Klauber Catholici (Augsburg publishing house 1740 – c. 1840).
Christ crucified, in the lower two thirds surrounded by the Holy Men & Women with their symbols, above the Trinity together with the heavenly host. Dominating on the left the symbol of the Jesuits, here the heart both burning as also with the Crown of Thorns, above I(esus) H(ominum) S(alvator). Engraving. Supposedly 18th century. Inscribed: C.P.S.C.M. (privilege) / Klauber Cath. Sc. et exc. A.V. / Fidelis Deus per quem vocati estis i Societatem Filii ejus Iesu Christi Domini nostri. 1. Cor. 1, V. 9. 40 x 27.4 cm.
By its design not attributable to the several large sets of the publishing house supposedly still from the aegis of the brothers Joseph Sebastian & Johann Baptist Klauber (c. 1700 and 1712 resp. – 1768 and after 1787 resp.) in an impression from about 1800 with watermark Ravensburg. – The inscription Klauber Catholici refers to the rather unique position of the two Klaubers and their successors as deliberately catholic enterprise as against the in their majority Protestant Augsburg engraver-publishers. – Paled stamp at the back.
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