English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteeth Century: How They; Illustrated and Interpreted Their Times (Classic Reprint)

Til Eonly works which, so far as I know, profess to deal with English caricaturists and comic artists of the nineteenth century are two in number. The first is a work by the late Robert William Buss, embodying the substance of certain lectures delivered by the accomplished author many years ago. Mr. Buss sbook, which was published for private circulation only, deals more especially with the work of James g Gillray, his predecessors and contemporaries, treating only briefly and incidentally of a few of his successors of our own day. The second is a work by Mr. James Parton, an r American author, whose book (published by Harper Brothers, of New York) treats of Caricature, and other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. It is obviously no part of my duty (even if I felt disposed to do so) to criticise the work of a brother scribe, and that scribe an American gentleman. jl Covering an area so boundless in extent, it is scarcely surprising that Mr. Parton should devote only thirty of his pages to the consideration of English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteenth century. Under these circumstances, it would seem to me that, in 440.
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