(b Augsburg, 1717; d Augsburg, bur 12 May 1782). German engraver and draughtsman. He was the son of the ebonist and draughtsman Emanuel Eichel I (1690–1751) and a pupil of the engraver Johann Daniel Herz the elder (1693–1754). He was director and teacher in the drawing department of the Protestant Kollegium of St Anna in Augsburg. Eichel was a versatile, if not particularly original, engraver. His subjects included architecture, landscape, illustrations of historical subjects and saints, portraits, animals and ornament, usually after works by other artists but sometimes, particularly in the case of ornament, after his own designs. The engravings were mainly published by Augsburg firms: deserving of special mention are his engraved view of the organ by Johann Andreas Stein in the Barfüsserkirche, Augsburg (pubd by Johann Esaias Nilson), the print after G. M. Kraus’s copy of the Holbein portrait of Thomas More, illustrations in Thomas Permont’s Britische Tiergeschichten (pubd by Johann Elias Haid) and his own ornamental engravings (pubd mostly by Johann Georg Hertel).