Placing prints: new developments in the study of print, 1400-1800

Abstract

"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"--Back cover.

Contents

Mark(et)ing expertise: the goldsmith engraver in the Low Countries and the use of house marks / Oliver Kik -- Theory of printmaking in the Early Modern age / Barbara Stoltz -- Poussin and the theory of hatching / Ben Thomas -- Paul Sandby and reproductive printmaking / Ann V. Gunn -- Not for the feeble of mind! Color-printed illustrations in European medical literature, 1500-1850 / Ad Stijnman -- Multiplied Madonnas: strategies of commercializing Raphael in print / Anne Bloemacher -- Copying motifs and reworking printing plates as part of the French royal propaganda in the first half of the 17th century / Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa -- Displaying gift-giving: thesis prints in the Spanish Netherlands / Gwendoline de Mûelenaere -- Jan Ponȩtowski's print albums in the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow: an early print collecion in Moravia and the Kingdom of Poland / Magdalena Herman -- A "great and valuable collection": Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) and his prints / Donato Esposito.