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Last Name Artaria

Given Name Francesco

alt. Names F. A. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1744 ?in Blevio, Lake Como, Italy?

Year died 1808

Place of death Vienna

Father's occupation engraver & publ. Giovanni Casimiro (1725–1797) in Mainz

Relatives Maria Moissi (1662–1747) (aunt) ; art-dealer Cesare Timoteo Artaria (1706-1785) (uncle) ; cousin ->Carlo Artaria (1747-1808)

Education trained in engr. at his father's printing-house in Mainz

Country of Activity Austria

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Techniques cartographical, topographical, and historical engraving ; map-making ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) www.wien-vienna.at/kunst.php?ID=1756 ;

Archival sources www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz1386.html ;

Published sources NDB ; Johannes Dörflinger: Times & cost of copperplate engraving illustrations by maps from the Viennese firm Artaria & Co., in: Imago et Mensura Mundi 1985: 213-219 ;

other born in Blevio, Lake Como, Italy?, but active in Vienna, where C. A. & his cousin opened a engraving shop Artaria & Co. in 1770.

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