Monstrosities of 1816

With this sheet Cruikshank directly followed James Gillray's 1799 caricature \"Monstrosities of 1799 - Scene Kensington Gardens\" and established the basic pictorial structure for his successful series of Monstrosities. All the sheets show typecast strollers in London's city parks. In the foreground there are usually scenes of greeting, in the zones of space further back Cruikshank often inserts c…