Please help me find the author and the date of engraving
 

Again I ask the head light to intervene. Solid mystery. In inete no hint of the author and portrayed. Premaxillary engraving. Sheet size 25,7 cm by 41,5 cm The size of the imprint on the facets 31cm to 19,8. Thin, grayish paper, such as Agate. Ie to the light and the vertical length between the short transverse lines, the structure of the watermark. My unprofessional assumptions: 1 Austria, Czech Republic, Germany?? 2 Judging from the nature of the wig and a simplified modeling of forms, lack of imitation of the material surface, as compared, for example with Wortmann, dare to sin at the end of 17 beginning 18. 3 Probably the shield in the center of the bottom, the documentary has a heraldic origin (?)
I'd love to hear the opinion of competent people: shy:

Joseph Vandalinus - name portrayed. Information about him only on sites in German and Polish languages. Try searching there.

vit I think the name of the engraver (bottom right) Simon Thade engraver (more of his titles) and the name of the city Cologne-a Cologne, Germany (sorry, this ends my knowledge of German), so refer to someone who knows German, they will be able to transfer more than I am.

vit so that your Josephus Vandalinus is referred to in this catalog of manuscripts, I think he military, (the electronic version here in Polish):


http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...= f & oq =

See Full text of "Katalog rukopisow: Oprac" (on my computer it freezes)

so that you remain with a translator all this to master, as his titles are written in my Latin well, and vobschem "poguglite" is not all that difficult, you just need to look.

Tana Thank you! Already did all the clearer. From dating to another: shy:

but here and there engraver: Simon Thade. Sonder-mayr graveur de S. A. S. E. de ...
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  Full text of "Bibliografia polska" (Stolecie XV-XVIII) (where specified period of 15 18vek, so I think your engraving no later than 18 th century):
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...h & meta =

also can not open it, can you get.

Tana also can not open it, can you get.

The same Tana, which is open snatches.
But I went through this 3 weeks ago. No change: (

vit, the forum is a great specialist in engraving, heraldry, military, etc. Wait until your engraving see Wladzislaw, and then read it and be surprised:)!

Simon Thaddeus Zondermayr (Simon Thaddäus Sondermayr) - draftsman, engraver and publisher of books. Born in Augsburg about 1700, was court engraver Elector of Cologne (kurkölnischer Hofkupferstecher). The main works performed during the period from 1725 to 1750 in Germany.

See website: www.bildindex.de/kue00280914.html

Information about him is not enough. There is mention of some of his published books and prints, which are dominated by different types of architectural structures.

Here:
http://www.virtuelles-kupferstichkab...4745b2cc905dc3
You can look at some of his prints.

vit, but where is your almost five meter engraving?

Thank you Aiiena and Amateur!
Scanner right now hastily pochtipyatimetrovyyofort fragments. Sew in Shope will not be long: D

Here 1 /6 part. Seems etched bar akvatinta. When skaniruesh with Max. bit. visible graininess typical of aquatint. He no facets and fields. Roll edakii.