Zweytes Königliches Lust Haufs
Augsburg: Jeremias Wolff, early 18th century. Folio. Original hand-colored copperplate engraving, plate 31, engraved by Joh. Georg Schmidt after Paul Decker. Inscribed lower left: P. Decker inv. et fec. / Cum Priv. S. C. Maj.; lower right: Joh. Georg Schmidt Sculps. 31 / Ieremias Wolff excud. Aug. Vind.
Mild toning to margins; two fold lines across the sheet. Impression clean.
From Decker's Fürstlicher Baumeister, the influential Baroque architectural treatise first published in 1711. The plate depicts an idealized royal pleasure palace in the grand Baroque manner, with fountain courtyard, statuary, and figures in period dress. Decker (1677–1713) was court architect in Berlin and a leading theorist of German Baroque architecture.
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