History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
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CHAPTER V ... 75 | CHAPTER V ... 75 | ||
- | Employment of animals in medieval satire - Popularity of fables; Odo de Cirington - Reynard the fox - [[Burnellus]] and [[Roman de Fauvel|Fauvel]] - The Charivari - Le monde bestorne - Encaustic tiles - Shoeing the goose, and feeding pigs with roses - Satirical signs; The mustard maker | + | Employment of animals in medieval satire - Popularity of fables; [[Odo de Cirington]] - [[Reynard the fox]] - [[Burnellus]] and [[Roman de Fauvel|Fauvel]] - The [[Charivari]] - Le monde bestorne - Encaustic tiles - Shoeing the goose, and feeding pigs with roses - Satirical signs; The mustard maker |
CHAPTER VI ... 95 | CHAPTER VI ... 95 | ||
- | The monkey on burlesquee and caricature - Tournaments and single combats - Monstrous combinations of animal forms - Caricatures on costume - The hat - Te helmet - Ladies' head-dresses - The gown, and its long sleeves | + | The [[monkey]] on [[burlesque]] and caricature - Tournaments and single combats - Monstrous combinations of animal forms - Caricatures on costume - The hat - Te helmet - Ladies' head-dresses - The gown, and its long sleeves |
CHAPTER VII ... 106 | CHAPTER VII ... 106 | ||
- | Preservation of the character of the Mimus after the fall of the empire - The minstrel and the jogelour - History of popular stories -The fabliaux - Account of them - The contes devots | + | Preservation of the character of the [[Mimus]] after the fall of the empire - The [[minstrel]] and the jogelour - History of popular stories -The fabliaux - Account of them - The contes devots |
CHAPTER VIII ... 118 | CHAPTER VIII ... 118 | ||
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CHAPTER IX ... 144 | CHAPTER IX ... 144 | ||
- | Grotesqe faces and figures - Prevalence of the taste for ugy and grotesque faces - Some of the popular forms derived from antiquity: The otngue lolling out, and the distorted mouth - Horrible subjects: The man and the serpents - Allegorical figures: Gluttony and luxury - Other representations of clerical gluttony and drunkenness - Grotesque figures of individuals, and grotesque groups - ornament sof the borders of books - Unintentional caricature; the mote and the beam | + | Grotesqe faces and figures - Prevalence of the taste for ugy and grotesque faces - Some of the popular forms derived from antiquity: The tongue lolling out, and the distorted mouth - Horrible subjects: The man and the serpents - Allegorical figures: [[Gluttony]] and [[luxury]] - Other representations of clerical gluttony and drunkenness - Grotesque figures of individuals, and grotesque groups - ornament sof the borders of books - Unintentional caricature; the mote and the beam |
CHAPTER X ... 159 | CHAPTER X ... 159 | ||
- | Satitrical literature in the middle ages - John de Hauteville and Alan de Lille - Golias and the Goliards - The Golliardic poetry - Taste for parody - Parodies on religious subjects - Political caricature in the middle ages - The Jews of Norwich - Caricature representations of countries - Local Satire - Political songs and poems | + | Satitrical literature in the middle ages - [[John de Hauteville]] and [[Alan de Lille]] - [[Golias]] and the [[Goliard]]s - The Golliardic poetry - Taste for parody - Parodies on religious subjects - Political caricature in the middle ages - The [[Jews of Norwich]] - Caricature representations of countries - Local Satire - Political songs and poems |
CHAPTER XI ... 188 | CHAPTER XI ... 188 | ||
