Charles Williams
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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 (55 total)
- English Patriots Bowing at the Shrine of Despotism 1802
- A naval Enquiry with a ‘Naughtical’ Explanation 1805
- St. Martins in an Uproar 1801
- The Tractors 1802
- A Meeting of Monopolizers, or the Good Effect of Peace 1801
- A Dilemma or the German-Macheath 1798
- Two Pair of Candidates Proposed to the Independant Electors of Middlesex 1802
- A Brighton Breakfast or Morning Comforts 1802
- The Last Stage of Cruelty, or a Mercifull Example of Quaerism at Brighton 1806
- The City Combat, or the Desperate Attack at The English Baron 1802
- Northern Bears Taught to Dance 1801
- A Trip to Paris or John Bull and His Spouse Invited to the Honors of the Sitting 1802
- Birds of a Feather Flock Together. Diversions of Purley (scored through & replaced by) Brighton 1802
- A New Bravura with a Duett Affettuoso 1802
- The Union Club 1801
- The Union Club Masquerade 1802
- The Child and Champion of Jacobinism, New Christened 1801
- The Matrimonial Mania – or – Poor Jonny Ridden to Death 1818
- A Peep into Totenham Street or Dillitanti Performers in Training 1802
- Anticipation – Ways & Means – or – Buonaparte Really Taken!! 1792