3763 - Michael Wening, Collection of Monastery Views

Michael Wening, Collection of Monastery Views five large-format copperplate engravings depicting St Nicolai Monastery in Passau from a bird’s-eye view; Vornbach Monastery on the River Inn; the Augustinian Canons’ Abbey at Herrenchiemsee; Tegernsee Abbey and Reichenberg Abbey, each featuring a scroll and coat of arms in the upper section, published in “Castles, Abbeys, Churches and Towns in Upper and Lower Bavaria...” , copperplate engravings from multiple plates, early 18th century, handmade paper composed of two sheets, beautiful, bold prints, well preserved for their age, identically framed under passe-partout and behind glass, passe-partout dimensions approx. 26 x 69 cm. Artist’s details: German copperplate engraver (1645 Nuremberg - 1718 Munich), active in Munich from 1666, initially a quartermaster at the Bavarian court, appointed court engraver to Elector Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria in 1669 and, in 1680, appointed porter of the electoral knights’ chamber; worked in Munich; source: Thieme-Becker and the internet.