Stridbeck (father and son)

Father and son mapmakers/editors/engravers/publishers of Augsburg. Their key map for this site: “Compendiosa POLONIÆ Repræsentatio…”, from their “Provinciarum Polonia Geog. Descriptio”, Augsburg, printed by J. Koppmeyer. It was supposedly the first atlas of Poland in small format. They also did map engraving for Augsburg publisher Gabriel Bodenehr, and when, first, the son died, and then the father two years later, in 1716, the Stridbeck plates were purchased by Bodenehr, who replaced the Stridbeck name under the left lower margin with his own. Bodenehr also changed the  title of the plate in some editions. On Bodenehr’s death, the Stridbeck plates passed on to Georg Christophe Kilian (1709–1780), another Augsburg engraver/publisher, who, in a number of atlases, including his “Kleiner Atlas” of 1757, retained the Bodenehr title in the cartouche, but removed Bodenehr’s name from under the left margin, and replaced it with his own. Died Augsburg.