print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1904,0206.103.21
- Title
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Object: Chartarius. Der Papyrer. (The Paper Maker)
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Series: Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum ... (Book of Trades)
- Description
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One of 133 woodcut book-illustrations, showing an interior of a paper mill, in the foreground a man standing next to a pulp-filled tub, holding a framed screen, in the foreground a boy carrying a sheets of paper, in the background on the right a press, on the left hammer beating pulp, and two windows, through which water-wheels are visible; from Hartmann Schopper, 'Panoplia [Greek] Omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium ...', (Frankfurt, Sigmund Feierabend, 1568), quire C4, with Latin and German title and Latin verses by Schopper in one column.
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1568
- Dimensions
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Height: 148 millimetres
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Height: 79 millimetres
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Width: 90 millimetres (sheet size)
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Width: 60 millimetres (woodcut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The book contains a large series depicting different trades and occupations. For further information, see entry for BM 1904-2-6-103.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1904,0206.103.21