Artist

J. Adcock

J. Adcock is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

J. Adcock printed cartoons of whiskered men in tall hats for a living, churning out sheets that sold by the thousand in London’s alleyway shops. His 19th-century “H Beard Print Collection” piles up tiny, cross-hatched faces until the page looks like a herd of grumpy uncles. Grab that bundle if you want to see how satire hit the streets before memes.

Works by J. Adcock

Collections represented

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