Charles Williams (caricaturist)



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.

Works

 * J. Mitford The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy (1819)
 * W. Combe Doctor Syntax in Paris, or, a Tour in Search of the Grotesque (1820)
 * The Tour of Doctor Prosody: in Search of the Antique and Picturesque (1821)
 * My Cousin in the Army, or, Johnny Newcome on the Peace Establishment (1822)