On 24 Sep 2006 at 16:45, Andrew Stiller wrote: > In the 18th c., all businesses were family businesses, and everyone in > the family contributed. It is a virtual certainty that Telemann had > his wife and kids doing a lot of the scutwork. They may actually have > done all the actual engraving! There are plenty of examples of > engravers who died, whereupon the wife took over the business without > a break.
In Paris in the 18th century, it was often women who were the chief engravers, and their work was desired specifically for having been engraved by the particular individual. I'm not sure if that is the origin of the Parisian practice of signing title pages, but it might be (and was eventually replaced by stamped signatures). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
