Poster Impressio Librorum, der Buchdruck

Description

Poster: In a printer’s shop, various people seated to left, type setting, one with glasses checking printed text; at centre, a small boy stretching out to read a book; to right, a printing press and paper hanging out to dry.
Engraving. Nova Reperta: Invention of Book Printing (Impressio Librorum)
Plate 4. This plate illustrates the interior of a printer’s shop. Various figures sitting to left are type setting, one with glasses is checking printed text. In the centre a small boy is stretching out to read a book. To the right, a printing press is rendered accurately and paper is hanging out to dry – echoing the imagery on the fronticepiece of the Nova Reperta. In order to create such an accurate reproduction of a printer’s workshop it seems likely that Stradanus took the trouble to actually visit a printing or publishing house. Detailed knowledge of the skilled use of instrumentarium during the visual development of a particular concept or theme is deeply rooted in the art of Stradanus.

Inscriptions in Latin. In margin: ‘4. IMPRESSIO LIBRORUM.’, ‘Potest ut una vox capi aure plurima: Linunt ita una scripta mille paginas’. On image: ‘Ion.Stradanus Invent.’, ‘Phls. Galle excud.’.

Print on 100% cotton paper.

Size DinA4