John Duncombe is an artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Duncombe was the kind of guy who left his day job to chase prints. He ran a print shop in Norwich, England, until he couldn’t resist the chaos of making his own, and by the late 1700s, his satirical prints were everywhere, cheap, bold, and impossible to ignore. A friend once called them “visual soundbites” for the era’s gossip mill.

You’ll spot his style in the H Beard Print Collection, where politicians and socialites get the punchline treatment, look for the one where a bloated MP is weighed against a sack of gold.