The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . LOUIS BLANC. raeli. Since 1848, Louis Napoleon had been the most widelycaricatured man in Europe; and the outcome of the War of1866 had raised Bismarck, as the pilot of the Prussian ship 197 198 CENTURY IN CARICATURE of state, to an importance second only to Napoleon caricature of which Disraeli was the subject was nec-essarily much narrower in its scope, and confined to a greatextent to England. It was not until the centurys eighth. RIVAL ARBITERS. Napoleon and Bismarck at the time of theAustro-Prussian War. By Tennielin Punch.


The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . LOUIS BLANC. raeli. Since 1848, Louis Napoleon had been the most widelycaricatured man in Europe; and the outcome of the War of1866 had raised Bismarck, as the pilot of the Prussian ship 197 198 CENTURY IN CARICATURE of state, to an importance second only to Napoleon caricature of which Disraeli was the subject was nec-essarily much narrower in its scope, and confined to a greatextent to England. It was not until the centurys eighth. RIVAL ARBITERS. Napoleon and Bismarck at the time of theAustro-Prussian War. By Tennielin Punch. decade that he received full recognition at the hands of theContinental caricaturists, and his prominence in the cartoonspreceding the Franco-Prussian War was due to the prestigeof Punchy and to the opportunity which his own peculiarpersonality and striking appearance offered to the carica-turists. It was not long after the fall of Richmond and theend of the war that the agitation over the claims of theUnited States against England on account of the damagedone by the warship Alabama, a question which was not CENTURY IN CARICATURE 199 settled until a number of years later, began. The two powersfor a time could not agree on any scheme of arbitration, andthe condition of affairs in the autumn of 1865 was summedup by Tenniel in Punch, in a cartoon entitled The DisputedAccount, in which the United States and England are rep-resented as two haggling women and Madame Britannia ishaughtily saying:


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