Joseph Lanzedelly the Elder

He was born in Cortina d'Ampezzo (now in northern Italy), the son of a watchmaker. He studied at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, and from 1806 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.^[1][2] He became interested in lithography soon after the invention of the process, and had his early watercolour portraits printed by Adolph Friedrich Kunike.^[2]

Lanzedelly's work is regarded as influential in the spread of lithography in Vienna. He made genre prints, influenced by the work of English and particularly French engravers such as Philibert-Louis Debucourt, and he also produced portraits.^[2]

His sons Karl (1815–1865) and Joseph (1807–1879) were also lithographers.^[2]

Genre prints include Darstellungen gesellschaftlicher Spiele ("Representations of social games"), on six sheets; and Wiener Scenen ("Viennese scenes"), on 12 sheets.^[1] His lithographs can be seen in Vienna at the Albertina and at the Vienna Museum.^[2]