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Title: The history of the nineteenth century in caricature
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946 Cooper, Frederic Taber, 1864-1937, joint author
Subjects: History, Modern Nineteenth century Caricature
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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A GERMAN IDEA OF IRISH HOME RULE. principle, LEtat cest Moi; or again, just before our warwith Spain, when it was so drawn as to present a capital like-ness of Uncle Sam, the Atlantic and Gulf States forminghis nose and mouth, the latter suggestively opened to takein Cuba, which is swimming dangerously near. Pucksfamous Tattooed Man was only a new application of anidea that had been used before; while the representation of agroup of leading politicians as members of a freak show, acircus, or a minstrel troop, is as old as minstrels or dime
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CENTURY IN CARICATURE 281 museums themselves. Few leading statesmen of the pasthalf century have not at some time in their career been por-trayed as Hamlet, or Macbeth, or Richard III.; while asfor the conventional use of animals and symbolic figures torepresent the different nations, the British Lion and theRussian Bear, Uncle Sam and French Liberty, these belongto the raw materials of caricature, dating back to its very in-ception as an art. And yet, while the means used are essen-tially the same as in the days of Hogarth and Cruikshank,the results are radically different. The reason for this difference may be summed up in asingle word—Journalism. The modern cartoon is essen-tially journalistic, both in spirit and in execution. The spas-modic single sheets of Gillrays period, huge lithographs that

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