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Here, in accordance with the plan which we designed when we sat down to write this work, we bring our labours to a close. If we have omitted all mention of two very excellent and talented artists, Messrs. Charles Keene and George Du Maurier, it is not from any lack of appreciation, but because one of them at least began his labours just about the period when those of John Leech were drawing to a close, while the reputation of both were made after their distinguished contemporary was laid to his rest. The merits of both these able men and of those now following after them must be left to be dealt with by another chronicler. Although, as we remarked in our opening chapter, the wood engraver has rung the knell of English caricature, with such clever men as Colonel Seccombe, Mr. Proctor, Mr. Randolph Caldicott, Mr. F. Barnard, the present George Cruikshank, Mr. Chasemore, and others whose names do not at present occur to us, there is happily no prospect of a decline in the art of English graphic satire.
[186] The present chapter was written before the artist’s death; but I have to acknowledge the great assistance I have derived in its revision from the authority indicated.
[187] The Month, a Catholic Magazine, No. 237 (March, 1884), p 315.
[188] Ibid., page 317.
[189] One of these (and a very effective one) was the work of the present Sir John Gilbert.
[190] Hamerton’s “Etching and Etchers.”
[191] William Hazlitt on “The Fine Arts,” p. 51.
[192] An excellent burlesque of the Emperor’s theatrical declarations.