Planet Open Knowledge Characters and Caricaturas by William Hogarth (1743)
Adam Green - January 8, 2019 in caricature, cartoons, character, drawing, william hogarth
Hogarth's pictorial defence against claims his art was more about caricatures than characters.
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Characters and Caricaturas by William Hogarth (1743)
Adam Green - January 8, 2019 in caricature, cartoons, character, drawing, william hogarth
Hogarth's pictorial defence against claims his art was more about caricatures than characters.
Grandville, Visions, and Dreams
Adam Green - September 26, 2018 in Art & Illustrations, Books, caricature, Featured Articles, grandville, illustration, J.J. Grandville, satire, surrealism
With its dreamlike inversions and kaleidoscopic cast of anthropomorphic objects, animals, and plants, the world of French artist J. J. Grandville is at once both delightful and disquieting. Patricia Mainardi explores the unique work of this 19th-century illustrator now recognised as a major precursor and inspiration to the Surrealist movement.
The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature
Adam Green - March 29, 2018 in caricature, egg dance, Goethe, medieval customs, political egg dance
The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground or floor and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible.
The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature
Adam Green - March 29, 2018 in caricature, egg dance, Goethe, medieval customs, political egg dance
The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground or floor and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible.
The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature
Adam Green - March 29, 2018 in caricature, egg dance, Goethe, medieval customs, political egg dance
The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground or floor and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible.
The Eternal Guffaw: John Leech and The Comic History of Rome
Adam Green - February 25, 2015 in Art & Illustrations, Books, caricature, cartoons, history of rome, john leech, punch, punch magazine, romans, victorian
At the beginning of the 1850s, two stalwarts from the heart of London-based satiric…
Cartoon Portraits of Leading 19th Century Figures (1873)
Adam Green - August 17, 2012 in browning, caricature, cartoon, darwin, gustave dore, Images, Images-19th, Images-Engraving-Line, Images-Illustrations, Images-People, john ruskin, mark twain, non-article, tennyson, william morris
A selection of the more well known of the leading 19th century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873) with drawings by Frederick Watty and accompanied by biographical pieces on each of the subjects. With the exception of one, it is a compilation of all the cartoon portraits that were featured in Once a Week, a magazine originally founded as a result of a dispute between Bradbury and Evans and Charles Dickens. Bradbury and Evans had been Dickens’ publisher since 1844, including publishing his magazine Household Words. In 1859, Bradbury and Evans refused to carry an advertisement by Dickens explaining why he had broken with Mrs. Dickens. In consequence, Dickens stopped work on Household Words and founded a new magazine, All The Year Round, which he decided would be editorially independent of any publisher. Bradbury and Evans responded by founding Once A Week, with veteran editor and abolitionist hero Samuel Lucas at the head. (Wikipedia)
(All images extracted from Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873) housed by the Internet Archive, and donated by the University of Toronto).
(All images extracted from Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873) housed by the Internet Archive, and donated by the University of Toronto).
Charles Darwin
Robert Browning
Gustave Doré
William Morris
Professor Owen
Benjamin D’Israeli
A.C. Swinburne
Wilkie Collins
Alfred Tennyson
John Ruskin
Mark Twain
H.M Stanley
Matthew Arnold
George MacDonald
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Cartoon Portraits of Men of the Day (1873)
Adam Green - August 17, 2012 in caricature, cartoon, non-article, texts, Texts: 19th, Texts: Miscellaneous, Texts: Non-fiction, Texts: Picturebooks
Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, the drawings by Frederick Waddy; 1873; Tinsley Brothers, London.
A book of caricatures of famous “Men of the Day” (as was the case in 1873) – including the likes of Darwin, Swinburne, Tennyson and Browning – drawn by cartoonist Frederick Watty and accompanied by biographical pieces on each of the subjects. With the exception of one, it is a compilation of all the cartoon portraits that were featured in Once a Week, a magazine originally founded as a result of a dispute between Bradbury and Evans and Charles Dickens. Bradbury and Evans had been Dickens’ publisher since 1844, including publishing his magazine Household Words. In 1859, Bradbury and Evans refused to carry an advertisement by Dickens explaining why he had broken with Mrs. Dickens. In consequence, Dickens stopped work on Household Words and founded a new magazine, All The Year Round, which he decided would be editorially independent of any publisher. Bradbury and Evans responded by founding Once A Week, with veteran editor and abolitionist hero Samuel Lucas at the head. (Wikipedia)
See the post in our Images collection for a selection of the more well known of those featured.
The book is housed by the Internet Archive, donated by the University of Toronto
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The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
Adam Green - November 30, 2011 in caricature, early film, early special effects, Films, non-article, thomas edison
From Edison films catalog: “Upon a large sheet of white paper a cartoonist is seen at work rapidly sketching the portrait of an elderly gentleman of most comical feature and expression. After completing the likeness the artist rapidly draws on the paper a clever sketch of a bottle of wine and a goblet, and then, to the surprise of all, actually removes them from the paper on which they were drawn and pours actual wine out of the bottle into a real glass. Surprising effects quickly follow after this; and the numerous changes of expression which flit over the face in the sketch cause a vast amount of amusement and at the same time give a splendid illustration of the caricaturist’s art.” Musical accompaniment by Philip Carli.
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| CLIPS | SHORT | FULL LENGTH SILENT | FULL LENGTH TALKIE |
|---|---|---|---|
Princess Nicotine (1909) 6min | Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) 12min | Last of the Mohicans (1920) 1hr11min | Meet John Doe (1941) 2hr3min |
The Unappreciated Joke (1903) 1min | Frankenstein (1910) 13min | The General (1926) 1hr19min | Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) 1hr19mins |
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895) 21sec | The Great Train Robbery (1903) 10min | Wolf Blood (1925) 1hr7min | Reefer Madness (1938) 1hr8min |
The Kiss (1896) 25secs | Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) 20min | Battleship Potemkin (1925) 1hr13min | The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) 1hr57min |
Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901) 2min | Are You Popular (1947) 10min | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 1hr11min | Scarlet Street (1945) 1hr43min |
Annie Oakley Fires Her Gun (1894) 20secs | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 13min | For The Term of His Natural Life (1927) 1hr33min | The Last Man on Earth (1964) 1hr27min |
Operation Cue (1955) 52sec | Never Weaken (1921) 28min | Intolerance (1916) 2hr57min | Quicksand (1950) 1hr18min |
Dutch Fashion Reel (1969) 1min50sec | Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932) 7min46sec | The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 1hr46min | Suddenly (1954) 1hr16mins |
Buffalo Dance (1894) 14sec | The Cook (1918) 18min | The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 2hr20min | Five Minutes to Live (1961) 1hr14min |
VD is for Everybody (1969) 1min | American Day in Tripoli, Libya (1962) 14min | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) 1hr11min | Cyrano De Bergerac (1950) 1hr53min |
The Enchanted Drawing (1900) 1min29sec | Your Name Here (1960) 10min10sec | Stella Maris (1918) 1hr13min | Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) 1hr40min |