Frederick Waddy
Pioneered Victorian caricature portraits
Frederick Waddy was a British artist, caricaturist, cartoonist and printmaker. Waddy provided cartoon caricatures of many of the leading men of his day for the weekly literary magazine Once a Week. The 1873 publication Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day included illustrations by Waddy accompanying anonymous essays on fifty notable subjects, including Darwin, Swinburne, Tennyson, and Browning.
Artworks by this artist
- Herald and playwright [James Robinson Planche] 1873
- Illustration [Gustave Dore] 1873
- A waiting race [Edmund Hodgson Yates] 1873
- So he plays his part. As You Like It, act ii, sc. 7. [John Hollingshead] 1873
- Natural selection [Charles Darwin] 1873
- The earthly paradise [William Morris] 1873
- History [James Anthony Froude] 1873
- Punch [Shirley Brooks] 1873
- Her majesty’s tower [William Hepworth Dixon] 1873
- Tinsley Brothers [William Tinsley] 1873
- Books [Charles Mudie] 1873
- A true poet [Algernon Charles Swinburne] 1873
- Goody goody [George MacDonald] 1873
- Browning [Robert Browning] 1873
- A melancholy jester [Frederick Locker] 1873
- A successful dramatist [Andrew Halliday] 1873