The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . ended vogue. The fashion of printing cartoons uponladies fans and other articles of similarly intimate characterwas a transitory fad in England a century ago. Mr. Acker-mann, a famous printer of his generation, and publisher ofthe greater part of Rowlandsons cartoons, adopted as anexpedient for spreading political news a small balloon with anattached mechanism, which, when liberated, would drop newsbulletins at intervals as it passed over field and village. In thiscountry many people of the older generation will still remem-ber the widespre
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . ended vogue. The fashion of printing cartoons uponladies fans and other articles of similarly intimate characterwas a transitory fad in England a century ago. Mr. Acker-mann, a famous printer of his generation, and publisher ofthe greater part of Rowlandsons cartoons, adopted as anexpedient for spreading political news a small balloon with anattached mechanism, which, when liberated, would drop newsbulletins at intervals as it passed over field and village. In thiscountry many people of the older generation will still remem-ber the widespread popularity of the patriotic caricature-en-velopes that were circulated during the Civil War. To-daywe are so used to the daily newspaper cartoon that we do notstop to think how seriously handicapped the cartoonists of acentury ago found themselves. The more important cartoonsof Gillray and Rowlandson appeared either in monthly peri-odicals, such as the Westminster Magazine and the OxfordMagazine, or in separate sheets that sold at the prohibitive. 6 CENTURY IN CARICATURE price of several shillings. In times of great public excite-ment, as during the later years of the Napoleonic wars, suchcartoons were bought up greedily, the City vying with thearistocratic West End in their patriotic demand for such times were exceptional, and the older caricaturistswere obliged to let pass many interesting crises because thesituations would have become already stale before the day Tha, i., m j« mRneaticn far Ik. UrJu .V u//W^i-4;,.. p w,., ,l/,„l JUixt amimn . ^Wt u Ahvrjfi_ lfn„. ,/;., l„:nd,Mj m, H, Unlijh
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