Jan van de Velde II (c.1593-1641), after Jansz. Pieter Saenredam (1597-1665)
[Antique print, etching] The book printer’s workshop, published 1628.
Interior of the workshop of a book printer.
In the background a man seated, shoulders towards the viewer, is working at the boxes containing the types; in the middle of the composition the press and in the foreground the master piling the printed sheets on a table.
Inscribed above: ‘Bockdruckeye te Haarlem gevonden ontrent het Jaer 1440’; and on the bottom: ‘Ovat is de Druckery een konst… snoert den mond.’
Signed on the bottom: ‘P. Zanredam jnuent. / J. v. Velde Sculpsit.’; used as illustration in Samuel Ampzing’s: ‘Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland […]’ published by Adriaen Roman in Haarlem in 1628.
€ 423,50 (€ 350,00 ex. btw)