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1550: Conrad Badius Click here to enlarge the image. Source:
Title: ‘Epistola del Vergerio, nella quale sono descritte molte cose della cità, et della Chiesa di Geneva’. Comments: Nigel Roche (2000, page 41) describes illustration M: ‘An oval within a rectangular frame shows a laterally-reversed image based on K. [= Badius 1548.] The motto around the oval reads ‘In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo’.’ (= ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread’, Genesis 3:19.). Technique: Woodcut. Publications Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 223-248. (Illustration 14). Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #M). |
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