The author, An Van Camp, is Christopher Brown Curator of Northern European Art at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (University of Oxford). She has previously co-curated exhibitions on metalpoint drawings and the young Rembrandt and has published widely on Dutch and Flemish drawings and prints. She most recently completed a research project on an online catalogue of the Ashmolean's early-modern German drawings.

"This entertaining exhibition of the 16th- and 17th-century drawings from the Low Countries has energy to spare." - The Telegraph

• Foreword 7Introduction 9Acknowledgements 11Note to the Reader 121 Drawings and Drawing 152 South Netherlandish Drawings in Context 273 Studying: Copies and Sketches 39Feature 1: Travelling to Italy and Copying the Antique 564 Designing: Drawings Made in Preparation of Other Works 87Feature 2: Collaborations in Print Design 1125 Independent Drawings 173Feature 3: Alba Amicorum 188List of Exhibited Drawings 215Notes 229Bibliography 237Index of Artists’ Names 242Image Credits 244

The author, An Van Camp, is Christopher Brown Curator of Northern European Art at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (University of Oxford). She has previously co-curated exhibitions on metalpoint drawings and the young Rembrandt and has published widely on Dutch and Flemish drawings and prints. She most recently completed a research project on an online catalogue of the Ashmolean's early-modern German drawings.

"This entertaining exhibition of the 16th- and 17th-century drawings from the Low Countries has energy to spare." - The Telegraph

• Foreword 7Introduction 9Acknowledgements 11Note to the Reader 121 Drawings and Drawing 152 South Netherlandish Drawings in Context 273 Studying: Copies and Sketches 39Feature 1: Travelling to Italy and Copying the Antique 564 Designing: Drawings Made in Preparation of Other Works 87Feature 2: Collaborations in Print Design 1125 Independent Drawings 173Feature 3: Alba Amicorum 188List of Exhibited Drawings 215Notes 229Bibliography 237Index of Artists’ Names 242Image Credits 244

The author, An Van Camp, is Christopher Brown Curator of Northern European Art at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (University of Oxford). She has previously co-curated exhibitions on metalpoint drawings and the young Rembrandt and has published widely on Dutch and Flemish drawings and prints. She most recently completed a research project on an online catalogue of the Ashmolean's early-modern German drawings.

"This entertaining exhibition of the 16th- and 17th-century drawings from the Low Countries has energy to spare." - The Telegraph

• Foreword 7Introduction 9Acknowledgements 11Note to the Reader 121 Drawings and Drawing 152 South Netherlandish Drawings in Context 273 Studying: Copies and Sketches 39Feature 1: Travelling to Italy and Copying the Antique 564 Designing: Drawings Made in Preparation of Other Works 87Feature 2: Collaborations in Print Design 1125 Independent Drawings 173Feature 3: Alba Amicorum 188List of Exhibited Drawings 215Notes 229Bibliography 237Index of Artists’ Names 242Image Credits 244