Johann Conrad Felsing
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John Calvin, dotted engraving by Felsing
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. He died at Darmstadt in 1819. He was the father of , a celebrated copper-plate printer, who died in 1875, and of Georg Jakob Felsing, the eminent engraver.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Felsing, Johann Konrad". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 485.
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- 1766 births
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- German engravers
- People from Giessen
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