History of Prints Posts

Here's part two of our discussion on Piranesi, all about the Imaginary Prisons. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. First plate (Title Page) of the first edition of Le Carceri d’Invenzione, 1750. Etching. 546 x 414 mm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.…

Step into the grand, shadowy, and endlessly inventive world of Giovanni Battista Piranesi with Ann and Tru. In this episode, they explore the extraordinary life and legacy of the 18th-century master printmaker, architect, and polemicist whose sweepi…

David Barthold’s journey as a printmaker began at age 13, took him through the legendary studio of Atelier 17 in Paris, and eventually led to a hiatus that ended in a burst of lino-cut street art during the pandemic. In this episode, we explore the…

In this History of Prints episode, Tru and Ann look at the considerable output of British satirist James Gillray (1756–1815). Younger than William Hogarth by nearly sixty years, Gillray took Hogarth’s social commentary, its energy, and caustic appro…