- | Minstrelsy a subject of burlesque and caricature - Character of the minstrels - Their jokes upon themselves and upon one another - Various musical instruments represented in the sculptures of the medieval artists - Sir Matthew Gournay and the ring of Portugal - Discredit of the tabor and bagpipes - Mermaids | + | Minstrelsy a subject of burlesque and caricature - Character of the minstrels - Their jokes upon themselves and upon one another - Various musical instruments represented in the sculptures of the medieval artists - Sir [[Matthew Gournay]] and the ring of Portugal - Discredit of the tabor and bagpipes - Mermaids |
CHAPTER XII ... 200 | CHAPTER XII ... 200 | ||
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CHAPTER XIII ... 214 | CHAPTER XIII ... 214 | ||
- | The dance of death - The paintings in the chuch of La Chaise Dieu - The reign of folly - Sebastian Brandt; The ship of fools - Disturbers of Church service - Troublesome beggars - Geilor's sermons - Radius, and his ship of foolish women - The pleasures of smell - Erasmus; the praise of folly | + | The [[dance of death]] - The paintings in the chuch of La Chaise Dieu - The reign of folly - [[Sebastian Brandt]]; The ship of fools - Disturbers of Church service - Troublesome beggars - Geilor's sermons - [[Radius]], and his ship of foolish women - The pleasures of smell - [[Erasmus]]; the praise of folly |
CHAPTER XIV ... 228 | CHAPTER XIV ... 228 | ||
- | Popular literature and its heroes; Brother Rush, Tyll Eulenspiegel, the Wise Men of Gotham - Stories and jest-books - Skelton, Scogin, Tarlton, Peele | + | Popular literature and its heroes; [[Brother Rush]], [[Tyll Eulenspiegel]], the Wise Men of [[Gotham]] - Stories and jest-books - [[Skelton]], [[Scogin]], [[Tarlton]], [[Peele]] |
CHAPTER XV ... 244 | CHAPTER XV ... 244 | ||
- | The age of the Reformation - Thomas Murner; his general satires - Fruitfulness of folly - Hans Sachs - The trap for fools - Attacks on Luther - The Pope as antichrist - The pope-ass and the monk-calf - Other caricatures against the Pope - The good and bad shepherds | + | The age of the Reformation - [[Thomas Murner]]; his general satires - Fruitfulness of folly - Hans Sachs - The trap for fools - Attacks on Luther - The Pope as antichrist - The pope-ass and the monk-calf - Other caricatures against the Pope - The good and bad shepherds |
CHAPTER XVI ... 264 | CHAPTER XVI ... 264 | ||
- | Origin of medieval farce and modern comedy - Hrothsvitha - Medieval notions of Terrence - The early religious plays - Mysteries and miracle plays - The farces - The drama in the Sixteenth Century | + | Origin of medieval farce and modern comedy - [[Hrothsvitha]] - Medieval notions of [[Terrence]] - The early religious plays - Mysteries and miracle plays - The farces - The drama in the Sixteenth Century |
CHAPTER XVII ... 288 | CHAPTER XVII ... 288 | ||
- | Diablerie in the Sixteenth Century - Early types of the diabolical forms - St. Anthony - St. Guthlac - Revival of the taste for such subjects in the beginning od the Sixteenth Century - The Flemish schhol of Breughel - The French and Italian schools - Callot, Salvator Rosa | + | [[Diablerie]] in the Sixteenth Century - Early types of the diabolical forms - [[St. Anthony]] - St. [[Guthlac]] - Revival of the taste for such subjects in the beginning od the Sixteenth Century - The Flemish school of [[Breughel]] - The French and Italian schools - [[Callot]], [[Salvator Rosa]] |
CHAPTER XVIII ... 300 | CHAPTER XVIII ... 300 | ||
- | Callot and his school - Callot's romantic history - His "Caprichi," and other burlesque works - The "Balli" and the beggars - Imitators of Callot; Della Bella - Examples of Della Bella - [[Romain de Hooghe]] | + | [[Callot]] and his school - Callot's romantic history - His "[[Caprichi]]," and other burlesque works - The "[[Balli]]" and the beggars - Imitators of Callot; [[Della Bella]] - Examples of Della Bella - [[Romain de Hooghe]] |
