This is a guest post by Hilary Ott, the Deanna Marcum Fellow for the summer of 2013. Hilary has spent the past five weeks working in the Law Library examining engravings in 17th and 18th century law books from northern Europe.
Part of my project at the Law Library this summer has been to identify books in the collection that contain interesting engravings and to compile metadata about my findings. This means recording the artist, the images and the editions in which the same or similar engravings appear. One title that I particularly enjoyed researching was a Dutch work entitled Papegay by a seventeenth century author Willem van Alphen (1608-1691). The word papegay