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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 07/06/2025

Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century

Paulina Banas. Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century. New York; Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2025.
Illustrated publications and the role of market forces in shaping representations of Egypt at a time when European colonial interests in the region were at their peak, with 80 color and black and white illustrations.

In the nineteenth century, following Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel and improvements in printing technology saw an emergence of publishing ventures in France and Britain dedicated to the production of albums and travel accounts featuring images of Muslim Egypt and Islamic architecture and catering to a growing European fascination with the East.

Visualizing Egypt analyzes the context and process of production of these highly illustrated publications, from their conceptualization to the finished product and its afterlife, from marketing to the sales of these books, and from circulation to their reception by nineteenth-century audiences. By tracing the long, arduous, and often risky publishing journeys of the makers of these books, including publishers, writers, and artists, such as the Frenchman Émile Prisse d’Avennes, Paulina Banas reveals a complex terrain of changing market demands, collaborations, and conflicting views, and the unsettled authorship of these works, prompting us to think more profoundly about artistic and intellectual exchange in the world of nineteenth-century Orientalist book production.

Visualizing Egypt considers nineteenth-century book illustrations on Egypt and the “Orient” not merely as expressions of enduring ideology and colonial propaganda, but as representations shaped by the often-overlooked commercial exigencies of the growing publishing industry and the reckless competition within it.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Middle East, 19th Century, Book arts, Engraving, Lithography, Relief printing
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Article Posted: 05/02/2025

LOST TREASURES RESURFACE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES’ PRINTING PLATES

Chiara Betti. "LOST TREASURES RESURFACE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES’ PRINTING PLATES." The Antiquaries Journal 104 (October 2024): 304-42.
The Society of Antiquaries of London’s collection of one hundred and seventy historical printing plates, dating from the early eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, has long been a hidden gem. This paper presents the results of a research project initiated in 2022, focusing on the provenance, manufacture and bibliographical use of these plates. It explores the evolution of printing practices and the role of coppersmith stamps, shedding light on production methods and industry connections. The project involved digitising the plates for improved accessibility and preservation and cataloguing efforts to establish standardised guidelines for similar collections. Furthermore, the study uncovers the Society’s historical interest in maintaining and utilising these plates, providing valuable insights into past printing practices and collection management. This research enriches our understanding of the Antiquaries’ holdings through meticulous investigation and documentation and underscores the significance of exploring overlooked aspects of historical collections. It also calls for future research endeavours and collaborations to explore connections within the Society’s collections further and expand our knowledge of printing history. Overall, this study emphasises the importance of preserving and studying printing technology as valuable artefacts that contribute to our understanding of the past.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, 18th Century, 19th Century, Engraving, Etching
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Exhibition Curated Posted: 03/07/2025

Arte y anatomía en el Renacimiento. Juan Valverde de Amusco y la Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano

José Ramón Marcaida, Sergio Ramiro Ramírez, David García López. Arte y anatomía en el Renacimiento. Juan Valverde de Amusco y la Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano. Biblioteca Nacional de España: Madrid, Spain.
2024
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th Century, Book arts, Engraving, Relief printing
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 03/07/2025

Arte y anatomía en el Renacimiento. Juan Valverde de Amusco y la Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano

José Ramón Marcaida, Sergio Ramiro Ramírez, David García López. Arte y anatomía en el Renacimiento. Juan Valverde de Amusco y la Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano. Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España, 2024.
Essay-like publication (not an exhibition catalogue per se) on the exhibition held at the Spanish National Library "Arte y anatomía en el Renacimiento. Juan Valverde de Amusco y la Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano" (November 2024-March 2025).

A PDF of the book is available for free at the BNE website (see link below)
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Renaissance, Baroque, Book arts, Engraving, Relief printing
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Dissertation or MA Thesis Posted: 02/22/2025

Writing on Stone: the generative intersection between language and lithography

Dr Serena Smith. "Writing on Stone: the generative intersection between language and lithography." PhD diss., Loughborough University, 2024.
A world of academic discourse that shares knowledge through word and image frames this Phd thesis in which I explore the relationship between stone lithography and language - ‘language’ being understood here in its widest sense as written text, embodied, vocal and tacit communication, symbolic and excess information, visual image, and the means through which thought becomes manifest and subjectivity is expressed. At the core of the inquiry is the artisanal practice of stone lithography: a technology that led the development of printed communications in the nineteenth century as both a method of mass communication, and an emerging artists’ technique. Invented by the Bavarian playwright Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), stone lithography had a significant impact on the world of music publishing, and I draw on this lyrical inheritance of song, dance and spoken word. I also draw on the dark legacies of colonialism that laid the ground for the development of lithography in the Age of Empire. In the light of these historic contexts, my own studio practice, and a transdisciplinary field of knowledge, this collection of texts explores the multi-modal breadth of lithographic language making and demonstrates the heterogenous nature of the languages engendered by the practices of stone lithography.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, 19th Century, 20th Century, Contemporary, Book arts, Lithography
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Article Posted: 01/09/2025

