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ON one page Napoleon peeks through a set of curtains to spy on cavorting nudes. On another the Duke of York is in carnal embrace with his diminutive wife. A third depicts George III defecating into a hat.
The bound volume of cartoons by James Gillray, the 18th and 19th-century artist whose satirical etchings were the forerunner of modern political cartoons, was once considered so obscene that it was seized by police.
