Buzási Enikő szerk.: In Europe' Princely Courts, Ádám Mányoki, Actors and venues of a portraitist's career (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2003/1)

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77. 77. LETTER OF ÁDÁM MÁNYOKI TO PÁL RÁDAY Leipzig, 3 May 1732. Budapest, Rádav Collection of the Calvinist Diocese of the Danube Region, Archives, IVc/2-1. no. 499. 78. DEED OF GIFT ISSUED BY THE PALATINE COUNT MIKLÓS PÁLFFY TO ÁDÁM AND SÁMUEL MÁNYOKI for the donation of the village of Pöstény and the Fogacs manor in Nógrád County. Copy of the deed in the protocol of the palatine's office. Pressburg, 21 January 1730. Paper, leather bound; 40x29,5 cm Budapest, Hungarian National Archives, Hungarian Chancellery Archives, A 119, Donationes palatinales, vol. 2. 79. LAST WILL OF SÁMUEL MÁNYOKI WITH A LIST OF THE "CLENODIA" OF ÁDÁM MÁNYOKI Tahitótfalu, 4 September 1734. paper, 33x20,5 cm Budapest, Hungarian National Archives, Post advocatos, O 69, Fasc. 20. No. 104. IN THE DRESDEN COURT OF AUGUSTUS HI, KING OF POLAND AND ELECTOR OF SAXONY 80. AUGUSTUS III, KING OF POLAND AND ELECTOR OF SAXONY (1696-1763) Son of Augustus II, elector of Saxony and Christiane Eberhardine, duchess of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He went on a "Grand Tour" of Europe in 1711-1719, during which he secretly adopted the Catholic faith in Bologna in 1712. He married Maria Josepha of the Habsburg house, daughter of Emperor Joseph I, in 1719. After his father's death he became elector of Saxony and king of Poland in 1733. His acquisitions of paintings laid the foundations for the subsequent prominence of the Dresden gallery. Andrea Zucchi (1679-1740) and Lorenzo Zucchi (1704-1779) After the portrait by Adám Mányoki painted in 1734, 1736? Engraving; mixed technique, 534x390 mm (plate size) Signed: "A. de Mányoki Pict:r R: pinx. - A. Zucchi excudit Dresdae cum Privil: S. R. Mtis. - L. Zucchi sculpr. R. sculp." Insciption around the coat of arms of the Polish king and Saxon elector: "Augustus III. Rex Poloniarum Elector Saxoniae" Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. no.: L. 18.817