A huge congratulations to Dr Esther Chadwick, Senior Lecture in History of Art and Head of the History of Art Department at the Courtauld, who has recently been awarded the Historians of British Art Book Prize for scholarship on the period between 1600-1800 for her latest publication The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University Press, 2024).
The Historians of British Art annually awards prizes to outstanding books on the history of British art, architecture, and visual culture. Books are considered in seven categories: Pre-1600, 1600-1800, 1800-1960, contemporary, multi-authored volume, exhibition catalogue, and accessible art writing. The awarding body noted of Dr Chadwick’s publication:
“In The Radical Print, Esther Chadwick makes a compelling case for re-evaluating now print’s catalytic role in fomenting eighteenth-century artists’ most ambitious aesthetic innovations and political ideas. Extensively researched and persuasively written, Chadwick’s masterful study will be much a guide as a spur to research for years to come.”
This award has been made jointly with Iris Moon’s Melancholy Wedgwood (The MIT Press, 2024). The Courtauld Research Forum was delighted to host Iris Moon for the inaugural Manton Lecture, an annual lecture supported by the Manton Foundation as part of the Manton Centre for British Art in 2025. Watch the lecture recording over on our YouTube channel.
