Charles Williams
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Artworks: 55
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)
- The Matrimonial Mania – or – Poor Jonny Ridden to Death 1818
- A Dilemma or the German-Macheath 1798
- A Meeting of Monopolizers, or the Good Effect of Peace 1801
- The Tractors 1802
- The Child and Champion of Jacobinism, New Christened 1801
- A Meeting of Monopolizers, or the Good Effect of Peace 1801
- English Patriots Bowing at the Shrine of Despotism 1802
- The Union Club
- The Fox That Lost His Tail 1798
- More Humbugs, – or – Another Attack on John Bulls Purse 1818
- Popular Indignation of John Bull in a Rage 1805
- The Preliminaries of Peace 1801
- Two Pair of Candidates Proposed to the Independant Electors of Middlesex 1802
- Prize Beef or Luxury in the Nineteenth Century 1802
- The Doctor Administering His Gilded Pill 1802
- A naval Enquiry with a ‘Naughtical’ Explanation 1805
- The Wrymouth Candidates of the Strangers at Home Plate ca. 1814
- Northern Bears Taught to Dance 1801
- Foreign Amusements or the British Lion on the Watch 1801
- The Westminster Seceder on Fresh Duty 1801