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Leonard Meisters Helvetische Galerie grosser Männer und Thaten für die vaterländische Jugend

Meister, Leonhard, Schellenberg, Johann Rudolf · 1786 · bey David Bürkli · 28 pictures

Leonhard Meister's Helvetische Galerie is a 1786 Zurich book of engraved scenes of great Swiss men and deeds, published by David Bürkli for the young people of the fatherland, with plates after Johann Rudolf Schellenberg. The four pictures are etched historical tableaux of soldiers, executions, camps and a mounted officer among townsfolk, offering a designer compact crowd groupings, pikes and armour, and period costume in restrained line work.

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