Memorial Sheet to the Erection of the Monument to Johann Gutenberg, Alois Senefelder, 1837, Graphic Art, Lithograph, The 14th of August 1837 saw the unveiling in Mainz of Thorvaldsen’s monument to the inventor of the art of printing, Johann Gutenberg (1390s-1468). The statue, which in Thorvaldsen’s studio had been modelled in plaster and subsequently cast in bronze, can be seen in the niche on the left in Alois Senefelder’s memorial print. The poet and composer Heinrich von Meissen

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