English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

Just sixty years ago, a writer in _Blackwood_ spoke of the subject of the present chapter (then a young man who had already acquired an artistic reputation) in the following ter...

We gather from the article in "The Month" which followed his death, and to which we have to acknowledge materials of which we have availed ourselves in the revision of the prese...

Drury Lane Theatre, which was burnt down in 1811, was rebuilt the following year, and the committee, anxious to celebrate the opening by an address of merit corresponding to the...

Decidedly next in order of merit to George Cruikshank, amongst his own contemporaries, if we except only Theodore Lane, comes Robert Seymour. With a style and manner peculiar to...

As in 1809 a revengeful and unscrupulous woman had succeeded in exposing the reputation of a member of the Royal family to public opprobrium, so, in like manner, in 1820, a woma...

In old and second-hand bookshops, and in booksellers' catalogues, may often be found a book which is gradually becoming a literary rarity. It dates from 1840, and is a curiosity...

Sydney Smith said of little Lord John Russell, that he was "ready to undertake _any_thing and _every_thing--to build St. Paul's,--cut for the stone,--or command the Channel flee...

Those who have studied the work of George Cruikshank from its commencement to its close (and those only can be said to have done so who are familiar with the satires described i...

Although Gillray began his work in 1769,--thirty years before our century commenced, and Rowlandson five years later on, in 1774, their labours were continued some years after 1...

We have seen that at the time John Leech commenced work as a comic artist, the art of caricature was practically dead; it was not therefore at all surprising, under the circumst...

Many of our readers will remember the exhibition at the Egyptian Hall, in 1862, of John Leech's "Sketches in Oil," the subjects being enlarged reproductions from selected exampl...

It was the misfortune of the brothers Cruikshank that they outlived their popularity: in the case of the younger brother, this result (as we shall presently see) must be attribu...

The years 1830-32 were full of political trouble; men's minds were unsettled; progress was the order of the day, and a reform in the election of the members who represented or w...

In a work dealing with comic artists and caricaturists, one is somewhat puzzled to decide what place to assign to the distinguished draughtsman who died a year and a half ago. _...

The artistic career of George Cruikshank presents probably one of the most singular problems to be met with in the history of satirical art. It may be divided into three portion...

John Leech, "born in Bennett Street, Stamford Street, 29th August, 1817, and baptized (son of John Leech, vintner) 15th November, at Christ Church, Blackfriars Road." Such is th...

In perusing various articles on George Cruikshank in which reference is made to the "Life in London," we have been struck with the almost utter absence of Robert Cruikshank's na...

If you turn to the word "_caricatura_" in your Italian dictionary, it is just possible that you will be gratified by learning that it means "caricature"; but if you refer to the...

First Work of Richard Doyle.--Receives his Art Training from his Father.--Joins _Punch_.--The Peace-at-any-Price Party.--The Troubles of 1848.--The Sea-Serpent of Revolution Ups...

Caricatures of George Cruikshank.--"No Plan, no Ambition."--The Assertion Disproved.--Why George's Caricatures possess so remarkable an Interest.--"The Scourge."--Lord Sidmouth'...

Caroline of Brunswick.--Levity of her Character.--Result of the Commission to Inquire into her Conduct in 1806.--Her Letter to the Regent.--Result of the Commission of 1813.--Ca...

The Agitation for Reform in 1830-32.--The Marquis of Blandford's Scheme of Reform.--Strange State of the English Representative System of those Days.--O'Connell's Scheme.--Lord...

Re-opening of Drury Lane.--Dr. Busby's "Monologue."--"A Buz in a Box, or the Poet in a Pet."--"Doctors Differ, or Dame Nature against the College."--Joanna Southcott.--Flight of...

Political Sketches of HB. (continued).--Lord John Russell.--"Jonah."--Reduction of the Stamp on Newspapers.--How it was evaded.--Arguments of the Opponents of the Measure.--Hard...

Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz").--Invincible Tendency to Exaggeration.--Charles Lever's Opinion.--Weakness and Attenuation of his Figures.--Compared with John Leech.--Tendency to...

Exhibition of Leech's "Sketches in Oil" at the Egyptian Hall in 1862.--What Thackeray said of them.--Gradual Decrease in the Numbers of his Cartoons for _Punch_.--Overwork.--Goe...

Caricatures of Robert Cruikshank.--Forgotten, and why.--Artistic Training--"The Mother's Girl Plucking a Crow, or German Flesh and English Spirit."--"The Horse Marine and his Tr...

Connection of Gillray and Rowlandson with Nineteenth Century Caricaturists.--Napoleon Bonaparte.--The Causes of English Exasperation against him explained.--Sketch of his Policy...

Kenny Meadows.--"Portraits of the English."--A Thoroughly Useful Man.--Some Works Illustrated by Meadows.--His Merits Unequal.--His Contempt for Nature.--An Early Illustrator of...

John Leech's _Punch_ Cartoons.--The "Albert" Hat.--O'Connell.--Sir James Graham.--"Peel's Dirty Little Boy."--"How do you Like the New Whig?"--"The Premier's Fix."--"The Railway...

The Sleep of Thirty Years.--Causes of George Cruikshank's Decadence Insufficiently Understood.--Professor Bates' Theory.--Charles Dickens's Nervousness (?).--Why Cruikshank was...

George Cruikshank as a Book Illustrator.--Defects and Excellencies.--Women, Horses, Trees.--"Greenwich Hospital."--Sikes and the Dog.--Jonathan Wild.--Simon Renard and Winwike.-...

John Leech.--Birth.--At Charterhouse.--The "Coach Tree."--Early Efforts in Drawing brought to the notice of Flaxman.--Apprenticed to Whittle, an Eccentric Medical Man.--Transfer...

Book Illustrations of Isaac Robert Cruikshank.--The "Life in London."--Injustice done to Robert with reference to this Book.--The "Life" Dramatized.--Excitement it Occasioned.--...

Birth of Robert Seymour.--Starts as a Painter in Oils.--Death of George IV.--His Contemptible Character.--Sale of his Wardrobe.--Order for General Mourning.--"The Adelaide Mill....

Dr. Johnson's definition of the word _Caricatura_.--Francis Grose's definition.--Modern signification of the word.--Change in the Spirit of English Caricature during the last Fi...