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Last Name Fridrich

Given Name Jacob Andreas

alt. Names J. A. F. J. A. / I. A. Fridrich the Elder ;

Marriage

Children at least 2 sons: Bernhard Gottlieb Fridrich (1710- after 1785 ?) & ->Jacob Andreas Fridrich the Younger (1714-1779) both also copper engr.

Year born 1684 or 1683 in Nuremberg

Year died 1751

Place of death Augsburg

Father's occupation merchant in Augsburg

Relatives

Education taught by Christoph Weigel the Elder (1654-1725)

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Jakob Christian Schaeffer (1718-1790 ) ; Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733): Physica Sacra (Kupferbibel) (Augsburg 1731-35, 113 plates in 4 vols.) ;

Patronage

Collaborators draughtsman >-Johann Daniel Preißler, draughtsman Johann Melchior Füssli & Johann Christoph Steinberger for Scheuchzer's Physica Sacra ; Johann August Corvinus ; Philipp Andreas Kilian ; Hieronymus Sperling ;

Techniques topographical, natural, botanical, zoological, anatomical, and ornamental copperplate engraving and etching ;

Sample(s) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jacob_Andreas_Fridrich ;

Archival sources www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/JOM_143a_0155-0164.pdf ; http://personen.digitale-sammlungen.de/pnd/bsb00000273_00256-00.html ;

Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Hans Krauss: Berühmte Bilder zur Menschheitsgeschichte aus Scheuchzers Physica Sacra (Konstanz 1984: 10-11, 16ff. & 243ff.) ; Irmgard Müsch in Wahrnehmung der Natur (Dresden 2001: 101) ;

other See also http://personen.digitale-sammlungen.de/pnd/bsb00000273_00256-00.html ; http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/structure/2962697.

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