1649 Broadside with copper engraving, Zurich in Winter, scarce, Conrad Meyer, Switzerland

[Ansicht von Zürich im Winter] / C. M. fe.

Zürich, ab der BurgerBibliothec, 1649.

Etching.

14,6 x 23,9 cm. On large folio sheet.

Issued as a Neujahrsblatt and published by the Stadtbibliothek in Zürich; 1649.

In the foreground are children skating and tobogganing on the frozen lake shore; in the background a view of the city of Zurich. Music notes and a poem in letterpress below the etching

References:

Hollstein's German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, Bd. XXVII, Amsterdam 1980, S. 126, Nr. 204

Martina Sulmoni: "Einer Kunst- und Tugendliebenden Jugend verehrt": die Bild-Text-Kombinationen in den Neujahrsblättern der Burgerbibliothek Zürich von 1645 bis 1672, Bern 2007

Zürcher Neujahrsblätter, Zürich 1971, S. 3

Laid down on paper at time of publication. Minor marks here and there. Exceedingly rare.