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Charles Williams

60 works

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Hand-colored caricature of a bedchamber scene with a reclining woman, a man in blue, a midwife, and small men tumbling on the

An Accouchment

published March 30, 1812

Hand-colored print of dandies tumbling while ice skating on a frozen lake, with onlookers watching in a winter landscape.

Skaiting Dandies, shewing off

c. 1818

Hand-colored caricature of two officials in gilded robes walking a street as a boy scrambles aside, with onlookers at a windo

New Ministers Going on Duty

published February 14, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of men hauling a net of speculators from a harbor labeled Pool of Speculation, 1806.

Fishing for Flats

published July 25, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of rats in wigs and coats overrunning an empty barn of TREASURY sacks, while a farmer and butler look

Hungry Rats in an Empty Barn

published March 1806

Hand-colored caricature of two men in an interior, one gesturing with a document while the other listens eagerly beside a des

John Bull's First Visit to his Old Friend the New Secretary

published March 3, 1806

Hand-colored 1805 caricature of two men seated on barrels with tankards and pipes, with comic dialogue captions above.

Jack Junk's Opinion of French Language

1805

Hand-colored satirical print of three figures in gilt chairs exchanging scrolls, with a London map on the wall and verse belo

A New Mode of Presenting Two Addresses at Once

published February 1818

Hand-colored 1805 caricature of a kneeling sailor praying beside a cannon while a naval officer with a sword looks on.

Equity, or a Sailor's Prayer before Battle

1805

Hand-colored satirical print of a procession of caricatured mourners carrying a coffin labeled PARTY, 1798.

The Funeral of the Party

published October 30, 1798

Hand-colored 1819 caricature of a rider on a black horse racing a man on a wooden velocipede before a cheering crowd.

Match Against Time, or Wood beats Blood and Bone

published April 17, 1819

Hand-colored satirical print of a cloaked figure with raised sword beside a helmeted rider on a bicycle near a battlefield.

New Reading, or Shakspeare [sic] Improved. Humbly Dedicated to the Keen Critic of Drury Lane, by a Poor Author

1819

Hand-colored print of a clergyman riding a wooden velocipede past a cottage with a family, mountains behind.

The Parson's Hobby, or Comfort for a Welch Curate

1819

Hand-colored 1814 satirical print showing a woman in green clutching a coachman in blue beside a lion and a coach.

Plebean Spirit

published July 25, 1814

Hand-colored 1816 caricature of a woman whipping a man bearing tax bundles, while a crutch-walking figure looks on.

Leap Year

published March 1816

Hand-colored 1819 satirical print of courtly figures in uniforms and gowns gathered around a seated woman holding an infant.

A Scene in the New Farce Called The Rivals

1819

Hand-colored 1806 caricature: a stout man in blue uniform dances with a helmeted Britannia figure beside a fiddler and a Unio

The Honeymoon

1806

Hand-colored caricature of two men dining at a table with a tiered food stand, a peeking onlooker at the window.

The Honors of the Sitting

published January 30, 1805

Hand-colored satirical print of a king in blue and gold receiving bowing courtiers in powdered wigs before a red throne.

Kissing Hands

published February 10, 1806

Hand-colored caricature of men in period dress gathered before a stone archway, with handwritten satirical text above.

St. Stephen's Statute

published February 6, 1806

Hand-coloured caricature of a uniformed dandy driving a carriage with a woman holding a parasol, seaside behind.

Quid est?- Why Brighton dandies.!!!

published January 1819

Hand-colored caricature of a gilded statue with a Budget scroll on a tax-labeled pedestal, with onlookers.

The Brazen Image Erected on a Pedestal Wrought by Himself

published May 29, 1802

Hand-colored caricature of exaggerated Regency figures in feathered headdresses and fashion, with satirical verses above.

A Peep into Tottenham Street or Dillitanti Performers in Training

March 9, 1802

Hand-coloured print of women in furs fleeing an icy skeletal frost figure while a man in a greatcoat watches beside bare tree

A Naked Truth, or Nipping Frost

February 2, 1803

Hand-colored print of a bedroom with pink curtained bed, a woman in white, an elderly man in black, and a man peering from a

Doctor Syntax kijkt rond in een kamer

1820

Hand-colored print of a coach unloading luggage on a cobbled Paris street, with a crowd of figures in period dress.

Doctor Syntax arriveert met een koets in Parijs

1820

Hand-colored caricature of a crowd of figures, conjurors and a harlequin around a table, with a green whale above them.

Hocus Pocus-or Conjurors Raising the Wind

October 1, 1814

Hand-coloured caricature of Napoleon as a barber shaving a seated European ruler in a crowded shop, 1806.

Napoleon als barbier voor Europese machten, 1806

1806