The leisure corner, made for reading near the bed. Interesting detail: two bound books, likely novels, and a few fresh quires of paper sheets waiting to be used. Here, newly produced paper sheets, likely in the trade units of the time, were waiting for action. #paperhistory 7/9
What you see is a painted impression of the material circumstances of an European artist in the early nineteenth century. Among other details and objects, a lot of paper is present. Let's have a a closer look, #paperhistory#bookhistory#earlymodern#skystorians. 1/9
Always on offer were loose sheets, maybe old letters of contemporary authors, sometimes a printed image of a book that was lost, even new paper sheets for letter writing. Selling old books was usually a paper business, sheet for sheet. #PaperHistory#earlymodern#BookHistory. 5/
Paper was being present in European urban settings around 1800. A focus on the far right of the painting, almost hidden at the walls, shows a glued paper (likely announcements, advertisements, single-sheet prints). #PaperHistory#UrbanHistory. We are used to live with paper around us. 2/
There was once a time, when shopping at a second hand book trade shop looked like a bit like this: urban setting, streetselling vibes, lots of old books present, also paper sheets, various prints, etc. Here is a thread about the painting "Beim Antiquar" #skystorians#bookhistory#paperhistory 1/
📜 A fascinating 🧵 about an earlier world of paper! #PaperHistory#BookHistory#earlymodern#skystorians#AcademicSky#BlueLZ
Highlighted is a typical paper product of the time, a single sheet print - a so-called #broadside#BookHistory#PaperHistory. /2
Schools in Europe were social spaces of learning and teaching, and above all, schools were a paper world: contact zones for pupils with papers of all sorts. Let's have a look at this 1670 painting by Jan Steen. A thread for #PaperHistory#BookHistory#earlymodern#skystorians#BlueLZ 1/
Early Modern Europe was a paper age - a first period of paper usages. Especially managing information became a paper business as the painting "The Lawyer's Office" (1628) from Pieter de Bloot highlights. (Rijksmuseum: t1p.de/1awb#paperhistory#bookhistory#skystorians 1/
