Georg Balthasar Probst "Prospectus pontis fluvio Albi Dresda ". 1770. Georg Balthasar Probst1732 probably Augsburg - 1801 ibid. Bernardo Bellotto, gen. Canaletto1720 Venice - 1780 Warsaw Copper engraving, coloured, on cloudy paper, mounted on cardboard. Peep-box sheet. Titled in Latin and Italian in the plate below the image. In the sky engraved holes as a starry sky and a cut out crescent moon. In passepartout. After a painting by Bernardo Bellotto from 1748, Gemälde Galerie Dresden, gal. no. 606. Creased, browned and wavy. Margins soiled and rubbed. Lead white partly oxidized (footer). The lower two lines of writing trimmed and without the titling in French and German. Psp. yellowed. Dimensions: fig. 27 x 39 cm, sheet 29.5 x 41.5 cm, psp. 50 x 60 cm. Georg Balthasar Probst 1732 probably Augsburg - 1801 ibid. Portrait and veduta engraver from a publishing family rich in tradition. From 1766 onwards, he included peep-box sheets in his programme and created at least 340 sheets by 1790. As the multilingual captions prove, Probst aimed at a Europe-wide sale of his sheets. Almost all of his engravings bear the imperial protective privilege "Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Majest." or abbreviated "C.P.S.C.M.".