"This book is the first to examine the meaning encoded in the very form of caricature, and to explain its rise as a consequence of the emergence of modernity, especially the modern self."--BOOK JACKET.

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

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"[...] 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[...]".