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Example sentences for "caricaturist"

Lexicographically close words:
caribou; caricature; caricatured; caricatures; caricaturing; caricaturists; carico; carid; carie; caried
  1. But for such a purpose a caricaturist is better than a prophet, and comic pictures better than poetical phrases.

  2. So prophets have denounced the wanton in a palace or the puppet on a throne; and so the Dutch caricaturist denounces the gilded captivity of the Austrian Monarchy, of which the golden trappings are golden chains.

  3. In the accompanying cartoon the Dutch caricaturist has thrust with his pencil at the central point of this falsity.

  4. But in recognizing Nast's services in behalf of New York City it is not fair to overlook his work as a political caricaturist on broader issues.

  5. The attitude of England during the war seemed to the caricaturist perfidious, after the practical aid which France had rendered Albion in the Crimea.

  6. It is certain that the Greeks and Romans appreciated the power of ridicule latent in satiric pictures; but until the era of the printing press, the caricaturist was as one crying in a wilderness.

  7. The baccarat scandal at Tranby Croft and the subsequent trial at which the then Prince of Wales was present as a witness was a rich morsel for the caricaturist in the early summer of 1891.

  8. The unhappy caricaturist groaned between triumph as a leader, and anguish at the prospect of a possible host of successors.

  9. The enamoured caricaturist vainly protested that he had not seen it from the beginning, and did not now.

  10. Two or three portraits of the caricaturist are traceable, besides numerous burlesque transfers of his own effigy to his imaginary personages.

  11. Some of these worthies were actually working as contemporaries of the caricaturist who departed fifty years ago.

  12. Pyne), an intimate associate of the caricaturist and a member of the artist's circle of friends.

  13. Caricaturist (illustrated biographical sketch of his life by Joseph Grego), i.

  14. Illustration] Our caricaturist worked away, fierce and implacable, following every turn of Boney's fortunes with a show of savage ardour, until the idol fell in 1815.

  15. Other satires of the year, are Double Bass, and A Venomous Viper Poisoning the R--l Mind, the latter as coarsely and indelicately handled a subject as any caricaturist of the old school might possibly desire.

  16. It is the misfortune of the caricaturist that his wares attain only a transitory popularity, whilst it is their peculiarity that after he is dead their value is increased fourfold.

  17. The caricaturist simply reflected the opinion of his countrymen in insinuating that the Yankees had some understanding or sympathy with Bonaparte; but in this they were mistaken.

  18. Napoleon (we need not say) did not exactly act as the caricaturist describes: he endeavoured to re-establish relations with the foreign powers.

  19. He was a caricaturist in that he exaggerated characteristic traits, just as Matisse did in his sculpture.

  20. This painter who, unlike his three great contemporaries, fought for the pure love of the fight, was celebrated as a caricaturist at twenty-five.

  21. Forain is the second greatest caricaturist the world has produced.

  22. Such fame was warranted, for he was unquestionably the greatest and most trenchant caricaturist the world has ever produced.

  23. As a political caricaturist Hogarth was not successful, save in a few isolated examples, as in the portraits of Wilkes and Churchill; but as a moralist and social satirist he has not yet been equalled.

  24. Gould (of the Westminster Gazette), a politician first and a caricaturist afterwards.

  25. Thony, a wonderfully clever caricaturist of the airs and assumption of the Prussian Junker and the Prussian subaltern; J.

  26. Gillray was not the only caricaturist who turned the king's weaknesses to ridicule, but none caricatured them with so little gentleness, or evidently with so good a will.

  27. Nor did this zeal pass unrewarded, for Pitt, in power, gave the caricaturist the not unlucrative offices of marshal of the court of exchequer, receiver of the sixpenny duties, and cursitor.

  28. Of course, when war was inevitable, the question of generals was a very important one, and the caricaturist pretends that the greatest general of the age was "General Complaint.

  29. Gillray was, beyond all others, the great political caricaturist of his age.

  30. Liotard, another caricaturist of the time of George II.

  31. He made the acquaintance and gained the favour of the younger William Pitt, when that statesman was aspiring to power, and he began his career as a caricaturist by attacking the Rockingham ministry in 1782--of course in the interest of Pitt.

  32. Gillray joined warmly in the attacks on this coalition of parties, and from this time his great activity as a caricaturist begins.

  33. Among these was Hogarth, whose discomforts as a political caricaturist we shall have to describe in our next chapter.

  34. For a long time after Gillray became known as a caricaturist he continued to engrave the designs of other artists.

  35. The caricaturist would hardly overlook so extravagant a fashion, and accordingly the manuscript in the British Museum, just mentioned, furnishes us with the subject of our cut No.

