{"id":345,"date":"2021-05-11T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/?page_id=345"},"modified":"2021-05-16T18:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T18:25:35","slug":"reproductive-engraving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/reproductive-engraving\/","title":{"rendered":"Reproductive Engraving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Reproductive engravings are a specific type of engraving<\/a> that reproduce other finished works of art or images. These engravings were valued more highly than common illustrative or religious prints but were not considered pieces of fine art themselves. Reproductive engravings imitated a wide range of media including paintings, monuments, architecture, and sculptures, offering each in a more portable format. This was particularly important in the time before photography when reproductive engravings were the only images of artworks available other than the originals.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These engraving offered many advantages to artists. A single engraved copper plate<\/a> could create hundreds of impressions<\/a> making reproductive engraving an economical way for artists to promote themselves to large audiences. This increased accessibility also allowed artists to study each other\u2019s works without having to see them in person. An example of a reproductive print in the Middlebury Museum\u2019s collections is Philippe Thomassi\u2019s Allegory of the Salvation<\/em><\/a> <\/em>(1605\u201322),<\/em> which reproduces Giorgio Vasari\u2019s An Allegory of the Immaculate Conception<\/em><\/a> <\/em>(c. 1540). The print is an inverse of the original because the engraving on the copper plate is reversed during printing, but otherwise imitates Vasari\u2019s painting with only a few compositional changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Camille Gonzalez-Williamson, edited by Simone Edgar Holmes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andres, Glenn M. \u201cIntroducing the John Hull Brown Collection.\u201d Middlebury College Newsletter<\/em>, 1978, Fall edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReproductive Prints.\u201d National Gallery of Art. Accessed September 14, 2020. https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/research\/library\/imagecollections\/reproductive-prints.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reznicek, E. K. J. \u201cGoltzius [Gols; Goltius; Goltz; Golzius], Hendrick.\u201d Grove Art Online<\/em>. 2003. https:\/\/www.oxfordartonline.com\/groveart\/view\/10.1093\/gao\/9781884446054.001.0001\/oao-9781884446054-e-7000033104.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reproductive engravings are a specific type of engraving that reproduce other finished works of art or images. These engravings were valued more highly than common illustrative or religious prints but were not considered pieces of fine art themselves. Reproductive engravings imitated a wide range of media including paintings, monuments, architecture, and sculptures, offering each in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-345","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.middcreate.net\/projects\/early-modern-dutch-prints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}