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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and hard drinking. i8 CENTURY IN CARICATURE The well-known habits of such public figures as Sheridan andFox are eminent examples. The spirit of gambling hadbecome a mania, and women had caught the contagion as wellas men. Nowhere was the profligacy of the times moreclearly shown than in the looseness of public social functions,such as the notorious masquerade balls, which a contemporaryjournal, the Westminster Magazine, seriously decried as subversive of virtue and every noble and domestic point ofhonor. The low standards of morals and want of delicacyare revealed in the extravagance of womens dress, the loose-ness of their speech. It was an age when women of rank, suchas Lady Buckingham and Lady Archer, were publicly threat-ened by an eminent judge with exposure on the pillory forhaving systematically enticed young men and robbed them at jtheir faro tables, and afterward found themselves exposed inthe pillory of popular opinion in scurrilous cartoons fromshop windows all over London.
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CHAPTER III JAMES GILLRAY i T a time when cheap abuse took the place of/ ^ technical skill, and vulgarity passed for wit, a/ % man of unlimited audacity, who was also a con-summate master of his pencil, easily took precedence. Sucha man was James Gillray, unquestionably the leading cartoon-ist of the reign of George III. Yet of the many who are;to-day familiar with the name of Gillray and the importantpart he played in influencing public opinion during the1struggle with Napoleon, very few have an understanding ofthe dominant qualities of his work. A large part of it, andprobably the most representative part, is characterized by afoulness and an obscenity which the present generation cannotcountenance. There is a whole series of cartoons bearing hisname which it would not only be absolutely out of the ques-tion to reproduce, but the very nature of which can be indi-cated only in the most guarded manner. Imagine the worksof Rabelais shamelessly illustrated by a master hand! Try!to conce

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