Caricatures and cartoons
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
English and French Medical Caricatures, circa 1760-1835
Series — Box 7, MS-67, item: 9, 21-49
Scope and Contents
Caricature by definition is a representation in which the subject’s distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. Nineteenth-century medicine provided caricaturists with a wealth of material. Artists humorously exaggerated medical conditions and physical characteristics. Bulbous noses, protruding stomachs, and hunched backs were some of the more common features drawn to extraordinary proportions. Bizarre treatments, massive doses...
Dates:
circa 1760-1835
The Illustrated Alphabet
Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: X032784886]
Identifier: MSS 16862
Content Description
This collection contains the trial drawings for an illustrated alphabet book by the Reverend George Liddell Johnston. The book, bound in crushed red morocco by C. & C. McLeish sometime in the early twentieth century, contains the inlaid drawings and manuscript pages. The book begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one titled "The Envelope" with an angel holding a brush and canvas. This image was likely the front...
Dates:
c. 1875
Ange Denis M’Quin "Series of Heads" Album
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762361]
Identifier: MSS 16934
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a small quarto (9 1/8 X 7 1/2 inches) of over a hundred caricatures created by Ange Denis M’Quin (Ange-Denis Macquin) (1756-1823). A pen and ink manuscript title page that reads "A Series of Heads by A.D.M." with a roundel of sixteen heads is dated at the lower right-hand corner, "June 1819." An index follows with four handwritten pages and then a sub-title page, "A congeries of heads, May 1819," with a quote from Macbeth and an illustration of heads drawn together...
Dates:
1812 - 1819