The Printing Press

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In The Printing Press the artist depicts the famous printer Johannes Gutenberg (ca.1400–1468), the first person in Western Europe to create a great book using movable metal type. The master, with an assistant beside him, reviews a newly printed proof sheet while an apprentice strenuously pulls against the handle of the press to make another copy.