Mark McDonald, a former Assistant Keeper of Old Master Prints and Spanish Drawings at the British Museum, is now Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has published widely and taught on this subject as well as on collecting and Spanish drawings. Among his publications is the 2006 Mitchell prizewinning The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus (1488–1539): a Renaissance Collector in Seville (2004).