Description: This steel engraving originates from a Dutch edition of 'Meyer's Universum', published and printed by the 'Bibliographical Institute' seated in Hildburghausen, Germany in 1837. This work consists out of several parts/books describing important views of nature and art in all parts of the world. This plate is from part E. Artists and Engravers: The publisher of this work is Carl Joseph Meyer (1796-1856). He was a German entrepreneur and publisher. He was very succesful with his publishing firm 'Bibliographisches Institut', which he started in his hometown Gotha in 1826. He published bibles, literature and geographis atlasses.
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