#printing press
Biblia Pauperum-(very) Early modern printing press(7/?)
This Biblia Pauperum (Bible of the poor) is a beautiful example of a block book, or a xylographica. These are short books printed mainly in the second half of the 15th century in Europe. These are woodcuts with blocks carved to include both text and illustrations. Because these woodcuts are so labour intensive and difficult to produce (imagine carving this out of a piece of wood!), these block books are often quite short. Most block books date from around the same time as the typeset book (Gutenberg’s invention) and were a cheaper alternative. Single leaf woodcuts were already a few decades more popular.
ABiblia pauperum was a tradition of Bible pictures, it illustrated the typological correspondences between the Old and New Testaments. These Biblia pauperum put more importance on the images than on the text. This one dates back from 1460-1470.
Sweet is the trust that springs from hope, without which we could not endure life’s many and almost unbearable adversities
Spes(Hope) - Brueghel(around 1560)
This gravure was designed by Pieter Brueghel the Elder and engraved by Philips Galle. It was published by Hieronymus Cock.
On the bottom it reads: “Iucundissima est spei persuasio, et vitae imprimis necessaria, inter tot aerumnas peneq(ue) intolerabilis.”
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An artist talk by Perrott Bespoke Printing coming up next week at East London Printmakers!
It’s absolutely free, so do come along and check it out.
Find out more about the event here.
Artist Talk with Perrott Bespoke Printing
Tuesday 21st July 7.30pm
19 Warburton Rd E8 3RT
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This year East London Printmakers studio has expanded!
We’ve spent the last few months getting the ELP studio in ship shape and fitting it out with brand new equipment!
Helen Ashton our technician took on the task of managing the project and has done an absolutely fantastic job. The last few months has been filled with a shed load of planning, a lot of demolition and construction work, lots of heavy lifting, loads of teamwork and many many tea breaks!!
Now, the space is complete and we have more space and equipment than we ever imagined we’d have!
On our website we’ll be giving you a breakdown of all the changes that have happened at the ELP studio over the past 6 months.
Follow it here :
https://www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk/category/gallery/
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Uh-oh! Someone must have moved this page when running it through the printing press. It’s askew! This is kind of common in older books but still a fun surprise when I come across it!
I did not mention this before, but I had backed Open Press Project on Kickstarter back when it happened. And I got a tiny 3d printed press!
You can order your own tiny press to do intaglio or relief in the smallest of spaces at Open Press Project.
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