4092C

The Vigilant Crane (Be vigilant!)

Artist: Workshop of Guillermo Drouy (active 1578-1599)
Title: The Vigilant Crane (Be vigilant!)
Date: 1578
Medium: Woodcut. After the printer's mark of Martin de Montesdoca (active between 1553 and 1558) (Vindel Núm. 235) via an early printer's mark of Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572). Used as Drouy's printer's mark (Vindel Núm. 343) in Francisco Fernández Rajo y Gomez, De cometis, et prodigiosis eorum portentis, libri quatuor[.] Excudebat Madriti Guillelmus Drouy, Typographus. Anno. 1578, whence our image is drawn. Used also in Jacobo Palomino, Liber de mutatione aeris[.] Madrid: Excudebat Guillelmus Drouy Typographus, Anno. 1598.
Photo Source: Google Books / Biblioteca Alessandrina | PESSCA Photographic Archive.
Item: 4092C