The shadow of Rubens
Subtitle: print publishing in 17th-century Antwerp : prints by the history painters Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Cornelis Schut and Erasmus Quellinus II
By: [Ann Diels ; translated from the Dutch by Irene Schaudies and Michael Hoyle]
Contributors: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers; In collaboration with the Royal Library of Belgium; Harvey Miller
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium; [Brussels]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781905375509
Description: This text presents both an overview of the print production in 17th-century southern Low Countries and a focused approach to the work of three collaborators of Rubens - Abraham Van Diepenbeeck, Erasmus Quellinus II, and Cornelis Schut.
Notes: Prints are in the collection of the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Print production in Europe in the seventeenth : engravers operating in local, regional and international markets; title: "Painting has but one original, while the art of engraving has hundreds" : prints between reproduction and invention; title: The history painters Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Cornelis Schut, and Erasmus Quellinus II and their professional relationships with engravers and print publishers; title: "In addition to painting [he] also wielded the etching needle" : seventeenth-century Antwerp history painters as etchers.