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John Wilkes Esqr
Description
English: Caricatural portrait of John Wilkes holding the cap of Liberty. 1763
Etching and engraving
Depicted people Portrait of: John Wilkes
Date 1763
date QS:P571,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 342 millimetres (cropped slightly at lower edge)
Width: 222 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4315
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


For the preliminary drawing and further references, see 1936,1015.1.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4315
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