Before the invention of photography, prints were the principal means for reproducing and disseminating visual information. The engraver did for the image what t

This is the first scholarly study to focus on satirical prints of women in the late eighteenth century. This was the golden age of graphic satire: thousands of

In 1450 very few English men or women were personally familiar with a book; by 1850, the great majority of people daily encountered books, magazines, or newspap

Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of Europ

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. As