Printed Images in Early Modern Britain

Contents: Introduction, Michael Hunter; Part 1 Printed Images and the Reformation: Symbols of conversion: proprieties of the page in Reformation England, Margaret Aston; Censorship and self-censorship in late 16th-century English book illustration, Richard L. Williams; Guides to Godliness from print to plaster, Tara Hamling; 'Like fragments of a shipwreck': printed images and religious antiquarianism in early modern England, Alexandra Walsham. Part 2 Printed Images in Science and Cartography: Page techne: interpreting diagrams in early modern English 'how-to' books, Lori Anne Ferrell; Gesner, Topsell and the purposes of pictures in early modern natural histories, Katherine Acheson; Hollar's prospects and maps of London, Simon Turner; The theory of the impression according to Robert Hooke, Matthew Hunter. Part 3 Printed Images and Politics: The Common Weales Canker Wormes or the Locusts of Both Church and State: 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 caricatured, Helen Pierce; Decoding the Leviathan: doing the history of ideas through images 1651-1714, Justin Champion. Part 4 Printed Images and Aspects of Late 17th-Century English Culture: Noble or commercial? The early history of mezzotint in Britain, Ben Thomas; Faithorne, Loggan, Vandrebank and White: the engraved portrait in late 17th-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; Index.

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• Gravura e produção de gravuras
• História dos estilos de arte e design: ~ 1400 até ~ 1600
• Historia dos estilos de arte e design: ~ 1600 até ~ 1800