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Caricatures and cartoons

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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