A History of Caricature and Grotesque: In Literature and Art

A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright. I have felt some difficulty in selecting a title for the contents of the following pages, in which it was, in fact, my design to give, as far as may be done within such moderate limits, and in as popular a manner as such information can easily be imparted, a general view of the History of Comic Literature and Art. Yet the word comic seems to me hardly to express all the parts of the subject which I have sought to ...