"The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature" from Selwyn Brinton. (1859-1940).

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Excerpt from The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature Burlesque picture of life, stands on the same basis as comedy or satire, is, in fact, but comedy or satire finding its outlet in another form of expression. And this is so true that wherever We find brilliant or trenchant satire Of life there we may be sure, too, that caricature is not far absent. Pauson's grotesques are the correlative of the Comedies of Aristophanes and when the development of both is not correla tive, not simultaneous, it is surely because one or other has been Checked by political or social con dirions, which have been inherently antagonistic to its growth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"[...] Beauty does not enter into his art,-most of all in that highest sense of plastic beauty of form, which the great Italians had so intensely felt, which the great English school, uprising in his own day, was in some measure to recover. At most a comely buxom wench steals sometimes slyly into his canvas or copper-plate-the two servant-maids in his print of "Morning" at Covent Garden, whom the roysterers turning out from Tom King's[...]".