Amanda Lahikainen demonstrates how graphic satires and satirical banknotes reflected and helped produce the changing cultures of paper money and engraving during the Bank Restriction Period (1797-1821). Speaker Biography: Art historian Amanda Lahikainen, a fellow at the John W. Kluge Center, has spent the past six months as a scholar-in-residence is looking at the ways in which print artists in England satirized the introduction of paper money and the ways in which art may have helped enable paper money to become normalized in society more broadly. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6213

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