Visual Print Culture in Europe

techniques, genres, imagery and markets

in a comparative perspective 1500-1850

Venice, December 5-6, 2015

PROGRAMME

9.15 am welcome

9.30-11.00 panel 1

1 Anne-Lise Tropato ‘Cum Privilegio Regis: Seventeenth Century French Printmaking and the birth of artistic propriety’

2 Adam Morton, ‘Kissing the Pope’s toe: Memory, anti-catholicism and Protestant visual culture 1530-1750’

3 AlbertoMilano, ‘Stages of Life: An Example of Interconnectedness between European Printers from the 16th to the 19th Century’

11.00-11.30 coffee

11.30-1.00 panel 2

1 Erika Giuliani, ‘Franz Hogenberg: the experience of an engraver and publisher in Europe in the 16th Century’

2 Margaret Dalivalle ‘Salomon Gautier and the marketing of the Dutch picturesque in early eighteenth century Amsterdam, Paris and London’

3 Swann Paradis, ‘Looking behind the “Bengal five-toed sloth’ From the plates of Buffon’s Histoire naturelle to Vosmaer’s Regnum animale: Scientific rivalry between Britain and the Dutch Republic at the end of the Old Regime.’

1.00-2.30 lunch

2.30-4.30 panel 3

1 Kate Astbury and David Taylor Harlequin Napoleon; or, Britain's Boney crosses the Channel

2 Sarah Gray , Representing Napoleon

3 Simon Macdonald, Jacobite afterlives: Sir Robert Strange, visual dynastic politics, and the cross Channel print trade’

4 John Ford, ‘Rudolph Ackermann and the exchange of images and ideas between England and the German speaking states’

4.30-5.00 coffee

5.00-6.30 panel 4

1Sheila O’Connell, Goya and Gillray

2 Tim Clayton, Images from novels on the European market - Sterne and Goethe in English furniture prints

3 Franny Brock, ‘”Plus Connu à Londres”: Jean Condé’s Stipple Engravings.’

7.00 conference dinner

Day 2

9.00 -10.30 Panel 5:

1Anne Gerritsen, ‘”The best Rubarb is that which is brought from China fresh and newe: Rhubarb, Medical Knowledge, and the Imagination of China in Visual Print Culture 1500-1800.’

2 Liz Conor, ‘Impressions of Aboriginal Australians in European Ecclesiastical Print Circuitries’

3 Paulina Banas, ‘Oriental album, its illustrative wood engravings, and the interconnected British and French markets for travel books on modern Egypt.’

10.30-11 coffee

11-12.30 Panel 6:

1 Nathan Flis, ‘The Transformation of Barlow’s Birds and Beasts in Continental Europe and Colonial America’

2 Andreas Motsch, ‘America in European Print Culture, 1492-1750’

3 Allison Stagg, ‘From Newton to Rowlandson to Gillray to Anonymous: The influence of European caricatures in America.’

12.30-2 lunch

2-3.30 panel 7:

1Joyce Goggin, Visual Print Culture in Europe: Pasquin’s Windkaart op de Windnegotie and English South Sea Bubble Cards, 1720.’

2Nicholas J. S. Knowles, ‘Rolandson (sic)’

3 Zalina Tertermazova,’Image “Reflections”: observations on portrait prints and their painted originals in 18th C Europe.’

3.30-4.00 Break

4.00 -5.00 panel 8

1. Alexandra Ault, Francis Jukes, Collaborative Image-Making, and the publication of Printed Views in King George III’s Topographical Collection.’

2. Horodowitch, ‘The mapping of America in Venetian Print Culture’