The Art and Wit of Caricature: the English Tradition August 11, 2008

This exhibit features forty caricature prints and drawings from the MIA's permanent collection that present social satire that both bristles and entertains. Its examines the comic art form in eighteenth-century England, in the work of some of the period's most celebrated caricaturists--William Hogarth (1697-1764), Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) and James Gillray (1756-1815).