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Caroline Watson

Header: Caroline Watson
Also known as: Caroline Watson; primary name: Watson, Caroline; other name: Watson, Frances Caroline
Details: individual; printmaker; British; Female
Life dates: 1760 ?-1814
Address: Fitzroy Street, London (in August 1785 - October 1788)
Biography: Stipple engraver. Daughter of James Watson (q.v.); acted as publisher of some of her own work; in 1785 become 'engraver to her Majesty [Queen Charlotte]' See Neil Jeffares review of David Alexander's 'A biographical dictionary' 2021 (online) for the doubts about her birthdate
Bibliography: David Alexander, 'CW & female printmaking in late Georgian England', Cambridge 2014 (with a catalogue of 118 prints) (rev. T.Clayton, PQ XXXIII 2016, 311-3)

191 related objects

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1868,0808.3038 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Gilbert Stuart |
Production date: 1760-1814

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1928,1011.1.1-4 |
Producer name: Published by:Orell, Füssli & CompPublished by:J Rothstein |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:Zürich (city)

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1863,0214.122-953 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:George Romney |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Printed in:Chichester (West Sussex)

print

Title: John Lord Viscount Mountstuart |
Museum number: 1850,0810.227 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1791

print

Museum number: 1850,0810.246 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Gilbert Stuart |
Production date: 1775-1814

print

Museum number: 1850,0810.241 |
Producer name: BIOG50442 Print made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1785-1814

print

Title: The Tempest, Act V, Scene I Shakespeare Gallery |
Museum number: 1922,0428.68 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Francis Wheatley |
Production date: 1795

print

Museum number: 1850,0810.239 |
Producer name: BIOG50442 Print made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1800-1814

print

Title: Filial Piety |
Museum number: 1874,0711.780 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Russell |
Production date: 1788

print

Title: Frances Marchioness of Bute. |
Museum number: 1850,0810.231 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Anne Mee |
Production date: 1800-1814

print

Title: Ann Holme aet suae 77 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.1680 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonIntermediary draughtsman:Patrick McMorland |
Production date: 1800

print

Museum number: 1838,0425.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Gilbert Stuart |
Production date: 1775-1814

print

Museum number: 1868,0822.2129 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1790

print

Museum number: Q,2.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia |
Museum number: Q,2.14 |
Producer name: After:John HoppnerPrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: Q,3.148 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Samuel Shelley |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Psyche |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1944 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Sir William Beechey |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Prince William Frederick |
Museum number: Aa,1.46 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness Princess Mary |
Museum number: Mm,15.34 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1833,0715.53 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1859,0709.1140 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:George Romney |
Production date: 1807-1814 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1951,0723.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Franz Catel |
Production date: 1802 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The most noble Richard Cowley Wellesley, Marquis Wellesley. |
Museum number: 1850,0810.233 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Samuel Andrews |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: Q,3.128 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Ophelia |
Museum number: 1873,0809.364 |
Producer name: After:Robert Edge PinePrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1782-1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Earl of Chatham, |
Museum number: 1837,0513.58 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Richard Brompton |
Production date: 1805-1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Their Excellencies Prince Serge and Princess Barbara Gagarin, with Prince Nicholas, their Son |
Museum number: Q,3.166 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange |
Museum number: 1861,0810.555 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Ozias Humphry |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr William Woollett. Engraver |
Museum number: 1852,0705.173 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Gabriel Stuart |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Sanctus Matthaeus Angelo praemonente evangilium scribit |
Museum number: R,4.32 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Hugh Boyd, Esqr. |
Museum number: 1837,0513.35 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonPublished by:Richard Phillips |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: Mm,15.42 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Miranda |
Museum number: 1853,1210.621 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:George Romney |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: Mm,15.39 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness Princess Mary |
Museum number: Mm,15.35 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Philip the II |
Museum number: 1851,0208.235 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonPublished by:T Hunt |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Her Royal Highness Princess Mary |
Museum number: Mm,15.38 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Miss Bover. |
Museum number: 1884,0726.33 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 1 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1868,1212.598 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Rear Admiral, Sir Hyde Parker, Bart. The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: 1877,1013.1221 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:William Evans |
Production date: 1817 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1868,0822.1173 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Titian |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Title: The Earl Temple. |
Museum number: 1837,0513.29 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:William Hoare of Bath |
Production date: 1805-1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 12 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1868,1212.610 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 12 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1875,0814.1433 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: Mm,15.41 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1980,U.623 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 8 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1868,1212.607 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 7 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1875,0814.1428 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Lady Bradshaigh |
Museum number: 1837,0513.36 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonPublished by:Sir Richard Phillips |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Filial Piety |
Museum number: 1873,0809.371 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Russell |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 1 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1875,0814.1422 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803-1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Home, Esq.r The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: A,2.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Henry Raeburn |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Muшeнькa / Kameнькa |
Museum number: Q,3.172 |
Producer name: After:Richard CoswayPrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1786

