Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, ca. 1780. Six engraved and originally hand-coloured oblong cards (9.5 x 14.2 cm).

Rare scenes, published by the Augsburger firm founded by and named after the German engraver, printer, and publisher Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756), the sole firm with a royal privilege to publish these dioramas or peep-shows. This one shows various activities in a vegetable garden. Rare. Another copy is present in the collection of the Deventer Museum, but as our copy, with a few elements missing. Our copy is without a woman with a wheelbarrow, but otherwise this is a very good, well-coloured copy. Plantingdiaries.com, Martin Engelbrecht’s Garden Dioramas.