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Chapter 7376 Adam Zamoysky’ monograph on the Vienna Congress.18 Doubtless the house was internally redecorated and restructured by its later owners, but its basic structure probably did not change very much since Wlaschim’s interventions, and a photograph taken shortly before its demolition gives some impression of the results [Fig. 7.8].19 When it was built Strada’s house may have made quite a splash, but by this time it must have struck a very modest figure among the huge baroque palaces built by Fischer von Erlach and Lucas von Hildebrandt, many of which were illustrated in the Wahrhaffte und genaue Abbildung Aller Kirchen und Cloester der Keysserl: Burg und anderer Fuerstl. und Graeffl: Pallaeste<...>der Keysserl: Residenz-Statt Wien, a print series by Ioannes Corvinus after designs by Salo- mon Kleiner issued in five volumes between 1724 and 1737. Perhaps Kleiner included the Strada house in his view of the Liechtenstein palace opposite merely as a repoussoir, a foil to set off the greater splendour of Domenico Mar- tinelli’s masterpiece [Fig. 7.9]. 18 Zamoysky 2007, pp. 258 and passim. 19 Steinhausen’s plan 1710, in ÖNB, Kartensammlung AB 7 A 56, Blatt 17. The photograph should be used with caution, for the roofs may well have been refashioned after damage received in the siege by the Turks in 1683, when the brunt of the attack fell on the section of wall between Burgbastei and Löwelbastei. Figure 7.9 The former Strada house on the left, in Salomon Kleiner’s view of the Stadtpalais Liechtenstein in the Schenkenstrasse, engraving, 1725; Vienna., Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.