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Nova Reperpta [New Inventions of the Modern Age] Plate 17: The Invention of the Polishing of Armour

Print
ca. 1591, 1637-1677
Artist/Maker
Van Der Straet, Jan (designer)
Collaert, Jan II (engraver)
Galle, Theodoor (publisher)
Place of origin
Antwerp (made)

Nova Reperpta [New Inventions of the Modern Age] Plate 17: The Invention of the Polishing of Armour

Object details

Object type
Print
TitleNova Reperpta [New Inventions of the Modern Age] Plate 17: The Invention of the Polishing of Armour (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Paper (Fiber Product)
Printing Ink
Engraving (Printing Process)
Brief description
Nova Reperpta [New Inventions of the Modern Age] Plate 17: The Invention of the Polishing of Armour
Dimensions
  • Height: 42cm (Note: Size of album)
  • Width: 56cm (Note: Size of album)
  • Depth: 3.2cm (Note: Size of album)
Marks and inscriptions
  • 18. (Inscribed in ink bottom right)
  • (In the address Ph[i]l[lip]s removed and replaced with Theodorus.)
  • gecott:13 Septb: 1753 (Inscribed in ink inside the back cover of the binding.)
    Translation
    ? Collated 13 September 1753
  • Nova Reperta & Alia (Lettered on the spine)
    Translation
    New Inventions of Modern Times & Other
Object history
Contained in an album with an early 18th-century Dutch binding, possibly from the 'Double Drawer Handle' bindery in Amsterdam (active 1697-1742?), see Jan Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, 2006, vol I, p.228
The album contains four sets of prints and two singletons with museum numbers E.1228-1267-1904.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Leesberg, Marjolein The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700: Johannes Stradanus Part III, Amsterdam, 2008. pp.5-25
  • Alessandra Baroni and Manfred Sellink, Stradanus, 1523-1605 : Court Artist of the Medici. Turnhout, Brepols, 2012, pp. 300-306
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1245-1904

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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