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Dear Ms Krawczyk,
hi Francis and George,
my Polish is extremely bad and my English isn't much better, nevertheless
I'll try to give the expected answer.
Jeremias Wolff and his heir Johann Friedrich Probst published more than 100
panoramic views of European cities, among them Rome and Vienna. Most of
these views were drawn by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1776). Werner also
produced smaller town views for other Augsburg publishers as Martin
Engelbrecht and Joseph Friedrich Leopold and his son Johann Christian
Leopold.
For informations on the Wolff/Probst families have a look at my article in
Cartographica Helvetica (Francis informed you how to find the online
version). But first of all you should direct your attention to F.B. Werner.
There is a very good book on him, both in German and Polish (Werner came
from Silesia):
Muzeum Miedzi w Legnicy: Friedrich Bernhard Werner: Zycie i tworczoscz -
Leben und Werk, Legnica 2004.
Moreover Dr. Angelika Marsch from Hamburg is preparing a complete
bibliography of all the hundreds of views made by Werner. This fantastic
book (more than 700 pages) will be published in about two or three months.
She knows several copies and all the different states of the views, too.
I hope this helps.
Michael
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From: "Francis Herbert" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 11:52 AM
Subject: RE: [MapHist] Panorama of Rome and Vienna by
J.F.Probst(J.WolffHeirs)-an ask
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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 21-30
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]
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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
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