Caroline Watson

Caroline Watson (1761?–1814) was an English stipple engraver.

Life The daughter of the Irish engraver James Watson, she was born in London in 1760 or 1761, and studied under her father, who worked in mezzotint. She was known for her skilled worked in the stipple method, was particularly known for reproductions of miniatures, and was the only woman engraver to serve as an independent engraver in the British 18th century. She came to prominence as an engraver at about the same time as women began to make up a significant proportion print consumers. Due to ill health, her career began to wind down after 1810. She died at Pimlico on 10 June 1814. for John Boydell's Shakespeare, the Death of Cardinal Beaufort, after Reynolds, and a scene from The Tempest, after Francis Wheatley.

Watson also executed a set of aquatints of the Progress of Female Virtue and Female Dissipation, from designs by Maria Cosway. She engraved several pictures belonging to the Marquess of Bute.