John Wilkes, English politician mb-code U597620INP Petersham is now in the

Petersham is now in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames

View of the Tower of London and London Bridge looking north-west with boats and figures on the River Thames

Maurice Trintignant

'Hythe Church and Martello Tower'

John Wilkes, English politician mb-code U597620INP Petersham is now in theJohn Wilkes, English politician, 1762 1763 (1895). Study for a cartoon Hogarth produced in 1763. Wilkes is wearing a wig that Hogarth has fashioned into two horns. He holds a cap (entitled liberty in the final cartoon) that Hogarth has positioned to make it look like a halo. On the table are copies of his newspaper The North Briton. In 1762 Hogarth had published a satire, The Times, that, for Hogarth, was unusually anti war. It angered many