Caspar Luyken
Caspar Luyken (18 December 1672 – 4 October 1708) was a Dutch illustrator and engraver. He was the son of Jan Luyken, with whom he collaborated extensively. Luyken worked mostly in Amsterdam and produced Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") with his father in 1694.
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Caspar Luyken
![The battle of Wittstock, 1636: the Swedish army and its allies fighting against the forces of Saxony and the Empire. Etching by Caspar Luyken, 1698., [1698], by Caspar Luyken](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0041593/full/1280,/0/default.jpg)
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- Born
- 1672 · Amsterdam.
- Died
- 1708 · Amsterdam.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- engraver · draftsperson · graphic artist · illustrator · etcher · publisher · map drawer
- Languages
- Dutch
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Caspar Luyken (18 December 1672 – 4 October 1708) was a Dutch illustrator and engraver. He was the son of Jan Luyken, with whom he collaborated extensively. Luyken worked mostly in Amsterdam and produced Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") with his father in 1694.
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In 1699, he moved to Nuremberg to work with Christoph Weigel the Elder. He stayed there until 1705. He published his Gallery of Late 17th-century Costume there in 1703. In 1708, Jan and Caspar Luyken illustrated Weigel's Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti Iconibus Representatae.
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1672
Caspar Luyken born at Amsterdam.
1698
The battle of Wittstock, 1636: the Swedish army and its allies fighting against the forces of Saxony and the Empire. Etching by Caspar Luyken, 1698. (Wellcome Collection).
1708
Caspar Luyken died at Amsterdam.
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- 1.British Museum. Caspar Luyken.
- 2.Antal, Frederick. Hogarth and his Place in European Art. Taylor & Francis. 143. 2022.
- 3.Payne, Christiana. A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment. Bloomsbury Publishing. 42. 2020.
- 4.Courier Corporation. Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume: 100 Engravings. iii. 2013.
- 5.Beasley, Faith E. Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France. University of Toronto Press. 321. 2018.
- 6.Adam, Gottfried. Thumb Bibles: The History of a Literary Genre. Brill. 92. 2022.
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