Modern Atlas’s tottering under a Globe of their own Formation!!

Charles Williams

Coloured etching

30 July 1806

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    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Cabinet Office, 1 Horse Guards Road
  • About the artist
    Charles Williams was a prolific caricaturist, etcher and illustrator who occasionally used the pseudonym ‘Ansell’ or ‘Argus’. He worked with George Cruikshank and illustrated The Every-Day Book by William Hone.
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    Artist
    Charles Williams
    Title
    Modern Atlas’s tottering under a Globe of their own Formation!!
    Date
    30 July 1806
    Medium
    Coloured etching
    Dimensions
    height: 24.30 cm, width: 34.70 cm
    Acquisition
    Transferred from HM Revenue and Customs, December 2012
    Provenance
    Acquired by the Inland Revenue, Somerset House, 1948; recorded by GAC 1955; transferred to GAC 2012
    GAC number
    3234