A so-called optical print of Fatahillah Square in Jakarta, Indonesia, prepared for use in a light-box or an amusing light-show. This richly hand colored print is much perforated, windows are cut out, and then a thin transparent paper is mounted at the back and tipped with color over the perforations.
A view of present-day Fatahillah Square in Jakarta. The Raadhuis - headquarters of the V.O.C.- now-a-days the Jakarta museum - is clearly visible in the centre of this print.
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Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801)

Probst is wel-known for his optical prints and panoramas of European cities. Probst belonged to an extended Augsburg family of printers, whose businesses can all be traced back to the publishing firm of Jeremias Wolff (1663–1724). Wolff’s firm passed to his son-in-law Johann Balthasar Probst (1689–1750), who was Georg Balthasar’s father.
After Johann Balthasar’s death in 1750, his descendants divided the business and published under their own imprints. These were Johann Friedrich Probst (1721–1781), Georg Balthasar Probst (1732–1801) and Johann Michael Probst. Another part of the Wolff–Probst stock went to the Augsburg publisher Johann Georg Hertel (1700–1775), whose son Georg Leopold Hertel had married a sister of the Probsts. In the next generation, Georg Matthäus Probst (d. 1788), Georg Balthasar’s son, also became an engraver of portraits and views.
Not to confused with Johann Michael Probst (1727–1776), who shared the Seutter plates with Tobias Conrad Lotter.




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