Frederick Waddy
Artworks: 16
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 (16 total)
- Books [Charles Mudie] 1873
- Goody goody [George MacDonald] 1873
- A waiting race [Edmund Hodgson Yates] 1873
- A true poet [Algernon Charles Swinburne] 1873
- So he plays his part. As You Like It, act ii, sc. 7. [John Hollingshead] 1873
- The earthly paradise [William Morris] 1873
- Browning [Robert Browning] 1873
- History [James Anthony Froude] 1873
- Illustration [Gustave Dore] 1873
- A melancholy jester [Frederick Locker] 1873
- Punch [Shirley Brooks] 1873
- Her majesty’s tower [William Hepworth Dixon] 1873
- A successful dramatist [Andrew Halliday] 1873
- Natural selection [Charles Darwin] 1873
- Herald and playwright [James Robinson Planche] 1873
- Tinsley Brothers [William Tinsley] 1873