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This chapter asks who the people buying the materials and equipment described in the previous chapter were, and who between artist-engravers, publishers, and printers absorbed which costs, took on which tasks, or were responsible for which risks. It explores how representative were some of the era’s most prolific and well-researched collaborations, the commercial uses and successes of plates that contained errors, and the economics of reworking and refreshing plates. It argues that the trade in satirical prints consisted of a variety of metropolitan businessmen and women rather than a coherent industry of printmakers and print sellers, and that the dynamic of power between the different agents involved requires careful consideration in light of the objects they made and sold.
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Don’t forget the Pigeon Pye.
Hannah Humphrey to James Gillray, 9 August 1798 1
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Baker, J. (2017). People. In: The Business of Satirical Prints in Late-Georgian England. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49989-5_4
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