedrich Zürner. The large and detailed engraved map shows the Erzgebirge district with Dresden, Freiberg, Chemnitz, Zwickau, Reichenbach, Marienberg and Annaberg-Buchholz. To the upper left a beautiful title cartouche, to the lower right a large depiction of mining operations, to the left miners in traditional costume, at the top geographical instruments. Printed from two plates and joined.

The map is based on the manuscript map from Zürner's Atlas Augusteus Saxonicus which still exists in the original in the Saxon Main State Archives in Dresden. After Zürner's death in 1742, the maps were revised by his collaborator Paul Trenckmann and published by the Amsterdam publisher Pieter Schenk as Atlas Saxonicus novus from 1752. The map shown here comes from this atlas. From 1760 onwards, a reprint of this map with modified cartouches was produced by Lotter in Augsburg, still under Seutter's name.

Probably the most beautiful and impressive map of Saxony from this period.

Details

Cartographer	Pieter Schenk
Title	Carte von Ertzgebürgischen Creysse in Churfurstenthum Sachssen mit allen derinnen befindlichen Aembtern und Herrschafften wie solche eingetheilet und zwart.
Publisher, Year	Pieter Schenk, Amsterdam, 1752-56
Plate Size	58.9 x 99.4 cm (23.2 x 39.1 inches)
Sheet Size	61.5 x 101.3 cm (24.2 x 39.9 inches)

Condition

Due to the size, the usual 3 vertical folds and a horizontal fold in the lower area. Backed at the intersections of the folds. Very good condition with beautiful old colours.

Cartographer

Pieter Schenk, a Dutch engraver and publisher, was born 1655 in Elberfeld, Germany. He settled to Amsterdam and became a scholar of Gerhard Valck. He married Valck's sister in 1687. Afterwards, the Valck and Schenk families where active as print sellers, publishers and printers of maps, atlases and architectural drawings as well globes. The published atlases mainly based on reworked plates of Visscher, Sanson and Janssonius. He died in 1718.

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Pieter Schenk: Carte von Ertzgebürgischen Creysse in Churfurstenthum Sachssen mit allen derinnen befindlichen Aembtern und Herrschafften....

Old coloured map of the Ore Mountains, Erzgebirge. Printed in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenk in 1752.

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