The late eighteenth century has often been heralded as the ‘golden age of caricature’. During this time, caricatures uniquely illustrated contemporary politics with whichever bias the artist favoured, leaving a rich vein of primary sources for the historian to analyse. It was also a period marked by intense sociability, radicalism, and the rise of Foxite celebrity (Dorothy M. George, Hogarth to Cruickshank: Social Change in Graphic Satire (London, 1967) p. 13). From 1780 through to 1810, a politically tumultuous era unfolded, shaped by multiple strains of radical thought from Britain, Ireland, and France. Major global events like the American Revolutionary Wars, the French Revolution, the Irish Rebellion, the Anglo-French Wars, and the ascent of Napoleon dramatically reshaped both Britain's domestic and foreign landscapes.