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Q. perhaps, too raw for our moreseveral depicting personal

encounters between

Abraham

Davis.

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political conditions

cultivated tastes.

This collection is. unquestionably, of permanent historical value and of more Our ancestors had a rough and ready way with them of than passing interest. expressing their likes and dislikes, especially in the heal of electoral campaigns; but they said what they honestly thought; and il is this sincerity of expression

which so appeals to us. despite its lack of artistic finish and even crude vulgarity. As draughtsmen, the artists of these caricatures were no! of the most accomplished

order, but there

is

no mistaking their intention, nor are we

left in

any doubt as

to the identities of the individuals satirized, nor the

meaning

of the moral they

desired to convey.

avoid any misapprehension as to either one or the other, they printed the names below the portraits, and used loops, inscribed with the words of the speakers, Modern art has improved on this naive and and issuing from their mouths. method; but if it has gained in power of suggestion, it does not evince a direct

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more vigorous power of trenchant criticism, nor does it display the almost terrible freedom of satiric humor which is the interesting characteristic of early American caricature art. With the advent of the illustrated newspaper and the comic weekly, the day The former took the place of the latter, the lithographed sheets was over. of by Thomas Nast and Joseph Keppler remains today and the work achieved

None the distinguished achievements in the sphere of pictorial satire. hold their the less, however, the cartoons of the earlier period will continue to interest and value both to the historian and the student of the social develop-

among

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United States.

American Caricatures

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