{"product_id":"the-caricature-warehouse-christina-smylitopoulos-9780228028864","title":"The Caricature Warehouse: Thomas Tegg and the Art of Regency Graphic Satire","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe London publisher, printer, and bookseller Thomas Tegg (1776-1845) has long been understood - and dismissed - as a hack purveyor of cheap prints and books. Christina Smylitopoulos argues that he was in fact a pivotal cultural agent whose bold interventions expanded access, opened new aesthetic possibilities, and helped fundamentally reshape British graphic satire in the early nineteenth-century print trade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChallenging Tegg's reputation as a crass commercial opportunist, a series of case studies drawn from his publications examines the role of graphic satire in critical responses to the Napoleonic Wars and to Britain's imperial projects in India. These analyses demonstrate how Tegg's collaborations with leading artists - including Thomas Rowlandson, George M. Woodward, and George Cruikshank, as well as designers working under pseudonyms - fostered experimentation in form and meaning within a genre deeply entangled with the social, political, and aesthetic concerns of the period. Smylitopoulos situates Tegg within the dynamic publishing ecology of late Georgian Britain, revealing how his satirical prints and illustrated books engaged with pressing sociopolitical debates while challenging hierarchies of taste. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBridging art, book, print, and cultural history, the book offers a fresh perspective on the intersections of commerce and creativity in the evolution of visual media. \u003ci\u003eThe Caricature Warehouse \u003c\/i\u003einvites readers to reconsider the aesthetic significance of works long relegated to the margins, positioning Thomas Tegg as both a patron of modern art and an architect of emergent modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christina Smylitopoulos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0228028868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780228028864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Christina Smylitopoulos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001621061887,"sku":"9780228028864","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-caricature-warehouse-christina-smylitopoulos-9780228028864","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}