"Joos de Bosscher (publisher/printer; Dutch; Male; 1587 fl - 1591 died)
Also known as: Bosscher, Joos de
Biography
Publisher in Amsterdam, where documented as resident in 1587; dead by September 1591 when his wife is described as a widow. He published engravings of Jacques de Gheyn II after designs of Karel van Mander between 1588 and 1591 (e.g. New Hollstein 23-24). Most of his plates turn up in the stocklist of Cornelis Claesz. in 1609. Many plates from his stock were found among the prints on Nova Zembla (see Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 1980, pp.68-72).
Bibliography
Orenstein, Nadine M., Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in Seventeenth-Century Holland, p. 20
Leesberg, New Hollstein van Mander, fn.32" - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=93245, 23.07.2018
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