| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 403 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Collecting histories
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Collecting histories.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-365) and index. |
| Summary |
Cabinets of prints and drawings are found in the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. From the sixteenth century onwards, some of them acquired such fame that the necessity for an ordered and scientific display meant that a dedicated keeper was occasionally employed to ensure that fellow enthusiasts, as well as visiting diplomats, courtiers and artists, might have access to the print room. Often collected and displayed together with drawings, the prints formed a substantial part of princely collections which sometimes achieved astounding longevity as a specialised group of collecti. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drawing -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History.
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Drawing -- Collectors and collecting. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Prints -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History.
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Prints -- Collectors and collecting. |
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Drawing. |
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Gáldy, Andrea M., editor.
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Heudecker, Sylvia, 1969- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Collecting prints and drawings. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 9781443822725 (OCoLC)1045637118 |
| ISBN |
9781527526549 (electronic book) |
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1527526542 (electronic book) |
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9781443822725 |
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1443822728 |
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