Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index."This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Asking how Britons learned to value both graphic art and money, the book makes surprising connections between these two types of engraved images that grew in popularity and influence during this time. Graphic satire grew in visual risk-taking along, while paper money became a more standard carrier of financial value, courting controversy as a medium, moral problem, and factor in inflation. Through analysis of satirical prints, as well as case studies of monetary satires beyond London, this book demonstrates several key ways that cultures attach value to printed paper, accepting it as social reality and institutional fact. Thus, satirical banknotes were objects that broke down the distinction between paper money and graphic satire altogether"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The inflation of Georgian graphic satire -- Money, Fact, and value -- Crisis -- Subjectivity and trust -- Imitation and immateriality -- Materiality -- The deflation of Georgian graphic satire -- Beyond Britain.
Subject Terms:
English wit and humor, Pictorial. | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Humor. | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century. | Paper money design -- Great Britain -- History. | Bank notes in art.