# Eleanor Lay

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{{short description|British publisher and print-seller}}
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'''Eleanor Lay''', usually styled '''Mrs Lay''' (active 1788–1790 in Brighton), was a publisher and print-seller, with a fashionable print shop on [The Steine](/source/Old_Steine) in [Brighton](/source/Brighton). As well as selling prints from London publishers, she designed and published a number of prints herself, including four views of Brighton in 1788,<ref name="Ford">{{cite book|last1=Ford| first1=John & Jill |title='Images of Brighton' |publisher=Saint Helena Press| date=1981 | isbn=0906964024| location=Richmond on Thames}} Numbers 337, 338, 339, 340.</ref> dedicated to Mrs Fitzherbert. The original watercolours by Lay are in the [Brighton Museum](/source/Brighton_Museum).<ref name="BrightonMuseum">{{cite AV media|url=https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/brighton/|title=Brighton Museum Collections}}(BPC00384, BPC00385, BPC00386, BPC00387.</ref> 

In 1789, she published two prints by the young [Thomas Rowlandson](/source/Thomas_Rowlandson)<ref name="DorothyGeorge">{{cite book|last1=George| first1=M Dorothy |title='Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum' |publisher=The British Museum| date=1870–1954| location=London}} BMSatires 7604.</ref> and also co-published several others for a drawing book by Rowlandson with the London publishers [Samuel William Fores](/source/Samuel_William_Fores) and [John Harris](/source/John_Harris_(publisher)).

One of her plates by Rowlandson ''A Sufferer for Decency'' was acquired by [Thomas Tegg](/source/Thomas_Tegg) at some point and reissued by him with modified lettering in the 1810s  in the ''[Caricature Magazine](/source/Caricature_Magazine)''.

==See also==
* [List of women printers and publishers before 1800](/source/List_of_women_printers_and_publishers_before_1800)

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