London Bridge - Johann Wilhelm Stör / Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf - 1735
The bridge to London, London Bridge over Thames in London, signed: I. W. Stör sculps.
Johann Wilhelm Stör (baptized January 6, 1705 in Nuremberg ; buried April 23, 1765 in the same place) was a German draftsman and engraver .
Johann Wilhelm Stör (also Stoer) worked from 1726 as a draftsman and engraver in Nuremberg and mainly produced pictures (portraits) for the bookseller Fr. Roth. From 1732 to 1734 he worked in Dresden and provided engravings for the work Historischer Schauplatz seltsamer Brücken by Carl Christian Schramm, which was published in Leipzig in 1735. In addition to simple drawings, the work contains a series of picturesque depictions of bridges. After working for a master writer, he returned to portrait drawing. In 1737 he married Elisabeth Felsecker (1714–1760), daughter of the printer Adam Jonathan Felsecker, and in 1764 Elisabetha Ernestina Lochner, the daughter of the pastor Christoph Moritz Lochner in Gustenfelden .
Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf (2 March 1695 in Clausthal, now Clausthal-Zellerfeld – 26 March 1777 in Leipzig) was a German printer and publisher, and founder of the publisher that became Breitkopf & Härtel.
In 1714 he moved to Leipzig and worked for one year in a print shop. After working for several months in Jena, and three years in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, he returned to Leipzig in 1718, married Sophia Maria Müller and inherited an existing print shop, established in 1664, which he rescued from the brink of economic ruin. He began publishing with the 1723 printing of a manual of the Hebrew Bible. After the death of his wife, Breitkopf remarried in 1739 to Sophia Theodore Kayser. He passed on the printing business to his son Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf in 1745. He maintained the publishing side of the business until his death, however his son became a partner in 1762.
Some minor foxing to the border frame but engraving in very good condition for its near 300 year age. Pricing and grading commensurate.
London Bridge - Between 1968 and 1971 its facing stone was dismantled and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the U.S. state of Arizona, where it was re-erected on a five-span core of reinforced concrete to serve as a tourist attraction at the resort town of Lake Havasu City.
The bridge to London, London Bridge over Thames in London, signed: I. W. Stör sculps.
Johann Wilhelm Stör (baptized January 6, 1705 in Nuremberg ; buried April 23, 1765 in the same place) was a German draftsman and engraver .
Johann Wilhelm Stör (also Stoer) worked from 1726 as a draftsman and engraver in Nuremberg and mainly produced pictures (portraits) for the bookseller Fr. Roth. From 1732 to 1734 he worked in Dresden and provided engravings for the work Historischer Schauplatz seltsamer Brücken by Carl Christian Schramm, which was published in Leipzig in 1735. In addition to simple drawings, the work contains a series of picturesque depictions of bridges. After working for a master writer, he returned to portrait drawing. In 1737 he married Elisabeth Felsecker (1714–1760), daughter of the printer Adam Jonathan Felsecker, and in 1764 Elisabetha Ernestina Lochner, the daughter of the pastor Christoph Moritz Lochner in Gustenfelden .
Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf (2 March 1695 in Clausthal, now Clausthal-Zellerfeld – 26 March 1777 in Leipzig) was a German printer and publisher, and founder of the publisher that became Breitkopf & Härtel.
In 1714 he moved to Leipzig and worked for one year in a print shop. After working for several months in Jena, and three years in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, he returned to Leipzig in 1718, married Sophia Maria Müller and inherited an existing print shop, established in 1664, which he rescued from the brink of economic ruin. He began publishing with the 1723 printing of a manual of the Hebrew Bible. After the death of his wife, Breitkopf remarried in 1739 to Sophia Theodore Kayser. He passed on the printing business to his son Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf in 1745. He maintained the publishing side of the business until his death, however his son became a partner in 1762.
Some minor foxing to the border frame but engraving in very good condition for its near 300 year age. Pricing and grading commensurate.
London Bridge - Between 1968 and 1971 its facing stone was dismantled and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the U.S. state of Arizona, where it was re-erected on a five-span core of reinforced concrete to serve as a tourist attraction at the resort town of Lake Havasu City.
The bridge to London, London Bridge over Thames in London, signed: I. W. Stör sculps.
Johann Wilhelm Stör (baptized January 6, 1705 in Nuremberg ; buried April 23, 1765 in the same place) was a German draftsman and engraver .
Johann Wilhelm Stör (also Stoer) worked from 1726 as a draftsman and engraver in Nuremberg and mainly produced pictures (portraits) for the bookseller Fr. Roth. From 1732 to 1734 he worked in Dresden and provided engravings for the work Historischer Schauplatz seltsamer Brücken by Carl Christian Schramm, which was published in Leipzig in 1735. In addition to simple drawings, the work contains a series of picturesque depictions of bridges. After working for a master writer, he returned to portrait drawing. In 1737 he married Elisabeth Felsecker (1714–1760), daughter of the printer Adam Jonathan Felsecker, and in 1764 Elisabetha Ernestina Lochner, the daughter of the pastor Christoph Moritz Lochner in Gustenfelden .
Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf (2 March 1695 in Clausthal, now Clausthal-Zellerfeld – 26 March 1777 in Leipzig) was a German printer and publisher, and founder of the publisher that became Breitkopf & Härtel.
In 1714 he moved to Leipzig and worked for one year in a print shop. After working for several months in Jena, and three years in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, he returned to Leipzig in 1718, married Sophia Maria Müller and inherited an existing print shop, established in 1664, which he rescued from the brink of economic ruin. He began publishing with the 1723 printing of a manual of the Hebrew Bible. After the death of his wife, Breitkopf remarried in 1739 to Sophia Theodore Kayser. He passed on the printing business to his son Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf in 1745. He maintained the publishing side of the business until his death, however his son became a partner in 1762.
Some minor foxing to the border frame but engraving in very good condition for its near 300 year age. Pricing and grading commensurate.
London Bridge - Between 1968 and 1971 its facing stone was dismantled and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the U.S. state of Arizona, where it was re-erected on a five-span core of reinforced concrete to serve as a tourist attraction at the resort town of Lake Havasu City.
Code : A440
Cartographer : Cartographer / Engraver / Publisher: Johann Wilhelm Stör / Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf
Date : Publication Place / Date - 1735
Size : Sheet size: Image Size: 44.5 x 35.5 cm
Availability : Available
Type - Genuine - Antique
Grading A-
Where Applicable - Folds as issued. Light box photo shows the folio leaf centre margin hinge ‘glue’, this is not visible otherwise.
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