1695 Joh. Meyer, Broadside dedicated to Rhetorics ‘Rhetorica. Rede-Kunst’

Johannes Meyer (1655–1712)

‘Rhetorica. Rede-Kunst’

"Einer Kunst- und Tugendliebenden Jugend in Zürich ab der Bürgerlichen Bibliothec auf den Neüen Jahrs Tag A. 1695 verehrt"

Broadside issued on New Year’s Days 1695.

Overall size: 29 x 32 cm

Reference: 

• Hollstein's German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, Bd. XXVIII, Amsterdam 1980, S. 40, Nr. 136-157

Central picture shows an apostle and a Roman as representatives of heavenly and secular oratory, in the background the Fraumünster. Three medallions each to the left and right of the picture

Extremely rare.