English caricatures and cartoons depicting smoking and other subjects

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Description
Caricatures depicting smoking, snuff, tobacco taxation and other tobacco related subjects, and views depicting other subjects where tobacco or smoking is incidentally depicted. Persons depicted include the British royal family, peers, bishops, and parliamentarians & European rulers, Thomas Paine, Edmund Kean, the symbolic character John Bull, and others & issues addressed include taxation, the Emancipation Bill, the French Revolution, Napoleonic wars, Ireland, trade unions, child labor, education, and others including caricatures and cartoons depicting manners and customs, fashion and other social subjects.
Names
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811 (Artist)
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811? (Etcher)
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814 (Artist)
Gillray, James, 1756-1815 (Engraver)
Heath, William, 1795-1840 (Engraver)
Hodgson, Orlando (Publisher)
Holland, William, fl. 1782-1817 (Publisher)
Maunder, Samuel, 1785-1849 (Publisher)
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 (Etcher)
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845 (Publisher)
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), ca. 1760-1809 (Artist)
Laurie & Whittle (Publisher)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1600 - 1836 (Approximate)
Library locations
George Arents Collection
Shelf locator: Arents Prints 96-327
Topics
Tobacco -- Taxation -- England
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs
Genres
Prints
Caricatures
Physical Description
Extent: 79> prints : aquatint, engraving, etching, lithograph, some col. sheet 44 x 62 cm. or smaller
Plate marks, when present, range in size from 12 x 9 cm. to 44 x 62 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12504879
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG96-F98
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 68eb7cd0-c6ce-012f-3632-58d385a7bc34
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