Saccharum [graphic] / Ioan. Stradanus inuent.

Saccharum [graphic] / Ioan. Stradanus inuent.

New Hollstein title: Invention of sugar refinery

[State 3 of 4].

[Antwerp] : Ioan. Galle excud, [between 1636 and 1677]

1 print : engraving ; plate mark 209 x 276 mm

paper

Men chopping sugar cane stems; to right, a table with rows of sugar loaves. In background, men operating a mill, stirring boiling syrup in large pots and ladling syrup into loaf molds. In the distance, a sugarcane harvest.

Title from item.

Plate numbered "13." 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, first by Philips Galle (ca. 1591) and later by Karel de Mallery (after 1612), Theodoor Galle (before 1636) and Johannes Galle (before 1677) (New Hollstein).

State and plate mark dimensions from New Hollstein.

Also cataloged as a set.

New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Stradanus, Johannes 335
Baroni Vannucci, A. Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, 697.13

Belgium -- Antwerp.

ART Vol. f81 no.13

Numbering effaced. Trimmed to plate mark and inlaid to larger sheet.

202670