Daman (Verleger)

"Also known as
Daman
primary name: primary name: Daman
Details
individual; publisher/printer; French; Male
Other dates
1640s-1650s (fl)
Biography
Print publisher, whose name (but never initial or address) appears on reprints by Biscaino, Grimaldi and other artists. He has traditionally been assumed to be Italian, but, to judge from series of etchings by Perelle and Borboni that he published with a French privilege, he must have been working in Paris in the 1640s, which does not exclude an Italian birth and a period working in Italy. Biscaino died in plague in Genoa in 1657, aged 25, and Daman must have acquired his plates shortly afterwards. Mariette (Abecedario I 132) remarks that they were rare, and he has no idea what had become of the plates. Part at least of Daman's stock was later acquired and reissued by the Remondini (see Giorgio Marini in 1990 Remondini cat. p.257).
Bibliography
BM Bellange catalogue 1997, p.127
Nouvelles de l'Estampe 245 2013/4, p.10 " - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG63282, 04.07.2022