Portret van Johannes Vischer
1596
Medium
letterpress printing
Dimensions
103; 137
About this artwork
Prent ook gebruikt voor de publicatie: Cellius, Erhard. Imagines professorum Tubingensium. Tübingen: Erhard Cellius, 1596, p. [108].
Art Historical Context
This small letterpress print, created by Jakob Lederlein in 1596, forms part of Erhard Cellius’s *Imagines professorum Tubingensium a commemorative volume celebrating the professors of the University of Tübingen. Measuring just 137 by 103 millimetres, the portrait of Johannes Vischer was designed to be integrated directly into the printed book, the growing sixteenth-century practice of pairing scholarly biographies with visual likenesses. Letterpress printing made such images widely reproducible, allowing academic communities across Europe to share and preserve the faces of their leading thin...