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Printmaking

Mathäus Küsel · 1680 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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The workshop of a printmaker. At a table by the window a man works with a burin on a copper plate. The plate lies on a cushion. At the same table sits an apprentice. He looks at the boy who, sitting on a chair, copies the large sculpture in the workshop. On the ground lies his first sketch. Through the doorway there is a view of a printing workshop. There a man works on a plate press, while the boy next to him inks the copper plate. Four lines of text in Latin below the depiction.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit linePrentkunst. 1680. Mathäus Küsel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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