A digital catalogue of the print and drawing collection of the Tyrolean regional historian – from Albrecht Dürer to the Baroque masters of Tyrol.
Browse the collection →Anton Roschmann (1694–1760) was one of the most important scholars of 18th-century Tyrol.
Born in Hall in Tyrol and died in Innsbruck, he is regarded as the founder and first director of the Innsbruck University Library and as the "father of Tyrolean archaeology." In 134 known works, mostly in Latin, he addressed history, antiquities, epigraphy, numismatics, geography, and art and church history.
The print collection catalogued here gathers engravings, woodcuts, etchings and drawings that Roschmann collected and systematically ordered. It opens with a dedicated group of sheets by Albrecht Dürer; further volumes unite works by Tyrolean and Italian masters.
This catalogue makes the collection fully searchable online for the first time – with the original titles, measurements and attributions. Read the full history →
Techniques: engraving · woodcut · etching · pen and pencil drawing · washed sheets
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Many titles and attributions carry a "(?)". This mark is not an error but part of the original scholarly cataloguing: it indicates an uncertain attribution or an unconfirmed title – cases where the artist, subject or name could not be firmly established.
These notes have been preserved verbatim to keep the historical state of research intact.
Note: image quality varies between volumes, as the originals were digitised at different times. Every sheet can be freely zoomed in its detail view.