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Last Name Freij / Frey
Given Name Jacob
alt. Names J. F. ; Johann Jakob Frey / the elder / Jacobus Freij / Giacomo ;
Marriage Maria Rosa Bonfigli in 1728
Children
Year born 1681 Hochdorf, Canton Lucerne, Switzerland
Year died 1752
Place of death Rome, Italy
Father's occupation wood engraver and cartwright Johann Heinrich Frey
Relatives Maria Elisabeth Schriber (mother) ; engraver N. N. (uncle)
Education apprentice engraver uncle and wood carving from father; Rome 1702; Arnold van Westerhout, Carlo Maratta at Acad de St-Luc
Country of Activity Italy
Worked for Michael Mercati (1541-93): Metallotheca (1717) & Appendix Metallothecam Vaticanam (1719) ;
Patronage Franz Joseph Meyer von Schauensee ;
Collaborators draftsman P. Bianchi ; draftsman P. Nelli ; engraver B. Farjat ; engraver L. Gomier ; engraver V. Franceschini ; engraver A. van Westerhout ; engraver C. Maratta ; artist and engraver G. D. Campiglia ; Anton Eisenhoit ;
Techniques mineralogical and technological engraving, etching, and drawing
Sample(s) http://www.minrec.org/libdetail.asp?id=948
Archival sources Bibliothèque centrale de Lucerne
Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 6638-39 ;
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