Peter Schenk the Elder

Petrus Schenck, or Pieter, or Peter Schenk the Elder (baptized: 26 December 1660 – between 12 August and 17 November 1711) was a German engraver and cartographer active in Amsterdam and Leipzig. There he trained under the engraver and publisher Gerard Valck, specializing in mezzotint.

At about age 27, in 1687, Schenk married Agatha Valck, the sister of Gerard Valck. They had several children, including three sons, Peter Schenk the Younger, Jan Schenk, and Leonard Schenk. His eldest son, Peter Schenk the Younger, later continued his father’s shop in Leipzig. His daughter, Maria Schenk, married Leonard Valck, the son of Gerard Valck. Schenk was appointed as court artist in Dresden. He published numerous maps and a drawing of Saxonia. Continentis Italiae Pars Australior: Sive Regnum Neapolitanum; Hispaniae Obediens: Subdivisum In suos Districtus, Terras, Atque Principatus, Quibus adjectae Sicilia, In Valles tripartita et Contra Turcas ejus Propugnaculum Malta Insula - Amsterdam, ca. 1703. digitized by the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf Works by or about Peter Schenk in the catalog of the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek