Broadsides: Caricature and the Navy 1755-1815
Grandjouan, Kate (2013) Broadsides: Caricature and the Navy 1755-1815. BSECS.
Abstract
Review of an exhibition about caricature and the navy held at the National Maritime Museum in the UK. A 'broadside’ is a large sheet of paper printed on one side, but the word also means the firing of all the guns from one side of a ship. The wit is suggestive. Caricature is considered as a paper blast, as concerted noise; explosive and potentially destructive. The parameters of the exhibition are fixed to 1755-1815, a period defined by war, mostly with France, so the navy is presented as an enduring subject for the graphic arts during this period.
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