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Distillatio / Ioan. Stradanus inuent.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection Folio QD14 .D57 1590
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- Format:
- Other
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Chemistry--History--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Chemistry.
- Alchemy--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Alchemy.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Prints.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 200 x 269 mm
- Edition:
- [State 1 of 3].
- Contained In:
- Forms part of: Nova reperta. [Antwerp] : [Philippe Galle], [between 1590 and 1593]
- Other Title:
- New Hollstein title: Invention of distillation
- Place of Publication:
- [Antwerp] : Phls. Galle excud., [between 1590 and 1593]
- Summary:
- Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. In the center, a furnace with a waterbath for graduated distillation, and on the right a pressing machine for producing conical crucibles. A man wearing glasses sits on the right, while another man behind him points out something in his book.
- Notes:
- Title from caption.
- Plate numbered "7." From Nova reperta, a set of 20 prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries, after drawings by Jan van der Straet. The set was published in Antwerp by Phillippe Galle, probably in the early 1590s. See U. Bernsmeier, Die Nova reperta des Jan van der Straet (Hamburg, 1986), page 13.
- State from New Hollstein. Imprint date range from “Distillatio (Distillation),” National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.48748.html (accessed 8 December 2023).
- Local Notes:
- Smith copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Jeffrey D. Mancevice Inc. Rare Books with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- Cited in:
- New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Stradanus, Johannes 329
- Baroni Vannucci, A. Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, 697.7
- OCLC:
- 1412527463
- Online:
- The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page
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