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Hi Francis and Ms Krawczyk I forwarded the original email to Michael Ritter George Carhart -----Original Message----- >From: Francis Herbert <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 16, 2010 5:52 AM >To: 'Discussion group for map history' <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [MapHist] Panorama of Rome and Vienna by J.F.Probst(J.Wolff >Heirs)-an ask > >This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the >whole list) >o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > >Dear Ms Krawczyk, > >Welcome to 'MapHist'. Alas, I cannot provide you with a direct and >positive answer to your request; but, as we say in English, 'I know a >man who can' (maybe . . .). Take a look (and/or then contact) Michael >Ritter from Germany; I do not know how good is his Polish - but his >English is very good. The reference below to his article in >'Cartographica Helvetica' is a good starting point (he has published >other artilces on similar persons and period in the same journal) - > >Ritter, Michael (Sielenbach): Die Landkarten von Jeremias Wolff und >Johann Friedrich Probst. 35/07 2130 >Zusammenfassung | Summary | Résumé | Volltext > >This reference is taken off the 'CH' website [www.kartengeschichte.ch], >from which you will discover that the article may be read - free - in >the comfort of your own home/University Library. As usual, not >everything an author knows is in print; so Michael Ritter may well know >where are other exemplars of your two prints. > >Francis Herbert (former Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG) >[email protected] > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Dominika Krawczyk >Sent: 15 April 2010 18:17 >To: [email protected] >Subject: [MapHist] Panorama of Rome and Vienna by J.F.Probst(J.Wolff >Heirs)-an ask > > I am a 5th year student of Nicolaus Copernicus University in >Torun, Poland. As a student of the Department of Conservation and >Restoration of Historic Paper and Leather I'm doing my diploma that >deals with two prints from one of polish monastery that I have to >conserve and restore. These two prints are Panorama of Rome and >Panorama of Vienna published ca.1750 in Augsburg by Johan Friedrich >Probst ( Jeremias Wolff Heirs firm) according to Friedrich Bernhard >Werner drawings. > >Both of them are in a very bad condition, what is more, they are >lacking some fragments. I am in the middle of the process of work with >these prints. Both of them need to be reconstructed in fragments >which have been lost. > >I am searching for twin prints to be able to reconstruct my diploma >objects. In order to do that I have started to search twin prints of >Panorama of Rome and Panorama of Vienna on the Internet. So far I have >found some Panoramas of cities published by Jeremias Wolff Heirs on >auctions, but I haven't found anywhere Panorama of Rome or Vienna. I >have also found a website with MapHist e-mail discussion. I have >read an e-mail with a question about prints of Paris and Venice >published by Jeremias Wollf Heirs and a respond to that e-mail. >(http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/pipermail/maphist/2006-March/006880.html ) > >I decided to ask you for any help. Could you give me any information >about those Panoramas of Rome and Vienna? Where I could find them? I >suppose they could be in some Museum in Europe but I completely don't >know where exactly. I don't know who or what institution I could ask >for detailed photos so that I could reconstruct mine. > > Therefore I kindly ask to consider my request. > > Dominika Krawczyk > >PS. I could send photos of my prints to those who are concerned > >_______________________________________________ >MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography >hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. >The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of >the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of >Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for >the views of the author. >List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > >Maphist mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist George S. Carhart _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
