PhD Candidate Emily Hirsch is the recipient of a 2026-27 Fulbright Open Research Award in Belgium. She will be based at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, where she will be researching the museum's collection of drawings by sculptors from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This project is connected both to Emily's PhD dissertation on the production of clay models by early modern Flemish sculptors and an upcoming research project at the Museum Plantin-Moretus on drawings by sculptors.

Image credit: Pieter I Verbruggen, Design for a Wall Epitaph, c. 1625-86. Black pen and red chalk on paper: 208 x 135 mm. Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp. (Photo: Emily Hirsch)