‘Printed Image and Decorative Print, 1500-1750’
Friday 22 March 2013
Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading, London Road Campus, Building LO22, Room 111
Session 1:
Eric Kindel, ‘Recording knowledge: Christiaan Huygens and the invention of stencil duplicating’
James Mosley, ‘A Buried Text and an Unknown Iconography of the Making of Books: the Description des Arts et Métiers of the Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris’
Lunch: with an exhibition of early modern printed material from Reading Special Collections and Typography, Small Seminar Room, Special Collections, Museum of English Rural Life.
Session 2:
Clare Backhouse, ‘Ballad Pictures in Seventeenth-Century England: Conventions of Representation’
Angela McShane, ‘Rethinking the Unstable Image: Kings, Queens and Cobblers on Seventeenth-Century English Ballads’
Session 3:
Roundtable discussion led by Rebecca Bullard.
Registration: £10
To register, please contact: Jan Cox, j.f.cox@reading.ac.uk
For further information, contact: Rebecca Bullard, r.bullard@reading.ac.uk