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Book/Printed Material Verscheyde soorte van miniatuur

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Title

  • Verscheyde soorte van miniatuur

Summary

  • Teyler set up a print shop in Rotterdam in 1688 after developing a method for making color impressions from a single plate. This folio volume contains 51 examples of his work and demonstrates the quality of this color reproductive process. He was the first colour printer from copper plates and and colored on the plate itself, printing from one impression. Less than four hundred of his prints have survived. Before Teyler, all attempts at color printing were executed on a platen press, where the design was cut in relief into woodblocks or metal, ink was applied to the surface of the block and transferred to paper when the platen was brought down with about one pound of pressure per square inch. For every color, another pass through the press was required, making it a very expensive, time consuming and exacting work.

Names

  • Teyler, Johannes, 1648-approximately 1709
  • Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [Holland] , 1693.

Headings

  • -  Netherlands--Rotterdam

Notes

  • -  Consists of a title page with a mounted vignette, and 50 plates (most of them mounted) on 37 leaves. Eight other plates by Teyler are inserted. All the plates and the title vignette are color prints, overpainted in part.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1448
  • -  LC copy has letters referring to the inserted plates, and a photostat of the title page of the artist's "Opus typo-chromaticum" are mounted on the inside of the back cover.
  • -  LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis. Handwritten note in pencil on front paste-down reads: "Teyler (Johannes). The earliest specimen of true Colour Printing." Accompanied by documentation: including bookseller's blurb about Teyler with Levis' handwritten notes, handwritten memo on E. Parsons & Sons, Fine Art Dealers, London letterhead, dated April 28, [19]19 and typewritten note on R. W. P. De Vries letterhead from 1924 mounted on back paste-down.
  • -  Conserved Library of Congress Conservation Division. Project ID 4007 2017 For treatment information, contact the Conservation Division. pda
  • -  LAC snh 2019-09-06 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-02-22 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 1 v. ; 42 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ND653.T45 A47

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 49040185

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Teyler, Johannes, Approximately 1709, Howard Coppuck Levis, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Verscheyde Soorte Van Miniatuur. [Holland, 1693] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/49040185/.

APA citation style:

Teyler, J., Levis, H. C. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1693) Verscheyde Soorte Van Miniatuur. [Holland] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/49040185/.

MLA citation style:

Teyler, Johannes, Approximately 1709, Howard Coppuck Levis, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Verscheyde Soorte Van Miniatuur. [Holland, 1693] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/49040185/>.