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.[1]

Luyken worked mostly in Amsterdam, and produced Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") with his father in 1694.[2][3]

In 1699 he moved to Nuremberg to work with Christoph Weigel the Elder.[4] He stayed there until 1705.[1] He published his Gallery of Late 17th-century Costume there in 1703.[5] In 1708 Jan and Caspar Luyken illustrated Weigel's Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti Iconibus Representatae.[6]

  1. ^ a b "Caspar Luyken". British Museum. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  2. ^ Antal, Frederick (2022). Hogarth and his Place in European Art. Taylor & Francis. p. 143. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  3. ^ Payne, Christiana (2020). "Picturing Work". A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 42. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Publisher's Note". Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume: 100 Engravings. Courier Corporation. 2013. p. iii. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  5. ^ Beasley, Faith E. (2018). Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France. University of Toronto Press. p. 321. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  6. ^ Adam, Gottfried (2022). Thumb Bibles: The History of a Literary Genre. Brill. p. 92. Retrieved 13 September 2023.