Printing brand of Johan Arnold Langerak in decorative frame, B. van Zijl, 1714 print Printer's brand of Leiden printer Johan Arnold Langerak, representing Minerva who awardes a bulb with accompanying honorary signs to a young man. The fame flies above that. A river god in the background. Around the oval the meaning "virtute ac studio per orbem fama perpetitia comparatur". Therefore, oak and olive branches and four weapons, including that of the city of Leiden. On a banderolle the name of Langerak. In the frame a phases, scales, measuring instruments, an alambic, a snake, books with texts from
Printing brand of Johan Arnold Langerak in decorative frame, B. van Zijl, 1714 print Printer's brand of Leiden printer Johan Arnold Langerak, representing Minerva who awardes a bulb with accompanying honorary signs to a young man. The fame flies above that. A river god in the background. Around the oval the meaning "virtute ac studio per orbem fama perpetitia comparatur". Therefore, oak and olive branches and four weapons, including that of the city of Leiden. On a banderolle the name of Langerak. In the frame a phases, scales, measuring instruments, an alambic, a snake, books with texts from classical antiquity and the portraits of Justinian and Hippocrates. Within the frame in book printing the title of the dissertation on which David Radaeus at the Leiden University under the authority of rector Magnificus Herman Boerhaave was promoted to a doctor in both rights on March 30, 1714. Leiden paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing Minerva as patroness. snakes. scales. book. calculating-instruments. container of glass: bottle, jar, vase
Size: 5286px × 7030px
Photo credit: © piemags/rmn / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords:
