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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 12 - Jane Hogarth: A Printseller’s Imprint on Copyright Law
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
The chapter is dedicated to the active career of the eighteenth-century printseller Jane Hogarth, widow of the painter and engraver William Hogarth. It looks at the means Jane employed to face competitors, namely by turning to copyright law in an effort to protect her property. In doing so, she set an important precedent in copyright law, whereby she obtained a special provision that would grant her the exclusive right to sell her husband’s prints. Letters, newspaper advertisements, legal reports, and even satirical prints by contemporaries offer insight into Jane’s commercial dealings, her powers of persuasion and the impact of her achievements.
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- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830, pp. 189 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024