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Kristoffer
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facing financial hardship, sold his library and
print collection to the Swedish crown. The small,
green collectors’ stamps incorporating the initials
“KM” in a circle demonstrate that the Entwurff
was in the Royal Museum (Kungliga Museet) in
the first half of the nineteenth century. This col-
lection formed the basis of the Nationalmuseum,
opened in 1866. In 1904 some of Tessin’s graphic
collections were transferred from the Royal Library
to the Nationalmuseum. The principles governing
the division of materials between these two institu-
tions are unclear, and it may be that the Entwurff,
as a bound volume, was moved to the library at
this time.13 It is now in the rare books collection of
the Swedish Royal Library in Stockholm.14
Although Carl Gustaf Tessin’s description
of the Entwurff suggests that the work was in principal complete by the summer of 1718, the
copy he received nineteen months later shows a
project in disarray. Because there is no title page
for Book Two, the first and second books run
together, disrupting the structural clarity of the
work. The prints in the first book are in the ap-
propriate order, but those in the following three
are not. Since Tessin’s 1718 description demon-
strates that the sequence was determined at this
point, this can perhaps be attributed to the bind-
er’s error. The plates in the first book have Ro-
man numerals in the upper right corner indicat-
ing the order; the plates in the subsequent books
do not, though this was changed before the 1721
edition was published. (One wonders if Fischer
and Heraeus were dismayed by the confusion of
the Stockholm copy, and revised the plates in this
13 P. Bjurström, Nationalmuseum 1792–1992, Stockholm 1992, pp. 18–21.
14 The copy of the Entwurff sent by Heraeus to the Tessins is in the Royal Library, Stockholm, SkK. Atl. Fol. 43.
2: Dedication to emperor Charles VI, Entwurff einer historischen Architectur, engraved by Johann Adam Delsenbach. c. 1712.
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- Title
- Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte
- Volume
- LIX
- Editor
- Bundesdenkmalamt Wien
- Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Wien
- Publisher
- Böhlau Verlag
- Location
- Wien
- Date
- 2011
- Language
- German, English
- License
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- ISBN
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- Size
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- Pages
- 280
- Keywords
- research, baroque art, methodology, modern art, medieval art, historiography, Baraock, Methodolgiem, Kunst, Wien
- Category
- Kunst und Kultur