CHAPTER XIX ... 312 | CHAPTER XIX ... 312 | ||
- | The satirical literature of the Sicteenth Century - Pasquil - Macaronic poetry - The Epistolae Obscurorum Vivorum - Rabelais - Court of the Queen of Navarre, and its literary circle; Bonaventure des Perriers - Henri Etienne - The Ligue, and its satire; The "Satire Menippe" | + | The satirical literature of the Sicteenth Century - Pasquil - [[Macaronic]] poetry - The E[[pistolae Obscurorum Vivorum]] - [[Rabelais]] - Court of the [[Queen of Navarre]], and its literary circle; [[Bonaventure des Perriers]] - [[Henri Etienne]] - The [[Ligue]], and its satire; The "[[Satire Menippe]]" |
CHAPTER XX ... 347 | CHAPTER XX ... 347 | ||
- | Political caricature in its infancy - The Reveres du Jeu des Suyesses - Caricature in France - The Three Orders - Period of the Ligue; Caricatures against Henri III. - Caricatures against the Ligue - Caricature in France in the Seventeenth Century - Genral galas - The quarrel of ambassadors - Caricature against Louis XIV; Willima of Furstemberg | + | Political caricature in its infancy - The Reveres du [[Jeu des Suyesses]] - Caricature in France - The Three Orders - Period of the Ligue; Caricatures against Henri III. - Caricatures against the Ligue - Caricature in France in the Seventeenth Century - Genral galas - The quarrel of ambassadors - Caricature against [[Louis XIV]]; Willima of [[Furstemberg]] |
CHAPTER XXI ... 360 | CHAPTER XXI ... 360 | ||
- | Early political caricature in England - The satirical writings and pictures of the Commonwealth period - Satires against the bishops; Bishop Williams - Caricatures on the Cavaliers; Sir John Suckling - The Roaring Boys; Violence of the Royalist soldiers - Contest between the Presbyterians and Independents - Grinding the King's nose - Playing-cards used as the medium for caricature; Haselrigge and Lambert - Shrovetide | + | Early political caricature in England - The satirical writings and pictures of the Commonwealth period - Satires against the bishops; [[Bishop Williams]] - Caricatures on the Cavaliers; Sir John Suckling - The Roaring Boys; Violence of the Royalist soldiers - Contest between the Presbyterians and Independents - Grinding the King's nose - Playing-cards used as the medium for caricature; [[Haselrigge]] and [[Lambert]] - [[Shrovetide]] |
CHAPTER XXII ... 375 | CHAPTER XXII ... 375 | ||
- | English comedy - Ben Jonson - The other writers of his school - Interruption of dramatic performances - Comedy after the Restoration - The Howards Brothers: The Duke of Buckingham; The Rehersal - Writers of comedy in the latter part of the Seventeenth Century - Indececy of the stage - Colley Cibber - Foote | + | English comedy - [[Ben Jonson]] - The other writers of his school - Interruption of dramatic performances - Comedy after the Restoration - The [[Howards Brothers]]: The [[Duke of Buckingham]]; The Rehersal - Writers of comedy in the latter part of the Seventeenth Century - Indececy of the stage - [[Colley Cibber]] - [[Foote]] |
CHAPTER XXIII ... 406 | CHAPTER XXIII ... 406 | ||
- | Caricature in Holland - [[Romain de Hooghe]] - The Englosh revolution - Caricatures of Louis XIV. and James II. - Dr. Sacheverell- Caricature brought from Holland to England - Origin of the word "caricature" - Mississippi and the South Sea; The Year of Bubbles | + | Caricature in Holland - [[Romain de Hooghe]] - The English revolution - Caricatures of Louis XIV. and James II. - Dr. [[Sacheverell]]- Caricature brought from Holland to England - Origin of the word "caricature" - Mississippi and the South Sea; The Year of Bubbles |
