Randolph Caldecott 1846-86

[1] Californian Illustrated Magazine, frontispiece, 1894

“…No Englishman living could put so much power of expression into a few broken lines. His only equal in this respect was the inimitable king of German caricaturists, Wilhelm Busch. But Busch’s drawings are always manifestly caricatures, while perhaps the greatest fascination about Mr. Caldecott’s drawings is that we often are embarrassed to tell just how much of the picture is a caricature and how much real delineation…”

— ‘The Late Randolph Caldecott,’ in The Daily Graphic, New York, February 20, 1886

[2-3] Profile by Henry J. Pearson, Californian Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 5, Feb. 1894, pp. 387-388

 

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The first drawing for Punch and all of the images below are from Randolph Caldecott; A Personal Memoir of his Early Art Career – ‘An Affectionate Remembrance’ – by Henry Blackburn, with 172 illustrations, 216 pp., New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1886 / London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886.

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Randolph Caldecott, 
March 22, 1846 – February 12, 1886