Album Comic à l'Exposition de Jiquidi

This ink illustration by Constantin Jiquidi frames a comic album announcement with a border of exaggerated character heads—bearded men, figures in hats, caricatured faces rendered in the bold line work of late-nineteenth-century European print satire. The style descends directly from Rowlandson and Gillray's satirical traditions, where distorted physiognomy and grotesque features conveyed social commentary. The border figures display class markers: bowlers and caps denote social stations. Jiquidi's graphic approach—sharp black lines on white, suitable for lithographic reproduction—shows how the language of political caricature and social mockery was being absorbed into emerging comic and illustrated publication formats, bridging the eighteenth-century tradition of Daumier with the nascent twentieth-century comic strip.