Caricature
A portrait in which a person is mocked or ridiculed by the distortion or exaggeration of their characteristic features. Political caricature as we know it today was made popular by artists such as Gillray and Rowlandson at the end of the eighteenth century when it was used as a political weapon.
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King George III
by Thomas Rowlandson, published by I. Jones
published 10 December 1781
NPG D12289
'A sphere, projecting against a plane' (William Pitt; Albinia, Countess of Buckinghamshire)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
published 3 January 1792
NPG D12438
R-y-l Condescension - or a Foreign Minister admonished! - April 1817
by George Cruikshank, published by George Humphrey
published 15 September 1817
NPG D17897
Joseph Boruwlaski
by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
1830-1835
NPG 3097(8)
Hon. Henry Richard Graves
by Hon. Henry Richard Graves
1848
NPG D18085(25)
William Ewart Gladstone
by Carlo Pellegrini
published in Vanity Fair 6 February 1869
NPG 1978
Abdul Aziz
by James Jacques Tissot
published in Vanity Fair 30 October 1869
NPG 4707(1)
Prince Charles
by Mark Boxer
1981
NPG 5920(6)
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
1890s?
NPG 2834
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
by Sir Henry Maximilian ('Max') Beerbohm
1897
NPG 3857
Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood; George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
by Anthony Wysard
1936
NPG 6118
Enoch Powell
by Gerald Scarfe
1971
NPG 6475
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