1595: Jan van der Straet (Stradanus)

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Source:

Royal Trust Collection, UK.
[Scan].

Comments:

The Royal Trust Collection states: ‘A drawing of a scene within a printing shop, with a screw press being turned on the left, type-setting in progress on the right, and inking in the background. An apprentice lays out newly printed proofs on a table in the centre foreground, while the master printer views the scene on the left. Guttenberg is shown at work in the spandrel, upper left.
Signed lower centre: Ioannes Stradan; inscribed upper left (on the capital): Io: Guttem / bergius / Argenti / nensis / Moguntie / 1440 / Sigilla; and on the arch Sigilla fumus atra paginae imprimens / Librum dat usque mille milliu / agmina. This is a preparatory study for the engraving, in reverse, by Hans Collaert for the Nova Reperta, plate 4 (RCIN 808378).’

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Source:

Cooper Hewitt, USA. [Scan].

Comments:

The caption states: ‘This is a Drawing. It was created by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus and collaborator: Luigi Alamanni. It is dated ca. 1590 and we acquired it in 1901.’

Technique:

Its medium is pen and brown ink, black chalk, brush and gray and brown wash on laid white paper.

Publications

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