Gesina ter Borch In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking

In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking publication

it examines the combination of circumstances and attitudes that produced results that are equally admired and detested and allows us to understand how we might replicate or avoid them in the future

Yet it also reveals how her legacy continues to resonate with the concerns of the present day

editor David Knight and Marco Livingstone

the debt owed by European artistic friends and collaborators – including David Weiss

Gesina ter Borch In this wide-ranging and thought-provokingGesina ter Borch (1631 1690) was a Dutch watercolourist and draughtswoman whose work survives primarily in the form of three albums of watercolours and calligraphy, now held at the Rijksmuseum. Despite the fact that her oeuvre is securely attributed and thoroughly catalogued, Ter Borch has surprisingly never been the subject of a dedicated monograph, until now. For the first time, this book highlights Ter Borchs watercolours and calligraphy in their