Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Impressio Librorum // [The Invention of Book Printing].
Call Number
E East 51/GC090/Box 02/Normal/Artists F-R GA 2006.01923
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc0z709927t
Publisher
Antwerp : [s.n.], 1600.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1600
Extent
1 item ; sheet 21.5 x 27.8 cm.
References
New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Johannes Stradanus, Part III, 2008, p. 5
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings
Item description: This print was actually executed by Theodore Galle of Antwerp, pupil of Philip Galle, his father. The print is part of a collection depicting discoveries and inventions, including this composing room.
Signed in plate, lower right: "Ioan. Stradanus invent.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Phls Galle execud.".
Depiction: Stradanus' printing office.
The title can be translated from the Latin: The printing of books. As one sound can be taken in by many ears, so single type compositions impress a thousand pages.

Discovery Information

Subject
Printing industry—Flanders—16th century—In art
Printers and printing—Flanders—16th century—In art
Printing presses—Flanders—History—16th century—In art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7d2dd761-4ed6-47ea-9392-ac111cd69c1c/manifest