Copper into Gold
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Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812)
Ellen G. D´Oench
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Format: ClothPrice: $45.00
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
“D’Oench has done a great deal to help scholars of eighteenth-century printmaking understand the economic motivations of that world and one of its principal players. . . . A book that grateful scholars will value.”—Amelia F. Rauser, Albion
“D’Oench’s study will surely be the standard work on the life and art of Smith. . . . [D’Oench] has included a catalogue raisonne of Smith’s prints that includes a number of previously unknown prints as well as useful lists of prints after Smith and works he exhibited during his lifetime.”—Choice
“This biography, the first in 100 years, not only describes Smith’s work and contribution to English artistic history, but gives us a wonderful insight into the publishing and artistic worlds of the late eighteenth century.”—Contemporary Review
“The first in-depth examination of J. R. Smith since Julia into 1902 treatise, Copper Into Gold provides a more current, scholarly overview of Smith’s work and life, and is a benchmark by which all subsequent studies on the subject will be judged.”—Carol Wax, Journal of the Print World
“This is fascinating study, lively and thoroughly researched, inot the work and life of the brilliant mezzotint engraver, with important insights into the processes of his craft, his milieu and his publishing affairs.”—Jan Piggott, Book Collector
Publication Date: April 10, 1999
Publishing Partner: Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art
170 b/w + 10 color illus.
