Full Description
This volume presents a broad spectrum of essays exemplifying current advances in print scholarship. It aims to focus attention on the medium of print. While the essays reflect the varied production and role of print, central themes explored here include the making of prints and their perceived 'place' within a printmaker's practice or the circulation, reception and use of prints in the hands of diverse publishers and audiences. The volume highlights the importance of the print medium as an art historical topic.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings and Naomi Lebens
Part 1: The Art of Print: Approaches and Attitudes
1 Mark(et)ing Expertise: the Goldsmith-engraver in the Low Countries and the Use of House Marks
Oliver Kik
2 Theory of Printmaking in the Early Modern Age
Barbara Stoltz
3 Poussin and the Theory of Hatching
Ben Thomas
4 Paul Sandby and Reproductive Printmaking
Ann V. Gunn
5 Not for the Feeble of Mind! Color-printed Illustrations in European Medical Literature, 1500[-]1850
Ad Stijnman
Part 2: The Reception of Print: Circulation and Use
6 Multiplied Madonnas—Strategies of Commercializing Raphael in Print
Anne Bloemacher
7 Copying Motifs and Reworking Printing Plates as Part of the French Royal Propaganda in the First Half of the 17th Century
Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa
8 Displaying Gift-Giving: Thesis Prints in the Spanish Netherlands
Gwendoline de Mûelenaere
9 Jan Ponętowski's Print Albums in the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow: an Early Print Collection in Moravia and the Kingdom of Poland
Magdalena Herman
10 A "Great and Valuable Collection": Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723[-]1792) and His Prints
Donato Esposito
Bibliography
Index
