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’