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Erin Blake
Copperplate illustrations and the question of quality
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Copperplate illustrations and the question of quality
While looking at early modern book illustration in the undergraduate seminar on Friday, we got to talking about the false assumption that copperplate illustrations always indicate better-quality publications, while woodcuts are inherently lowly. True, the raw material is more expensive:…
Sue Doggett's The Tempest, a unique artists' book
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Sue Doggett's The Tempest, a unique artists' book
Conventional wisdom sets up two distinct experiences of Shakespeare’s plays: readers encountering a text, and audiences encountering a performance. The Folger recently acquired a 1995 version of The Tempest by London book artist Sue Doggett that complicates the distinction. Readers…