Dr Hannah Lyons

Curator of Art Collections
CONTACT DETAILS
Email: h.lyons@reading.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 5514
Responsibilities and research interests
Hannah Lyons joined the University of Reading in the spring of 2023. She is responsible for caring for, developing and presenting the University of Readingâs Art Collection, as well as managing the Universityâs Public Art programme. Her broad professional and research interests include British art, works on paper, as well as contemporary art and visual culture. She has a special interest in printmaking and eighteenth-century women artists, which was the subject of her AHRC-funded PhD.
Qualifications
PhD in History of Art
MA in Eighteenth Century Studies
BA (Hons) in History and English Literature
Publications
âLiving âin the bosom of a large and worthy familyâ: Learning to engrave in late eighteenth century Londonâ, in Cristina S. Martinez and Cynthia E Roman, eds., Female Printmakers, Publishers and Printsellers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women in Graphic Media, 1735-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
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âLetitia Byrne (1779-1849) and the âPrejudice against Employing Women as Engraversââ, in Rose Roberto and Artemis Alexiou, eds., Women in Print: Design and Identities (Peter Lang Ltd, 2022).
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Catalogue entries on âOwen Jonesâ; âThe Audsley Brothersâ and âGeorge Richardsonâ in: Julius Bryant, ed., The Most Beautiful Illustrated Books from the V&A (V&A Press & Thames and Hudson, 2022).
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Catalogue entries on âAnnie Maunder Prize for Innovationâ; âPeople and Spaceâ; âOur Moonâ; âStars and Nebulaeâ; âYoung Competitionâ and âSir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomerâ in Astronomy Photographer of the Year 11 (Royal Museums Greenwich Press with Harper Collins, 2022).
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Gill Perry, Kate Retford, Jordan Vibert with Hannah Lyons, Placing Faces: The Portrait and the English Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century (Manchester University Press, 2013)..