Women's Work original intaglio etching hotsell print based on 17th century Dutch woman artist Geertruydt Rogman (Limited Edition)

This is an original fine art copper plate etching based on the work of the 17th century Dutch woman engraver Geertruyt Rogman. I was inspired by her representation of a woman working in a 17th century Dutch kitchen, drying dishes. Her work commented on gender roles, expectations and divisions of labor, and I wanted to highlight how such inequalities and gendered expectations continue, even in the 21st century. So now we view our anonymous woman, laboring in the kitchen through a porthole window into the past, framed by black pepper vines (Piper nigrum), one of the most important items of 16th Dutch trade that spurred colonization of South and Southeast Asia, and funded the Dutch golden age.

Geertruyt Rogman (or Geertruydt Roghman) was born in 1625 in Amsterdam, and and belonged to a family of artists and printmakers. Rogman's original work was a series of five prints on 'women's work' showing different settings (all domestic) and kinds of labor (sewing, cooking, dishes, etc.).

The final edition is only a total of 3 prints, so a very limited edition.

The plate was etched with a hand mixed asphaltum based hard ground, and dutch mordant.

The plates are 10" x 10" printed area, on paper that is 14" W x 14.5" H. The paper is Hahnemühle etching paper, with oil based inks, acid free and age resistant in compliance with DIN 6738 hotsell and ISO 9706.