David Alexander is a historian and honorary keeper of British prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and a member of the editorial board of Print Quarterly.
“[Alexander] writes convincingly about how the explosion of prints in that period reflected not only artistic ability, and the desire to render paintings in print, but also the need — pre-photography — to disseminate knowledge of British advances in exploration, navigation, architecture, natural history, engineering and technology’, as well as banknotes and share certificates.”—Charles Moore, Spectator