Author: Jan van de Velde (II) (c.1593-1641), after Jacob van Campen (1596-1657)
Title: [Antique print, engraving, portrait, 1628] Portrait of Laurens Jansz Coster, published 1628, 1 p.
Description: Bust portrait of the printer Laurens Janszoon Coster (1370-1440) with the type of A in his hand.Lettered with title at top: 'LARENTIUS COSTERUS HARLEMENSIS/ Primus Artis Tijpographicae Inventor circa Annum 1440'. Signed at bottom left and right of lower margin: 'J.V. Campen pinxit/ J.V.Velde. sculpsit' And lettered there with four lines of Latin verse by Petrus Scriverius: 'Vana quid archetijpos ...'[NL] Portret van Laurens Jansz. Coster, drukletter in de hand. Engraving on paper, cut on plate mark; total: 160 x 120 mm; state I/2; browning paper, mounted on another sheet of paper, smudges and some soiling; Hollstein 391, Franken 487, Muller 3013.

Keywords: Onderwerpen