Copies with cylindrical copper engraving

The illustration that is given a central place on this advertising banner consists of two emblems. An emblem or symbol is a small image with a meaning in it, accompanied by a short pithy saying, such as a proverb or short poem. These often playful illustrations were mainly popular in the sixteenth century up to and including the eighteenth century. The two emblems on the advertising banner were printed by the copper printing cylinder still preserved in the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden (fig. 20). The illustration was engraved in the copper cylinder.

This way, the relief difference allowed the ink to be absorbed over the copper cylinder. With this printing cylinder it was possible to print the same image several times on different canvases. As a result, several advertising banners of the Leidsche Katoenmaatschappij with the same illustration have been preserved to this day. What is almost always absent is the appealing text. Usually the two illustrations were framed with an example of the motifs that could be printed (fig. 21).