Surianen
Erhard Reuwich
1486 - 1488
Medium
paper
Dimensions
79; 128; 116; 65
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso midden onder, gestempeld: Lugt 698
About the Artist
Erhard Reuwich · 1425–1503
Erhard Reuwich (ca. 1445–ca. 1500) was a pioneering German artist and printmaker whose illustrations for the first printed travel book revolutionized European book illustration. Coming from a family of painters in Utrecht, with his father likely being Hildebrand Reuwich, Dean of the painters' guild in 1470, Erhard represented a new generation of artists who recognized printing's transformative pot...