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work. Resen probably published them himself in order to
demonstrate that at least part of his enormous material
was completed. The engravings were done by Johan Huus-
man. In this exhibition the work is represented by six en
gravings, (cat. nos.
2
,
5
,
9
,
1 5
,
1 6
,
1 7
, and
1 8
).
15 1
CHRISTOPH MARSELIS:
VORSTELLUNG DER REMARQABELSTEN
PROSPECTEN IN DENEMARKEN,
AUGSBURG c.
17 2 0
Marselis worked as Royal master builder in Copenhagen
1703
-
1 9
. Before he left the country he had done six pic
tures with motifs from Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Frede
riksborg, and the Sound. They were published in Augs
burg c.
17 2 0
by Jeremias W o lff and were engraved by Johan
August Corvinus. This exhibition shows the three views
of Copenhagen (cat. nos.
2 6
,
2 7
, and
28
). A new edition
of the work was issued in Copenhagen
19 6 5
with a fore
word by Harald Langberg.
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JACOB FOSIE:
LÆRE-KLUDE ETC., COPENHAGEN 174 1-43
Fosie was the drawing master at the naval and land cadet
college, and his book, Lære-klude ("teaching-rags") was
written as an introduction to the technique of etching,
which he rightly considered a neglected art form in Den
mark. Besides Fosie's text the book has
56
etchings done
by his pupils.
10
of them have motifs from Copenhagen,
in this exhibition cat. nos.
3 4
,
3 8
, and
39
can be seen,
while cat. no.
35
is the prepatory drawing for this work.
2
53 LAURITZ DE THUR AH :
DEN DANSKE VITRUV IUS I, COPENHAGEN
17 4 6
Court master builder Thurah's folio was originally sup
posed to have been in two volumes, one of which was
devoted to the stately buildings in Copenhagen, the other
the Royal palaces and other remarkable buildings from
elsewhere in the kingdom. It was published in
1 7 4 9
. Thu
rah's text accompanying the plates is written in Danish,
French, and German. Volume I has
120
engraved plates,
of which the major part consists of elevations, ground
plans, and architectural details. In order to make the work
more appealing to the public,
12
views of the city were
inserted, of which four are included in this exhibition, i.e.,
cat. nos.
4 5
,
46
,
4 7
, and
48
, while cat. nos.
43
and
44
are
Johan Jacob Bruun's drawings for the work. A new edition
with an afterword and supplementary information about
the building history by Hakon Lund, was issued in Copen
hagen
19 6 6
. On that occasion volume II was published,
and the following year followed volume III, which had
until then only existed in manuscript (cat. no.
79
).
15 4
BARTHOLOMÆUS ROQUE:
DANNEMARKS FORLYSTELSE,
COPENHAGEN
1 7 4 7
17 3 9
the Swiss Bartholomæus Roque arrived in Copen
hagen, and the same year he engraved the beautiful view
of the Dock, cat. no.
3 2
. He ambitiously planned a work
which was to show all the kingdom with a description of
buildings, transport, principal branches of trade, customs,
maps, and a lot of other things. However only this little
book came out of it all, including four engraved views, of
which three are of Copenhagen. Two of these can be seen
in this exhibition, cat. nos.
52
and
5 3
. The book exists in a
Danish as well as a French edition. It was re-issued with
an introduction by Julius Clausen, Copenhagen
19 4 0
.
15 5
LAURITZ DE THURAH :
HAFNIA HODIERNA, COPENHAGEN
174 8
Like the first volume of Vitruvius published in
1 7 4 6
, the
text of Hafnia Hodierna is in three languages. W ith a few
exceptions the views are identical, Hafnia Hodierna lack
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