Caroline Watson & Female Printmaking in Late Georgian England
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Catalogue size: 27.9 x 21cm, 126 pages ISBN 978-0-9574434-6-4 Published in 2014 by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, 23 September 2014 - 4 January 2015. Written by David Alexander, Honorary Keeper of British Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Caroline Watson, who died in 1814, can be seen as the first professional woman engraver, in the sense that she worked independently rather than as a member of a family of engravers. Over a career of thirty years she engraved more than a hundred very delicate prints in the stipple, or dotted manner, which was particularly suited for reproducing miniature portraits. The catalogue, which contains a chronological list of her prints, puts her in the context of the female printmaking of her time, and shows how exceptional was her achievement in a male dominated profession. The catalogue carries a transcription of sixteen letters written to her last major employer, William Hayley, which throws much light on the working methods of engravers in general.