Vicky chases Attlee, Churchill and Herbert Morrison , from the cover of Stabs in the Back, cartoons by Vicky (Victor Weisz) for the News Chronicle, Max Reinhart, London 1952
Thomas Patch, Self Portrait holding Callipers
over a mask
1768- 1770 print inscribed at the base.
From Joseph Grego's
Rowlandson the Caricaturist,
Chatto and Windus,
London 1880.
HERBLOCK bemoans the predicament of the newspaper political cartoonist prey to everybody with a gag and a proposition. From The Herblock Book, Beacon Books, Boston 1952.
Arthur Watts, "The Caricaturist",
from G.Montague Ellwood, The Art of Pen Drawing Batsford London 1927. A contrast to the Herblock -out of ideas.
By Chris Mullen
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