WOLFF, J. heirs / WERNER, F. B. - Bamberg in Francken.

This is a spectacular panoramic view of Bamberg, with legends numbered from 1 to 24 in German. The title is in a banderol.
After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1776), who was born in Silesia, during his youth, he led a life of adventure, working as a military engineer and cartographer, traveling about as a quack doctor, working as an operator with a theatre in Prague, and translating librettos for a group of wandering comedians. But after his marriage in 1718 he began a new life and concentrated on developing his undeniable artistic and cartographic talents.

These skills brought him into contact with several leading art dealers and map publishers in Augsburg, most notably the heirs of Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724).
He began his series of large city views for Wolff's heirs in 1729, when he returned to Augsburg after a European tour. They commissioned further European tours in the 1730s to delineate the important cities and the architecture of the surrounding countryside.

These designs and impressions were published in series by several partners of the Wolff firm, primarily by Johann Friedrich Probst (1719 or 1721-1781), and later by his brother Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801).