An album of Dutch political prints and pamphlets dealing with Prince Maurits of Orange and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Claes Jansz. Visscher, II
c. 1610-1650
Medium
Book of 40 prints, portraits and pamphlets, bound in cream vellum
Dimensions
20.3 × 16 × 4 cm (8 × 6 5/16 × 1 5/8 in.)
Classification
book
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
229155
About the Artist
Claes Jansz. Visscher, II · 1587–1652
Claes Janszoon Visscher II (1587–1652) was one of the most prolific and commercially astute figures of the Dutch Golden Age print world — a draughtsman, etcher, mapmaker, and publisher whose Amsterdam workshop became one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Born into a family already engaged in the print trade, Visscher learned etching and engraving directly from his father, Claes Jansz. Visscher...