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Title: The history of the nineteenth century in caricature
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946 Cooper, Frederic Taber, 1864-1937, joint author
Subjects: History, Modern Nineteenth century Caricature
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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mewhat brutal, like the frankness of Fielding and ofSmollett—the frankness of the age they lived in. It wasessentially an outspoken age, robust and rather gross; a red-blooded age, nurtured on English beef and beer; a jovialage that shook its sides over many a broad jest, and saw noshame in open allusion to the obvious and elemental facts ofphysical life. Judged by the standards of his day, there islittle offense in Hogarths work; even when measured byour own, he is not deliberately licentious. On the contrary,he set an example of moderation which his successors wouldhave done well to imitate. Tie realized, as the later carica-turists of his century did not, that the great strength of pic-torial satire lies in ridicule rather than in invective; that theubtlest irony often lies in a close adherence to truth, whereriotous and unrestrained exaggeration defeats its own end.Just as in the case of Joseph Andrews, Fieldings creativeinstinct got the upper hand of the parodist, so in much of
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Q ^ CENTURY IN CARICATURE 17 Hogarths work one feels that the caricaturist is forced toyield place to the realistic artist, the student of human life,carried away by the interest of the story he has to tell. Hischief gift to caricature is his unprecedented development ofthe narrative quality in pictorial art. He pointed a roadalong which his imitators could follow him only at a distance. With the second half of the eighteenth century there beganan era of great license in the political press, an era of bittervituperation and vile personal abuse. Hogarth was one ofthe chief sufferers. After holding aloof from partisan poli-tics for nearly half a century, he published, in 1762, hiswell-known cartoon attacking the ex-minister, Pitt. AllEurope is represented in flames, which are spreading toGreat Britain in spite of the efforts of Lord Bute, aided by hisHighlanders, to extinguish them. Pitt is blowing upon theflames, which are being fed by the Duke of Newcastle froma barrow full of Monitor

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