Papers from a conference held at the National Gallery in London in 1997, organized by the Burlington magazine and sponsored by the Getty Provenance Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.
Introduction / Genevieve Warwick -- The archaeology of the print / Antony Grffiths -- The print collection of Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539) / David Landau -- 'Extremely curious and important!': reconstructing the print collection of Ferdinand Columbus / Mark P. McDonald -- A Roman collector of the late sixteenth century: Antonio Tronsarelli / Matteo Lafranconi -- Giulio Mancini and the organization of a print collection in early : seventeenth-century Italy / Michael Bury -- Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) and the origins of drawings collecting in Stuart England / Jeremy Wood -- Sir Peter Lely's collection of prints and drawings / Diana Dethloff -- Connoisseurship and the collection of drawings in Italy c. 1700 : the case of Padre Sebastiano Resta / Genevieve Warwick -- A Judiciously Disposed Collection': Jonathan Richardson Senior's cabinet of drawings / Carol Gibson-Wood -- The drawings collection of Pierre Crozat (1665-1740) / Cordelia Hattori -- The Italian drawings collection of Cavaliere Francesco Maria -- Niccolo Gabburri (1676-1742) / Nicholas Turner