Rare-Antique Print-WORLDLY-PICTURES-HATTER-Comenius-c.1745-1754

(Hatter.)

Made by an anonymous engraver after Johann Amos Comenius.

Medium: Woodcut on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 10.5 x 16.7 cm (4.13 x 6.57 inch). Image size: 8.5 x 5.2 cm. (3.35 x 2.05 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

WORLDLY-PICTURES-HATTER | PCO-C21-27

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Print in the book titled “Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis Sensualium Picti Pars [“The Sensual World in Pictures by Johann Amos Comenius.”] …, Hoc est: Omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, Pictura et Nomenclatura. Cujus beneficio Tyronibus facillim? methodo & summ? voluptate ingens elegantium Phrasium ac rarissorum Terminorum Artium in Prima Prama non extantium, […].” published in Noribergae [Nuremberg] by the publishing house Endter, 1745-1754.

Biography artist: John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) was a Moravian philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren before becoming a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica Magna. As an educator and theologian, he led schools and advised governments across Protestant Europe through the middle of the seventeenth century.