in  engraving  with  etching  by  Girard  Audran (4) + Gerard  Edelinck (1)  worked  brand-freshly  on 15 (not 16!) plates during  7  years  from  1672 to 1678 , here  in  the  first  printing  state each.

Dokumenting  the  stations

“Granicus, ancient name of a river of the landscape Troas (Troad) in north-western Asia Minor … There in May 334 B.C. Alexander the Great won his first victory over the Persians” (Meyers Convers.-Lex., 4^th ed., VII, 616).

Following Alexander after the battle of Issus 333 in the Tent of Darius (Edelinck) – The Battle of Arbel(l)a – The Triumph of Alexander or Alexander’s Entry into Babylon – Poros before Alexander

and praised by literature through the times as

(AKL 1992  and Thieme-Becker 1907 resp.)

Drop in time and again , to see , to learn more and more , and to marvel . Until finally the finishing touches are put to and a miracle of plasticity fills your eyes with tears .

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Ask also for Johann Elias Ridinger’s Alexander workgroup in drawing + etching/engraving setting standards 50 years later with the stations Siege + Conquest of Halicarnassus – First Tigris Crossing – Decision to return at the Indian Hyphasis as a Turning Point of History – Reckoning with the Alexander Campaign .

“ … and I wish to thank you for packing it so carefully … ”

(Mr. P. M., August 28, 2003)