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I propose to examine six surviving fragments from our visual heritage in detail. I will reveal the histories behind the inception, printing, utility, and iconography of six antiquarian prints. All six examples passed through my hands when I was a dealer in such things. It will become clear that one image has been creatively recycled for an entirely different purpose than that for which it was intended, for a new audience. I will weave a coherent political thread through these very different artefacts, encompassing as they do roughly the ‘long eighteenth century’ in constitutional terms: the Glorious Revolution through to the Great Reform Act of 1832.
The contemporary etchings, engravings and lithographs shed light on a vibrant cultural exchange between Britain and the Continent, the result of increasingly sophisticated print trade networks. They include a Jacobite portrait; a label for an extraordinary ‘cabinet of curiosities’; a scene supposedly from the American revolution; a British satirical print published in Germany; the ‘Peterloo’ massacre; and an eccentric parliamentary candidate for Canterbury on the campaign trail.
Jasper Jennings has spent over 20 years finding and selling antiquarian prints. With his natural flair for entertaining, combined with working knowledge and robust historical scholarship, he engages diverse audiences with print culture and art. He joined a shop selling rare prints and books in Covent Garden straight out of university. After a brief spell in a New York gallery, Jasper started dealing himself, exhibiting at international fairs as a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association. He has written on the market in printed collectables for titles such as Historic House and the Antiques Trade Gazette.
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