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- 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 15 - Female Printmakers and Printsellers in the Early American Republic
Eliza Cox Akin and Mary Graham Charles
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
Eliza Cox Akin and Mary Graham Charles were the wives and partners to two of the most important American caricaturists of the nineteenth-century, James Akin and William Charles. Surviving engravings and historical ephemera reveal that these women contributed to their husbands’ engraving businesses and that Eliza participated in engraving prints. In order to establish an appreciation of the role women played in the early American printmaking world, this chapter examines the lives of Eliza Cox Akin and Mary Graham Charles and considers their position in producing, and within the market for, engravings in the United States during the late 1790s and early 1800s.
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- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830, pp. 242 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024