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View of Wrocław with allegory of Fortune

author of the engraving: Kieser, Eberhard (1583-1631) wydawca

content author: Meisner, Daniel (1585-1625) tekstu

publisher: Kieser, Eberhard (1583-1631)

date: 1623 (plate); 1632 (edition)

place of creation: Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

object type: print

material: paper

technique: etching

dimensions: print: H 98 x W 146; plate imprint: H 101 x W 147; sheet: H 119 x W 161 mm

inscription:
top edge center: VITUTE DUCE, COMITE FORTUNÂ.;
right top corner: B 37;
bottom margin center: Invideas, precor, invideas: nam maxima Virtus Et Sors invidiam maxima semper habet. / [in two two-line columns]: Missgönn, mißgönn nur immer fort, / Die gröst Tugent (nach dem Sprichwort) // Auch das gröste Glück, ohne ziel, / Hat gmeinlich stets der Neider viel.;
within the picture, above the panaorama of the city: Bresslaw. in Schlesien;
left top corner: coat of arms of Wrocław
  • Ansichten aus sechs Jahrhunderten, Regensburg 1893, kat. 6

provenance: 1960, transfer

not on display

National Museum in Wrocław Department of Prints 16th–19th c.

inventory number: MNWr VII-5207

copyrights to object: PUBLIC DOMAIN
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