Frederick Waddy
Frederick Waddy (1848–1901) 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.
Frederick Waddy
![Charles Robert Darwin. Wood engraving by F. Waddy, 1873., [1873], by Frederick Waddy](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0001470/full/1280,/0/default.jpg)
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- Born
- 1848 · Islington.
- Died
- 1901
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- artist · sculptor · illustrator · caricaturist
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Frederick Waddy (1848–1901) 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.
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Frederick Waddy is recorded as artist, sculptor, illustrator and caricaturist.
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1848
Frederick Waddy born at Islington.
1901
Frederick Waddy died.
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- 1.Savory & Marks 1985, pp. 55–58, 68, 99–101.
- 2."Cartoon Portraits of Men of the Day (1873)", The Public Domain Review. Accessed 2 March 2022.
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