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01; Satire 0 - 1850 175 Case
02; Wyndham Robinson at the Morning Post; Red Fears in the 1930's. Case
03; Pictures of John Bull - a National Emblem. Case
04; Hynes' Christmas Visions of Politicians 1949 Case
05; Patrick O'Lee, airbrush caricatures for COURIER Case
06; The Image of the Satirist Case
07; Tim Bobbin's picture of Scottish politics Case
08; The Miller's Maid ; Grinding Old men Young Case
09; Satire against John Gay's The Beggars Opera Case
10; James Gillray's pictorial structures Case
11; Thomas Rowlandson - Pioneer of Narrative Ye
Madde Designer"With respect to the arts, our poor neglected public are left to form their hearts and their understanding upon these lessons, not of morality and philanthropy, but of envy, malignity and horrible disorder, which everywhere stare them in the face, in the profligate caricatura firniture of print-shops, from Hyde Park Corner to Whitechapel. Better, better far, there had been no art, than thus to pervert and employ it to purposes so base, and so subversive of everything interesting to society." James Barry 1795, letter to the Dilettanti Society.
"When I caricature Mr.Baldwin's Nose", from David Lowe, Ye Madde Designer, Studio London 1935,p.15.A conventional but effective technique used by Gillray ("Doublures"), by Harry Furniss (Gladstone's collar) and by Daumier (Louis Philippe as Pear) - to identify the characteristic feature of a face and take it a series of changes towards the utterly basic. Low's command of this process marks him beyond the usual graphic formulae of the Press artists.
more on the Great Man - David Low. Cover motif from Ye Madde Designer as above.
By Chris Mullen
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