Download or read book Notes on the Early British Engraved Royal Portraits Issued in Various Series from 1521 to the End of the Eighteenth Century written by Howard Coppuck Levis and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peter Stent London Printseller written by Alexander V. Globe and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 15th century on, engravings influenced European culture almost as profoundly as books. Like stained glass windows in the Middle Ages or television today, popular prints were designed to reach even the lowest orders of society. In the 17th century, Peter Stent, whose shop stood outside Newgate, was England's most prolific seller of popular prints, maps, and copybooks to the working and rising middle classes. His inventory of copper plates reflected the shifts of popular tastes during this period and commented directly on the turbulent events of the day. In documenting Stent's output, Alexander Globe studied the printsellers' advertising catalogues as external controls for reconstructing inventories as well as indices to contemporary tastes. From these and other contemporary sources, Globe cites every engraving and book attributable to Stent, breaking down the material into types: portraits, maps, miscellaneous sheets, and books (including works on handwriting, politics, natural history, anatomy, costume, and architecture). References and additions are made to the catalogues of Donald Wing and A.M. Hind. Globe takes the history of engraving beyond Hind by including prints from the Commonwealth, Protectorate, and early Restoration periods. Eight appendices supplement the catalogue information. They provide evidence for print identificiation, discuss paper sizes, and list Stent's artists, suppliers, and business associates. All the collectiions in which Stent items may be found are named. The volume concludes with a bibliography and indices of subject as well as post-17th century authors. Globe's introduction to Stent's work is concerned with the social, political, and economic conditions leading to the emergence of a popular printseller who catered to a different clientele from that usually studied by art historians. Stent's career illustrates the mid-17th century commercial revolution which saw the artisan's customers change from the wealthy leisure class to the worker who wanted mass-produced cheap goods. Drawing on material in a hundred libraries and museums around the world, the catalogue describes over fifteen hundred engravings, including 319 sheets and five books of portraits, 42 maps, 102 miscellaneous prints and sets (with religious, classical, heeraldic, and satirical subjects), and 86 books (on handwriting, politics, military training, natural history, figure sketches, costume, architecture, and ornament). Richly illustrated with 319 plates, Peter Stent will prove valuable not only to print dealers, art historians, museums, and libraries, but also to social, cultural, and political historians.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London written by Society of Antiquaries of London and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Engraving and Etching written by Arthur M. Hind and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Museum Keeper of Prints offers complete history, 15th-century to 1914; accomplishments, influences, artistic merit. 111 illustrations. Chapters include: The Earliest Engravers, The Great Masters of Engraving, The Decline of Original Engraving, and more.
Download or read book Picturing the Book of Nature written by Sachiko Kusukawa and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as Picturing the Book of Nature makes clear, they do more than bear witness to the development of book publishing during the Renaissance and to the prominence attained by the fields of medical botany and anatomy in European medicine. Sachiko Kusukawa examines these texts, as well as Conrad Gessner’s unpublished Historia plantarum, and demonstrates how their illustrations were integral to the emergence of a new type of argument during this period—a visual argument for the scientific study of nature. To set the stage, Kusukawa begins with a survey of the technical, financial, artistic, and political conditions that governed the production of printed books during the Renaissance. It was during the first half of the sixteenth century that learned authors began using images in their research and writing, but because the technology was so new, there was a great deal of variety of thought—and often disagreement—about exactly what images could do: how they should be used, what degree of authority should be attributed to them, which graphic elements were bearers of that authority, and what sorts of truths images could and did encode. Kusukawa investigates the works of Fuchs, Gessner, and Vesalius in light of these debates, scrutinizing the scientists’ treatment of illustrations and tracing their motivation for including them in their works. What results is a fascinating and original study of the visual dimension of scientific knowledge in the sixteenth century.
Download or read book A History of Engraving Etching written by Arthur Mayger Hind and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engraving in England in the Sixteenth Seventeenth Centuries The reign of James I written by Arthur Mayger Hind and published by Cambridge, Eng., U.P. This book was released on 1952 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin 1908 23 written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography on Portraiture written by Irene Heppner and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bibliography on Portraiture Classified arrangement and index to topics written by Irene Heppner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Library Syndicate written by Cambridge University Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Library Syndicate for the Years written by Cambridge University Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by Society of Antiquaries of London and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
