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   Meyer
   Conrad
   C. M. ; Meyer the Elder / Conradus Meyerus / Cunrad Meier ;
   
   painter and engraver Johannes Meyer (1655-1712): http://viaf.org/viaf/35791037 ;
   1618 in Zurich
   1689
   Zurich
   
   
   student of Matthäus Merian (1593-1650)
   Switzerland
   map of Switzerland by Conrad Gyger (1657) ; Planisphaerium Coeleste (1681) ; Hans Jakob Ammann: Reiss in das Gelobte Land (1678) ; Helvetiae Rhaetiae et Valesiae, caeterorumque confoederatorum ut & finitimorum populorum tabula geographica et hydrographica nova & exacta (1683) ; Amsterdam explorer Jan Hackaert with whom C.M. made an expedition into the high alps (Glarnerland) in 1655
   
   
   astronomical, geographic & topographic painting & copper-engraving; astrographic & cartographic map-making; also portraiture, landscape-painting
   http://blogs.ethz.ch/digital-collections/2008/12/01/conrad-meyer-planisphaerium-coeleste-zurich-1681/
   www.worldcat.org/identities/np-meyer,%20conrad$maler%20kupferstecher$1618%201689 ; www.zb.uzh.ch/ausstellungen/exponat/009492/
   ADB 21 1885: 609 ; www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz62749.html ;
   Successful as a painter of portrait and landscapes, but later specialized on copper engraving, producing more than a thousand works; for more samples of his work cf. also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Meyer_(painter)
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