18th-Century Celebrities and the Role of Printed Images in Their Creation to Be Explored in a New Exhibition to Open in Fall 2024 at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
September 10, 2024
September 10, 2024
WILLIAMBURG, Virginia, Sept. 10 -- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation issued the following news release on Sept. 9, 2024:
Before the 18th century, consumers in the Atlantic world lacked wide access to images of famous people other than monarchs. Broad circulation of engraved portraiture changed all that, and, for the first time, people could put a recognizable likeness or caricature with a name they might have heard or read about in a newspaper. Starting in November, visitors to t . . .
Before the 18th century, consumers in the Atlantic world lacked wide access to images of famous people other than monarchs. Broad circulation of engraved portraiture changed all that, and, for the first time, people could put a recognizable likeness or caricature with a name they might have heard or read about in a newspaper. Starting in November, visitors to t . . .