John Wilkes, English politician mb-code U597620INP Maurice Trintignant

Maurice Trintignant

View of the Tower of London and London Bridge looking north-west with boats and figures on the River Thames

Illustrations showing microscopic views of moss

A brass and iron pot mender

Petersham is now in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames

John Wilkes, English politician mb-code U597620INP Maurice TrintignantJohn 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