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 âplaceâ within a printmakerâs 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
âBryony 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
âOliver Kik
2 Theory of Printmaking in the Early Modern Age
âBarbara Stoltz
3 Poussin and the Theory of Hatching
âBen Thomas
4 Paul Sandby and Reproductive Printmaking
âAnn V. Gunn
5 Not for the Feeble of Mind! Color-printed Illustrations in European Medical Literature, 1500â1850
âAd Stijnman
Part 2: The Reception of Print: Circulation and Use
6 Multiplied MadonnasâStrategies of Commercializing Raphael in Print
âAnne Bloemacher
7 Copying Motifs and Reworking Printing Plates as Part of the French Royal Propaganda in the First Half of the 17th Century
âMaÅgorzata BiÅozór-Salwa
8 Displaying Gift-Giving: Thesis Prints in the Spanish Netherlands
âGwendoline de Mûelenaere
9 Jan PonÄtowskiâs Print Albums in the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow: an Early Print Collection in Moravia and the Kingdom of Poland
âMagdalena Herman
10 A âGreat and Valuable Collectionâ: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723â1792) and His Prints
âDonato 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.