An Article, one Note and a Book Review in the December 2025 issue of Print Quarterly may be of interest to CODART members for their material relating to Dutch and Flemish artists.

Xanthe Brooke’s article on an unpublished album of Jusepe de Ribera prints at Knowsley Hall, Merseyside mentions the fate of some of the artist’s etching plates when they were sold to publishers such as Frans van den Wyngaerde in Antwerp. Additionally, it details the Riberesque sets of prints published and compiled by the engraver and publisher Abraham Blooteling.

Maik Bindewald’s Note connects a Holy Family gouache in Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to Albrecht Dürer’s Circumcision of Christ woodcut, specifically citing the reversal and adaption of the Christ Child figure. In doing so, an attribution to Dürer as the creator of the gouache is supported.

Stefano de Bosio’s review of Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 mentions several instances of ekphrasis in Dutch and Flemish art, such as Abraham van Diepenbeeck’s design for the engraving Le Chaos by Cornelis Bloemaert and Theodor Matham, or Hendrick Goltzius’s engagement with Ovid’s Metamorphoses in his Landscape with Venus and Adonis drawing.

Contents

‘Spaignolet’s Drawing Book’: An Album with Ribera Prints at Knowsley Hall by Xanthe Brooke

The Advent of the Magdalen Hospital: A Rare Satirical Print by Emma Boyd

Otto Dix’s ‘The War’ and MoMA, 1934–40 by Danielle M. Johnson

Hao Boyi and the Art Creation Class: Nurturing Beidahuang Printmaking in Northern China by Huang Shiqing

Shorter Notices

Gainsborough’s ‘Cottage Belonging to Philip Thicknesse near Landguard Fort‘ by Susan Sloman

Two Unreported Games of the Goose in the Creed Collection in the British Library by Felicity Myrone and Adrian Seville

Notes

Albrecht Dürer’s Material World by Thomas Schauerte

Dürer’s ‘Holy Family’ Gouache in Rotterdam and its Adaptation by Maik Bindewald

Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England by Katherine M. Reinhart

Female Printmakers, Printsellers and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century by Andaleeb Badiee Banta

Art and Race in the French Colonies from 1684 to 1794 (L’art et la race: L’Africain (tout) contre l’oeil des Lumières) by Jean Michel Massing

Dress, Underwear and Accessories (The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic World) by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Fans of the French Revolution (Éventails symboliques de la Révolution. Sources iconographiques et relations intermédiales) by Mathilde Semal

Capturing Nature: 150 Years of Nature Printing by Robert Felfe

Santini by David Landau

Degas en Noir et Blanc by Jonas Beyer

Munch and Kirchner by Judith Brodie

Picasso: Printmaker at the British Museum by Paul Coldwell

George Bellows: American Life in Print by Antony Griffiths

Édouard Pignon (1905–93) by Martin Hopkinson

Publications Received

Catalogue and Book Reviews

The Art of Printmaking in Venice (1494–1615) by Marzia Faietti

Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe by Stefano de Bosio

Late Hokusai: Society, Thought, Technique, Legacy by Sarah Thompson