Portret van Johannes Vischer
1596
Medium
letterpress printing
Dimensions
103; 137
About this artwork
Prent gebruikt voor de publicatie: Cellius, Erhard. Imagines professorum Tubingensium. Tübingen: Erhard Cellius, 1596, p. [108].
Art Historical Context
This portrait of Johannes Vischer, engraved by Jakob Lederlein in 1596, forms part of Erhard Cellius’s celebrated volume *Imagines professorum Tubingensium*. Printed in Tübingen by Cellius himself, the modest sheet—measuring just 137 by 103 millimeters—appears on page 108 of the publication, which gathered likenesses of the university’s distinguished faculty. Created through letterpress printing, a relief technique well suited to book illustration, the work exemplifies the efficient marriage of text and image that defined scholarly publishing in the late Renaissance. In an age when universiti...