Shifting Structures in the Dutch Printmaking Network

Presented at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 17, 2014.

Transcript

1. Shifting Structures in
   the Dutch Printmaking
   Network
   Matthew Lincoln
   University of Maryland
   @matthewdlincoln
   October 17, 2014
   Sixteenth Century Society Conference
   

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2. © The Trustees of the British Museum From the Small Landscapes series, designed by Peter Paul
   Rubens, engraved by Schelte à Bolswert, published by Gillis
   Hendricx, c. 1638. British Museum, London.
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3. © The Trustees of the British Museum
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4. © The Trustees of the British Museum
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   What if we treat prints
   as indicies of a social
   network of production?
   

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5. How did the centralization
   of the Dutch printmaking
   network evolve as prints
   became more popular?
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6. @matthewdlincoln
   British Museum
   Linked Open Data (collection.britishmuseum.org)
   prints between 1500-1750
   55,558
   175,342 artistic relationships
   5,112
   discrete actors
   

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7. Peter Paul Rubens
   Schelte à Bolswert Gillis Hendricx
   designed
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8. Peter Paul Rubens
   Schelte à Bolswert Gillis Hendricx
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9. Titian
   Lucas van Uden Frans van den Wyngaerde
   after
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10. Peter Paul Rubens
    Schelte à Bolswert Gillis Hendricx
    Titian
    Lucas van Uden Frans van den Wyngaerde
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11. @matthewdlincoln
    

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12. @matthewdlincoln
    

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13. @matthewdlincoln
    explore change over time
    

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14. Figure from Padgett and Powell 2012, p. 6
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15. Images from the National Gallery of Art Online Editions (http://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/60, accessed September 12, 2014)
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16. @matthewdlincoln
    Number of prints with a Dutch creator in the British Museum
    

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17. Did artists centralize
    around expert printers?
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    © The Trustees of the British Museum “Sculptura in Æs”, from Johannes Stradanus’ Nova Reperta.
    Published by Philip Galle, c. 1588-1605.
    British Museum, London.
    

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18. Did artists decentralize as
    local expertise grew?
    © The Trustees of the British Museum “Sculptura in Æs”, from Johannes Stradanus’ Nova Reperta.
    Published by Philip Galle, c. 1588-1605.
    British Museum, London.
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19. @matthewdlincoln
    Network
    Centralization
    Freeman 1978
    “Centrality in Social Networks: Conceptual Clarification.” Social Networks 1, no. 3 (1978): 215–39.
    

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20. é More centralized
    ê More distributed
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21. @matthewdlincoln
    é More centralized
    ê More distributed
    

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22. @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
    

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23. @matthewdlincoln
    

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24. 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.
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25. Autumn by Andries Stock after David Vinckboons. Published by Hondius, 1618
    Winter by Simon Frisius after David Vinckboons. Published by Hondius, 1618
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26. Hondius active: 1597-1650
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27. é More centralized
    ê More distributed
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28. Actor-oriented? Network-oriented?
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29. “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.
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30. Matthew Lincoln
    University of Maryland
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