English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century.: How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.Everitt, Graham
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English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century.: How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.
Everitt, Graham
Caricature -- Great Britain; Illustration of books -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Connection of Gillray and Rowlandson with Nineteenth Century
Caricaturists.--Napoleon Bonaparte.--The Causes of English
Exasperation against him explained.--Sketch of his Policy towards
England.--The "Berlin Decree."--English Caricatures brought to the
notice of Bonaparte.--"A Political Fair."--The "Gallick Storehouse for
English Shipping."--"Spanish Flies, or Boney taking an Immoderate
Dose."--"Boney and his New Wife, or a Quarrel about Nothing."--Birth
of the young King of Rome.--"British Cookery, or Out of the Frying-pan
into the Fire."--"General Frost Shaving Boney."--"Polish Diet with
French Dessert."--"The Corsican Blood-hound beset by the Bears of
Russia." "Nap nearly Nab'd, or a Retreating Jump just in
time."--"Boney Returning from Russia covered with Glory."--"Nap's
Glorious Return."--Rowlandson's Anti-Bonaparte Caricatures.--French
Contemporary Satires.--Gillray's Anti-Bonaparte Caricatures.--His
Libels on Josephine.--Madame Tallien.--Robert Dighton.--Consequences
of a Pinch of Snuff.--Master Betty--Impeachment of Lord
Melville.--Introduction of Gas.--Mary Anne Clarke.--Imbecility and
Death of James Gillray
_pp._ 12-33.
CHAPTER III.
Re-opening of Drury Lane.--Dr. Busby's "Monologue."--"A Buz in a Box,
or the Poet in a Pet."--"Doctors Differ, or Dame Nature against the
College."--Joanna Southcott.--Flight of the Princess
Charlotte.--"Plebeian Spirit, or Coachee and the Heiress
Presumptive."--"Miss endeavouring to Excite a Glow with her Dutch
Plaything."--American War of 1812-1815.--Hostile Temper of the
Americans.--Disastrous Results of their Invasion of Canada.--English
Retaliatory Measures.--Burning of Washington.--Expedition against
Alexandria.--"The Fall of Washington, or Maddy in Full
Flight."--British Defeated at Baltimore and New Orleans.--"Romeo
Coates."--Marriage of the Princess Charlotte.--"Leap Year, or John
Bull's Establishment."--Troubles of 1817.--Narrow Escape of the Prince
Regent.--"More Plots!!! More Plots!!!"--Edmund Kean and Lucius Junius
Booth.--"The Rival Richards."--Congress of the Allied Sovereigns at
Aix-la-Chapelle.--"A Russian Dandy at Home: a Scene at
Aix-la-Chapelle."--"A Peep at the Pump Room, or the Zomerzetshire
Folks in a Maze."--Death of Queen Charlotte.--"The Hambourg
Waltz."--Invention of the Kaleidoscope.--"Caleidoscopes, or Paying
for Peeping."--The Velocipede or "Hobby."--"The Spirit Moving the
Quakers upon Worldly Vanities."--"John Bull in Clover," and "John Bull
Done Over."--Birth of the Princess Victoria.--"A Scene in the New
Farce, called The Rivals, or a Visit to the Heir Presumptive."
_pp._ 34-61.
CHAPTER IV.
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