New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of the Olive Oil Press, plate 12

Jan Collaert I Netherlandish
 After Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish
 Publisher Philips Galle Netherlandish

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Twelfth plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of workers at the olive oil press. In the background men gather olives from the trees outside. In the middle ground men put the olives in the press to make the oil. In the foreground on the right men collect the oil from the press, which is then heated and poured into barrels that the donkey in the center carries away.

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of the Olive Oil Press, plate 12, Jan Collaert I (Netherlandish, Antwerp ca. 1530–1581 Antwerp), Engraving

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