The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . By courtesy of the Puck Company. A familiar device in the caricature of the later 70s wasthat of representing political figures as being headless andplacing their heads in another part of the picture, so thatyou might adjust them to suit yourself. In this way the artistdid not commit himself to prophecy and was enabled to pleaseboth parties. For instance, an excellent example of this isshown in the cartoon called You Pays Your Money andYou Takes Your Choice, drawn by Keppler during the. ^ 268 CENTURY IN CARICATURE campaign of 1876. Of the t
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . By courtesy of the Puck Company. A familiar device in the caricature of the later 70s wasthat of representing political figures as being headless andplacing their heads in another part of the picture, so thatyou might adjust them to suit yourself. In this way the artistdid not commit himself to prophecy and was enabled to pleaseboth parties. For instance, an excellent example of this isshown in the cartoon called You Pays Your Money andYou Takes Your Choice, drawn by Keppler during the. ^ 268 CENTURY IN CARICATURE campaign of 1876. Of the two headless figures one is seatedin the window of the White House gesticulating derisivelyat his beaten opponent. The other, thoroughly crushed andwith a nose of frightfully exaggerated length—both and Mr. Hayes were rather large-nosed men—isleaning helplessly against the wall of the cold outside. Atthe bottom of the picture are the heads of the two candidates,which one might cut out and adjust as pleased himself. CHAPTER XXVII THE AMERICAN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS OF l88o AND 18 84 PROBABLY no cartoon dealing with the Garfield-Hancock campaign of 1880 was more widely dis-cussed than that called Forbidding the Banns,drawn for Puck by Keppler. It was a cartoon which anAmerican comic paper would publish to-day only after con-siderable hesitation, for there was in it the spirit of a lessdelicate age, a coarseness which was pardonable only whenthe genuine strength and humor of the complete work aretaken into consideration. For
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