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Copper into Gold - Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) (Hardcover)
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Copper into Gold - Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) (Hardcover)
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A highly important figure in the late eighteenth-century British
art world, John Raphael Smith was the most robust and prolific
printmaker of his time. Smith not only produced nearly 400
prints-about 130 of his own design and the others by such noted
British artists as Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, and Joseph
Wright of Derby-he was also appointed "Mezzotinto Engraver" to the
Prince of Wales and became an impresario of the print-publishing
trade. This book is the first full-length study for nearly a
hundred years of Smith's remarkable career in printmaking. Ellen
D'Oench investigates how Smith conducted his engraving and
publishing business and what his prints, drawings, and paintings
reveal about the culture and morality of the society that viewed
them. She includes a chronological catalogue raisonne with newly
discovered works, an inventory of his firm's publications, and a
catalogue of prints reproduced from his own original work. Along
with full biographical information on Smith and his activities as
an artist and publisher, D'Oench pays close attention to the
contemporary art market, its operation, and the placement of
Smith's products within it. She details Smith's fascination with
female genre subjects and his use of printed images to both exploit
and critique his culture's manners and morals. Historians of
paintings and prints, social and cultural historians, and scholars
of women's history will all find in this book an array of
delightful illustrations and interesting material. Published for
the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art
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