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The Political House That Jack Built
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The Political House That Jack Built

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  • William Hone, detail of an oil painting by George Patten in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
    William Hone

    His The Political House That Jack Built (1819), the first and most famous of a series of satires that he produced with the caricaturist George Cruikshank, ran into 54 editions but failed to keep Hone solvent. A bankruptcy (1828) followed his imprisonment for debts incurred in…

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    His The Political House That Jack Built (1819), the first and most famous of a series of satires that he produced with the caricaturist George Cruikshank, ran into 54 editions but failed to keep Hone solvent. A bankruptcy (1828) followed his imprisonment for debts incurred in…

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