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Title: Historical caricatures from 1760-90
Dates (inclusive): 1760-approximately 1793
Collection Number: 379995
Extent:
1 volume ; 51 x 41 cm
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Prints and Ephemera
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This volume contains 146 British satirical prints, dating from 1760-1790, and depicting politicians and political issues including
criticism against
Lord Bute's influence; the
1763 Peace of Paris at the end of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War); the American Stamp Act; the 1783 Fox-North
Coalition; the 1784 Westminster election; and the Warren Hastings trial.
Language: English.
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[Identification of item], Historical caricatures from 1760-90, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, May 1965.
This volume contains 146 British satirical prints, dating from 1760-1790, which are either etched or engraved and pasted onto
pages in general chronological order. Many of the prints are annotated with handwritten
identifications, descriptions,
dates, and reference numbers from the British Museum
Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires (BM numbers) in an unidentified hand. Ten of the prints have hand coloring (see pp. 16, 49, 57, 61, 67, 69, 76, 84, 110,
and 116).
The prints reflect a variety of political topics including the influence of Lord Bute (John Stuart); the 1763 Peace of Paris
at the end of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War);
the American Stamp Act; the 1783 Fox-North Coalition;
the 1784 Westminster election;
and the Warren Hastings trial. Some of the depicted individuals include King George III; Prince William Augustus, Duke of
Cumberland; Princess Augusta; Charles James Fox; Warren Hastings;
William Murray, Earl of Mansfield; Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Fletcher Norton; William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham;
John Russell, Duke of Bedford; John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute; John Wilkes; and Cecil
Wray. Many artists, engravers, and printers are represented including artists Thomas Rowlandson and William Hogarth and publishers
E. Darchery, S. W. Fores, H. Humphrey, and W. Humphrey. One print, "A Foreign Tree"
(page 116), is dated as 1789, but appears to be from 1793-4 during the French "Reign of Terror." There are also two pages
containing handwritten descriptions of events (pp. 8a, 87).
With handwritten title page: "Historical caricatures from 1762 [i.e. 1760]-90. This collection includes no caricatures by
Gillray, Sayer, or I. Cruikshank" and spine title: "Historical Caricatures, 1762-90."
The front inside cover has the bookplate of James Banks Stanhope with the motto "A Deo et rege," and label, "A gift of the
Friends of the Huntington Library"; the flyleaf has the bookplate of Justin G. Turner;
and there are two copies of a leather bookplate affixed to back inside cover with motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
Title based on handwritten title page.
Related materials in the Huntington Library
The Huntington Library holds more than 11,000 British satirical prints cataloged either individually or as large collections.
For more information, please contact Reader Services.
Arranged in chronological order.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765) -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Treaty of Paris (1763) -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Politicians -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820.
Broadside poems -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Caricatures -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Cartoons (Commentary) -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Intaglio (prints) -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Rebuses -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Darchery, Elizabeth, publisher.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Stanhope, James Banks, 1821-1904, former owner.
Turner, Justin G., former owner.
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge (Los Angeles, Calif.), seller.