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Facts

Born August 13, 1756 • England
Died June 1, 1815 (aged 58) • London • England

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Cartoon by James Gillray showing King George III dressed in red, holding a tiny Napoleon Bonaparte in his hand and inspecting him with a telescope, referencing Gulliver's Travels.
political cartoon: William Pitt, the Younger
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George Cruikshank
British artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast
American political caricaturist
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
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Harry Furniss
Anglo-Irish caricaturist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).
Walter Crane
British illustrator and painter
Leech, John
John Leech
British caricaturist
Political cartoon
Sir John Tenniel
English artist
May, Phil
Phil May
British caricaturist
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Gerald Scarfe
English caricaturist
Doyle, Richard: The Fairy Queen's Messenger
Richard Doyle
British artist
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Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
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Rudolf Bauer
German-born artist
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Ralph Steadman
British artist and cartoonist
Garry Trudeau
Garry Trudeau
American satirist
Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer
American cartoonist and writer
The New Yorker's Idea of the Map of the United States, cartoon by John T. McCutcheon
John T. McCutcheon
American cartoonist