CHAPTER XXIV ... 420 | CHAPTER XXIV ... 420 | ||
- | English caricature in the age of George II. - English printsellers - Artists employed by them - Sir Robert Walpole's long ministry - The war with France - The Newcastle administration - Opera intrigues - Ascension of George III., and Lord Bute in power | + | English caricature in the age of George II. - English printsellers - Artists employed by them - Sir [[Robert Walpole]]'s long ministry - The war with France - The Newcastle administration - Opera intrigues - Ascension of George III., and Lord Bute in power |
CHAPTER XXV ... 434 | CHAPTER XXV ... 434 | ||
- | Hogarth - His early history - His sets of pictures - The Harlot's Progress - The Rake's Progress - The Marriage a ala Mode - His other prints - The analysis of beauty, and the persecution arising out of it - His patronage by Lord Bute - Caricature of the times - Attacks to which he was exposed by it, and which hastened his death | + | [[Hogarth]] - His early history - His sets of pictures - [[The Harlot's Progress]] - [[The Rake's Progress]] - The Marriage a ala Mode - His other prints - The analysis of beauty, and the persecution arising out of it - His patronage by Lord Bute - Caricature of the times - Attacks to which he was exposed by it, and which hastened his death |
CHAPTER XXVI ... 450 | CHAPTER XXVI ... 450 | ||
- | The lesser caricaturists of the reign of King George III. - Paul Sandby - Collet: The Disaster, and Father Paul in his Cups - James Sayer: His caricatures in support of Pitt, and his reward - Carlo Kahn's triumph - Bunbury's: His caricatures on horsemanship - Woodward: General complaint - Rowlandson's influence on the style of those whose designs he etched - John Kay of Edinburgh: Looking a Rock in the Face | + | The lesser caricaturists of the reign of King George III. - [[Paul Sandby]] - [[Collet]]: The Disaster, and Father Paul in his Cups - [[James Sayer]]: His caricatures in support of Pitt, and his reward - [[Carlo Kahn]]'s triumph - [[Bunbury]]'s: His caricatures on horsemanship - [[Woodward]]: General complaint - Rowlandson's influence on the style of those whose designs he etched - John Kay of Edinburgh: Looking a Rock in the Face |
CHAPTER XXVII ... 464 | CHAPTER XXVII ... 464 | ||
- | Gillray - His first attempts - His caricatures begin with the Shelburne ministry - Impeachment of Warren Hastings - Caricatures on the King; New Way to Pay the National Debt - Alleged reasons for Gillray's hostility to the King - The King and the Apple-Dumplings - Gillray's later labours - His idiotcy and death | + | [[Gillray]] - His first attempts - His caricatures begin with the Shelburne ministry - Impeachment of [[Warren Hastings]] - Caricatures on the King; New Way to Pay the National Debt - Alleged reasons for Gillray's hostility to the King - The King and the Apple-Dumplings - Gillray's later labours - His idiotcy and death |
CHAPTER XXVIII ... 480 | CHAPTER XXVIII ... 480 | ||
- | Gillray's caricatures on social life - Thomas Rowlandson - His early life - He becomes a caricaturist - His style and works - His drawings - The Cruikshanks | + | Gillray's caricatures on social life - Thomas Rowlandson - His early life - He becomes a caricaturist - His style and works - His drawings - The [[Cruikshanks]] |
Index to Names and Titles ... 495 | Index to Names and Titles ... 495 | ||
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History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (1865) is a work on caricature and grotesque in art and literature by Thomas Wright with engravings by Frederick William Fairholt.
