A Peep into Tottenham Street or Dillitanti Performers in Training
Charles Williams|S. W. Fores
March 9, 1802
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
sheet: 9 13/16 x 13 7/8 in. (24.9 x 35.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.825
Tags
SatireSingingMenWomen
About the Artist
Charles Williams|S. W. Fores · 1797–1830
Charles Williams (1797–1830) was a British caricaturist and printmaker who worked in London during the final decades of the Georgian era, producing satirical prints for the thriving trade in political and social caricature that flourished in the city's print shops. He worked in the tradition established by such masters as James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, whose biting visual commentary on polit...