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Updated: November 12, 2025
It has been a curiously direct process from the hand of the great master, to this new reproduction, although it stands so far from his time and life. His very thought was painted by his very hand upon the paper of the cartoon, and this painted thought has been photographed upon another paper which has served as a guide to the copy.
In the spring of 1842 the Fine Arts Commission issued a notice of the conditions for the cartoon competition, intended to test the capacity of native artists for the decoration of the House of Lords.
"There's always a cartoon on the editorial page," pointed out Banneker. "Cartoon? What does that get you? A cartoon's an editorial, ain't it?" Russell Edmonds shot a side glance at Banneker, meaning: "This is no fool. Watch him." "Makes 'em think, don't it?" pursued the visitor. "If it tickles 'em, that's on the side. It gets after their minds, makes 'em work for what they get. That's an effort.
First is the design, the cartoon. There we are in the department of the artist, and must talk in whispers. Raphael belongs there, and Leonardo; and Rubens, Teniers, Lebrun, Boucher and David, train us through the past centuries into our own. But the cartoon of to-day is not so sacred a matter, and we may speak of it frankly regretfully, too.
These men, therefore, having gone to Bologna, where Giorgio had not yet arrived for he was still at Camaldoli, where, having finished the tramezzo, he was drawing the cartoon for a Deposition from the Cross, which was afterwards executed by him and set up on the high-altar in that same place set themselves to prime the said three panels with gesso and to lay on the ground, until such time as Giorgio should arrive.
He also no doubt attained in some of his works the "St. Paul" of the cartoon, the "Vision of Ezekiel," the "Virgin" of the Dresden Museum the summit of sublime art; but that which is the exception with Sanzio is the rule with the great Buonarroti.
Another large cartoon, with the figures of our Lord Jesus Christ and the glorious Virgin Mary, His mother. Another, the Epiphany. This last drawing was presented to the notary who drew up the will, and is supposed to be the cartoon now in the British Museum; all the others went to Lionardo Buonarroti. Lionardo arrived three days after the death.
A recent cartoon pictured a boy complaining because his mother had asked him to carry a small rug up to the top of the house, then portrayed the same boy, after a ten-mile trudge, climbing a steep hill with a load of golf sticks, the perspiration streaming down his face, saying, "This is fine!" The same task may therefore be regarded as work or play according to the point of view.
Raphael could scarcely have done better; besides, there is an air of sincerity, a stamp of popular truth, in this episode, which lies beyond Raphael's sphere. It reminds us rather of Tintoretto. The 'Assumption of the Magdalen' for which fresco there is a valuable cartoon in the Albertina Collection at Turin must have been a fine picture; but it is ruined now.
Perino drew this cartoon on white paper, well shaded and hatched, leaving the paper itself for the lights, and executing the whole with admirable diligence.
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