Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe C. 1500-1750

Prints and drawings have been keenly collected in Europe since at least the early sixteenth century. Relatively modest in price they offered artists amateurs and collectors of a systematic turn of mind the opportunity to put together holdings with a wide representation of different hands schools and types of subject. Prints and drawings are traditionally treated separately but their collecting is shown here to raise many interrelated issues. Employing a wide range of methodologies the essays in this volume offer a number of innovative investigations into the collecting perception classication and display of works on paper.