The Invention of Copper Engraving, from Nova Reperta

<p>Joannes Stradanus’s image of an intaglio print shop includes plate engravers, roller-press printers, and fresh impressions drying on ropes in the background. The legend <em>Sculptura in Aes</em> implies that the engraving is being done on copper plates. The print is the nineteenth image in the artist’s <em>New Discoveries</em> series, which also included the European arrival in the Americas and the invention of book printing.</p>