The Invention of Copper Engraving, from Nova Reperta
Theodoor Galle
1586–1596
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 20.2 × 27.3 cm (8 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- engraving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engravingprintprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
