(Falck, Jeremias) (c. 1609-1677) - Julius C. Block: Jeremias Falck. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Mit vollständigem alphabetischen und chronologischen Register sämmtlicher Blätter sowie Reproductionen nach des Künstlers besten Stichen.
 
 
Danzig, Leipzig, Wien, Carl Hinstorff’s Verlagsbuchhandlung (Gustav Ehrke), 1890. 4to. [vi] + 264 pp. + 12 plates incl. frontispiece.

Contemporary half cloth, very slight warping of covers, corners a little bumped and worn, a minute paper defect in gutter of title. Fine.

Contents: ”Das Leben und Werke des Kupferstechers Jeremias Falck”, ”Altes Testament”, ”Neues Testament”, ”Mythologie”, ”Gewerbliche Darstellungen”, ”Allegorische Darstellungen”, ”Genre”, ”Architectur und Plastik”, ”Büchertitel und Blätter zu einem Werk gehörig” and ”Portraits”. The catalogue raisonné lists 295 works.

”Jeremias Falck [c. 1609-1677], his Life and Work, with a Complete Alphabetical and Chronological Index as well as Reproductions of his Best Prints”, in German.

Jeremias Falck (also Jeremiah Falck in English, Jeremiasz Falck in Polish) was an engraver of the 17th century Baroque, born in Danzig (Gdansk). In 1639 he moved to Paris, and in 1649 he became Royal Swedish engraver for Queen Christina in Sweden until 1654, when she became a Catholic. He was the foremost engraver of Northern Europe in the 17th century. Among his most imporant work are 23 portraits of Queen Christina and her contemporaries.