About this artwork
Joannes Stradanus’s image of an intaglio print shop includes plate engravers, roller-press printers, and fresh impressions drying on ropes in the background. The legend Sculptura in Aes implies that the engraving is being done on copper plates. The print is the nineteenth image in the artist’s New Discoveries series, which also included the European arrival in the Americas and the invention of book printing.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Theodoor Galle
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Title
- The Invention of Copper Engraving, from Nova Reperta
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Place
- Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1586–1596
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Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 20.2 × 27.3 cm (8 × 10 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
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Reference Number
- 2009.668
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/200659/manifest.json