Related Resources

This section provides pointers to collections related to the content of the Pembroke Album and to resources that can help provide context for the prints.

The Prints & Photographs Division has collections that relate to the Pembroke Collection, containing some contemporaneous prints and print processes.

Print Collections in the Prints & Photographs Division

Fine Print Collections in the Library of Congress (research guide)
This overview introduces 60,000 artist prints (15th-21st centuries) in the Prints & Photographs Division, including collection summaries, searching and viewing, sample images, and related resources elsewhere in the Library of Congress and other institutions.
Popular Graphic Art Prints at the Library of Congress (1600s-1970s) (research guide)
This guide provides an overview of a collection of approximately 65,000 historical prints produced primarily in the United States as well as examples from Mexico and Europe, a portion dating back to the 1600s.

Some public institutions hold collections of chiaroscuro prints or Italian Renaissance prints. The listing below suggests institutions or resources that lead to institutions with major such holdings.

Metropolitan Museum of Art - Wilton House Album (collection overview) External
The museum acquired five albums from the 1917 sale (Sotheby's July 6th) of the 'historical collections at Wilton House, Salisbury, the property of the Right Hon. The Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery', all of which were disassembled and integrated into the collection,
Spencer Museum of Art, the University of Kansas (collection overview) External
Italian Renaissance prints is one particular strength of the collections.

These resources may assist in researching and exploring the context of the images found in the Pembroke Collection and insights published sources can provide.

Articles and Books

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.

The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy by Naoko Takahatake, ed., with contributions by Antony Griffiths, Peter Parshall, Jonathan Bober, Linda Stiber Morenus.
Call Number: NE1300.8.I8 C49 2018

ISBN: 9783791357393

Published/Created: 2018-07-17
Fern, Alan M., and Karen F. Beall. "The ‘Pembroke’ Album of Chiaroscuros." In Graphic Sampler by Renata V. Shaw
Call Number: Z663.39 .G7

Published/Created: 1979

The Graphic Sampler entries, on which the online catalog records for the Pembroke Album prints and drawing are based, include cross-references to Bartsch numbers where relevant. Graphic Sampler has been digitized. This article appears on pages 10-28..
The General History of Printing by Samuel Palmer
Call Number: Z124 .P17 1733

Published/Created: 1733

The appendix describes prints and drawings in the Pembroke collection. Multiple editions of the book are available in the Library of Congress general collections and the Rare Book & Special Collections Division.
Griffiths, Antony. "Print Collecting in Rome, Paris, and London in the Early Eighteenth Century" in Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin
Call Number: N1 .H37

Published/Created: (Spring, 1994): 37-59.

Information about the Wilton Collection of prints and drawings, including the Library of Congress Pembroke Album, can be found in Antony Griffiths’ article.
Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts by by Caroline Karpinski, ed.; Adam von Bartsch
Call Number: NE90.I45 1978 P&P)

Published/Created: 1983.

Originally published as vol. 48 of The Illustrated Bartsch
Italian Printmaking, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries by Caroline Karpinski
Call Number: Z5947.3.I8 K37 1987

ISBN: 0816185565

Published/Created: 1987-01-01
The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550 by David Landau; Peter W. Parshall
Call Number: NE441.5.R44 L35 1994

ISBN: 0300057393

Published/Created: 1994-03-23

This book includes a discussion of chiaroscuro prints and printmakers with specific mention of Library of Congress Pembroke Album number 49, Domenico Beccafumi’s Three Male Figures or Three Lying Nudes.

Pembroke Album of Chiaroscuro Woodcut Prints in the Library of Congress

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