File:John Wilkes Esqr (BM 1868,0808.4315).jpg
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Title |
John Wilkes Esqr |
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Description |
English: Caricatural portrait of John Wilkes holding the cap of Liberty. 1763
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Depicted people | Portrait of: John Wilkes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1763 date QS:P571,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4315 |
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Notes |
In May 1763 John Wilkes was put on trial for an attack on George III in issue No. 45 of his satirical journal The North Briton. The prosecution was seen as an infringement of Wilkes's privilege as a member of parliament and crowds of thousands gathered in the streets shouting a new slogan of radicalism: "Wilkes and Liberty!". A few months earlier Wilkes had antagonised Hogarth in No. 17 of the journal by mocking his acceptance of royal payment. The artist retaliated by publishing this caricature of Wilkes on trial, deliberately echoing popular prints of famous criminals. The caricature sold in huge numbers, but it was not a success in Hogarth's terms: Wilkes's many supporters did not read the print as intended and the image became an icon of the radical cause. It was copied endlessly in cheap prints and other media. One example in the British Museum is a Chinese export ware punchbowl, see 1988,0421.1
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4315 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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File change date and time | 12:21, 27 August 2004 |
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