Poems, Portraits, and Paper: Raphael’s Sonnets and the Fabric of Friendship

Lisa Pon. "Poems, Portraits, and Paper: Raphael’s Sonnets and the Fabric of Friendship." Word & Image 40, no. 3 (September 2024): 117-35.
In this essay, I argue that Raphael’s double portrait of Agostino Beazzano and Andrea Navagero formed the painter’s fullest response—made in purely pictorial terms—to Renaissance prosody as it was then being developed by his friends, especially the portraits’ sitters and Pietro Bembo. The drafts of Raphael’s own sonnets on drawings made while he was painting the Stanza della Segnatura are visualizations of the intellectual labor his poetic compositions entailed. A close looking at their placement across the paper on these “ekphrastic sheets” (to use Francesco Di Teodoro’s term) as well as changes in the sonnets’ texts offer tools for understanding the double portrait of Raphael’s poet-friends. Raphael’s often dismissed efforts at poetry made on these study drawings thus blossomed half a decade later in the contribution to Renaissance literary theory he made as a painter.
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Article Posted: 01/07/2025

Morceaux doubles, premières épreuves, et différences presque imperceptibles : l’évolution et la formalisation de la description des états au XVIIIe siècle

Antoine Gallay. "Morceaux doubles, premières épreuves, et différences presque imperceptibles : l’évolution et la formalisation de la description des états au XVIIIe siècle." Nouvelles de l'estampe (2024).
Today, the term 'state' is used to distinguish between two impressions made from the same copper plate that show differences due to modifications made in the meantime by the engraver. This article aims to show how these differences gradually gained value among collectors. While they may have initially sparked curiosity and amazement, it was primarily the set of meanings attributed to them during the 18th century that determined their success. In parallel, the emergence of catalogues raisonnés further encouraged the identification and search for different states, thus helping to establish their meaning and formalize the way they were described.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, 18th Century, Engraving, Etching
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Book Chapter Posted: 05/21/2024

At Work in Print: Cassatt and the “Sentient Hand”

Laurel Garber. "At Work in Print: Cassatt and the “Sentient Hand”." In Mary Cassatt at Work, edited by Laurel Garber and Jennifer Thompson. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Distributed by Yale University Press, 2024: 149-162.
Relevant research areas: North America, Western Europe, 19th Century, Etching
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Article Posted: 04/03/2024

Leveraging the Limited Edition: Participation and Obligation in Douglas Huebler’s Prints

Rachel Vogel. "Leveraging the Limited Edition: Participation and Obligation in Douglas Huebler’s Prints." American Art 38, no. 1 (April 2024): 54-75.
Though Douglas Huebler is most well-known for his photo-conceptualist works, this article explores how the artist innovatively employed another medium: the limited-edition print. While early chroniclers of Conceptual art often emphasized the artworks’ resistance to being bought and sold, I argue that Huebler created limited editions intended specifically for the collector’s market, using the medium as a conceptual tool to reshape the relationship between artist and collector. The structure of the limited edition both prompted Huebler to conceive of art collecting as a collective endeavor, with each owner of the edition a node in an interconnected network, and endowed the artist with the ability to authorize impressions as authentic and inauthentic. In a moment when works of art were increasingly treated as financial assets, the limited-edition print provided Huebler with a vehicle for questioning the nature of ownership, authorship, and value.
Relevant research areas: North America, 20th Century
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 01/10/2023

Goya’s Caprichos in 19th-Century France: Politics of the Grotesque

Paula Fayos-Perez. Goya’s Caprichos in 19th-Century France: Politics of the Grotesque. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH), 2024.
The impact of Goya’s oeuvre and particularly of the Caprichos (1799) on nineteenth-century French art was immense, long lasting and multifaceted. Whereas in Spain Goya was associated with the work he produced as court painter, in France he became known as the author of the Caprichos, interpreted by the Romantics as a lampoon of late eighteenth-century Spain. This vision overlooked the fact that the true modernity of Goya’s work lies in its universalism, as a mirror reflecting the essence of humankind, unfettered by patriotism—this is also true of his monsters and witches, which are nothing more than the deformed reflection of humans. It could be argued that this was a two-way influence: Goya contributed to shape French Romantic art—and thus the beginning of modern art—and the Romantics in turn modelled his critical image. This study challenges the established interpretation of the Spanish artist that has dominated the scholarship until recently, based on Romantic stereotypes, many of which have been perpetuated to this day.

Goya became known in the French market—the main receptor of his work—through his graphic oeuvre. This was promoted by artists, critics and collectors such as Charles Yriarte, Paul Lefort and Eugène Piot, most of them in association with the Spanish artist and dealer Valentín Carderera. Goya’s influence can be divided into two broad categories: aesthetics and politics. On the one hand, artists of the Romantisme noir—focusing on the taste for the grotesque and the literary vision of Spain—saw Goya as the last representative of the Spanish School. On the other, the political impact of his work can be appreciated in the satirical prints produced by artists such as Honoré Daumier and J. J. Grandville, who held him to be a politically engaged caricaturist who fought against censorship and mocked the aristocracy and the clergy. The case of Eugène Delacroix offers the richest example of Goya’s impact on nineteenth-century French art, here backed up by a catalogue of forty of his copies after the Caprichos, some of them hitherto unpublished.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, 18th Century, 19th Century, Book arts, Etching, Lithography
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