Shifting Structures in the Dutch Printmaking Network Matthew Lincoln University of Maryland @matthewdlincoln October 17, 2014 Sixteenth Century Society Conference
@matthewdlincoln British Museum Linked Open Data (collection.britishmuseum.org) prints between 1500-1750 55,558 175,342 artistic relationships 5,112 discrete actors
@matthewdlincoln • Rapid centralization around 1580-1600 • Swift re-distribution within a generation, reverting to a low level by 1640s • Economic contraction in 1670s did not lead to a return of centralization
Portrait of Hendrick Hondius I from Image de divers hommes, engraved by Frederick Bouttats the Elder, published by Jan Meyssens, c. 1649. British Museum, London. @matthewdlincoln
Autumn by Andries Stock after David Vinckboons. Published by Hondius, 1618 Winter by Simon Frisius after David Vinckboons. Published by Hondius, 1618 @matthewdlincoln
“In the short run, actors create relations; in the long run, relations create actors.” John Frederick Padgett and Walter W. Powell, “The Problem of Emergence,” in The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, ed. John Frederick Padgett and Walter W. Powell (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 3. @matthewdlincoln