Charles Williams (caricaturist)

This article is about the British caricaturist. For other people called Charles or Charlie Williams, see Charles Williams.

An 1814 engraving by Charles Williams.

Charles Williams (died 1830) was a British caricaturist, etcher and illustrator. He was chief caricaturist between 1799 and 1815 for the leading British publisher S. W. Fores. He worked in a style similar to James Gillray. In his earlier works, Williams used the pseudonyms Ansell or Argus; with George Cruikshank and others he illustrated The Every-Day Book by William Hone, edited 1825–26.

Williams was the first of many who caricatured the 1st Duke of Wellington; he published a drawing of him in September 1808, during the Peninsular War, in which the Duke cuts off the pigtail of French general Jean-Andoche Junot, defeated at the Battle of Vimeiro.[1][2]

  1. ^ Bryant, M. (2008). Paul Pry's Noble Duke. History Today, 58(9), 58-59.
  2. ^ "The genius of caricature, and his friends, celebrating the completion of the second volume of the Caricature Magazine in the Temple of Mirth". British Museum. Retrieved 20 November 2019.