Richard Newton (cartoonist)

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Richard Newton (born May 19, 1777 in London , † December 8, 1798 in Covent Garden , London) was a British cartoonist .

life and work

Richard Newton was born in London in 1777 and died at the age of 21 of typhoid fever , which was then also known as prison fever . At the age of 13 he began to publish his first caricatures. About 300 of his works were published during his lifetime. William Holland, who ran a printing company, published Newton's drawings and let him run his printing press during his (radical activity) imprisonment from 1793 to 1794. Newton visited him regularly at Newgate Prison and drew his fellow inmates.

He was a contemporary of Thomas Rowlandson , Isaac Cruikshank and James Gillray . Newton etched satirical depictions of kings, politicians, greedy churchmen, actresses and courtesans. Some of his earliest drawings were about George III . He penned a series of anti-slavery cartoons. His works are owned by the British Museum in London.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012-9 / 2013 Wilhelm Busch Museum , Hanover
  • 2011 Richard Newton - Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, | solo
  • 2011 Best Kept Secret : UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964–1971 - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
  • 2009 English caricatures from the 18th and early 19th centuries . Hamburger Kunsthalle

literature

  • David Alexander Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s Manchester 1998, with a catalog of 320 prints.

Web links

Commons : Richard Newton  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annex Galleries: Richard Newton Biography.Retrieved May 11, 2013
  2. ↑ Mike Rendell: Georgian Gentleman ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 11, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.mikerendell.com
  3. ↑ Treason: caricature by Richard Newton ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 11, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.loonydoctor.com
  4. ↑ Ulla Fölsing: Der Tagesspiegel: Mocking and knocking out Retrieved on May 11, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Newton, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1798
Place of death Covent Garden , London