Notes
Notes from the archive
Short pieces on prints, people and places: how to read them, and where to find them today.
How to read a news sheet from 1621
Seven scenes, German captions and a curtain: a short guide to the news of the seventeenth century.
Two pictures of one morning
A news sheet printed in 1621 and a Dutch etching made almost eighty years later show the same execution. They don't agree.
Hollar's Prague, then and now
Wenceslaus Hollar drew his home city in 1636. Most of what he saw is still there.
One print a month
A print from the time, and the story it tells, once a month by email.