Seventeenth century

Nicolas de Larmessin, Johannes Gutenberg

Nicolas de Larmessin, Johannes Gutenberg
Nicolas de Larmessin, Johannes Gutenberg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View full size
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Nicolas de Larmessin, Portrait of Johannes Gutenberg
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Engraving, seventeenth century
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Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
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☞ “Cut LII, Print Is Dead (Gutenberg)”

A seventeenth-century engraving of the bearded, fur-capped Gutenberg; no portrait made in his lifetime survives.

Shaped: Cut LII, Print Is Dead (Gutenberg).

Source: the original on Wikimedia Commons, with its full record and licence.

Here endeth this leaf of the Cabinet, which ſheweth Portrait of Johannes Gutenberg (Engraving, seventeenth century), the work of Nicolas de Larmessin and not of this preſs. The image is from Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Gathered here for ſtudy the ſeventh day of October, 2026. Finis.

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Larmessin, Nicolas de.
Portrait of Johannes Gutenberg.
Engraving, seventeenth century.
Wikimedia Commons (public domain),
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Gutenberg.jpg.

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