Anon, The Glorious Minority in 1763, with the Head of the Majority Blazon's, an esoteric comment on the Wilkes Affair, with the head of Bute on a Pole; here to persuade you of the control and invention of the satiric print before Gillray. There is a Hogarthian feel to the parade of physiognomies above, and a wealth of references built into the image structure. The recourse to heraldic imagery is a clue as to the most likely readership.

James Gillray's Siege de la Colonne de Pompee, or Science in the Pillary,
a comment on the fate of the uppity French scientists who had sauntered forth in Egypt on their scientific investigations only to be met by what Gillray assumed to be the Native Folks.

"Charity Covereth a Multitude of Sins" a young buck flashes his gold off outside a brothel
From Joseph Grego's Rowlandson the Caricaturist, Chatto and Windus, London 1880.

another print by Rowlandson demonstrating his command of the grotesque

published by Hodgson in London, undated c1840
17 x 26cms

published by Hodgson in London, undated c1840
17 x 26cms

By Chris Mullen
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