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A Fort Being Built to Protect Augsburg

Georg Philipp Rugendas I and Jeremias Wolff

A Fort Being Built to Protect Augsburg

1703-1741

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A Fort Being Built to Protect Augsburg

1703-1741

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 271 x 416 mm. (10 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.) Plate: 254 x 400 mm. (10 x 15 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.13387
One from a series of six etchings depicting the Siege of Augsburg. Four prints from the series are in the Garrett Collection (1946.112.13386 - 1946.112.13389).

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower center, in plate "4."; below image, across lower margin, in plate, two columns of text in Latin and German, two lines each, begining "Coemeterio Evangelicorum [...]"; below image, lower left, in plate "Georg Philip Rugendas Pictor del. et fecit."; below image, lower center, in plate "Cum Privileg. Sac. Caes. Majest."; below image, lower right, in plate "Ierem. Wolff excud. Aug. Vind."

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Georg Philipp Rugendas I

1665–1741

German, 1666-1742
Meet Georg Philipp Rugendas I

Publisher

Jeremias Wolff

1662–1723

German, 1663-1724
Meet Jeremias Wolff

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