(Posted by Jeanette Clough for John Meriton)
Please see the following information about an upcoming conference
jointly organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Birkbeck,
University of London.
The conference is about the status and role of early printed images in
Britain in books and elsewhere. There is an international line up of
speakers.
I would be grateful if this information could be forwarded to members
or put on your website.
John Meriton FCLIP FRSA
Deputy Keeper, Word & Image Department
Librarian, National Art Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 2388
Facs. +44 (0)20 7942 2410
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British Printed Images to 1700
12- 13 September 2008
Jointly organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Birkbeck
College, University of London.
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
To Register:
www.vam.ac.uk/tickets
+44 0 020 7942 2211
Cost: 110 Pounds Sterling for 2 days, 55 Pounds Sterling for 1 day.
Day One: Friday 12 September
10:00 Registration
10:30 Antony Griffiths British Museum
The Print in Stuart Britain after Ten Years
10:50 Margaret Aston
Symbols of Conversion: Proprieties of the Page in Reformation England
11:30 John King Ohio State
Word and Image in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
12:10 Display of books from the National Art Library in the Print Room
Education Study Room
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Gill Saunders V&A
‘Paper Tapistry’ and ‘Wooden Pictures’: Printed Decoration in
the Domestic Interior before 1700
14:40 Ben Thomas Kent
Noble or Commercial? The Early History of Mezzotint in Britain
15:20 Tea
16:00 Angela Mcshane V&A and Clare Backhouse Courtauld
Top Knots and Lower Sorts: Print and Promiscuous Consumption in the
1690s
17:00 New Researchers’ Session
David Davis, Exeter:
Divine Visions or Idolatrous Sights? Images of God in Protestant prints
1558 - 1603
Adam Morton, York:
Living the Life of Antichrist: Representing the Invisible Nemesis in
Early Modern England
Rhian Wyn-Williams, Liverpool:
Charles I as Rex Marium
Stephen Brogan, Birkbeck:
The Sovereign Remedy: Images of the Royal Touch in Restoration England
Rosemary Dixon, Queen Mary
Portrait Engravings and the Material Book: Representing Archbishop
Tillotson in Text and Image
18:15 Close
Day Two: Saturday 13 September
10:00 Registration
10:30 Lori Anne Ferrell Claremont, Ca.
The Art in Techne: Diagrammatic Illustrations in Early Modern
“How-to” Books
11:10 Alex Walsham Exeter
“Like Fragments of a Shipwreck”: Printed Images and Religious
Antiquarianism in Early Modern England
11:50 Michael Hunter, Katherine Hunt, John Bradley and Paul Vetch
Birkbeck, CCH and bpi 1700
Demonstration of database for the British Printed Images to 1700
website
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Malcolm Jones Sheffield
The Common Weales Canker Wormes
14:10 Kevin Sharpe Queen Mary
Images of Oliver Cromwell
14:50 Tea
15.20 Justin Champion Royal Holloway
Decoding the Leviathan: Doing the History of Ideas Through Images 1651
- 1700
15:50 Round table discussion led by Mark Knights Warwick, and others
17:00 Close
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