F. A., Frans / Franz Allen ; he signed with "f allen" ;
1616
1685
Netherlands
astronomers Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671) & Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687): Johannis Hevelii Annus climactericus, sive Rerum uranicarum observationum annus quadragesimus nonus; exhibens diversas occultationes, tam planetarum, quàm fixarum post editam Machinam Cœlestem; nec non plurimas altitudines meridianas solis, ac distantias planetatum, fixarumque, eo anno, quousque divina concessit benignitas, impetratas : cum amicorum nonnullorum epistolis, ad rem istam spectantibus: & continuatione historiæ novæ stellæ in collo Ceti, ut & annotationum rerum coelestium ; Descriptio cometæ anno æræ Christ. M. DC. LXV (1665); Prodromus Cometicus, quo historia, cometæ anno 1664 exorti cursum, faciesq[ue] diversas Capitis ac caudæ accuratè delineatas complectens ; Adam Olearius: Offt begehrte Beschreibung Der Newen Orientalischen Reise (Schleswig 1647) ;
printer Simon Reiniger ; printer Ernst Müller ; printer Andreas Julius ;
astronomical and topographical copperplate engraving and painting ; portraiture ;
BNF: Recueil. Oeuvre de Frans Allen ;
ThB ; AKL ; Holger Borzikowsky et al.(ed.) Von allerhand Figuren & Abbildungen. Kupferstecher des 17. Jahrhunderts im Umkreis des Gottorfer Hofes (Husum 1981: 21 & 69) ;
F. A. was active in Amsterdam in 1647, from 1647 to 1652 probably in Lübeck, 1654-1685 in Danzig and also in Gottorf; a sample of his engravings is included as fig. 6.5 in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333086106_Chapter_6_Between_Word_and_Image_Representations_of_Shi%27ite_Rituals_in_the_Safavid_Empire_from_Early_Modern_European_Travel_Accounts/figures?lo=1.
Further Places of Activity: Germany and Denmark.
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