“The Royal Academy Much Improved Upon (From a Sloperian Point of View)” Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal. (19 May 1880): 238. Courtesy of the HathiTrust and the Harvard University Library. Click on image to enlarge it.

Using an approach employed by both Punch and Fun, Judy comments upon the Royal Academy exhibition’s exhibitors by suggesting revisions in in the form of a comic strip, one simplified style resembles twentieth-century cartoons. J. D. Watson, John Pettie, C. W. Cope, Lord Leighton, Breton Riviere, and W. Q. Orchardson. — George P. Landow


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