<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.
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.
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Restricted access;
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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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