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(1450-1900)

Privilege to the Royal Lithographic Establishment, Madrid (1834)

Source: Archivo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 1-49-2

Citation:
Privilege to the Royal Lithographic Establishment, Madrid (1834), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title:
Privilege concerning the Royal Lithographic Establisment (Madrid)

Full title original language:
Real Orden sobre el privilegio concedido al establecimiento litográfico de Madrid

Abstract:
Lithography and other forms of mechanical reproduction were first used by Madrazo to reproduce under royal privilege a substantial number of paintings from the Prado Museum. But he could not stop the emergence of piracy. The argument was well known, yet still worked: if foreigners “copied” pictures from the Spanish school and then introduced them as prints, Spanish authorities needed to support their local mechanical reproduction and intervene into the lithographic trade. However the controversy around this privilege shows that the political intervention was not only an international problem. The anxiety about foreign trade veiled an underlying battle among lithographic presses in Spain (particularly in the cities of Barcelona, Valencia, and Madrid) to conquer their own limited (territorial) exclusivity.

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Bibliography:
  • Barrena, C. "La estampa moderna. Evolución de la imagen impresa desde la talla dulce a la serigrafía" in Aullón de Haro, P. (ed.) Óscar Esplá y Eusebio Sempere en el proceso de la modernidad artística: Un Paradigma Comparatista vol. 2 (Madrid, Editorial Verbum, 2005) pp. 27-63

  • Madrazo, M. Historia del Museo del Prado 1818-1868 (Madrid, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, 1945)

  • Subirana Rebull, R. M. Els Orígens de la litografía a Catalunya: 1815-1825 (Barcelona,Biblioteca de Catalunya, 1991)

  • Vega, J. Origen de la litografía en España. El Real Establecimiento Litográfico (Madrid, Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, 1990)


Related documents in this database:
1506: Nebrija's Printing Privilege
1604: Petition for licence and privilege by Cervantes
1605: Don Quixote’s Privilege
1605: Don Quixote’s Privilege Extensions

Author: N/A

Publisher: N/A

Year: 1834

Location: Madrid

Language: Spanish

Source: Archivo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 1-49-2

Persons referred to:
De Burgos y del Olmo , Javier
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Places referred to:
La Huerta
Madrid
Valencia

Cases referred to:
N/A

Institutions referred to:
Academy of Arts
Congress of Deputies
Economic Association of Valencia
Ministry of Public Works
Monarchy
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Royal Lithographic Establishment of Madrid
Royal Museum

Legislation:
N/A

Keywords:
duration, prolongation of privileges
engravings, protected subject matter
interest groups
lobbying
monopoly
privileges
privileges, for invention

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