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The ghost of a guinea! or the country banker's surprise!! / Woodward, delin., British Cartoon Print
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Print shows a banker astonished by a guinea coin with King George III on it. The banker says, "Surely my eyes do not deceive me--it certainly must be a Guinea!--I declare I have not seen such a thing since I have been in the Banking Line--Mercy on us--it may perhaps be one of the New Ghosts that go about--if thou beest a real guinea do drop in my till, and let me hear thee chink." Inscribed on the window pane behind him: "Tim Jenkins Banker--Paper Wholesale and Retail. NB--No Objection to take light Guineas for Goods."
Library of Congress copy is hand-colored.
Print is an earlier state of a print recorded in George.
Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Mary Dorothy George, v. 8, no. 11576
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
It wasn't really until the 1700s that caricature truly blossomed as a form of political criticism. In the late 1750s, a man named Thomas Townshend began using the techniques employed by earlier engravers and applying them towards a political model. This gave Thompson's cartoons a much greater feeling of propaganda than previous artistic critiques of the time. The intense political climate of the period, and often accusatory nature of most political cartoons forced many artists to use pseudonyms in order to avoid accusations of libel. Other artists took it a step farther, and left their cartoons completely unsigned, foregoing any credit they may have received. Political higher-ups were notoriously touchy about their reputations and were not afraid to make examples of offenders. Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918.
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