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Joseph Grego
1843–1908
A lively Victorian writer on art, caricature, and old election customs, he turned his passion for prints and pictures into books that still interest historians today. His work helped preserve the world of artists such as James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson for later readers.
3 Audiobooks
Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2
by Joseph Grego
Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 1
by Joseph Grego
About the author
Born in London on 23 September 1843, Joseph Grego was an art collector, journalist, and writer with a strong interest in prints, caricature, and the history of visual culture. He came from a family connected with the looking-glass trade, and that background seems to have grown naturally into a lifelong fascination with images, collecting, and connoisseurship.
Grego became best known for books on British caricature and art, especially studies of James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson. He also wrote on subjects beyond art, including the colorful history of parliamentary elections and electioneering in earlier Britain. His writing often brought together scholarship, anecdote, and a collector's eye for memorable detail.
He died on 24 January 1908. Today he is remembered less as a novelist than as a vivid interpreter of Georgian and Victorian visual culture—someone who helped document artists, satirists, and the printed images that shaped public life in Britain.