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A Woodcut and Its Wanderings in Seventeenth-Century England.

A Woodcut and Its Wanderings in Seventeenth-Century England.

Authors :
Marsh, Christopher
Source :
Huntington Library Quarterly. Summer2016, Vol. 79 Issue 2, p245-262. 18p.
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

This essay traces the career of a distinctive woodcut picture that appears on dozens of seventeenth-century ballad broadsheets. Christopher Marsh argues that woodcuts have often been neglected by scholars and that they deserve careful attention. The common habit of redeploying old pictures on new ballads may, for example, have encouraged consumers to build associations between individual woodcuts and particular characteristics or themes. In order to understand the visual aesthetic of early-modern balladry, it is therefore necessary to think in fresh and creative ways about the effects of the repetition of pictures on cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00187895
Volume :
79
Issue :
2
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Huntington Library Quarterly
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
116234114
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2016.0010