Chapter 1

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 Fifty Years.--Its Causes.--Gillray.--Rowlandson.--Bunbury.--Influence of Gillray and Rowlandson on their immediate Successors.--Gradual Disappearance of the Coarseness of the Old Caricaturists.--Change wrought by John Doyle.--We have now no Caricaturist.--Effect of Wood Engraving on Caricature.--Hogarth, although a Satirist, not a Caricaturist.--Gustave Doré misdescribed a Caricaturist.--Absurdity of comparing him with Cruikshank.--"Etching Moralized." _pp._ 1-11.