Gabriel Shear Tregear (1802–1841) was an English

England

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 publisher of caricature

Caricature

A caricature is a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.Caricatures can be...

s and prints. Active from the late 1820s until his death, he operated his "Humorous and Sporting Print Shop" from quarters at 123 Cheapside

Cheapside

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, London

London

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. Towards the end of his life, his business appears to have been called Tregear and Lewis.

Artists and caricaturists published by Tregear included a member of the Cruikshank family of caricaturists, Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Isaac Cruikshank

Isaac Cruikshank , Scottish painter and caricaturist, was born in Edinburgh. His sons Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank also became artists, and the latter in particular achieved fame as an illustrator and caricaturist. Cruikshank is known for his social and political satire.His...

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Tregear's Black Jokes

Produced from drawings by a W. Summers, these caricatures of black life included about 19 images, of which the following are known:

• "No. 3: Marriage à la Mode;"
• "No. 4: "The Christening;"
• "No. 6: The Route;"
• "No. 8: The Breaking Up;"
• "No. 9: The Promenade;"
• "No. 10: The Concert;"
• "No. 11: Miss White's Birth-day Party;"
• "No. 12: "The Lubber Quarrel;"
• "No. 15: Cinderella and the Black Prince;"
• "No. 18: The Advertisement;"
• and "No. 19: The Wedding Feast."

The series was published in 1834.