Black on White. A review of some British cartoons and caricatures of the last 200 years - ACE002.2

Newspaper presses, news vendors and buyers, newspaper cartoons. David Low at work (on London rooftop) on drawing of Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee. Self portrait (The Painter and the Pug: Gulielmus Hogarth (1745)) by William Hogarth. A likeness of John Wilkes, but one that emphasised his least attractive features. The church of St. Nicholas, Chiswick, and Hogarth’s tombstone. Drawing of Hogarth’s house in the eighteenth century. The house today. Visitor looking at paintings, and book of Hogarth’s engravings. Engravings from the series Industry and Idleness (1747). Details from Gin Lane (1751) and Beer Street (1751). A Representation of the March of the Guards Towards Scotland in the Year 1745 (print after The March of the Guards to Finchley (1750)), and The Man of Taste (c.1732). Drawings in the classical style. Architectural features. Statuary. Quotation from Francis Gross defining caricature and its rules; illustrations from his book. James Gillray who defied these rules in his work. Site of Hannah Humphrey’s print shop in St James’s Street, and Gillray’s engraving, Very Slippy Weather (1808) showing the building when he lived there. Cutting an engraving plate. Book of Gillray’s caricatures. Farmer Giles (1809). A Squall (1810). Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal (1792). A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion (1792). Dido, in Despair! (1801). Heavy seas, ruined tower, cannon. Some of Gillray’s work from the Napoleonic period: John Bull’s Progress (1793), John Bull Bothered – or – The Geese Alarming the Capitol; Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis (1793). End of the Irish Invasion – or – The Destruction of the French Armada (1797). Fighting for the Dunghill – or – Jack Tar Settling Buonaparte (1798), Ci-Devant Occupation – or Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked Before Barrass in the Winter of 1797 – A Fact (1805). The Handwriting upon the Wall (1803).