The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4)

BOOK III

THE TRIUMPH OF THE MODERNS

CHAPTER XVI

THE DRAUGHTSMEN

The general alienation of painting from the interests of life during the first half of the nineteenth century.--The draughtsmen and caricaturists the first who brought modern life into the sphere of art.--England: Gillray, Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, "Punch," John Leech, George du Mau...