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
- Part III Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law
- Chapter 10 Mary Darly, Fun Merchant and Caricaturist
- Chapter 11 A Changing Industry
- Chapter 12 Jane Hogarth: A Printseller’s Imprint on Copyright Law
- Chapter 13 Shells to Satire: The Career of Hannah Humphrey (1750–1818)
- Chapter 14 Encouraging Rowlandson: The Women Who Mattered
- Chapter 15 Female Printmakers and Printsellers in the Early American Republic
- Index
Chapter 13 - Shells to Satire: The Career of Hannah Humphrey (1750–1818)
from Part III - Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law
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
- Part III Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law
- Chapter 10 Mary Darly, Fun Merchant and Caricaturist
- Chapter 11 A Changing Industry
- Chapter 12 Jane Hogarth: A Printseller’s Imprint on Copyright Law
- Chapter 13 Shells to Satire: The Career of Hannah Humphrey (1750–1818)
- Chapter 14 Encouraging Rowlandson: The Women Who Mattered
- Chapter 15 Female Printmakers and Printsellers in the Early American Republic
- Index
Summary
This chapter traces the career of the printseller Hannah Humphrey and her long association with James Gillray, with whom she lived in some form of partnership from 1794 until Gillray’s death in 1815. Brought up in a shop that sold shells and other curiosities, Hannah’s brother George became the leading commercial expert on shells while her sister Elizabeth married the world’s most important dealer in minerals. As for Hannah, by the time she was twenty-eight, she ran a shop selling prints, and, by the time she died, was the best-known caricature printseller in London. She and her brother William worked with Gillray from the outset of his career, but Hannah ultimately became Gillray’s sole publisher and even a collaborator who likely took part in the creative process as well as the business.
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- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830, pp. 207 - 221Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024