Identifier: historyofninetee01maur (find matches)
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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GULLIVER CRISII. From IIPapagallo (Rome). tion and cheap personal abuse—features of political cam-paigns which we are happily outgrowing—were eagerlyseized upon for the purpose of pictorial satire. The peculiarbitterness which marked the memorable campaign betweenMr. Cleveland and Mr. Blaine in 1884 was stronglymirrored in the political caricature of the time. It markedthe highwater line of the element of purely personal abusein comic art. In the end the extreme measures to which each 234 CENTURY IN CARICATURE
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Fig. 291. — Caricature de Gill, (ticlipse, 19 octobre 1873.) of the rival parties resorted during that year had very-beneficial effects, for after the election the nation, in calmermood, grew ashamed at the thought of its violence andbitterness, and subsequent campaigns have consequently beenmuch more free from these objectionable features. Mr.Harrison, Mr. Bryan, Mr. McKinley, and Mr. Roosevelthave all been assailed from many different points. But weare no longer in the mood to tolerate attempts to rake up CENTURY IN CARICATURE 235 alleged personal scandals and to use them in the pamphletand the cartoon. Enough of this was done by both partiesin 1884 t° last us for at least a generation. There are car-toons which appeared in Puck and Judge which even at thisday we should not think of reprinting, and which the publica-tions containing them and the artists who drew them wouldprobably like to forget. Nevertheless, to the close student of political history thereis in the American cart

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