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Last Name Bock

Given Name Johann Carl

alt. Names J. C. B. ; Bock the Younger / Johann Karl Bock ;

Marriage Sophia Helena Grasser (17xx-18xx) in 1786 ;

Children

Year born 1757 in Nuremberg

Year died 1843

Place of death Nuremberg

Father's occupation master of ceremonies of the town of Nuremberg, Johann Carl Bock the Elder

Relatives engraver Johann Christoph Bock (1752-1830) (brother) ; engraver Christoph Wilhelm Bock (1754 or 1755-1835) (brother) ; ...

Education Royal Military Academy (Belgium) in City of Brussels ;

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Johann Wolf: Vögel Deutschlands (1805) ; Eugen Johann Christoph Esper (1742-1810): Schmetterlinge (1777-1839) ; Justus Christian (von) Loder (1753-1832): Anatomische Tafeln (1794-1803) ; Georg Franz Hoffmann (1761-1826) ; Carl Lang: Geschichtliche Denkwürdigkeiten Natur (1813-15) ; Martinus Houttuyn (1720-1798) ; Joseph Jean François, count de Ferraris (1726-1814): Ferraris map or map of the Austrian Netherlands (City of Brussels, 1770 and 1778) ;

Patronage Friedrich Justin Bertuch ; Malerakademie Nürnberg since 1792 ;

Collaborators engraver -> Christoph Wilhelm Bock (1754-1830) (brother) ;

Techniques cartographical, anatomical, natural, botanical, entomological, and ornithological, and historical copperplate engraving, stipple engraving, etching, .

Sample(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferraris_map ;

Archival sources

Published sources NKL ; AKL 12 1996: 44 ; ThB 4 1910: 159 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Choulant 1920: 326 ; Regenspurger & Heinstein 2003: 255 & 269 ; Ludwig: Malerei 1998 ;

other 1783-1806 listed Nürnberg engraver. Further Places of Activity: Belgium and the Netherlands. One of Loder's main engravers.

Further relative: town employee Stadtknecht Johann Grasser (father-in-law) .

Further Place of Activity: Belgium.

Further techniques: drawing ; portraiture,

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