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The art of paper : from the holy land to the Americas / Caroline Fowler.

By: Fowler, Caroline O
Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: ix, 174 pages : illustrations (color and black and white) :; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300246025Subject(s): Paper -- History | Papermaking -- History
Contents:
Introduction: a new kind of route -- Tracking paper routes across the early modern world -- Forgetting paper's origins -- The model of loss in late-medieval drawing -- Albrecht Dürer and the geography of paper -- Paper: modernizing the ancient's wax tablet -- Conclusion: Rembrandt and a new paper world.
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Book Book British Museum
Prints and Drawings Shelves L.4.36 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available PD10017645

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index.

Introduction: a new kind of route -- Tracking paper routes across the early modern world -- Forgetting paper's origins -- The model of loss in late-medieval drawing -- Albrecht Dürer and the geography of paper -- Paper: modernizing the ancient's wax tablet -- Conclusion: Rembrandt and a new paper world.

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