Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century Book contents
- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Frontispiece
- Introduction: Hidden Legacies
- Part I Self-Presentation and Self-Promotion
- Part II Spaces of Production
- Chapter 5 Living ‘in the bosom of a numerous and worthy family’
- Chapter 6 Divine Secrets of a Printmaking Sisterhood
- Chapter 7 Yielding an Impression of Women Printmakers in Eighteenth-Century France
- Chapter 8 Laura Piranesi incise
- Chapter 9 Etchings by Ladies, ‘Not Artists’
- Part III Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law
- Index
Chapter 9 - Etchings by Ladies, ‘Not Artists’
from Part II - Spaces of Production
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2024
- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Frontispiece
- Introduction: Hidden Legacies
- Part I Self-Presentation and Self-Promotion
- Part II Spaces of Production
- Chapter 5 Living ‘in the bosom of a numerous and worthy family’
- Chapter 6 Divine Secrets of a Printmaking Sisterhood
- Chapter 7 Yielding an Impression of Women Printmakers in Eighteenth-Century France
- Chapter 8 Laura Piranesi incise
- Chapter 9 Etchings by Ladies, ‘Not Artists’
- Part III Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law
- Index
Summary
The etchings of noble women working as non-professional artists outside the commercial spaces of the print trade have long been under-appreciated and even dismissed for their amateur status. During their lifetime, etchings by Isabella Byron, Lady Carlisle; Lady Louisa Augusta Greville; and Miss Amabel Yorke, later Lady Polworth and her younger cousin Miss Caroline York were valued and preserved in the private spaces of albums compiled by the prominent collectors Horace Walpole and Richard Bull. With this reassessment, the legacy of their work, its cultural and social currency, and its reception among contemporaries can be reinserted as a vital component in the broader story of women printmakers.
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- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830, pp. 137 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024