Art Archive

Claes Jansz. Visscher

Claes Jansz. Visscher was a Dutch printmaker and publisher whose etched and engraved work belongs to the Golden Age of Dutch art, with town views and topographic series among his enduring subjects. The archive holds a single volume from 1628: a vellum-bound book combining letterpress text with engraved and etched illustrations and a woodcut printer's mark, with a set of etchings tipped in at the back. Its best-known content, the Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem, places the volume within early seventeenth-century Dutch topographic publishing.

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Claes Jansz. Visscher — Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem
Views of the Surroundings of Haarlem
1628 · Vellum bound book with letterpress text with engraved and etched illustrations and a woodcut printer's mark, with a set of etchings tipped in at the back