Portret van Veit Müller
1596
Medium
letterpress printing
Dimensions
103; 185
About this artwork
Prent gebruikt voor de publicatie: Cellius, Erhard. Imagines professorum Tubingensium. Tübingen: Erhard Cellius, 1596, p. [86].
Art Historical Context
This 1596 portrait of Veit Müller, created by Jakob Lederlein, forms part of Erhard Cellius’s *Imagines professorum Tubingensium*, a printed collection celebrating the professors of the University of Tübingen. Produced through letterpress printing—a technique that combined movable type with relief illustrations—the image measures just 185 by 103 millimeters, making it well suited for inclusion in a compact scholarly volume. Such publications helped preserve the likenesses of academics for posterity and circulated them among learned circles across Europe. Letterpress printing allowed for the r...