Caspar Luyken
Dutch illustrator and engraver (1672–1708)
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Caspar Luyken (18 December 1672 – 4 October 1708) was a Dutch illustrator and engraver. He was the son of Jan Luyken, with whom he collaborated extensively.[1]
Luyken worked mostly in Amsterdam and produced Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") with his father in 1694.[2][3]
In 1699, he moved to Nuremberg to work with Christoph Weigel the Elder.[4] He stayed there until 1705.[1] He published his Gallery of Late 17th-century Costume there in 1703.[5] In 1708, Jan and Caspar Luyken illustrated Weigel's Historiae Celebriores Veteris Testamenti Iconibus Representatae.[6]
