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Showing posts with label Caricature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caricature. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2014

The Man Who Refused To Laugh (And The Book That Laughed At Him)

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by Stephen J. Gertz On March 9, 1748 Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), 4th Earl of Chesterfield, wrote to his son: ...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Meet The Flamboyant Lady-Like Gentlemen of 1840

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by Stephen J. Gertz It's a scarce little sucker, a rarely seen Leech. It's The Fiddle Faddle Fashion Book and Beau Monde à L...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Has An Unrecorded Thackeray MS Gift Book Been Discovered?

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by Stephen J. Gertz Hand-lettered titlepage. A small manuscript book with original art purportedly written and drawn by William Make...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Dr. Seuss, Political Cartoonist

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by Stephen J. Gertz Seuss's Uncle Sam. From 1941 through 1943, Theodore Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) created political cartoons...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Napoleon Rides Bareback On Erotic Steed (May Be NSFW)

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by Stephen J. Gertz This  astonishing and keenly amusing original watercolor of a bare-bottomed Napoleon with membre viril exposed ri...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

William Heath On Womens Hats and Fashion Madness, Part II

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by Stephen J. Gertz Ganging to the Kirk. In William Heath on Womens Hats and Fashion Madness Part I we discussed Heath's career. ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

A Scarce Libation: Bacchus, Rumfusticus Bibulus, and R. Cruikshank

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by Stephen J. Gertz Meeting of Victuallers.   "The Publicans, as well as every other branch of the community, were aware that re...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Pigmy Revels: Laughter For The Languid, Fun For The Feeble In A Boxwood Drum

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By Stephen J. Gertz The Lillipution  Museum is a panorama, in boxwood drum format, "calculated to create joy for the juvenile, laug...
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