One Article, six Notes, and two Reviews in the March 2025 issue of Print Quarterly may be of interest to CODART members for their material relating to Dutch and Flemish artists.

Adam Perzyński’s article on the illustrations in the book Hippica (Cracow, 1603) also discusses a few of the print sources used by the engraver, including Goltzius and Hans Collaert I.

Linda Parshall’s review note on Botanical Icons examines how plant specimens were studied, depicted, and their knowledge dispersed, from their earliest known origins to the early modern period. Mention is made of key publications such as Rembert Dodoens’ Stirpium historiae pemptades sex (Antwerp, 1583), which claimed to perpetuate ancient botanical knowledge.

Huw Keene contributed a note studying Zeghere van Male’s manuscript partbooks, particularly the inspirational sources behind its extensive decorative program of hundreds of lively pen-and-ink drawings, some based on sixteenth-century German prints.

Kinga Bódi’s review note on Die Ordnung der Dinge illustrates how prints, and especially print series, became a defining visual and artistic medium in western Europe between the late fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. The discussion greatly mentions the work of Hendrick Goltzius, Jan Muller and Frans Floris.

A more detailed analysis of Goltzius comes in Marjolein Leesberg’s review note, who praises the Freiburg catalogue’s new angle amidst the over-saturated, repetitive literature of recent decades. The artist’s religious prints are highlighted as a rare case of neglect, which this catalogue rectifies.

Meanwhile, Bernard Aikema’s review note examines travelling artists from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, including an extensive section on Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Melchior Lorck’s work-based on trips to the Ottoman Empire.

Rounding up the Notes section is Catherine Jenkins’ article on the print collection of the Petit Palais, which holds over 30,000 prints from the fifteenth to early twentieth centuries. The Dutch and Flemish holdings were especially indebted to the brothers Eugène and Auguste Dutuit, whose founding collection of old masters was bequeathed to the city of Paris in 1902 by Auguste, including Eugène’s celebrated Rembrandt prints.

In the reviews, the spread of Netherlandish prints in the Balkans is widely discussed in Grażyna Jurkowlaniec’s analysis of two publications from the National Museum in Belgrade. One is a set of proceedings examining the influence of Netherlandish prints both in and beyond Europe, especially lesser-known regions like Serbia. The other is a catalogue of the museum’s holdings of Netherlandish, Flemish, and Dutch prints, numbering 189 original prints and a few later copies.

Finally, Victoria Sancho Lobis’ review of Rubens in Repeat considers the impact of Rubens’ prints on Colonial Latin American art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Contents

Articles
Engravings for Polish Equestrians: Tomasz Makowski’s Illustrations for Hippica (1603) by Adam Perzyński

‘Bengalee Work’ before Aquatint: Thomas Daniell’s Views of Calcutta by Jalen Chang

From Brussels to Point Breeze: Charlotte Bonaparte’s Lithographic Landscapes, 1821–25 by Thomas Busciglio-Ritter

Shorter Notices
Antonio Salamanca’s First Marriage by Corinna Gallori

Diane Victor: A Triptych and its Antecedents by Gill Saunders

Notes
Pollaiolo (I disegni di Antonio e Piero del Pollaiolo) by David Landau

Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean by Linda Parshall

Drawing from Sixteenth-Century German Prints in the Zeghere van Male Partbooks by Huw Keene

Graphic Series Explain the World (Die Ordnung der Dinge: Graphische Serien erklären die Welt) by Kinga Bódi

Giorgio Ghisi’s Allegory of Human Life by Luca Baroni

Travelling Artists (Connecting Worlds: Artists and Travels) by Bernard Aikema

Goltzius in Freiburg and Gottingen Collections (Verwandlung der Welt: Meisterblätter von Hendrick Goltzius) by Marjolein Leesberg

Natale Conti’s Mythologie by Anna Baydova

Divine Guido Reni by Marzia Faietti

The Print Collection of the Petit Palais, Paris (Trésors en noir et blanc) by Catherine Jenkins

Hokusai’s Fuji by Ellis Tinios

Octave de Rochebrune (1824–1900), A One-Off from the Vendee by Emmanuel Pernoud

Degas and the Laundress by Ashley Dunn

Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s by Robin Owen Joyce

Jean Delpech (1916–88) by Martin Hopkinson

Lygia Pape: Tecelares by Iria Candela

Obituary for Reba White Williams by Antony Griffiths

Catalogue and Book Reviews
The Reception of Mantegna’s Prints in Germany (Aemulatio Italorum) by Bernard Aikema

Netherlandish Prints in the Balkans by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America by Victoria Sancho Lobis

Inventorying Ed Ruscha (Ed Ruscha / Now Then: A Retrospective) by Rachel Vogel

Self Help Graphics at Fifty by Teresa Eckmann