print

Museum number: 1850,0810.229 |
Producer name: BIOG50442 Print made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1775-1814

print

Title: Muшeнькa / Kameнькa |
Museum number: Q,3.171 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Richard Cosway |
Production date: 1786

print

Title: Robert Lilburne |
Museum number: 1865,0311.41 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Samuel Cooper |
Production date: 1807

print

Title: George Campbell D.D. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.1403 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Bogle |
Production date: 1798

print

Museum number: 1868,0822.7413 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Gilbert Stuart |
Production date: 1775-1814

print

Title: John Stuart Marquess of Bute |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2482 |
Producer name: After:Sir Thomas LawrencePrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1795-1814

print; extra-illustrated book; bookplate

Museum number: 1886,1122.5.1-173 |
Producer name: Print made by:Benjamin SmithAfter:George Romney |
Production date: 1819

print

Title: The Right Honble Sir James Harris, K.B. |
Museum number: 1833,0715.33 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Viola |
Museum number: 1876,0708.2581 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Samuel Shelley |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Catherine II. Empress of Russia |
Museum number: Kk,4.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Alexander Roslin |
Production date: 1787 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: King Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene III Shakespeare Gallery |
Museum number: 1875,0410.500.b |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Earl of Bute / The Mæcenas of Botany. |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2481 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonIntermediary draughtsman:Thomas Uwins |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1868,0822.7387 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Titian |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.7367 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonPublished by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr William Woollett. Engraver |
Museum number: Q,3.139 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Gabriel Stuart |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Sarah Countess of Kinnoull |
Museum number: 1871,1209.2777 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Samuel Shelley |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1931,0509.170 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Charles Shirreff |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 11 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1868,1212.608 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: Mm,15.40 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1933,1014.295 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Charles Shirreff |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: King Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene III Shakespeare Gallery |
Museum number: Dd,6.19 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Filial Piety |
Museum number: 1873,0712.544 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:John Russell |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mrs Siddons |
Museum number: R,10.72 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Robert Edge Pine |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Lady Mary Pierrepont |
Museum number: 1850,0810.232 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonPublished by:Sir Richard Phillips |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Hon.ble & Right Rev.d Shute Barrington LLD. Bishop of Durham |
Museum number: 1881,0108.134 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Andrew Robertson |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1837,0408.163 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Antonio Correggio |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 6 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1868,1212.601 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 8 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1875,0814.1429 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: King Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene III Shakespeare Gallery |
Museum number: 1875,0410.500 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Right Honble Sir James Harris, K.B. |
Museum number: Q,2.100 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:Caroline Watson |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 11 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1875,0814.1432 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr William Woollett. Engraver |
Museum number: 1840,0808.190 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Gabriel Stuart |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 12 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1868,1212.611 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Sanctus Matthaeus Angelo praemonente evangilium scribit |
Museum number: 1951,0723.19 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: No. 5 The Winter's Day Delineated |
Museum number: 1875,0814.1426 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Maria Cosway |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Infant Shakespeare |
Museum number: 1868,0822.6346 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:George Romney |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Infant Shakespeare |
Museum number: 1951,0723.18 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:George Romney |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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