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Preface to the New Edition ...v
Introduction: The Meaning of the Grotesque - Frances K. Barash ... vi
Errata ... lix Preface ... lxiii Contents ... lxix
CHAPTER I ... 1 Origin of caricature and grotesque - Spirit of caricature in Egypt - Monsters: Python and Gorgon - Greece - The Dionysiac ceremonies, and origins of the drama - The old comedy - Love of parody - Parodies on subjects taken from Grecian mythology: The visit to the lover; Apollo at Delphi - The partiality of parody continued among the Romans: The flight of the Aeneas
CHAPTER II ... 23 Origin of the stage in Rome - Uses of the mask among the Romans - Scenes from the Roman comedy - The Sannio and Mimus - The Roman drama - The Roman satirists -Caricature - Animals introduced in the characters of men - The Pigmies, and their introduction into caricature; The farm-yard; The painter's studio; The procession - Political caricature in Pompeii; The graffiti
CHAPTER III ... 40 The period of transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages - The Roman Mimi continued to exist - The Teutonic after-dinner entertainments - Clerical satires: Archbishop Heriger and the dreamer; The supper of the Saints - Tansition from ancient to medieval art - Taste for monstrous animals, dragons, etc.; Church of San Fedele, at Como - Spirit of caricature and love of grotesque among the Anglo-Saxons - Grotesque figures of demons - Natural tendency of the early medieval arists to draw in caricature - Examples from early manuscripts and sculptures
CHAPTER IV ... 61 The diabolical in literature - Medieval love of the ludicrous - Causes which made it influence the notions of demons - Stories of the pious painter and the erring monk - Darkness and ugliness caricatured - The demons in the miracle plays - The demons of Notre Dame
CHAPTER V ... 75 Employment of animals in medieval satire - Popularity of fables; Odo de Cirington - Reynard the fox - Burnellus and Fauvel - The Charivari - Le monde bestorne - Encaustic tiles - Shoeing the goose, and feeding pigs with roses - Satirical signs; The mustard maker
CHAPTER VI ... 95 The monkey on burlesque and caricature - Tournaments and single combats - Monstrous combinations of animal forms - Caricatures on costume - The hat - Te helmet - Ladies' head-dresses - The gown, and its long sleeves
CHAPTER VII ... 106 Preservation of the character of the Mimus after the fall of the empire - The minstrel and the jogelour - History of popular stories -The fabliaux - Account of them - The contes devots
CHAPTER VIII ... 118 Caricatures of domestic life - State of domestic life in the middle ages - Examples of domestic ccaricature from the carving sof the misereres - Kitchen scenes - Domestic brawls - The fight for the breeches - The judicial duel between man and wife among the germans - Allusions to witchcraft - Satires on the trades: The baker, the miller, the wine-pedlar and the tavern-keeper, the ale-wife, etc.
CHAPTER IX ... 144 Grotesqe faces and figures - Prevalence of the taste for ugy and grotesque faces - Some of the popular forms derived from antiquity: The tongue lolling out, and the distorted mouth - Horrible subjects: The man and the serpents - Allegorical figures: Gluttony and luxury - Other representations of clerical gluttony and drunkenness - Grotesque figures of individuals, and grotesque groups - ornament sof the borders of books - Unintentional caricature; the mote and the beam
CHAPTER X ... 159 Satitrical literature in the middle ages - John de Hauteville and Alan de Lille - Golias and the Goliards - The Golliardic poetry - Taste for parody - Parodies on religious subjects - Political caricature in the middle ages - The Jews of Norwich - Caricature representations of countries - Local Satire - Political songs and poems
CHAPTER XI ... 188 Minstrelsy a subject of burlesque and caricature - Character of the minstrels - Their jokes upon themselves and upon one another - Various musical instruments represented in the sculptures of the medieval artists - Sir Matthew Gournay and the ring of Portugal - Discredit of the tabor and bagpipes - Mermaids
CHAPTER XII ... 200 The court fool - The Normans and their gabs - Early history of court fools - Their costume - Carvings in the Cornish churches -The burlesque societies of the middle ages - The feasts of asses, and of fools - Theor license - The leaden money of the fools - The bishop's blessing
CHAPTER XIII ... 214 The dance of death - The paintings in the chuch of La Chaise Dieu - The reign of folly - Sebastian Brandt; The ship of fools - Disturbers of Church service - Troublesome beggars - Geilor's sermons - Radius, and his ship of foolish women - The pleasures of smell - Erasmus; the praise of folly
