Hannah Humphrey
Hannah Humphrey | |
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Born | c. 1745 |
Died | 1818 |
Occupation | Designer |
Family | William Humphrey |
Hannah Humphrey (active 1745–1818 in London) was a leading London print seller of the 18th century, significant in particular for being the publisher of much of James Gillray's output.[1]
Biography
The sister of William Humphrey, Hannah Humphrey first started selling prints from her brother's premises.[2] She struck out on her own in 1778 or 1779, when she first established a printshop in St Martin's Lane.[3] Several woman print sellers ran successful businesses in 18th-century London—for example, Mary Darly, Susan Vivares, and Elizabeth Jackson. Humphrey was preeminent among them and became one of the top two print sellers in London, the other one being Samuel Fores. Her shop in St James was visited by a fashionable clientele and had a large stock of social and political caricature, including caricature portraits of leading society figures. Notable artists she published beside Gillray included Thomas Rowlandson and James Sayers.
She moved premises a number of times:
References
- ^ "Gillray's works on James Gillray: Caricaturist".The site indicates Humphrey published nearly 650 prints by Gillray; some 270 were issued by other publishers
- ISBN 0-7129-0696-7.
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- ^ British Museum Biography. For dates taken from prints
- ^ "Very Slippy-Weather". The British Museum. BM Satires 11100
- ^ "Twopenny Whist". BM Satires 8885
- ^ "Hannah Humphrey (British Museum Biographical details)". The British Museum.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gillray, James". Encyclopædia Britannica, 12 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 23–24.