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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
- Chapter 1 Show-Offs
- Chapter 2 Maria Hadfield Cosway’s ‘Genius’ for Print
- Chapter 3 Caroline Watson and the Theatre of Printmaking
- Chapter 4 ‘Talent and Untiring Diligence’
- Part II Spaces of Production
- Part III Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law
- Index
Chapter 1 - Show-Offs
Women’s Self-Portrait Prints c. 1700
from Part I - Self-Presentation and Self-Promotion
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
- Chapter 1 Show-Offs
- Chapter 2 Maria Hadfield Cosway’s ‘Genius’ for Print
- Chapter 3 Caroline Watson and the Theatre of Printmaking
- Chapter 4 ‘Talent and Untiring Diligence’
- Part II Spaces of Production
- Part III Competing in the Market: Acumen in Business and Law
- Index
Summary
Men’s reliance on the self-portrait print to cement their legacies and secure undying fame is well established. While a few outstanding women experimented with the genre, the medium’s peripatetic, sociable life – works that were gifted, liberally shared, and even transported on the body – was at odds with traditional ideas about women’s place within the private realm. Studying the handful of examples created by women across Europe from c. 1700 onwards – including etchings by Anna Maria van Schurman, Maria de Wilde, Angelika Kauffmann, and others – this chapter examines the strategies they developed to present themselves in print, ever mindful that by showing themselves off they risked opening themselves up to a range of personal and often harsh judgements.
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- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830, pp. 11 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024