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@johnfreeman_DTT @Cartoonmuseumuk @richardandsheaf And there will be lots of artwork for great cartoons!
@judy_rudoe @Merl And here is Queen Victoria's Highland terrier Islay. Etching by Prince Albert after QV's drawing. On show @britishmuseum from July to September this year.
@artisthogarth Why tweet a copy of Hogarth's Wilkes? It is so easy to find an image of his print on line, e.g., this one @britishmuseum https://t.co/6vAhHKvvEw
@Unefleurunjour And a great self-promoter and propagandist - plenty of modern parallels. Somehow he and his supporters managed to turn Hogarth's caricature of him into something positive - "Wilkes and Liberty"
@wambaworld @dalzielproject But surely the best illustration to Gray is Thomas Bentley's wonderful rococo design for "On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes", see https://t.co/giEtULdURD
@judy_rudoe @britishmuseum This French cartoon (also @britishmuseum) shows Victoria meeting Louis Philippe after he had been deposed in 1848. She is shocked to see that he has been reduced to wearing a peasant's smock. In fact he lived quite comfortably in exile in Surrey.
@artisthogarth Here is the original print of John Wilkes made by Hogarth in 1763. There were many copies in all sorts of media. Hogarth was mocking Wilkes, but the image was used by Wilkes's supporters to promote the cause of liberty against oppressive government.
@BCLocalHistory @Gunnersbury1 Just today I was cataloguing some prints @britishmuseum about the notorious Brentford by-election of December 1768. John Wilkes's ally John Glynn was elected in spite of much opposition from government supporters - as well as bribery and violence from all sides.
Don't miss Alison Wright's great exhibition James Ward: Animal Painter at Newmarket, see https://t.co/wmLDy2vxli