Engraved portrait of Gutenberg by Gaywood, mounted on piece of paper with painted decorations.

Good clean image of a seventeenth-century engraving, from an earlier idealised portrait of the putative 'father of printing'. It is of irregular shape, the background having been carefully cut away. Neatly mounted on piece of beige paper, illustrated with a brown pseudo-frame with decorative book devices in the four corners. Half-length portrait of a bearded Gutenberg in fur-lined hat and coat, with composing stick in left hand and stylus in right. Dimensions roughly eight and a quarter inches by seven wide. Engraved beneath is 'P Stent Excudit: R Gaywood fecit'. Beneath the engraving, in a (late eighteenth-century?) hand, 'JOHN GUTTEMBERG, | of Mentz | The first Inventor of Printing | A.D. 1442.'