1590 - 1591

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Source:

Title: Nova reperta. Plate 19: Sculptura in Aes (= The workshop of an Engraver).
Author: -
Publisher: Philips Galle
Printer: -
Illustrator: Jan van der Straet (Stradanus)
Engraver: Engraved by the Workshop of Philips Galle
Location: Antwerpen
Year: 1590 - 1591. Date according to Manfred Sellink.
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2]. [USTC].

Comments:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art states: ‘Designed by Jan van der Straet, engraved by the Workshop of Philips Galle’.

The British Museum adds: ‘Plated numbered 19. Lettered in margin, below image, with the title ‘SCVLPTVRA IN AES’ and two sentences in Latin: ‘Sculptor nova arte, bracteata in lamina’, ‘Scalpit figuras, atque praelis imprimit’.
Lettered within image at bottom: ‘Ioan.Stradanus invent.’ and ‘Phls. Galle excud’. This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries after Jan van der Straet.’

The illustration that is kept in the Plantin Moretus Museum and shown in Wikipedia has number 16 in the left-bottom corner, not 19.

Technique:

Engraving.

Publications

Gaskell, Roger (2004) ‘Printing House and Engraving Shop. A Mysterious Collaboration’. The Book Collector, 53, pp 213–51, plate 9

Gaskell, Roger (2019) ‘Hanckwitz’s Essay on Engraving and Copper-Plate Printing Rediscovered’. Journal of the Printing Historical Society, New Series, 30. pp 7–31, figure 8 and page 17 (note 24) with a different interpretation from Ad Stijnman’s 2010 Print quarterly publications article.

Lilien, Otto M. & Claus W. Gerhardt, (1978) Geschichte der Druckverfahren, Teil III; (Bibliothek des Buchwesens; vol. 5). Stuttgart: Hiersemann. (p. 256, fig. 19).

Meier, Henri (1941d) ‘The Origin of the Printing and Roller Press.’ Print Collector’s Quarterly, volume 28, no. 4 (Dec.), pp. 496-527. (Page 500).

Sellink, Manfred (2011) Stradanus 1523-1605. Court Artist of the Medici. Brepols Publishers.

Stijnman, Ad (2010) ‘Stradanus’s print shop.’ Print Quarterly Publications, Volume 27, no 1 (March 2010), pp 11-29.

Stijnman, Ad (2012) Engraving and Etching 1400-2000: A History of the Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking Process, London: Archetype; Houten: Hes & De Graaf. (figure 64)

Wolf, Hans Jürgen (1974) Geschichte der Druckpressen: ein illustriertes Handbuch mit einer ausfürhlichen Zeittafel. Frankfurt am Main: Interprint. (see page 233). (2nd edition 1981: Frankfurt a.M.: Deutscher Fachverlag.)

Wolf, Hans Jürgen (1990) Geschichte der graphischen Verfahren: Papier, Satz, Druck, Farbe, Photographie, soziales: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Technik. Dornstadt: Historia. ISBN-13: 978-3980025744] (see page 706).