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Charles Williams

Also known as: Charles Williams; primary name: Williams, Charles; pseudonym: Ansell; pseudonym: Argus; pseudonym: Lamb, C; pseudonym: Squib, Timothy; pseudonym: Truelove, Tom
Details: individual; printmaker; British; Male
Other dates: 1796-1830 (active)
Biography: Prolific etcher of satires of his own or others' designs (especially Woodward); never acted as publisher and once signs as Esq. Signs as Williams (eg BMSat.10966), CW, W-S, Argus or Will. Almost all plates are anonymous and their identification needs much more work: many of the attributions to him by Dorothy George need to be revisited. His early work for Fores was identified by Hawkins (wrongly) as by Ansell. In later years he worked for different publishers simultaneously, including Fores, E Walker, members of the Knight family, and Tegg (from 1807). His prints are placed in the XIXc series.
Bibliography: Dorothy George in BMSat. VIII p.xxxviii.

1,012 related objects

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1867,0511.75 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Drawn by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1806

drawing

Museum number: 1980,1213.7 |
Producer name: BIOG149611 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Lusieri |
Production date: 1781

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1867,0511.73 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Drawn by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: Patent puppets alias the Hertford fantoccini |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7968 |
Producer name: After:Charles WilliamsPublished by:William McCleary |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:Dublin (city)

print; satirical print

Title: Act the 2d of the new Drury Lane brewery or a managers spur to progress |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7997 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1812

print; satirical print

Title: Breed against bulk or the bucks attack on the Leadenhall Street elephants |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12695 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S Knight |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: Militia galantry- or the soldiers cowardly retreat to save his bacon; at the expence of his fair ina |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8531 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1821

print; satirical print

Title: Tom Thumb and the giant or a forced march to Franckfort. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8076 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: Boney's inquisition. Another specimen of his humanity on the person of Madame Toussaint |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7294 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1804

print; satirical print

Title: The broken bridge or Boney outwitted by Genl Danube. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7834 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1809

print; satirical print

Title: Boney's journey to London or the reason why he is so long in comeing i,e, because he travels like a |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7216 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1803

print; satirical print

Title: The brazen image, set up at Oxford. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7920 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1810

print; satirical print

Title: Committee of taste or the punishment of a modern Midas. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12590 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1812

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: The first book of the Acts of the Regent. | Extract from "The Scourge." |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13707 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:M Jones |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: Doctor Boney- bringing the powers to pot, or Iohn Bull and his friends rather shy. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7632 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: Boney and the gay lads of Paris calculating for the next triumphant entry into Moscow. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8060 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: A new bravura with a duett affettuoso |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6985 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1802

print; satirical print

Title: Pigmy revels. |
Museum number: 1948,0214.605 |
Producer name: After:George Moutard WoodwardPrint made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1800

print; satirical print

Title: The night mare- or magistratical vigilance- |
Museum number: 1882,0610.70 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1816

print; satirical print

Title: Anticipations for the pillory. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8054 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: Fishing for flats or a drag from the stock exchange. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7473 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: The finishing kick- out- of the P-y- Council. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7360 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:C Knight |
Production date: 1805

print; satirical print

Title: The Burdettites hoax'd or one fool makes many. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7952 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1810

print; satirical print

Title: Together let us range the fields. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8172 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:William Holland |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: Cross examination |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6991 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1802

print; satirical print

Title: The pilot lost and the national steamboat in danger. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8814 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S Knight |
Production date: 1827

print; satirical print

Title: The bone of contention or the English bull dog and the Corsican monkey |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7138 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1803

print; satirical print

Title: Military portraits- or a brrace of heroes. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10353 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1798

print; satirical print

Title: The Saracens head on Snow Hill |
Museum number: 1935,0522.8.206 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: God save the king- by a set of performers- being their first appearance these twenty years |
Museum number: J,4.55 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: R-l push-pin |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8585 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1822

print; satirical print

Title: Too long and too loose!! Or Lord Sham-Peter the amateur tailor. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:J Sidebotham |
Production date: 1816

print; satirical print

Title: Going on a circuit as recommended in Sherry's plan of economy. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7130 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1803

print; satirical print

Title: The worsted sportsmen- or- a good general but a d..... bad marksman |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.29 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1823

print; satirical print

Title: Boney & the Great State Secretary |
Museum number: 1935,0522.5.170 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: Pupils of nature. |
Museum number: 1867,0713.409 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsFormerly attributed to:F Sansom |
Production date: 1798

print; satirical print

Title: Equipt for a northern visit |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.203 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:John Johnston |
Production date: 1822

print; satirical print

Title: No. II, Blessings of Britain- or- swarm of tax gatherers. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13326 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1817

print; satirical print

Title: Bubbles for 1825- or- fortunes made by steam. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.140 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1824

print; satirical print

Title: Committee of taste or the punishment of a modern Midas, dedicated (without permission) to the subscr |
Museum number: J,1.137 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1812

print; satirical print

Title: A hint to ministers, or a gracious answer to grievous petitions. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7702 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: Iohn Bull contemplating a statue of Portland stone. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.18 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1807

print; satirical print

Title: Castles in the air, or villainy rewarded, |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12867 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1817

print; satirical print

Title: The guardian-angel. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.5.143 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1805

