The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . io8 CENTURY IN CARICATURE powers may be followed almost without a break in the car-toons of Punch and Judy, of the Fliegende Blatter and theKladderadatsch, of Don Pirlone, of the Journal pour Rlre, ofLife and Puck and Judge, and the countless host of theirfollowers and CHAPTER XIII RETROSPECTIVE THE close of the first half of the nineteenth centurymarks a convenient moment for a backwardglance. These fifty years, which began with theconsulship of the first Napoleon and closed on the eve of thethird Napoleons coup detat, witnesse
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . io8 CENTURY IN CARICATURE powers may be followed almost without a break in the car-toons of Punch and Judy, of the Fliegende Blatter and theKladderadatsch, of Don Pirlone, of the Journal pour Rlre, ofLife and Puck and Judge, and the countless host of theirfollowers and CHAPTER XIII RETROSPECTIVE THE close of the first half of the nineteenth centurymarks a convenient moment for a backwardglance. These fifty years, which began with theconsulship of the first Napoleon and closed on the eve of thethird Napoleons coup detat, witnessed the rise and fall ofmore than one Napoleonic spirit in the realm of comic was essentially a period of individualism, of the one-manpower in caricature. Existing conditions forbade a logicaland unbroken development of the political cartoon; it evolvedonly by fits and starts. It was often less an expression of thepopular mood than a vehicle for personal enthusiasm or per-sonal rancor; at the hands of just a few masters, it vergedupon the despotic. At intervals, first in one country and thenin another, a Gillray, a Rowlandson, a Daumier, would blazeforth, brilliant, erratic, meteor-like, leaving behind them atrail of scintillating suggestion, destined to fire some newfuse, to start caricature along some new curve of ecc
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