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Last Name Albrecht

Given Name Johann Ignaz

alt. Names J. I. A. ; he signed "J. Albrecht"

Marriage

Children two of Albrecht's children died in 1791 and a third died in 1796 ;

Year born 1760 in Vienna

Year died 1810 or later

Place of death Vienna ?

Father's occupation

Relatives not to be mixed up with copper engr. Ignaz Alberti (1760-1794)

Education

Country of Activity Austria

Worked for Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz: Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum (1800-22) ; Atlas von Italien mit einem dazugehörigen nach A. F. Buschings grossen Erdbeschreibung geographischen Anhange (1796) ;

Patronage

Collaborators Schrämbl’s Publishing House, Vienna ;

Techniques botanical painting, drawing, and engraving ; geographical and cartographical map-making ;

Sample(s) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28889#page/1/mode/thumb ;

Archival sources http://www.histpharm.org/40ishpBerlin/L39P.pdf ;

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Escardó 2022: 130f. ;

other Austrian engraver active from ca. 1789, 1810 mentioned as house owner in Vösendorf near Vienna; not to be mixed up w. Ignaz_Alberti ;also known for maps; had his own Workshop; instrumental in preparing, printing, publ. of many natural history vols.

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