Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.08137
Title
- Printer's mark of the Officina Plantiniana
Creator
Pieter van der Borcht (designer), Geeraard Jansen van Kampen (woodcutter (printmaker))
Production date
1578
Description
Compass used by hand emerging from cloud; flanked by man with spade (Labour) and woman with cross (Constancy); originally with monogram "G" of Geeraard Jansen van Kampen, but this seems to have been cut from the woodblock
Object name
woodblock (printing matrix)
Material
wood (plant material)
Technique
woodcut (printing process)
Dimensions
Acquisition date
1876-04-20
Acquisition method
purchase - Moretus, Edward
Printed in
- Frédéric Jamot, Eidyllium; ad ... Matthiam, archiducem Austriae ... apud Belgas regis catholici praefectum, 1578, titelp.
- Lodovico Guicciardini, La description de tous les Pais-Bas, autrement appellés la Germanie Inferieure, ou Basse Allemagne [PP 1279], 1582, titelp.
Literature
- Gustave van Havre, Marques typographiques des imprimeurs et libraires anversois, 1883-1885, dl. 2, p. 93, 113 (ill.), Christophe Plantin nr. 38
- Gustave van Havre, Les marques typographiques de l'imprimerie plantinienne, 1911, p. 7, 27 (ill.), Christophe Plantin nr. 38
- Frank Vandeweghe, Drukkersmerken uit de 15de en de 16de eeuw binnen de grenzen van het huidige België = Marques typographiques employées aux 15e et 16e siècles dans les limites géographiques de la Belgique actuelle, 1993, p. 53, p. 190 (ill.), Christophe Plantin merk 44; p. 56, weduwe Christophe Plantin en Joannes Moretus merk 6
- The new Hollstein Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700. Peeter Van der Borcht : book illustrations, 2005-2007, dl. V, nr. 2232
- Kristof Selleslach, TORAD: Typografische Ornamenten Repertorium van Antwerpse Drukkers 1541-1600 [database], 2014-, DV00025