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Last Name Custos (latinized Custodis )

Given Name Jacob

alt. Names J. C. ; Custo / latinized Jacobus Custodis ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1600 c. in Augsburg, Franconia, nowadays Germany

Year died 1643 or later

Place of death Augsburg?

Father's occupation engr. & painter ->Dominicus Custos (c.1560-1612)

Relatives engr. ->Raphael Custos /R. Custodis / R. C. (brother)

Education

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Joseph Furttenbach: Architectura Navalis (Augsburg 1629) ; Architectura martialis (Ulm 1630); Halintro-Pyrobolia. Beschreibung einer Büchsenmeisterey (1627) ; Büchsenmeisterey-Schul (1643) ; Architectura Civilis ; R. C.: Spiegel der Kunst und Natur in Alchymia (1663) ;

Patronage

Collaborators draughtsman ->Jacob Campanus & draughtsman ->Matthäus Rembold ; engraver ->R. Custodis (brother) on plates for various books by Furttenbach ; Augsburg based publisher Johann Schultes ;

Techniques botanical, architectural, and technical engraving ; 3D globe making

Sample(s) http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2100057w ; www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/image/144858960

Archival sources http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Furttenbach ; www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=127924

Published sources Detlef Karg: Nachwort, in: Joseph Furttenbach: Architectura Recreationis (Augsburg 1640; Reprint Berlin 1988): iii-xiii, esp. p. iv

other active as engraver & publisher in Augsburg.

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