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Last Name Schenk

Given Name Pieter

alt. Names P. S. ; Peter / Petrus / Piet / Pieter Schenk / Schenck ;

Marriage

Children copper engraver and map-maker ->Pieter Schenck junior (1698 ?-1775)

Year born 1660 in Germany

Year died 1718 or 1719

Place of death

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for Cellarius: Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica (reprint 1708) ; [Tabul]a Hollandiae Borealis, Cognitae olim sub nomine Kennemariae et Westfrisiae ;

Patronage

Collaborators Amsterdam publisher & mezzotint engraver ->Gerard Valk: they purchased the original plates of the Cellarius atlas in 1694 & produced a new edition in 1708 of the Harmonia Macrocosmica without the extensive Latin text that had accompanied the original printings ;

Techniques astronomical, geographical, and topographical copperplate engraving ; cartographic map-making; ;

Sample(s) http://www.oldworldauctions.com/archives/detail/108-068.htm ;

Archival sources http://www.lib.umich.edu/divine-sky-artistry-astronomical-maps/atlases_work.html ;

Published sources Biographisch woordenboek van noord ... (1938) ;

other Dutch printmaker, born in Germany.

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