Table of Contents

Cover Image

List of Color Plates

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

List of Permissions

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reading the Small Landscapes

1. Publication

Drawings into Prints

The Small Landscape Prints

"Gheconterfeyt naer dleven": Pictorial Truth and the Small Landscapes

The Cartographic Connection

The Landscapes of Hieronymus Cock

Ruined Landscapes

World Landscapes in Print

Landscapes after Pieter Bruegel and Hans Bol

Hieronymus Cock and Varietas in Landscape

Innovation in the Small Landscapes

2. Reception

Cock’s Elite Patrons and Supporters

Audiences for the Small Landscapes at Home and Abroad

Antwerp’s Hinterlands

Urban Ties to Rural Property

The Speelhuis Phenomenon

Praise of the Country House and the Country Life

The Landjuweel of 1561: Propaganda and the Popular Perception of Country Life

Rural Countryside as Cultural Ideal

3. Repetition

Antwerp, Crisis and Recovery

Philips Galle’s 1601 edition of the Small Landscapes

Theodoor Galle’s Third Edition of the Small Landscapes

"In Pictorum Gratiam": The Small Landscapes as Models for Painters in Antwerp

Prints and Painters I: Abel Grimmer

Prints and Painters II: Pieter Brueghel the Younger

The Small Landscapes Renewed and The Local Landscape Recast

4. Migration

Claes Visscher at the Sign of the Fisher

Visscher’s Copies of the Small Landscapes

Picturing Brabant in Amsterdam

Brabant and Holland: Visscher’s Visual Analogy

5. Transformation

Johannes Galle and the Business of Reproductive Print Publishing

Old Landscapes in a New Style

Importing Narrative into Landscape

Landscapes of their Time: The End of the Twelve Years’ Truce

The Small Landscapes Redux

Appendix I: Grouping of the 1559 and 1561 Small Landscapes series

Appendix II: Concordance of editions of the Small Landscapes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Alexandra Onuf is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Hartford, USA.