The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . er is flung over the back of anotherchair in sprawling insolence. In the ascending clouds ofsmoke appear the Stars and Stripes, surrounded by a pano-rama of outrages, duels, barroom broils, lynch law, etc., andabove them all, the contending armies of the Mexican war,over whom a gigantic devil hovers, his hands extended in amalignant benediction. A closely analogous cartoon of thissame year by Richard Doyle sharply satirized Louis Philippeas the Napoleon of Peace, and depicted in detail theunsatisfactory condition of European affairs as seen
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . er is flung over the back of anotherchair in sprawling insolence. In the ascending clouds ofsmoke appear the Stars and Stripes, surrounded by a pano-rama of outrages, duels, barroom broils, lynch law, etc., andabove them all, the contending armies of the Mexican war,over whom a gigantic devil hovers, his hands extended in amalignant benediction. A closely analogous cartoon of thissame year by Richard Doyle sharply satirized Louis Philippeas the Napoleon of Peace, and depicted in detail theunsatisfactory condition of European affairs as seen from theBritish vantage ground. As a consequence of this cartoonPunch was for some time excluded from Paris. From 1848 onward the cartoons in Punch look upon theworld politics from a constantly widening angle. Indeed,the same remark holds good for the comic organs not only ofEngland, but of France, Germany, Italy, and the other lead-ing nations as well. Throughout the second half of the nine-teenth century the international relations of the leading. 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 imitators.
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