Research Catalog

Title

Blinded by curiosity : the collector-dealer Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) and his radical approach to the printed image / Joyce Zelen.

Author

Zelen, Joyce G. H.

Publication

Leiden : Primavera Pers, 2022.

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Additional Authors

Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716.

Description

272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 26 cm

Summary

This book explores a phenomenon in the history of print collecting that has never been extensively investigated: the cutting and pasting of prints in the Early Modern period. The book focuses on the colourful Dutch classical scholar and libertine Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716). Beverland was banished from the Dutch Republic in 1679 for publishing blasphemous, heterodox, and provocative scholarly texts on sex and sin. Books that dealt with e.g. prostitution in ancient times, original sin as the first act of sexual intercourse, and the sexual lust of women, were considered dangerous to Dutch public morality. In 1680, Beverland fled to England, where his friend Isaac Vossius took him in. It was here that Beverland began cutting (nowadays) costly etchings and engravings and arranging the cuttings into collages. These collages, which again demonstrated his interest in sexual matters, survived in two illustrated manuscripts, now in the British Library and the Bodleian Library (Oxford). This study aims: 1) to reconstruct Beverland's life in England, primarily concentrating on his interests and dealing in art and books; 2) to map the Early Modern practice of cutting and pasting prints, on the basis of remaining cuttings as well as textual sources from Beverland's day; 3) to present a comprehensive analysis of the two illustrated Beverland-manuscripts in terms of form and function.

Alternative Title

Collector-dealer Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) and his radical approach to the printed image

Subject

• Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716 > Criticism and interpretation
• Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716 > Art collections
• Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716
• Altered prints
• Collage
• Prints
• Art > Collectors and collecting
• Art > Private collections

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQF 22-1016

ISBN

• 9789059973305
• 9059973305

OCLC

1205591721

Author

Zelen, Joyce G. H., author.

Title

Blinded by curiosity : the collector-dealer Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) and his radical approach to the printed image / Joyce Zelen.

Publisher

Leiden : Primavera Pers, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716. Works. Selections.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1016