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Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Jan van der Straet

Print made by: Jan Collaert II (?)
Published by: Theodoor Galle
Title
Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times)
Description
English: Title-page; title in a cartouche at top; below, to left, a naked woman pointing to a roundel with the map of America; to right an old man, seen from behind, next to a roundel with a compass; both carrying a snake biting its own tail; below the cartouche a printing press with sheets of printed text hanging on a line; in the foreground various objects relating to new discoveries such as a mechanical clock, a cannon and a tree with silk worms.
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Depicted people Associated with: Christopher Columbus
Date circa 1590
date QS:P571,+1590-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 206 millimetres
Width: 266 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1948,0410.4.191
Notes

This is the title-page from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries after Jan van der Straet, for a complete set see 1948,0410.4.191-209. The series was commissioned by the Alamanni family and originally published by Philips Galle. This edition was later published by his son, Theodor Galle. Hollstein states that 10 plates in the series were engraved by Philips Galle, and 10 by Hans Collaert.

Literature: Literature: Susan Dackerman et al.. 'Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe', Yale UP, 2011, cat.no.1; A. Baroni and M. Sellink, 'Stradanus 1523-1605: Court artist of the Medici', exh.cat. Groeningemuseum Brugge 2008-2009, Turnhout, 2012, pp.300-306, cat.no.99-107.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1948-0410-4-191
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