Between 1930 and 1954 Mary Dorothy George wrote catalogue entries for 12,553 ‘Golden Age’ satirical prints. This article examines George as a curatorial voice, an interlocutor between the archived past and her readers. It examines the labour processes that produced George’s contributions to the British Museum’s Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, her writing as a corpus, and her interpretations therein. We argue that George’s linguistic and procedural choices have trouble the legacy of the catalogue, a system of knowledge organisation increasingly uncoupled from its circumstances of production whilst remaining foundational to the historiography of long eighteenth century British history.

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策展工作、声音和遗产：玛丽·多萝西·乔治和政治和个人讽刺目录，1930-54*

1930 年至 1954 年间，玛丽·多萝西·乔治为 12,553 幅“黄金时代”讽刺版画写了目录条目。本文将乔治视为策展人的声音，他是档案过去与她的读者之间的对话者。它考察了乔治对大英博物馆政治和个人讽刺目录的贡献、她作为语料库的写作以及她在其中的解释的劳动过程。我们认为乔治的语言和程序选择给目录的遗产带来了麻烦，这个知识组织系统越来越与其生产环境脱节，同时仍然是 18 世纪英国漫长历史的编纂学的基础。