Past event
Print and Prejudice: Women Printmakers, 1700 – 1930
This display charted the development of women artists’ remarkable but overlooked engagement with printmaking from the 18th to early 20th centuries – from picturesque landscapes, to intimate portraits and vibrant botanical works.
Display highlights
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Print, by Lady Dorothea Knighton, lithograph, early 19th century -
Colour woodblock print, by Ethel Kirkpatrick, about 1910, Britain -
The Quarrel, woodcut print, by Gwen Raverat, 1909 -
The Harbour, colour woodblock print, by Ethel Kirkpatrick, about 1917, Britain -
Sara Smiling, print, by Mary Cassatt, about 1904 -
Sopewort or Bruisewort, etching, by Elizabeth Blackwell, 1737, London, England -
Toulon Washerwomen, wood engraving, by Clare Leighton, about 1920, Britain
Past events
Header image:
The Crinoline, woodcut, by Clare Leighton, 1925, UK. Museum no. E.1088-1927. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London