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Johann Conrad Felsing

1766 – 1819

German engraver

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Lived 1766 – 1819 (aged 52–53). Johann Conrad Felsing was a German copper engraver and etcher.

Johann Conrad Felsing (1 March 1766 – 3 December 1819) was a German engraver.

Felsing was born at Giessen in 1766, and learned the elements of his art in Darmstadt. He engraved many portraits in the dotted manner, but was more particularly distinguished by his topographical works, of which the last and best was the military plan of Mayence of 1815. He died at Darmstadt in 1819. He was the father of Johann Heinrich Felsing, a celebrated copper-plate printer, who died in 1875, and of Georg Jakob Felsing, the eminent engraver.

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1766, Giessen
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Died
1819, Darmstadt
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German engraver

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Johann Conrad Felsing was born in 1766 in Giessen.

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Johann Conrad Felsing died in 1819 in Darmstadt.

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Johann Conrad Felsing was a copper engraver and etcher.

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Johann Conrad Felsing was German.

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· Wikipedia: Johann Conrad Felsing

· Wikidata: Q99597

· DBpedia: Johann Conrad Felsing

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