Vista of the City of Nuremberg with St. Leonhard in the Foreground

The engraver Johann Adam Delsenbach, who was born and died in Nuremberg, was famed most of all for his views of the Imperial City. His three-part masterpiece, the "Nürnberger Prospekte" of 1715, 1716 and 1725, conveys a sense of 18th-century Nuremberg with numerous views of the city's squares, buildings and vistas. Delsenbach also enlivened most of his engravings with diverse sprightly figures.