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English Abstract PDF A Stock of Inventions When the Swiss draughtsman and painter Wilhelm Stettler (1643–1708) found himself without employment after returning from Strasbourg and Augsburg to his hometown of Bern in 1668, he began to build up a stock of figural inventions for future use in history works. Stettler referred to this moment of forced idleness in his autobiography written toward the end of his life, stating that the Bern antiquarian Andreas Morell’s “ancient medals and bo...