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Broadsides: Caricatures and the Navy 1756-1815 by James Davey, Richard Johns (Paperback, 2012)
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The thematic narrative explores topics from politics to invasion, whilst encompassing detailed analysis of the context and content of individual prints. The text, like the cariactures themselves, balances humour with the more serious nature of the content.
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BROADSIDES explores the political and cultural history of the Navy during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through contemporary caricature. This was a period of intense naval activity encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and the War of 1812. Naval caricatures were utilised by the press to comment on events, simultaneously reminding the British public of the immediacy of war, whilst satirising the same Navy it was meant to be supporting. The thematic narrative explores topics from politics to invasion, whilst encompassing detailed analysis of the context and content of individual prints. It explores pivotal figures within the Navy and the feelings and apprehensions of the people back home and their perception of the former. The text, like the caricatures themselves, balances humour with the more serious nature of the content. The emergence of this popular new form of graphic satire culminated in the works of James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, both here well represented, but a mass of other contemporary illustration makes this work a hugely important source book for those with any interest in the wars and history of this era. SELLING POINTS: . Accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the National Maritime Museum (UK) opening in October 2012. . Beautifully illustrated with a selection of previously unseen images. . Popular paperback format. ILLUSTRATIONS: 85 colour and b/wProduct Identifiers
PublisherPen & Sword Books LTD
ISBN-139781848321465
eBay Product ID (ePID)114454458
Product Key Features
SubjectGovernment, History
Publication Year2012
Number of Pages64 Pages
Publication NameBroadsides: Caricatures and the Navy 1756-1815
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorJames Davey, Richard Johns
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height297 mm
Item Width210 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorRichard Johns, James Davey
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- 10 May, 2018
Excellent informative book
Bought for my husband,he has found it a very entertaining,and full of good information.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
