Peak of British Caricature

English caricature came to a peak in the late 1700s. At this time thousands of prints were being made and sold in store established solely to sell prints. Caricaturists were like celebrities. Picture above is a print by Thomas Rowlandson. Like Hogarth, his satire mostly pertained to society and social manners. The image is titles "Boney and his New Wife," it is Napoleon Bonarte and his wife Mary Louis, who did not have the best of marriages. Often Rowlandson's drawings were incredibly vulgar (this is honestly, one of the few I found that didn't involve graphic nudity.)