  36. In the same article he sneered at "a whimsical caricaturist lecturing his contemporaries," and in his references to me was about as offensive as he could be.

  37. When my father remonstrated with Cham on the subject, reminding him of his own connexion with England, the indignant caricaturist replied: "Don't speak of it.

  38. He had begun life as a caricaturist and humorous writer, but by way of buttering his bread had set up in business as a photographer, his establishment on the Boulevard de la Madeleine soon becoming very favourably known.

  39. The Prince kept his promise of retrenchment for nine long months, and was sorely put to it for money--a fact of which the caricaturist took full advantage.

  40. He is a caricaturist of the “first water,” and in this connection I may say that a caricature too carefully drawn often loses its humor.

  41. As a caricaturist pure and proper he is almost without a rival in this country.

  42. Mr. Furniss is an excellent actor--had he not been a caricaturist he must have been a comedian.

  43. What a hissing there was at one of my entertainments at Leicester," said the humorist-caricaturist looking across at me with twinkling eyes.

  44. Think of it--think of what your caricaturist with an inclination towards cruelty might have made of that fact, coupled with those significant words!

  45. Now, who would associate the caricaturist with tombstones?

  46. This essential sign of the caricaturist may surely be anything it will so long as it is there.

  47. He invented Ratapoil as he appropriated Robert Macaire, and as a caricaturist he never fails to put into circulation, when he can, a character to whom he may attribute as many as possible of the affectations or the vices of the day.

  48. The caricaturist of that day had not the help of the ubiquitous photograph.

  49. And whilst he faintly exaggerates what is characteristic and renders it distinct, his picture is given a force and power of conviction to which no previous caricaturist has attained, with so much discretion at the same time.

  50. As a political caricaturist George Cruikshank has the same significance for England as Henri Monnier has for France, and the drawings of the latter often go straight back to the great English artist.

  51. A long Story" is an excellent example of his powers as a caricaturist pure and simple.

  52. One of the best studies in those days of good subjects for the Parliamentary caricaturist was the figure of that "squat and leering Quilp," Joseph Gillis Biggar, Member for County Cavan.

  53. Oh, Mr. Pen, you may take it from me that the lot of the caricaturist is not a happy one.

  54. The serious confession I have to make is that I have been mistaken for a caricaturist in the accepted and limited meaning of the term.

  55. The wit at the dinner-table, the humorous writer or the caricaturist in the pages you read, is a very different dog at home.

  56. I remember another incident which will serve to illustrate the trials and misfortunes of the caricaturist when pursuing his vocation outside the walls of his studio.

  57. Thus also is it with the caricaturist and his pencil.

  58. A caricaturist is an artistic contortionist.

  59. There is something more in politicians, you know, than meets the eye, and the caricaturist tries to record it.

  60. Few imagine that a caricaturist requires models to draw from.

  61. There is always something of the caricaturist in his most serious and important sketches--most of all, perhaps, in his etchings.

  62. Moreover, as butts for the caricaturist they are unsatisfactory, for in proportion as his efforts are successful, his sense of chivalry is outraged; and we have seen how Keene and others recoiled from the idea.

  63. Before the days of photography the work of the caricaturist was harder than it is now.

  64. The famous Punch caricaturist thereupon stepped forward, and was duly introduced.

  65. The caricaturist of mankind, to immortalise his work, must haunt us with physiognomy.

  66. The English had got used to their bugbear the flotilla, and the caricaturist had a rest.

  67. Napoleon’s coronation was the great event of the year; but some time before it was consummated the English caricaturist took advantage of it, and J.

  68. The year 1810 is mostly noteworthy to the caricaturist by Napoleon’s second marriage.

  69. The eventful 2nd of December came at last; but, before we note the ceremony itself, we must pause awhile to see how the English caricaturist treated the procession.

  70. Needless to say, the caricaturist did not omit his opportunity.

  71. Ansell gives us, certainly, a more comic representation of the meeting of the Emperors than any other caricaturist (July 1807).

  72. Meanwhile the caricaturist was watching events on the Continent, and, after his lights, depicting them.

  73. But to the English caricaturist and satirist they were bonnes bouches, and they twisted and distorted them to suit their purposes.

  74. As a caricaturist George Cruikshank entered the field, and waged battle on behalf of the poor wretches who swung at the gallows for passing forged Bank of England notes.

  75. After the publication of this report it was but a very few days before the Caricaturist had made the subject his own, and we see George Cruikshank's idea of it in the accompanying "Meditation among the Tombs.

  76. Of course the Caricaturist got hold of it, and fixed it for all time.

  77. That the caricaturist has been out-caricatured by Nature no one will deny.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caricaturist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.