Charles Williams
Leading British caricaturist and etcher
Charles Williams was a British caricaturist, etcher and illustrator. He was chief caricaturist between 1799 and 1815 for the leading British publisher S. W. Fores. He worked in a style similar to James Gillray. In his earlier works, Williams used the pseudonyms Ansell or Argus; with George Cruikshank and others he illustrated The Every-Day Book by William Hone, edited 1825–26. Williams was the first of many who caricatured the 1st Duke of Wellington; he published a drawing of him in September 1808, during the Peninsular War, in which the Duke cuts off the pigtail of French general Jean-Andoche Junot, defeated at the Battle of Vimeiro.
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Artworks by this artist
- A naval Enquiry with a ‘Naughtical’ Explanation 1805
- Theatrical Doctors Recovering Clara’s Notes 1802
- Hungry Rats in an Empty Barn 1806
- Conjugal Felicity in High Life 1819
- A Clerical Manoeuvre or the Way to Finish a Charity Sermon 1815
- The Prince of Peace Signing the Portugal Treaty 1801
- The City Combat, or the Desperate Attack at The English Baron 1802
- The Balance of Power 1801
- Prize Beef or Luxury in the Nineteenth Century 1802
- A Peep into Totenham Street or Dillitanti Performers in Training 1802
- St. Vetus’s Dance of the Panegyrist and the Patron of a Wellesley Push for Power 1813
- Anticipation – Ways & Means – or – Buonaparte Really Taken!! 1792
- The Last Stage of Cruelty, or a Mercifull Example of Quaerism at Brighton 1806
- The Acquittal or the Managers Poisened with a Beer of Their Own Brewing 1806
- Northern Bears Taught to Dance 1801
- The Union Club
- Monopolisers Caught in Their Own Trap or a Companion to the Farmers Toast 1801
- John Bull Visited With the Blessings of Peace 1801
- The Doctor Administering His Gilded Pill 1802
- A Brighton Breakfast or Morning Comforts 1802