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0f Caricature 
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Gr0tejQue 
CHAPTER 
XXVI. 
THE LESSER CARICATURISTS OF TH_E REIGN OF GEORGE III.iPAUL 
SANDBY.--COLLET; THE DISASTER, AND FATHER PAUL IN I-[IS CUPS. 
iJAMES SAYER; HIS CARICATURES IN SUPPORT OF PITT, AND I-IIS 
      
   
INFLUENCE ON THE STYLE OF THOSE WHOSE DESIGNS HE ETCHED. 
iJOHN KAY OF EDINBURGHZ LOOKING A ROCK IN THE FACE. 
THE fchool of caricature which had grown amid the political agitation 
of the reigns of the two Hi-Ft Georges, gave birth to a number of 
men of greater talent in the fame branch of art, who carried it to its 
highell degree of perfeftion during that of George III. Among them 
are the three great names of Gillray, Rowlandfon, and Cruikfhank, and 
a few who, though fecond in rank to thefe, are llill well remembered for 
the talent difplayed in their works, or with the effect they produced on 
contemporaries. Among thefe the principal were Paul Sanclby, John 
Collet, Sayer, Bunbury, and VVoodward. 
Sandby has been fpoke-n of in the lail chapter. He was not by pro- 
feliion a caricaturill, but he was one of thofe rifing artifts who were 
offended by the fneering terms in which Hogarth fpoke of all artifts but 
liimfelf, and he was foremoit among thofe who turned their fatire 
againft him. Examples of his caricatures upon Hogarth have already 
been given, fufficient to lhow that they difplay {kill in compofition as 
well as a large amount of wit and humour. After his death, they were 
republifhed collectively, under the title, "Retrofpeftive Art, from the 
Collection of the late Paul Sandby, Efq.,  Sandby was, indeed, 
one of the original members of the Royal Academy. He was an artill 
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