Nova Reperta, Title Plate

Title plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. The title is printed at the top of the plate just above an image of a printing press. There are 2 medallions also at the top: the medallion at left depicts the continents of America and Africa, and the medallion at represents a compass. On the left a woman represents the future and points to the map and on the right a man represents the past and walks out of the picture plane. At the bottom of the scene nine other inventions or discoveries of the post-classical age are depicted: the silk worm, the stirrup, the clock, the canon, distillation tools and guaiacum, each corresponding with a print in the series. Each object is assigned with a roman numeral that corresponds to a description inscribed at the very bottom of the plate

Restrictions Only for Ireland and United Kingdom

1600 1600s Collaert Inventions Nova Reperta Seventeeth Technological

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