Enfilade

The long eighteenth century in the latest issue of Print Quarterly:

Print Quarterly 41.2 (June 2024)

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Simon Gribelin, A Medal of William III Commemorating the Fall of Namur, 1695 and other engravings, in the Works of Gribelin album, sheet 311 × 372 mm (Windsor Castle, Royal Collection. Image Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2023).

• Rhian Wong, “Simon Gribelin’s Presentation Albums,” pp. 157–71.
The article examines two previously unpublished presentation albums in the Royal Collection, compiled by the engraver Simon Gribelin (1661–1733). The Works of Gribelin album was compiled in 1715 for George II (when Prince of Wales), while an album of prints of the ceiling of the Banqueting House, London was presented around 1720 to George I. A consideration of the contents of the Works of Gribelin album reveals that Gribelin followed a deliberate programme for the arrangement of its contents. The article looks at the purpose of the albums and places their creation in the context of four other albums known to have been assembled by Gribelin.

n o t e s  a n d  r e v i e w s

• Galina Mardilovich, Review of Julia Khodko, Peterburg Mikhaila Makhaeva. Grafika I zhivopis’ vtoroi poloviny XVIII veka (The State Russian Museum, 2022), pp. 183–85. This is the catalogue for an exhibition addressing the drawings (and resulting prints) of St Petersburg made by Mikhail Makhaev (1717–1770).

• Shijia Yu, Review of The Art of the Deal (Daniel Crouch Rare Books, 2023), pp. 185–87. This is catalogue of the playing card collection assembled by the Dutch collector Frank van den Bergh.

• Thea Goldring, Review of Esther Bell, Sarah Grandin, Corinne Le Bitouzé, and Anne Leonard, Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque National de France (Yale University Press, 2022), pp. 188–90.

• Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Review of Amy Golahny, Rembrandt’s Hundred Guilder Print (Lund Humphries, 2021), pp. 221–26. Includes the reception history of the print, and the section on William Baillie’s restrikes in the 1770s is relevant.