Using archival records of the Sagrario Metropolitano and material analysis of extant prints, the paper presents the life and work of the only known woman printmaker in viceregal New Spain, María Augustina Meza. It traces Meza and her work through two marriages to fellow engravers and a 50-year career as owner of an independent print publishing shop in Mexico City. In doing so, the paper places Meza’s print publishing business and its practices within the context of artists’ shops run by women in the mid- to late-eighteenth century. The article simultaneously extends the recognized role of women in printing and broadens our understanding of women within the business of both printmaking and painting in late colonial Mexico City. It furthermore joins the scholarship demonstrating with new empirical research that the lived realities of women in viceregal New Spain were more complex than traditional, stereotypical visions of women’s lives have previously allowed.

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众议院夫人：奥古斯丁·梅萨（Augustina Meza，约1758–1819年），印刷出版和墨西哥后期殖民地妇女艺术

通过使用Sagrario Metropolitano的档案记录和现存印刷品的材料分析，本文介绍了新西班牙副省长玛丽亚·奥古斯蒂娜·梅萨（MaríaAugustina Meza）唯一已知的女版画家的生活和工作。它通过与两位雕刻师的两次婚姻以及作为墨西哥城一家独立印刷出版店老板的50年职业生涯来追溯Meza和她的作品。通过这样做，论文将Meza的印刷出版业务及其实践置于18世纪中叶至晚期妇女经营的艺术家商店的背景下。这篇文章同时扩展了女性在印刷中的公认角色，并拓宽了我们在晚期殖民地墨西哥城从事印刷和绘画业务中对女性的理解。