A Receipt for Courtship, 1805.
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Selected Bibliography: Sources for the Study of Early British Caricatures and Cartoons
Books
Brewer, John. The common people and politics, 1750-1790s. The English satirical print, 1660-1832. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. 291 p. : chiefly illus. Call number: DA486 .B74 1986 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
British Museum. English cartoons and satirical prints, 1320-1832, in the British Museum. Microform. Cambridge, England: Chadwyck-Healey ; Teaneck, N.J.: Somerset House, 1978. 21 microfilm reels : all illus. ; 35mm. Call number: Microfilm 83/26 (N) [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Prints 1 through 17391 identified in: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, satirical and personal subjects. v. 1-11. (Call number: NE55.L7A3 [P&P Ref.])
British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum: Division I. Political and personal satires. [London] Printed by order of the Trustees, 1870-1954 v. 1-11. Call number: NE55 .L7 A3 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Bryant, Mark. and Simon Heneage, comp. Dictionary of British cartoonists and caricaturists, 1730-1980. Aldershot, Hants, England: Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Ashgate, c1994. xvii, 252 p. : ill. Call number: NC1470 .B78 1994 [P&P Ref. Biog] [ catalog record]
Carretta, Vincent. George III and the satirists from Hogarth to Byron. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xviii, 389 p. : illus. Call number: DA505 .C36 1990 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Dickinson, H. T. Caricatures and the Constitution, 1760-1832. The English satirical print, 1600-1832. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. 345 p. : chiefly illus. Call number: DA505 .D54 1986 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Donald, Diana. The age of caricature: satirical prints in the reign of George III. New Haven: Pub. for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1996. viii, 248 p. : illus. Call number: DA505 .D73 1996 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Duffy, Michael. The Englishman and the foreigner. The English satirical print, 1600-1832. Cambridge, England ; Alexandria, VA, USA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. 403 p., illus. Call number: NC1473 .D78 1986 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
English caricature, 1620 to the present: caricaturists and satirists--their art, their purpose, and influence. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984. 144 p. : illus. (some col.). Call number: NC1470. E54 1984 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Yale Center for British Art, at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
George, M. Dorothy. Hogarth to Cruikshank: social change in graphic satire. London, Allen Lane, Penguin P., 1967. 3-224 p. : 2 fronts. (incl. 1 col.), illus., 9 col. plates. Call number: NC1470 .G42 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Gillray, James. The works of James Gillray: 582 plates and supplement containing the 45 so-called "suppressed plates." Bronx [New York]: B. Blom, 1968. 1 v. : chiefly illus., ports. Call number: NC1479 .G5 B7 1968 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Facsimile, reduced from original dimensions. Originally published London, 1851, printed for H.G. Bohn by C. Whiting in 2 volumes. Original title: The works of James Gillray, from original plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected.
Gillray observed: the earliest account of his caricatures in London und Paris. Translated and edited by Christiane Banerji and Diana Donald. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xvii, 272 p. : illus. Call number: NC1479.G5 G56 1999 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Hunt, Tamara L. Defining John Bull: political caricature and national identity in late Georgian England. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2003. xii, 452 p. : illus. Call number: DA505.E9H86 2003 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Langford, Paul. Walpole and the Robinocracy. The English satirical print, 1600-1832. Cambridge, England ; Alexandria, VA, USA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. 259 p. : illus. Call number: DA501.W2 L36 1986 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Miller, John. Religion in the popular prints, 1600-1832. The English satirical print, 1600-1832. Cambridge, England ; Alexandria, VA, USA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. 368 p. : illus. Call number: NC1473 .M55 1986 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Paston, George. Social caricature in the eighteenth century. 1905 (reprint: New York, B. Blom [1968]). xiii, 143 p. : illus., ports. Call number: DA485 .S989 1968 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Riely, John C. The age of Horace Walpole in caricature; an exhibition of satirical prints and drawings from the collection of W. S. Lewis. Catalogue by John C. Riely. Introd. by Dale R. Roylance. New Haven: Yale University Library, 1973. [48] p. : illus. Call number: DA485 .R53 [ catalog record]
Robinson, Nicholas K. Edmund Burke: a life in caricature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. x, 214 p. : illus. (some col.). Call number: DA506 .B9 R63 1996 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Sharpe, J. A. Crime and the law in English satirical prints, 1600-1832. The English satirical print, 1600-1832. Cambridge, England ; Alexandria, VA, USA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. 318 p. : illus. Call number: HV9960 .G7 S53 1986 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Thomas, Peter David Garner. The American Revolution. The English satirical print, 1600-1832. Cambridge, England ; Alexandria, VA, USA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. 279 p. : illus. Call number: E298 .T47 1986 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Wright, Thomas. Caricature history of the Georges. 1868 (reprint: New York, B. Blom [1968]). xiii, 639 p. illus. Call number: DA485 .W95 1968 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
First published in 1848 under title: England under the house of Hanover.
Wright, Thomas, and R.H. Evans. Historical & descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray: comprising a political and humorous history of the latter part of the reign of George the Third. 1851 (reprint: New York: B. Blom, 1968). xv, 496 p. : 1 port. Call number: NC1479 .G5 W8 1968 [P&P Ref.] [ catalog record]
Online Sources
Comics Research.org
URL: http://comicsresearch.org/
Features The Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliography maintained by Gene Kannenberg, Jr.(includes extensive links to other resources)
Katz, Harry L. and Sara W. Duke. "Cartoon-related
Research at the Library of Congress."
Available online at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/cartoon_research.html
Updated version of an article that originally appeared in Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies: vol. 1, no. 3 (November 1994): pp. (Call number NC1320.I55 [P & P]
Rhode, Michael and John Bullough
Comics Research Bibliography http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/comxbib.html
As of August 2003, there were approximately 16,900 entries in this online bibliography. In addition to an index of cartoonists, there is also a list of topical bibliographies on a wide range of subjects, including "British Comics" and "Caricature," and links to other sites. Comics Research Bibliography is a member of the Comic Sites Alliance.
