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.
Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings, Ph.D. (2019, Courtauld Institute of Art) is an independent art historian and lecturer. She has worked in the V&A and Courtauld Gallery collections and lectured on the history of prints. She has published on print production and reception in the Renaissance and early modern era.
Naomi Lebens, Ph.D (2016) is the Head of Cultural Services at Royal Holloway, University of London, with senior curatorial responsibility for the art collection, archive and temporary exhibition programme. She has worked on themes of playfulness, education and invention in early modern print.
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
The book will be of immediate interest to academics specialising in art history with a particular focus on print production and reception of print.