Subasta Bidspirit | [JERUSALÉM]. Hierosolyma / Ierusalem. [Augsburgo,

[JERUSALÉM]. Hierosolyma / Ierusalem. [Augsburgo, c. 1750]. - [JERUSALEM]. Hierosolyma / Ierusalem . Marcus Abraham RUPPRECHT, haeres Ioh. Christoph Haffner, sculp. et excudit Aug. Vind. [Augsburg, c. 1750]. Copper engraving with contemporary hand-colouring, on laid paper; 330 × 445 mm. Panoramic view of Jerusalem taken from the east, with the walled city at centre, the golden dome of the Dome of the Rock prominently visible and various religious buildings; mountains in the background and, in the foreground, figures of pilgrims and vegetation. Title and extensive caption in [Latin/German/Italian, according to what is read on the original print], with cartouche and emblem bearing the Jerusalem cross along the lower margin. Johann Christoph Haffner (1668–1754) was an important engraver and publisher in Augsburg, author of a series of views of European cities and the Holy Land; after his death, the plates continued to be printed by his heir Marcus Abraham Rupprecht, who retained the formula “ Haeres Ioh. Christoph Haffner ” in the legends.