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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 4 - ‘Talent and Untiring Diligence’
The Print Legacy of Angelika Kauffmann, Marie Ellenrieder, and Maria Katharina Prestel
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
This chapter provides new insights into Neoclassicism, Nazarene art, and translational printmaking through an overview of the long-neglected prints of three female artists from German-speaking countries. Angelika Kauffmann, a central figure of Neoclassicism was active in many countries. Prints by her own hand as well as reproductive prints by others after her original paintings helped spread her fame as a history painter. Her success set an example for younger women artists such as Marie Ellenrieder, who admired Kauffmann, even as she moved beyond Neoclassicism to become an important Nazarene creating numerous works for the Catholic Church, including devotional prints and altar paintings. While Kauffmann and Ellenrieder both worked as painters and printmakers, the older artist Maria Katharina Prestel worked exclusively as an interpretive printmaker. With her husband, she maintained a workshop in which she reproduced drawings, sometimes using newly developed graphic techniques.
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- Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830, pp. 56 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024