Item Detail
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Thos McLean
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1371
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Doyle, John
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[Political sketches & c.]\r
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8vo
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London
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1831-1843
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42 x 28 cm.
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741.5 D775p 1831-43
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John Doyle, the father of "Dicky" Doyle, was the leading pllitical cartoonist of his day. He started a new school of caricature, simple, quietly atiric, and far removed from the outrageous exaggeration of his artistic forbears, Rowlandson and Gillray. Both Thackeray and Macaulay were warm admirers of Doyle's work. He always signed his cartoons "H.B.," initials under which he hid his identity with great success for many years. In every one of the cartoons. . . the Queen appears (very gently caricatured), often with her ministers, Melbourne and Palmerston. They are all hand-colored lithographs, mainly in excellent condition with good margins, published by Thos. McLean.