John Wilkes, English politician mb-code U597620INP 000 being sold

000 being sold

Illustrations showing microscopic views of moss

Tile-hung facade of the Rose Tavern as it appeared in about 1730

A brass and iron pot mender

John Wilkes, English politician mb-code U597620INP 000 being soldJohn Wilkes, English politician, 1762 1763 (1895). Study for a cartoon Hogarth produced in 1763. Wilkes is wearing a wig that Hogarth has fashioned into two horns. He holds a cap (entitled liberty in the final cartoon) that Hogarth has positioned to make it look like a halo. On the table are copies of his newspaper The North Briton. In 1762 Hogarth had published a satire, The Times, that, for Hogarth, was unusually anti war. It angered many