Grose, Francis: Rules For Drawing Caricaturas: With An Essay On Comic Painting (London, [1795?])

COMIC PAINTING. 23

ed the fire in the palace of the Emperor of
Lilliput.

We meet with another instance of this sort
of unintentionally ridiculous composition, in
the Military State of the Ottoman Empire,
written by the Count de Marsigii, member
of the Royal Academies of Paris and Mont-
pelier, and of the Royal Society of London.

That gentleman, desirous of conveying- the
idea that he had thoroughly investigated his
subject, by the common metaphor of having
sifted it to the bottom, his artist has endea-
voured in a vignette, literally to express it by
delineating that operation; and has represent-
ed the Count in a full-dressed coat, hat, and
feather, tye-wig and jack-boots, shaking
through a small sieve, supported by a tri-
angle, little Turkish soldiers of all denomina-
tions, many of whom appear on the ground
in a confused heap; camels, horses, and their
riders, cannons and cannon balls, all tumbling
promiscuously one over the other. On the
other side of the picture are some soldiers and
periwigged officers looking on, as at an or-
dinary occurrence.