27 November 2026 : Salon d'Automne 2026
Public Lecture: Lithography and the Autographed Portrait: A Global
History
Lecture by Tom Young, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art Histories at the Courtauld Institute in London.
Over the
first decades of the nineteenth century, a new print portrait format achieved
international popularity. This format combined a vignette of the sitter’s
likeness with a facsimile reproduction of their signature – a self-assertion of
individuality, as well as an indexical trace of agency. In his lecture, Tom
Young will connect the popularity of this format to the development and global
expansion of lithographic printing. By surveying the production of
‘autographed’ print portraits in a range of imperial and colonial contexts, it
will track how the format communicated political ideas that were used as the
basis for domination as well as tools for resistance.
The lecture
offers a sneak peek of Tom Young’s forthcoming publication Lithography and the
Modern World, c.1796–1914.
Information
Location: Aula BRUSK, Dijver 12, Bruges
Date: Friday 27 November 2026, 15.30 -18.00 hrs (public lecture & drinks)
Tickets: regular €15 / students and PhD candidates € 7,50 (kindly send a proof of enrolment to a university to symposium@brugge.be before you register. Upon positive review you'll be send a discount code of 50% you can use with your registration).
Language: English
Registration is open until Friday 20 November, via this link
Programme
Moderator:
Ulrike Müller (University Antwerp & SALON board)
15.30-16.30: Lecture by Tom Young
16.30-17.00: Questions & discussion
17.00-18.00: Drinks in BRUSK