CHAPTER XIV ... 228 Popular literature and its heroes; Brother Rush, Tyll Eulenspiegel, the Wise Men of Gotham - Stories and jest-books - Skelton, Scogin, Tarlton, Peele
CHAPTER XV ... 244 The age of the Reformation - Thomas Murner; his general satires - Fruitfulness of folly - Hans Sachs - The trap for fools - Attacks on Luther - The Pope as antichrist - The pope-ass and the monk-calf - Other caricatures against the Pope - The good and bad shepherds
CHAPTER XVI ... 264 Origin of medieval farce and modern comedy - Hrothsvitha - Medieval notions of Terrence - The early religious plays - Mysteries and miracle plays - The farces - The drama in the Sixteenth Century
CHAPTER XVII ... 288 Diablerie in the Sixteenth Century - Early types of the diabolical forms - St. Anthony - St. Guthlac - Revival of the taste for such subjects in the beginning od the Sixteenth Century - The Flemish school of Breughel - The French and Italian schools - Callot, Salvator Rosa
CHAPTER XVIII ... 300 Callot and his school - Callot's romantic history - His "Caprichi," and other burlesque works - The "Balli" and the beggars - Imitators of Callot; Della Bella - Examples of Della Bella - Romain de Hooghe
CHAPTER XIX ... 312 The satirical literature of the Sicteenth Century - Pasquil - Macaronic poetry - The Epistolae Obscurorum Vivorum - Rabelais - Court of the Queen of Navarre, and its literary circle; Bonaventure des Perriers - Henri Etienne - The Ligue, and its satire; The "Satire Menippe"
CHAPTER XX ... 347 Political caricature in its infancy - The Reveres du Jeu des Suyesses - Caricature in France - The Three Orders - Period of the Ligue; Caricatures against Henri III. - Caricatures against the Ligue - Caricature in France in the Seventeenth Century - Genral galas - The quarrel of ambassadors - Caricature against Louis XIV; Willima of Furstemberg
CHAPTER XXI ... 360 Early political caricature in England - The satirical writings and pictures of the Commonwealth period - Satires against the bishops; Bishop Williams - Caricatures on the Cavaliers; Sir John Suckling - The Roaring Boys; Violence of the Royalist soldiers - Contest between the Presbyterians and Independents - Grinding the King's nose - Playing-cards used as the medium for caricature; Haselrigge and Lambert - Shrovetide
CHAPTER XXII ... 375 English comedy - Ben Jonson - The other writers of his school - Interruption of dramatic performances - Comedy after the Restoration - The Howards Brothers: The Duke of Buckingham; The Rehersal - Writers of comedy in the latter part of the Seventeenth Century - Indececy of the stage - Colley Cibber - Foote
CHAPTER XXIII ... 406 Caricature in Holland - Romain de Hooghe - The English revolution - Caricatures of Louis XIV. and James II. - Dr. Sacheverell- Caricature brought from Holland to England - Origin of the word "caricature" - Mississippi and the South Sea; The Year of Bubbles
CHAPTER XXIV ... 420 English caricature in the age of George II. - English printsellers - Artists employed by them - Sir Robert Walpole's long ministry - The war with France - The Newcastle administration - Opera intrigues - Ascension of George III., and Lord Bute in power
CHAPTER XXV ... 434 Hogarth - His early history - His sets of pictures - The Harlot's Progress - The Rake's Progress - The Marriage a ala Mode - His other prints - The analysis of beauty, and the persecution arising out of it - His patronage by Lord Bute - Caricature of the times - Attacks to which he was exposed by it, and which hastened his death
CHAPTER XXVI ... 450 The lesser caricaturists of the reign of King George III. - Paul Sandby - Collet: The Disaster, and Father Paul in his Cups - James Sayer: His caricatures in support of Pitt, and his reward - Carlo Kahn's triumph - Bunbury's: His caricatures on horsemanship - Woodward: General complaint - Rowlandson's influence on the style of those whose designs he etched - John Kay of Edinburgh: Looking a Rock in the Face
CHAPTER XXVII ... 464 Gillray - His first attempts - His caricatures begin with the Shelburne ministry - Impeachment of Warren Hastings - Caricatures on the King; New Way to Pay the National Debt - Alleged reasons for Gillray's hostility to the King - The King and the Apple-Dumplings - Gillray's later labours - His idiotcy and death
CHAPTER XXVIII ... 480 Gillray's caricatures on social life - Thomas Rowlandson - His early life - He becomes a caricaturist - His style and works - His drawings - The Cruikshanks
Index to Names and Titles ... 495