Female printmakers, printsellers, and print publishers in the eighteenth century: the imprint of women, c. 1700-1830

Abstract

"Sixteen international scholars uncover neglected histories about the contributions of eighteenth-century women to making, selling and publishing prints and emphasise the creativity and acumen they displayed. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Show-Offs: Women’s Self-Portrait Prints c. 1700 / Madeleine C. Viljoen -- Maria Hadfield Cosway’s ‘Genius’ for Print: A Didactic, Commercial, and Professional Path / Paris A. Spies-Gans -- Caroline Watson and the Theatre of Printmaking / Heather McPherson -- ‘Talent and Untiring Diligence’: The Print Legacy of Angelika Kauffmann, Marie Ellenrieder, and Maria Katharina Prestel / F. Carlo Schmid -- Living ‘in the bosom of a numerous and worthy family’: Women Printmakers Learning to Engrave in Late Eighteenth-Century London / Hannah Lyons -- Divine Secrets of a Printmaking Sisterhood: The Professional and Familial Networks of the Horthemels and Hémery Sisters / Kelsey D. Martin -- Yielding an Impression of Women Printmakers in Eighteenth-Century France / Rena M. Hoisington -- Laura Piranesi incise: A Woman Printmaker Following in Her Father’s Footsteps / Rita Bernini -- Etchings by Ladies, ‘Not Artists’ / Cynthia E. Roman -- Mary Darly, Fun Merchant and Caricaturist / Sheila O'Connell -- A Changing Industry: Women Publishing and Selling Prints in London, 1740–1800 / Amy Torbert -- Jane Hogarth: A Printseller’s Imprint on Copyright Law / Cristina S. Martinez -- Shells to Satire: The Career of Hannah Humphrey (1750–1818) / Tim Clayton -- Encouraging Rowlandson: The Women Who Mattered / Nicholas JS Knowles -- Female Printmakers and Printsellers in the Early American Republic: Eliza Cox Akin and Mary Graham Charles / Allison M. Stagg.