Copperplate engraving with a view of the city of hanover around 1735, seen from the west, with the inner and outer leintor. The original engraving, which is also the most detailed and artistically perfect image of this city view in the 18th century, was created by the copperplate engraver friedrich bernhard werner, whose view then served as a template for several other engravers' own depictions of hanover, although most of them had never seen the city with their own eyes. Among them was, for example, the augsburg copperplate engraver johann friedrich probst, whose own reproduction of werner's image was in turn "copied" by another copperplate engraver, whereby the relatively much wider original image is compensated for here by exaggerating the church towers, for example. Literature: franz rudolf zankl: view of hanover from the west. Copperplate engraving after fb werner. Around 1785, in the same: (ed. ): hanover archive, sheet p. 15. Date: circa 1730.
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