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Excerpt: ...by Cruikshank, follow The Gout by Gillray (1799). The reader may well ask if the sight of a hideous creature sprawling on a mans foot is humour according to my definition. I can only presume that in what Mr Grego calls the "port-wine days," Gillrays plate was like sudden sympathy producing something so absolutely suitable for swearing at, that patients smiled in easy-chairs at grief. Pg 171 Broad humour has an eye on sex. The uncle who, on being asked at dinner for an opinion on a ladys costume, observes that he must go under the table to form it, is a type of the broad humorist in modern life. Cruikshank had none of that tenderness for womens clothes which in modern representation removes altogether the pudical idea from costume and substitutes the idea of witchery by foam of lace and coil of skirts. His guffaws and those of Captain Marryat and J. Py, whose invention exercised his needle, at the Achilles in Hyde Park, in 1822, are vexatious enough to make one wish to restore all fig-leaves to the fig-forest. It is not possible for a man with an indefinite and inexpressible feeling for woman to laugh like that. Hearing his laughter we know that Cruikshanks humour about woman must always be obvious. "EH., SIRS " Illustrates "Waverley," by Sir Walter Scott, in "Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels," 1836. It is, and yet it is not measured by the height of her hat as he depicted it in 1828, when he contributed to that long series of jokes which culminate in Jan Linses girl at the theatre who will not take her hat off because, "mamma, if I put it in my lap I cant see myself." In the annals of absurdity is Pg 172 there anything more worthy to be true at the expense of the British Navy than Cruikshanks picture of the chambermaid confronted with the leg which she has mistaken for a warming-pan? Another woman, whom Cruikshank compels us to remember by force of humorous idea, is to be...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152263772 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152263773 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 78 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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