Engraving of Johannes Enschedé by Cornelis van Noorde

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Title

Subject

Type and type-founding--Netherlands--Specimens; Type and type-founding in art

Description

An engraving of Johannes Enschedé (1708-1780), owner of the Enschedé printing house in Haarlem with his father Izaak Enschedé. Johannes Enschedé ordered a large number of types to be made by Joan Michaël Fleischman and Jacques-François Rosart. His printing house became one of the most successful in the Netherlands, and continues in operation as the security printing firm Joh. Enschedé today.

Creator

Noorde, Cornelis van, 1731-1795

Source

Proef van letteren welke gegooten worden in de nieuwe Haerlemsche lettergietery van J. Enschedé. 1768.

Publisher

[Harlem] : [J. Enschedé].

Date

1768

Contributor

Enschedé, Johannes, 1708-1780; Wellcome Library

Rights

Public Domain

Relation

Enschedé, Johannes, 1708-1780, person depicted.

Format

PNG 919px × 1,500px (cropped and reduced in size from b30530398_orig_0011.jp2 at https://archive.org/details/b30530398/)

Language

Dutch

Type

Image

Identifier

johannes_enschede_engraving_van_noorde

Coverage

Haarlem; Netherlands; Eighteenth century

Citation

Noorde, Cornelis van, 1731-1795, “Engraving of Johannes Enschedé by Cornelis van Noorde,” The Library of Historical Types, accessed May 9, 2024, https://www.oldbookappreciator.com/libraryofhistoricaltype/items/show/17.

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