1621

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Source:

Title: Serenissimorum Saxoniae Electorum, Et Quorundam Ducum Agnatorum genuinae effigies .
Author: Wolfgang Kilian (Wolfgango Kiliano)
Publisher: Wolfgang Kilian
Printer: Augsburg, Wolfgang Kilian [et] Sara Mangs
Illustrator: -
Engraver: Wolfgang Kilian
Location: Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburg)
Year: 1621 (Illustration used between 1621 and 1629)
Links: [1921 Scan 1], [1623 Scan 2], [1629 Scan 3], [1629 Scan 4], [Scan 5], [USTC].

Comments:

‘Labor omnia vincit’ (= Work conquers all). The phrase is adapted from Virgil's Georgics, Book I, line 145–6: ...Labor omnia vincit / improbus (= Steady work overcame all things).

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. (Page 508).

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 78)

Wolf, Hans Jürgen (1974) Geschichte der Druckpressen: ein illustriertes Handbuch mit einer ausfürhlichen Zeittafel. Frankfurt am Main: Interprint. (page 224) (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] (Page 722).