Richard Newton (caricaturist)

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Richard Newton (1777 – 1798) was an English caricaturist.

Short lived but brilliant 18th Century British Caricaturist. He published his first caricature at thirteen. A pioneer of the strip form of cartoon. His work includes definitive caricatures expressing the English prejudice of Scots as lean and hungry opportunists. Worked for radical publisher William Holland, producing powerful anti-slavery works among his output. Newton minded Holland's shop when Holland was imprisoned for sedition during 1793-4.

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  • Richard Newton and English Caricature in the 1790s' Alexander, D. Manchester University Press, 1998.
  • Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Mary Dorothy George. Vol VI, Vol VII, 1942 VOL VIII 1947
  • Dictionary of British Cartoonists and caricaturists 1730-1980 Bryant and Heneage

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