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Fischer von Erlach’s Entwurff einer historischen Architectur 89 posts only after reconfirmation by his or her suc- cessor. The 1712 manuscript was certainly con- ceived to curry favor with the emperor as recon- firmation approached. It included seventy-four plates, as well as a descriptive text by Heraeus accompanying the first two books. Only sixteen plates would join this corpus in the published version. These added only twelve images to the content of the book, however, since several of the prints in the manuscript were not reused later. Most of these represent Fischer’s subsequent building projects, and cannot have been con- ceived as part of the project in 1712. The contents and structure were clearly described on the title page, demonstrating that the historical concept of the work was also clearly formulated at this point. The question, then, has been: what hap- pened in the ensuing nine years that caused such a delay in preparing the relatively small number of prints added to the published book? And, more generally, how did the project develop over this period? Some insight into this question is now pos- sible through an early version of the Entwurff sent by Heraeus to the Tessin family of architects and collectors in Stockholm.6 This volume was sent to Stockholm following the visit of Carl Gustaf Tessin, the son of the court architect, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, in Vienna in July 1718. While there, he met Fischer and became a regular corres pondent with Heraeus. He was well positioned to gain the favor of these men, for his father had almost certainly known both in the later seventeenth century. Tessin the Younger and Fischer had studied in Rome in the 1670s. Both young architects had worked in the series of overlapping circles around Bernini, Carlo Fontana, Queen Christina, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, and the Accademia di S. Luca (though the last is more difficult to describe for both men). Both, moreover, seem to have been part of the much smaller group of students who worked with Abraham Paris, a little-known instructor in draftsmanship in Rome. The friendship with Heraeus fell closer to home. Heraeus was raised in Stockholm, the son of a court apothecary to Dowager Queen Hedwig Eleonora, who pro- tected and promoted Tessin the Younger from an early age. The architect remembered Heraeus fondly when his son wrote home from Vienna of meeting him.7 Although Heraeus served as the main point of contact between Fischer and the Tessins, he was hardly the only prominent person in Vienna around 1700 to have come from the Stockholm court. The medalist Benedikt (or Bengt) Richter left Stockholm around 1700, going first to Berlin, and then settling in Vienna by 1713. Two years later he was named Ober- und Kammermedail- leur und Münz-Präg-Inspektor. This position held a natural relation to Heraeus’s own work as keeper of the imperial numismatic collec- tions, but it also brought him into contact with Fischer, whom he portrayed in a medal. (He also portrayed Heraeus in a medal.) A fellow medal maker from Stockholm, Daniel Warou, struck 6 The personal contacts and mechanisms through which this came about are discussed in detail in K. Neville, The Early Reception of Fischer von Erlach’s Entwurff einer historischen Architectur, in: Journal of the Society of Architec- tural historians 66, 2007, pp. 154–169. 7 For Fischer and Tessin in Rome, see E. Kieven, ’Il gran teatro del mondo.’ Nicodemus Tessin the Younger in Rome, in: Konsthistorisk tidskrift 72, 2003, pp. 4–15, as well as E. Kieven, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach und die zeitgenössische Architektenausbildung in Rom: Abraham Paris (Preiß/Preuss) und Nikodemus Tessin, in: Barock- berichte 50, 2008, pp. 279–290. See also G. Bonaccorso, Un atelier alternativo a quello di Carlo Fontana: la scuola del ‘misterioso’ Abraham Paris, in: Fagiolo/Bonaccorso, Studi sui Fontana (cit. n. 2), pp. 257–260. For Heraeus, see A. Hammarlund, Ett äventyr i staten. Carl Gustav Heraeus 1671–1725. Från Stockholm till kejsarhovet i Wien, Stockholm 2003 and A. Hammarlund, Entwurff einer historischen Topographie. Carl Gustav Heraeus auf dem Wege von Tessins Stockholm nach Fischers Wien. Bildungsgeschichte eines Konzeptverfassers, in: A. Kreul (ed.) Barock als Aufgabe, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 93–108.