1613

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Source:

Title: Theatri Machinarum ... Theill. Sampt ihren zugehörigen Visirungen. Sampt ihren zugehörigen Visirungen.
Author: Heinrich Zeissing
Translator: Hieronymus Megiser
Publisher: -
Printer: Henning Grosse
Illustrator: Andreas Bretschneider (?)
Engraver: Henning Grosse (?)
Location: Leipzig
Year: 1613
Links: [Scan], [Scan]. [USTC].

Comments:

The illustration appears in the fourth volume.

Ad Stijnman (2018): ‘[Zonca’s] depiction of a roller press for printing engravings ... was copied ... by the German Heinrich Zeissing in the second edition of part three of his Theatri machinarum (Leipzig, 1613), a book on engineering, enlarging the scene in his illustration and dressing the people depicted in local, contemporary fashion.’

Technique:

Gravure

Publications

Meier, Henri (1941d) ‘The Origin of the Printing and Roller Press.’ Print Collector’s Quarterly, volume 28, no. 4 (Dec.), pp. 496-527. (See no. 4, page 504).

Stijnman, Ad (2012) Engraving and Etching 1400-2000: A History of the Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking Process, London: Archetype; Houten: Hes & De Graaf. (Page 284, figure 225; for the editions of the German translations after Zonca see pp. 568–570, nos. 368.8–12, 15).

Ad Stijnman (2018) ‘The Art Technological Source Research Working Group (ATSR) and the Dissemination of Information on Art Technology’, dans Claire Betelu, Anne Servais, Cécile Parmentier (dir.) Contribution à une histoire technologique de l’art, actes de journées d’étude de la composante de recherche PBC, Paris, INHA, site de l’HiCSA, mis en ligne en septembre 2018, p. 117-129. [pdf]