Making an Impression
Dorothy Mercier: widow of an artist (and a painter herself), Mercier went into business after the death of her husband, Philip, first as a printseller and stati...
Tag: prints
Reading the Night
Details. It’s all in the details, right? I see this print multiple times every day, and contemplate the little stories in the details of the room. Perhaps...
Frivolous Friday: “Sport Your Little Spencers”
Spencers were clearly the rage for well over a decade, turning up in satirical prints from at least 1796 (We’ll get to that satire soon). I was wrong when...
Frivolous Friday: Silken Cone of Shame
Mr JS and I have amused ourselves of late not just with thimble chatter, but with this satirical print of the English family in Paris. I’m not nearly as funny a...
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