Shifting Structures in the Dutch Printmaking Network

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

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1. Shifting Structures in the Dutch Printmaking Network Matthew Lincoln University of Maryland @matthewdlincoln October 17, 2014 Sixteenth Century Society Conference
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. @matthewdlincoln
3. © The Trustees of the British Museum @matthewdlincoln
4. © The Trustees of the British Museum @matthewdlincoln What if we treat prints as indicies of a social network of production?
5. How did the centralization of the Dutch printmaking network evolve as prints became more popular? @matthewdlincoln
6. @matthewdlincoln British Museum Linked Open Data (collection.britishmuseum.org) prints between 1500-1750 55,558 175,342 artistic relationships 5,112 discrete actors
7. Peter Paul Rubens Schelte à Bolswert Gillis Hendricx designed @matthewdlincoln
8. Peter Paul Rubens Schelte à Bolswert Gillis Hendricx @matthewdlincoln
9. Titian Lucas van Uden Frans van den Wyngaerde after @matthewdlincoln
10. Peter Paul Rubens Schelte à Bolswert Gillis Hendricx Titian Lucas van Uden Frans van den Wyngaerde @matthewdlincoln
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12. @matthewdlincoln
13. @matthewdlincoln explore change over time
14. Figure from Padgett and Powell 2012, p. 6 @matthewdlincoln
15. Images from the National Gallery of Art Online Editions (http://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/60, accessed September 12, 2014) @matthewdlincoln
16. @matthewdlincoln Number of prints with a Dutch creator in the British Museum
17. Did artists centralize around expert printers? @matthewdlincoln © The Trustees of the British Museum “Sculptura in Æs”, from Johannes Stradanus’ Nova Reperta. Published by Philip Galle, c. 1588-1605. British Museum, London.
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. @matthewdlincoln
19. @matthewdlincoln Network Centralization Freeman 1978 “Centrality in Social Networks: Conceptual Clarification.” Social Networks 1, no. 3 (1978): 215–39.
20. é More centralized ê More distributed @matthewdlincoln
21. @matthewdlincoln é More centralized ê More distributed
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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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. @matthewdlincoln
25. Autumn by Andries Stock after David Vinckboons. Published by Hondius, 1618 Winter by Simon Frisius after David Vinckboons. Published by Hondius, 1618 @matthewdlincoln
26. Hondius active: 1597-1650 @matthewdlincoln
27. é More centralized ê More distributed @matthewdlincoln
28. Actor-oriented? Network-oriented? @matthewdlincoln
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. @matthewdlincoln
30. Matthew Lincoln University of Maryland matthewlincoln.net @matthewlincoln