Posted 4 years ago
Steptoe1
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Hello I have been wondering over the years where this had gone, the person that made this is quite famous I think and was told that this is a. Picture of his house & surroundings
Antique Dutch engraving | ||
| Prints70 of 1686 |  |  |
Steptoe1, Cool. :-)
Here's the full etching:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-59.721
The text in your image translated via Google Translate. GT was pretty stubborn about Huisinge, and Groote Markt, so I left them as is, but Grote Markt seems pretty recognizable as Great Market. Huisinge is probably some archaic variant of house.
Depiction of the Huisinge, formerly inhabited by the Inventor of the Noble Book Printing Art LAURENS JANSZ KOSTER in Haarlem, standing there on the Grote Markt, and whose image in the Facade (No. 2) has been commemorated forever.
https://translate.google.com/
About Koster/Coster:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurens-Janszoon-Coster
Thanks kera great information again
Brilliant
I tried to retranslate the Dutch text at the bottom of your print, using DeepL:
(My transcription below. Sorry, I can't make out the eensy-weesy text at bottom left):
Afbeeling van Huisinge eertyds door den Uitvinder der Edele Boekdrukkonst LAURENS JANSZ
KOSTER te Haarlem bewoond, staande aldaar op de groote Markt en wiens beeltenis in de Gevel
?? (No. 2) ter eeiowiger gedadagtenis gesteld is.
English translation via DeepL:
Picture of a house formerly occupied by the inventor of the noble printing press LAURENS JANSZ
KOSTER at Haarlem, standing there on the Grote Markt and whose effigy in the Gable
?? (No. 2) in memory of him.
https://www.deepl.com/en/translator