print; satirical print

Title: The April fool consigned to infamy and ridicule. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6945 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1801

print; satirical print

Title: Spirits at work- Joanna conceiving- ie- blowingup Shiloh. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8173 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:M Jones |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: Iohn Bull in clover Iohn Bull done over |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.53 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1819

print; satirical print

Title: A grand country dance. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7461 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:C Knight |
Production date: 1805

print; satirical print

Title: Hey day, who is this!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7637 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: The double dealers- two strings to your bow- or- who's the dupe. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.134 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1825

print; satirical print

Title: The ratification of peace or the military mediator. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8166 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:John Johnston |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: St Stephen's statute. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7413 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: The wedding dinner or Moses and the magistrate, vide London Tavern. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8030 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1812

print; satirical print

Title: The soldier's welcome home.!!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12627 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:William Holland |
Production date: 1811

print; satirical print

Title: The constitutional squad (ie opposition) advancing to attack. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1253 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: The divine and the donkey- or Petworth frolicks. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12753 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:M Jones |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: Iohn Bull viewing Billy's preparations for his birth-day. |
Museum number: 1866,1114.649 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1802

print; satirical print

Title: The Dutch Apollo! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8161 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:William Holland |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: The corn bill or Iohn Bull and his hobby. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7285 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1804

print; satirical print

Title: City scavengers cleansing the London streets of impurities!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8354 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:J Sidebotham |
Production date: 1816

print; satirical print

Title: The little Princess and Gulliver |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.24 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1803

print; satirical print

Title: Boney returning from Russia covered with glory- leaving his army in comfortable winter quarters.- |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8043 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: A check to Corsican assurance. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.12.21 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1805

print; satirical print

Title: Shewing a good figger of a horse |
Museum number: 1935,0522.10.222.a |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsAfter:Brownlow North |
Production date: 1806

print; satirical print

Title: The convention or a hint at emancipation. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7323 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1805

print; satirical print

Title: The giant refresh'd. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7263 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1804

print; satirical print

Title: The two journals. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.12.59 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Thomas Tegg |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: The Dutch toy. |
Museum number: J,3.108 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:William Holland |
Production date: 1814

print; satirical print

Title: Anecdotes of Byron - or a touch of the marvellous. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.8.194.a |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1825

print; satirical print

Title: In port and out of port or news from Portugal. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7596 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1807

print; satirical print

Title: Close shaveing, or the will our own way. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7056 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1802

print; satirical print

Title: The storming monopoly fort or the directors in dismay. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.12696 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:M Jones |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: A poet mounted, on the court- Pegasus |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8365 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:John Johnston |
Production date: 1817

print; satirical print

Title: Caleidoscopes or paying for peeping. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8393 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1818

print; satirical print

Title: Birds of a feather flock together. Diversions of Purley [scored through and replaced by] Brighton |
Museum number: 1990,1109.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1802

print; satirical print

Title: The Catholic petitioners, recieving the papal benediction. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7366 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1805

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Economy- or a duke of ten thousand, taking a monthly journey. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8419 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1819

print; satirical print

Title: The Berkeley slip or a lesson for spinsters. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.192 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1811

print; satirical print

Title: The spirit of the book- or anticipation of the year 1813. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8044 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1813

print; satirical print

Title: Regency fete or John Bull in the conservatory. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7980 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1811

print; satirical print

Title: A peep into the pump room or the Zomersetshire folk in a maze. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8379 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1818

print; satirical print

Title: An Irish leap,or a pat reply to a plain question |
Museum number: 1872,1012.4924 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1807

print; satirical print

Title: A flight of sportsmen, alighting in a preserved cover. |
Museum number: 1889,0705.28 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1803

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: The magical note. Which nobody dictated, nobody wrote. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10367 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1810

print; satirical print

Title: The Tenth can't shoot!! or, A Battle of Battles in Battersea Fields May 1824 |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.85 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:John Fairburn |
Production date: 1824

print; satirical print

Title: The Yor[k]shire jockey- or the material of a fox-hunters head. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.10.61 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1815

print; satirical print

Title: Curiosity |
Museum number: 1935,0522.7.219 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1817

print; satirical print

Title: Buonaparte and his old friends on their travels!! |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7703 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: Chief pillars of an illustrious house. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8325 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1816

print; satirical print

Title: The monkey and the cats paw a fable from Esop. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7259 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1804

print; satirical print

Title: Love and Beauty - Sartjee the Hottentot Venus |
Museum number: 1935,0522.6.22 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1822

print; satirical print

Title: The nut-cracker- a German toy. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8315 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:John Johnston |
Production date: 1816

print; satirical print

Title: Sir William's dream- or- the diplomatic turtle. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8705 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S Knight |
Production date: 1826

print; satirical print

Title: Seven shilling pieces. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.10.214 |
Producer name: BIOG51159 Print made by:Charles Williams |
Production date: 1802-1810

print; satirical print

Title: Prospects of prosperity, or good bottoms going in to business. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7965 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:Walker |
Production date: 1810

print; satirical print

Title: The Norwich bull-bait. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7044 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1802

print; satirical print

Title: A trip from Wareham to Uxbridge by Worcester - or many a slip between the cup and the lip. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.11.200 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles WilliamsPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1822

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