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English caricatures and cartoons depicting smoking and other subjects

Title: English caricatures and cartoons depicting smoking and other subjects [graphic]
Publication: [ca. 1600?-1836]

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Description

<79> prints : aquatint, engraving, etching, lithograph, some col.; sheet 44 x 62 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Caricatures depicting smoking, snuff, tobacco taxation and other tobacco related subjects, and views depicting other subjects where tobacco or smoking is incidentally depicted. Persons depicted include the British royal family, peers, bishops, and parliamentarians; European rulers, Thomas Paine, Edmund Kean, the symbolic character John Bull, and others; issues addressed include taxation, the Emancipation Bill, the French Revolution, Napoleanic wars, Ireland, trade unions, child labor, education, and others; including caricatures and cartoons depicting manners and customs, fashion and other social subjects.

Subject

Genre/Form

Aquatints.
Caricatures.
Engravings.
Etchings.
Lithographs.
Prints – English – 18th century.
Prints – English – 19th century.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Plate marks, when present, range in size from 12 x 9 cm. to 44 x 62 cm.
Printmakers and publishers include: Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, William Heath, Thomas Rowlandson, Orlando Hodgson, William Holland, Laurie & Whittle, Samuel Maunder, Thomas Tegg and others. Artisits include Henry William Bunbury, Robert Dighton, William Hogarth, G. M Woodward and others.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Detailed finding aid available

Call Number

Arents Prints 96-327

OCLC

NYPG96-F98

Title

English caricatures and cartoons depicting smoking and other subjects [graphic]

Imprint

[ca. 1600?-1836]

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Arents Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexes

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Added Author

Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. Artist

Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811. Etcher

Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814. Artist

Gillray, James, 1756-1815. Engraver

Heath, William, 1795-1840. Engraver

Hodgson, Orlando. Publisher

Holland, William, active 1782-1817. Publisher

Maunder, Samuel, 1785-1849. Publisher

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. Etcher

Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846. Publisher

Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809. Artist

Laurie & Whittle. Publisher

Research Call Number

Arents Prints 96-327

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