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Laurens Koster Spel. – Vintage Print

Laurens Koster Spel. — historic print
Laurens Koster Spel.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Laurens Koster Spel. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Laurens Koster Spel is a game built around Laurens Janszoon Coster, the Haarlem figure whom 17th-century Dutch writers credited with inventing movable-type printing. That claim was never documented in his own lifetime, and it competed with the German tradition that credits Johannes Gutenberg. As a woodcut with hand coloring, the sheet belongs to a long line of printed board games that used play to teach history and civic pride, and it shows how strongly the Dutch wanted their own printing origin story remembered. No date is recorded, so the exact period of production is uncertain.

Medium1 print : woodcut, hand-col.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsReference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Printing and printing presses; BI; RBD; Games--Board games; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,387 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121318

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