Esther Chadwick The Radical Print All Books sku-5123964278

Esther Chadwick's The Radical Print is a hardcover listed under All Books as sku-5123964278. It examines printmaking in Britain and its relationship with radical politics in the late eighteenth century. Chadwick argues that prints responded to rapid historical events and polarized public debate in ways traditional artistic media could not.

Across five chapters, she discusses James Barry, John Hamilton Mortimer, James Gillray, Thomas Bewick and William Blake as artists of the "Paper Age." The study ranges from Barry's aquatint experiments during the American Revolution to Blake's engravings after the Napoleonic period.

It draws on well-known prints and unpublished ephemera and is distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.