William Charles and His World

This symposium explores the work and times of the caricaturist and book publisher William Charles (1776-1820). It features AAS members Jack and Linda Lapides, who will discuss collecting Charles imprints; Laura Wasowicz, AAS children’s literature curator, who will speak on the picture books of William Charles; and former AAS fellows Allison Stagg and Nancy Siegel who will explore Charles’s work as a political caricaturist in both Europe and America and will introduce newly discovered work attributed to Charles.

Speakers

• “Robust Elegance: The Picture Books of William Charles,”
  Laura Wasowicz--Curator of Children’s Literature, American Antiquarian Society
• “'A Foreigner and an Alien': William Charles in London and Philadelphia,”
  Allison Stagg, Terra Visiting Professor of American Art at the John F Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitat, Berlin
• “That’s A Lot of Bull, Johnny: William Charles and the War of 1812,”
  Nancy Siegel, Professor of Art History and Culinary History and Director, Museum Studies minor at Towson University
• “Embellished with Neat Engravings,"
  Linda Lapides;
  "Chasing Down William Charles,"
  Jack Lapides, Collectors, Baltimore, MD