Title: "View of Gdansk: Artus Court (Stock Exchange). (7007)"
Author: Friedrich Leonhard Meyer
Item description:
Notes: Preserved entire sheet. The engraving was not accompanied by text. The table of contents of the semiannual does not specify the author of the drawing according to which the engraving was made. Foreign engraving according to a foreign drawing
About the author: Friedrich Leonhard Meyer (17.06.1842 Braunschweig - ?) German wood engraver, also copper engraver and etcher, pupil of J. L. Raab in Munich, where he settled from 1873; see ThB vol. 24 s. 473, Benezit vol. 9 p. 559 and Hanebutt-Benz 1984 break 1104
Literature: Grajewski 1972 item 21751; compare also: Gdansk and surroundings p. 220 item 293
Additional information:
Condition:
Item in very nice condition, minor publisher's flaw (possibly a secondary stain) in the lower right corner
Grading of state of preservation:
- perfect condition: (6) no flaws, no signs of use, like new
- very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
- nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
- quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
- more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), quite insignificant, not very significant defects
- at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
- good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
- less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
- more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
- at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), quite poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
- Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct
The evaluation of the state of preservation and some other elements of the description have some characteristics of subjectivity, but we make them with our best knowledge and the greatest possible reliability, if in doubt, please refer to the scan of the object or contact us.
