Library of Zacharias von Uffenbach.

The Library of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (1683 - 1734).

Frankfurt

Engravings.

Another post in the occasional series of images of sculpture in other mediums.

c.1729 - 31.
Rijksmuseum



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Title page for: Bibliotheca Uffenbachiana Universalis. 

in 4 parts. Frankfurt am Main: Paul Heinrich Hort and Johann Balthasar Diehl, 1729-1731.

Etching

172 x 187 mm

Rijksmuseum.

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.618739

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Bookplate - The von Uffenbach Library.

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Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (1683 - 1734).

First half of the 18th.

Oil on metal 

28 x 22.5 cm.

http://www.senckenbergische-portraitsammlung.de/die-sammlung.html

The Frankfurt  Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (1683-1734) was a scholar, lawyer and local politician. He came from a distinguished family of lawyers, studied in Strasbourg and Halle.  In 1721 he became councilor and was 1727 and 1729 junior mayor. His real interest, however, was travelling throughout Europe and collecting as a connoisseur.

 At the beginning of the 18th century he had an imposing private library with over 12,000 volumes. 

 Zacharias was the older brother of Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach (1687-1769), who also held high offices in Frankfurt.

Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach.

engraving. 

247 x 184 mm.

late 17th - early 18th century.

Rijksmuseum.