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William Elmes
William
Elmes
, was an
English
caricaturist
.
There are over
45
caricatures
by him, many on
naval
subjects
, as well as two satires on
slavery
, in the
Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
., which describes his
work
as "genuine
caricature
,
broadly
burlesqued, naively drawn". His work includes caricatures after
prints
by
James Gillray
and
Thomas Rowlandson
.