Dubica


Croatia Pavao Ritter Vitezovic 1685 Copperplate engraving plate 22 x 31 cm paper 22.4 x 31.7 cm In the top centre there is a fairly long inscription in Latin and German, and below it a view of the town attacked by troops led by ban Nikola Erdody. Some important buildings and groups of soldiers are marked with numbers; the legend with the explanation of numbers is in the bottom right-hand corner. The signature in the bottom right-hand corner reads: P: Vitezovich ad vivum delin:. Pavao Ritter Vitezovic (Senj, 1652 - Vienna, 1713), was an important figure in the Croatian cultural history of the second half of the 17th century. He lived and worked in Zagreb from 1694 till after 1706, where he ran the national printing press, engaging in publishing, printing and book-selling activities. He had written numerous literary and historical works. Prominent in the latter group is the 'Kronika aliti spomen vsega svieta vikov'. A close associate of Ivan Weikhard Valvasor, he personally made 54 cooper-plate engravings for the monumental work 'Topographia Ducatus Carnioliae Modernae' (1679). Vitezovic Bought before 1945 from the Janko Mraovic. Od svagdana do blagdana - Barok u Hrvatskoj, (exhibition catalogue), Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Zagreb, 1993, page 346, catalogue number 315.




HPM/PMH-005062 HPM/PMH/G-1978