Dr David Fallon recently gave a paper at Romantic Imprints - the British Association of Romantic Studies conference in Cardiff (July 16th-19th). 'Gillray, the Phallic Earl, and the Public Meanings of a 1790s Imprint' discussed James Gillray's caricature Sandwich-Carrots!—dainty Sandwich-Carrots
(3rd December 1796), which lampooned John Montagu, the Fourth
Earl of Sandwich. The paper argues that the presence of Robert Faulder's
bookshop in the background of the caricature is actually central to the
caricature's message.
