William Elmes
William Elmes (active 1811–20), was an English caricaturist. There are over 45 caricatures by him, many on naval subjects, as well as two satires on slavery, in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, which describes his work as "genuine caricature, broadly burlesqued, naively drawn". His work includes caricatures after prints by James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson.
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William Elmes
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- Died
- 1814.
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- Kingdom of Great Britain and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- painter, engraver and illustrator.
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William Elmes (active 1811–20), was an English caricaturist. There are over 45 caricatures by him, many on naval subjects, as well as two satires on slavery, in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, which describes his work as "genuine caricature, broadly burlesqued, naively drawn". His work includes caricatures after prints by James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson.
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1814
William Elmes died in 1814.
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Elmes, William, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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- 1.Bryant, Mark. Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists, 1730-198. Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd. 71. 1994. 978-0859679763.
- 2.George, M Dorothy. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. The British Museum. 1870–1954.
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