What is Cartoon Museum ?

The Cartoon Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:30am to 5:30pm (closed Mondays except for bank holidays).

From the 1770s it was the gentleman amateur and semi-amateur, such as Townshend, Bunbury, Woodward and Nixon, who transformed the artform, introducing a more playful style and a strong element of personal caricature

Admission is £7 for adults, £3 for students, and under 18 are free (but kids under 12 must be accompanied by an adult).

Social satire blossomed, offering humorous observations on current fashions and social pretensions.

They are just a block from the British Museum, and a short walk from either the Tottenham Court Road or Holborn Tube stops.

In the 1780s political satire ripened. Print-shops flourished in the City, Westminster and St. James's,

many holding caricature exhibitions.  The hand-coloured copper-plate etching, freer in style that the engraving, became fashionable:

The Cartoon Museum is a small museum which shows a selection of original cartoon and comic art, and a very small amount of animation, mostly by

often priced at 2 shillings (10p) or more it was a luxury item, and beyond the means of most.

British artists, from the 1750s to the present day. There are three galleries including one showing a...more

The French Revolution in 1789 ignited a fusillade of satirical propaganda in France and Britain. Both 'Loyalist' members of the Pitt coalition and the opposition 'Reform' Whigs around Fox sponsored partisan political prints.

I specifically wanted to visit this museum and checked its web site on Friday before my visit the next day.

At first, the Foxites took the upper hand, creating a new type of sophisticated visual and verbal satire.

The web site was down with an error message returned (and it is still exactly the same, two days later). There was nothing to suggest...More

But news from France of the excesses of the Terror damaged the reform cause. By 1795 the Foxites were in decline, and a blast of repressive measures, culminating in the Treason and Sedition Acts, subdued not only the press and opposition, but also the print publishers.

This is a delight to visit. The numerous and varies cartoons cover many issues.

In August 1819, the local Yeoman Cavalry attacked a crowd of peaceful protestors in St Peter's Fields, Manchester. The government response was the repressive Six Acts,

The humour from the cartoon is a pleasure to view. From the simple drawing to the more complex they all have humour for the visitor to find.

actually,that is not a museum even if you pay a ticket.It s some kind of exhibition of drawings,too small to have a

including an increase in stamp duty that tripled the price of many papers. The publisher William Hone and George Cruikshank, the foremost caricaturist of the Regency, answered these attacks on Reform with a little 24-page shilling (5p) pamphlet, The Political House That Jack Built. It would go through 50 editions and sell 100,000 copies.

good idea about them and not interesting for most of the people,in 4-5 rooms.No history of cartoons,no cartoons,no nothing.Dissapointed,I love cartoons.More than this,the...More

Hone had revived the technique of wood-engraving. The hardwood relief block was more durable that the copper-plate,

...please make sure that your directions are clear on how to get there! Mother of mercy,

be set with the metal type and printed together, thereby cutting costs. Image and text could now support each other, and reach a wider audience.

I spent an 30 extra minutes wandering around London. I'm not from here, I wanted to come see you since 14 Sept was your last day, and it was...More