Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century

Cristina S. Martinez is an art historian who specialises in British eighteenth-century art and copyright history. She is the author of the entry on Jane Hogarth in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has received several awards including a Bodleian Library fellowship. Cynthia E. Roman is Curator of Prints, Drawings and Paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. She is an active and widely published scholar of British art of the eighteenth century. Her work focuses on the history of prints and print collecting, and the work of women and amateur artists.

• Introduction: hidden legacies Cristina S. Martinez and Cynthia E. Roman; Part I. Self-Presentation and Self-Promotion: 1. Show-offs: women's self-portrait prints c. 1700 Madeleine C. Viljoen; 2. Maria hadfield cosway's 'genius' for print: a didactic, commercial, and professional path Paris A. Spies-Gans; 3. Caroline Watson and the theatre of printmaking Heather McPherson; 4. 'Talent and untiring diligence': the print legacy of Angelika Kauffmann, Marie Ellenrieder and Maria Katharina Prestel F. Carlo Schmid; Part II. Spaces of Production: 5. 'Living in the bosom of a numerous and worthy family': women printmakers learning to Engrave in late eighteenth-century London Hannah Lyons; 6. Divine secrets of a printmaking sisterhood: the professional and familial networks of the Horthemels and Hémery sisters Kelsey. D. Martin; 7. Yielding an impression of women printmakers in eighteenth-century France Rena M. Hoisington; 8. Laura piranesi 'incise': a woman printmaker following in her father's footsteps Rita Bernini; 9. Etchings by ladies, 'not artists' Cynthia E. Roman; Part III. Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law: 10. Mary Darly, fun Merchant and Caricaturist Sheila O'Connell; 11. A changing industry: women publishing and selling prints in London, 1740–1800 Amy Torbert; 12. Jane Hogarth: A printseller's imprint on copyright law Cristina S. Martinez; 13. Shells to satire: the career of Hannah Humphrey (1750-1818) Tim Clayton; 14. Encouraging Rowlandson – the women who mattered Nicholas JS Knowles; 15. Female printmakers and printsellers in the early American republic: Eliza Cox Akin and Mary Graham Charles Allison M. Stagg.

'Martinez and Roman have curated a thoughtfully organised - and utterly necessary - collection of essays that offer insight into the labour and experiences of women printmakers and -sellers. In so doing, they bring to light a virtually unknown aspect of image-making and circulation in the long 18th century. Across its three sections, this book offers an effective mixture of methods, archives, and examples from different national traditions. It introduces readers to artists and entrepreneurs they may otherwise never have encountered and acts as a model for future scholarship.' Thora Brylowe, Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder