ohannIgnaz Albrecht (born c. 1759) was an Austrian engraver active from ca. 1789. He is listed as an engraver in the various Viennese Kommerzialschematismen until 1814. The "Verlassenschaftsabhandlungen" and the "Totenbeschauprotokolle" in the Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv reveal that two of Albrecht's children died in 1791 and a third died in 1796. During this period the residence of this "Kupferstecher" is given as "auf der Wieden No. 312." Albrecht engraved

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s, maps,

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, and numerous theater scenes for the multi-volume ''Theatralische Sammlung'' (Wien: Joh. Jos. Jahn) from c. 1789-1793. Some 184 of his engravings were published in two volumes as ''Das Deutsche Theater in Bildern'' in 1802. He also engraved the ''Allmanach für Theaterfreunde auf das Jahr 1791,'' the ''Atlas von Italien mit einem dazugehörigen nach A. F. Buschings grossen Erdbeschreibung geographischen Anhange'' in 1796, the ''Versuch über das Kostüm der vorzüglichsten Volker des Alterthums, des Mittelalter und der neuern Zeiten'' (3/1798), and Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz's ''Icones plantarum medico-oeconomico-technologicarum'', 1800--. Albrecht is often confused in the standard biographical literature with the Austrian illustrator, engraver, printer and publisher

Ignaz Alberti Ignaz Alberti (11 April 1760, in Vienna – 31 August 1794, in Vienna) was an Austrian illustrator, engraver and book printer. He employed some 20 engravers in 1787 who applied their skills to cartography and botanical books. After his death his ...

(1760-1794).

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, "Newly-identified Engravings of Scenes from

Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder (born Johann Joseph Schickeneder; 1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812) was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Mozart's opera ''Die Zauberflöte'' and was the builder of th ...

's Theater auf der Wieden 1789-1790 in the Allmanach für Theaterfreunde (1791)," in ''Theater am Hof und für das Volk. Beiträge zur vergleichenden Theater- und Kulturgeschichte. Festschrift für Otto G. Schindler zum 60.Geburtstag,'' ed. Brigitte Marschall. Vienna: Böhlau, 2002, 343-69. *

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, ''Die österreichische Kartographie im 18. Und zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts:'' Bd. Österreichische Karten des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1984, p. 107

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