The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature

The dangerous condition in which the United States found itself about the time we began the building of our new and greater navy was depicted in _Judge_ by the cartoon entitled,...

The grim struggle of the Crimean War for a time checked Mr. Punch's attacks upon Napoleon III., and turned his attention in another direction. Although the war cloud in the East...

After the unimportant engagement at Saarbrück disaster began falling thick and fast on the French arms, and soon we find _Punch_ taking up again the idea of the two monarchs as...

But although the "Pear" was forced to disappear, Philipon continued to harass the government, until Louis Philippe, who had gained his crown largely by his championship of the f...

In marked contrast to the preceding lengthy period of tranquillity, the closing decade of the nineteenth century witnessed a succession of wars and international crises well cal...

No period of the Napoleonic wars gave better opportunity for satire than Napoleon's disastrous occupation of Spain and his invasion of Portugal. The titles alone of the cartoons...

In looking backward over a century of caricature, it is interesting to ask just what it is that makes the radical difference between the cartoon of to-day and that of a hundred...

In looking over the historical and political caricature of the nineteenth century, one very naturally finds several different methods of treatment and subdivision suggesting the...

While the impulse to satirize public men in picture is probably as old as satiric verse, if not older, the political cartoon, as an effective agent in molding public opinion, is...

Many of the best cartoons of the period revolve around the rivalry between General McClellan and General Grant, and the incidents of the McClellan-Lincoln campaign of 1864. "The...

The close of the first half of the nineteenth century marks a convenient moment for a backward glance. These fifty years, which began with the consulship of the first Napoleon a...

It was only natural that caricature, like every other form of free expression of opinion, should feel the consequences of the general political upheaval of 1848; and these conse...

For the next year parliamentary strife at home, fostered by Pitt's quarrel with the Addington ministry on the one hand and his opposition to Fox on the other, kept the cartoonis...

With the Spanish-American War, the _Affaire Dreyfus_ in France, and England's long struggle for supremacy in the Transvaal, the period arbitrarily chosen as the scope of this bo...

It was not until late in the '60's, when Thomas Nast began his pictorial campaign in the pages of _Harper's Weekly_ against the Ring which held New York in its clutches, that Am...

Punch, however, is really the most satisfactory and comprehensive source for the history of political caricature during the years following the siege of Paris down to 1886. From...

From Holland caricature migrated to Great Britain in the closing years of the seventeenth century--a natural result of the attention which Dutch cartoonists had bestowed upon th...

For the first decade of the nineteenth century there was but one important source of caricature, and one all-important subject--England and Bonaparte. America at this time count...

In this country the political cartoon, which practically began with William Charles's parodies upon Gillray, developed in a fitful and spasmodic fashion until about the middle o...

Throughout the Napoleonic period England practically had a monopoly in caricature. During the second period, down to the year 1848, France is the center of interest. Prior to 18...

It is not strange that during these years American cartoonists concerned themselves but little with matters outside of their own country. For more than a decade after the close...

A cartoon which was a forerunner of the Transvaal War and the railway between Capetown and Cairo was that entitled "The Rhodes Colossus," which appeared in _Punch_ December 10,...

A peculiar feature of French caricature, especially after political subjects were largely forbidden, was the creation of certain famous types who soon became familiar to the Fre...

What the advent of _La Caricature_ did for French comic art was done for England by the birth of _Punch_, the "London Charivari," on July 17, 1841. It is not surprising that thi...

This was very natural, because the history of these years was largely a history of individuals. During the years between the close of the Civil War and the outbreak of war betwe...

Down to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the history of American political caricature is a history of lost opportunities. Revolution and war have always been the grea...

In view of what might have been done, it is somewhat exasperating to look over the actual cartoons of the war as they have come down to us. Even when a clever idea was evolved n...

The pent-up feeling throughout the United States, which reached a dangerous degree of tension during the weeks preceding the declaration of war against Spain, was forcibly symbo...

Probably no cartoon dealing with the Garfield-Hancock campaign of 1880 was more widely discussed than that called "Forbidding the Banns," drawn for _Puck_ by Keppler. It was a c...

At a time when cheap abuse took the place of technical skill, and vulgarity passed for wit, a man of unlimited audacity, who was also a consummate master of his pencil, easily t...

In contrast with the brilliancy of the French artists, the work in England during these years, at least prior to the establishment of _Punch_, is distinctly disappointing. The o...

During the period covered by the present chapter the foundation of the two leading American comic weeklies, _Puck_ and _Judge_, the former in 1877 and the latter in 1881, led to...

With the downfall of Napoleon the Gillray school of caricature came to an abrupt and very natural close. It was a school born of fear and nurtured upon rancor--a school that ind...