Figures
1.1Maria de Wilde, Self-Portrait, c. 1700. Etching. Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
1.2Angelika Kauffmann, Self-Portrait, c. 1764. Etching. Graphic Art Collection, Albertina, Vienna.
2.1Caroline Watson, after Maria Cosway, Plate 12, from Mary Robinson, The Winter’s Day Delineated, 1803. Etching and aquatint. Author’s collection.
3.1Caroline Watson, after Robert Edge Pine, Mrs. Siddons as Euphrasia, 1784. Stipple engraving. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
4.1Marie Ellenrieder, Mary Holding the Hand of the Infant Jesus, 1826. Etching and drypoint. Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
5.1Letitia Byrne, after Paulus Potter and Marcus de Bye, Frontispiece to Animals Etched by Letitia Byrne from the Most Esteem’d Masters. Published by Darling and Thompson, London, 1795. Etching. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
6.1Thérèse-Éléonore Hémery, femme Lingée (French, 1753–after 1814) after Frans van Mieris the Elder (Dutch, 1689–1763), Plate 59, Allegory of Art in Collection de cent-vingt estampes, gravées d’après les tableaux & dessins qui composoient le Cabinet de M. Poullain, c. 1781. Etching. British Museum, London.
7.1Catherine Élisabeth Cousinet, after Giovanni Paolo Panini, La Pyramide de Sextius, 1760. Etching and engraving. British Museum, London.
7.2 Catherine Élisabeth Cousinet, after Giovanni Paolo Panini, Les Trois Colonnes de Campo Vaccino, 1760. Etching and engraving. British Museum, London.
8.1Laura Piranesi, Veduta della Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. Roma Istituto centrale per la grafica. Courtesy of Ministry of Culture.
9.1Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, Landscape after a Painting by Salvator Rosa. Etching in Horace Walpole’s A Collection of Prints Engraved by Various Persons of Quality. Courtesy of Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
10.1Marriage record of Matthias Darly and Mary Salmon, St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, 28 October 1759. London Metropolitan Archives (City of London), P71/MMG/053/A (detail). Reproduced with the permission of the Rector of St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey.
10.2Mary Darly (publisher), The Scotch Tent, or True Contrast, 1762. Etching on laid paper. Courtesy of Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
11.1Trade Card of Dorothy Mercier, c. 1762–1764. Etching. British Museum, London.
12.1A Landscape. Published by Jane Hogarth, 1781. Etching. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
13.1James Gillray after ‘Miss Aynscombe’, “_________ “And Catch the Living Manners as They Rise.” Published by Hannah Humphrey, 7 May 1794. Etching & aquatint with stipple on wove paper. Courtesy of Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
14.1Elizabeth Howitt, Drown’d, 1803–1806? Hand-coloured etching. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
14.2Thomas Rowlandson, The World in Miniature, Plate 12, 1816. Hand-coloured etching. Author’s collection.
14.3Thomas Rowlandson, [Finding the Shipwrecked Sailor], 1800–1805. Watercolour with pen. Achenbach Foundation. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA.
15.1Eliza Cox Akin, Membership Certificate, the Female Charitable Asylum, c. 1803. Engraving on silk. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1984.5.
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