The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . ut being taken seri-ously and characterized as seditious, it acquired an exagger-ated significance which may almost be said to have led to therevolution of 1848 and the establishment of the Second Re-public. From the rich material offered by our War of Seces-sion the caricaturists drew little more than the long, gauntfigure and the scraggy beard of Lincoln, and the cigar ofGeneral Grant. The possibilities of this cigar, as they prob-ably would have been brought out by an artist like Daumier,have been suggested in an earlier chapter. It was
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . ut being taken seri-ously and characterized as seditious, it acquired an exagger-ated significance which may almost be said to have led to therevolution of 1848 and the establishment of the Second Re-public. From the rich material offered by our War of Seces-sion the caricaturists drew little more than the long, gauntfigure and the scraggy beard of Lincoln, and the cigar ofGeneral Grant. The possibilities of this cigar, as they prob-ably would have been brought out by an artist like Daumier,have been suggested in an earlier chapter. It was the goatee ofLouis Napoleon that was exaggerated to give a point to mostof the cartoons in which he was a figure, although during thedays of his power there were countless caricatures whichdrew suggestions from the misadventures of his early life, CENTURY IN CARICATURE •95 his alleged experiences as a waiter in New York and a police-man in London, his escape from prison in the clothes of theworkman Badinguet (a name which his political enemies ap-. THE SITUATION. By Gill. plied to him very freely), and the fiasco at Strasburg. Nomen of their time were more freely caricatured than Disraeliin England and Thiers in France, for no men offered more tothe caricaturist, Disraeli being at once a Jew and the mostexquisite of affected dandies, and Thiers being, with the ex-ception of Louis Blanc, the smallest man of note in one cartoon in Punch, Disraeli was figured as presidingover Fagins Political School. In another he was repre-sented as a hideous Oriental peri fluttering about the gatesof Paradise. Thierss large head and diminutive statureare subjects of countless cartoons, in which he is shownemerging from a wineglass or concealed in a waistcoat 196 CENTURY IN CARICATURE pocket, although Punch once humorously depicted him asGulliver bound down by the Lilliputians. If one were to attempt to draw a broad general distinctionbetween French and English caricature throughout t
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