The September 2024 issue of Print Quarterly contains several contributions that may be of interest to CODART members for their material relating to Dutch and Flemish artists.

The article by Thomas Brown examines the rapid spread of visual information throughout Europe relating to the assassination of King Henri IV of France on 14 May 1610 and the execution of his assassin, François Ravaillac on 27 May. While the former is mainly confined to French and German prints, the latter reveals a series of important portrait prints of Ravaillac by Dutch and Flemish printmakers and publishers, notably Crispijn de Passe I, Christoffel van Sichem, and Claes Jansz. Visscher. Additionally, the publication of particular prints in select parts of Europe offer some idea of their commercial reception and success.

Lisa Battagliotti’s shorter article attributes to Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert an unrecorded woodcut depicting Vulcan’s Forge in the Kunsthalle, Bremen. She connects it to a well-known composition by Maarten van Heemskerck, perhaps inspired by Baldassare Peruzzi’s fresco in the Villa Farnesina whilst in Rome. Heemskerck probably entrusted the production of the woodblock to Coornhert on his return to Holland among their other collaborative projects.

The Note by Suzanne Boorsch on the graphic arts collections of the ETH Zürich and Vassar College offers a general overview of their holdings, which contain works by Dutch and Flemish artists like Lucas van Leyden, Hendrick Goltzius, and Rembrandt.

Similarly, Kevin Salatino’s review of The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints notes the presence of Dutch mannerist prints in the scholar’s collection, as well as reproductive prints after Peter Paul Rubens.

Contents

Articles
L’Horrible monstre de nature François Ravaillac: Assassination and Execution Prints in 1610 by Thomas Brown

The Duke of Portland’s Album of Masquerade Costumes Worn in Warsaw in 1759 by Derek Adlam and Maureen Cassidy-Geiger

Icon Printing and Pimen Sofronov’s Collection by Justin Willson

Shorter Notice
Maarten van Heemskerck and Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert: A Newly Identified Woodcut by Lisa Battagliotti

Notes
Israhel van Meckenem (c. 1445–1503) (Art of Enterprise: Israhel van Meckenem’s 15th-Century Print Workshop) by Carolyn Yerkes

Illustrated Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ikonographisches Repertorium zu den ‘Metamorphosen’ des Ovid. Die textbegleitende Druckgraphik, Band I.1: Narrative Darstellungen) by Berthold Kress

Susanna and Anna Lister and English Seventeenth-Century Natural History Prints (Martin Lister and His Remarkable Daughters: The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century) by Daniel Godfrey

Letters by Pierre Jean Mariette to Giovanni Gaetano Bottari (Il Codice 1606 (32-E-27) della Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana) by Antoinette Friedenthal

Women in Print by Andaleeb Badiee Banta

The Bookseller Edwin Pearson (1838–1901) and his Bewick Forgeries (Dealing in Deceit: Edwin Pearson of the ‘Bewick Repository’ Bookshop 1838–1901) by Antony Griffiths

Vuillard and the Art of Japan by Ricard Bru

‘Die Sechs’ – Poster Designers in Munich, 1913–20 by Jürgen Döring

Hanna Nagel (1907–75) by Paul Coldwell

ETH Zürich and Vassar: Art Collections at Institutions of Higher Learning (From Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol: Masterpieces from the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich and Making & Meaning: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center / Vassar College) by Suzanne Boorsch

Parallel Lives: Eight British Twentieth-Century Women Artists by Una Richmond

Joe Tilson (1928–2023) by Paul Coldwell

Andy Warhol bis Damien Hirst: The Revolution in Printmaking by Florian Simm

Woodblock Prints in Wichita, Kansas (The International Block Print Renaissance – Then and Now. Block Prints in Wichita, Kansas. A Centennial Celebration 1922–2022) by Andreas Strobl

Obituary for Dr Eduard Trautscholdt (1893–1976), Ruth-Maria Muthmann (1927–2021) and Marianne Küffner (1934–2024) of C.G. Boerner by Adrian T. Eeles and F. Carlo Schmid

Catalogue and Book Reviews
Cracks and Crevices – Etchings by Andrea Schiavone in Osijek (Andrea Meldolla Schiavone: Printmaking Genius of Mannerism) by Maria Aresin

Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Enlightenment by Rena M. Hoisington

Political Caricature in the United States, 1789–1828 by Tim Clayton

Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints by Kevin Salatino

¡Printing the Revolution! by Teresa Eckmann

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