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Prints, British -- 16th century.
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Prints, British -- 17th century.
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Prints, British -- 18th century.
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Portrait prints -- Great Britain.
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Descript |
xxiii, 372 : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. |
Note |
Papers presented at conferences held at Birkbeck College, University of London, 13-14 July 2007, and at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 12-13 Sept. 2008. |
Contents |
Symbols of conversion : proprieties of the page in Reformation England / Margaret Aston -- Censorship and self-censorship in late sixteenth-century English book illustration / Richard L. Williams -- Guides to godliness : from print to plaster / Tara Hamling -- "Like fragments of a shipwrech" : printed images and religious antiquarianism in early modern England / Alexandra Walsham -- Page techne : interpreting diagrams in early modern English how-to books / Lori Anne Ferrell -- Gesner, Topsell and the purposes of pictures in early modern naturual histories / Katherine Acheson -- Hollar's prospects and maps of London / Simon Turner -- The theory of the impression according to Robert Hooke / Matthew Hunter -- The common weales canker wormes, or, The locusts both of church and states : emblematic identities in a late Jacobean print / Malcolm Jones -- Buckingham engraved : politics, print images and the royal favourite in the 1620s / Alastair Bellany -- The devil's bloodhound : Roger L'estrange caricatures / Helen Pierce -- Decoding the Leviathan : doing the history of ideas through images, 1651-1714 / Justin Champion -- Noble or commercial? : the early history of mezzotint in Britain / Ben Thomas -- Faithorne, Loggan, Vandrebanc, and White : the engraved portrait in late seventeenth-century Britain / David Alexander -- "Paper tapestry" and "wooden pictures" : printed decoration in the domestic interior before 1700 / Gill Saunders -- Top knots and lower sorts : print and promiscuous consumption in the 1690s / Angela McShane and Clare Backhouse. |
Alt author |
Hunter, Michael Cyril William.
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ISBN |
9780754666547 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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