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▪ I. cartoon, n.|kɑːˈtuːn|
Also 8 carton, cartone.
[a. F. carton or (its source) It. cartone, augm. of carta paper.]
1. A drawing on stout paper, made as a design for a painting of the same size to be executed in fresco or oil, or for a work in tapestry, mosaic, stained glass, or the like.
1671Evelyn Diary 18 Jan., I perceived him [Gibbon], carving that large cartoon, or crucifix, of Tintoretto. 1683Ibid. 9 May, To ask whether he [the Duke of Norfolk] would part with any of his cartoons and other drawings of Raphael. 1697C. Hatton Corr. (1878) II. 229 But y⊇ sight best pleased me was y⊇ cartoons by Raphael, wch are far beyond all y⊇ paintings I ever saw. 1711Steele Spect. No. 226 ⁋1 The Cartons in Her Majesty's Gallery at Hampton-Court. a1721Prior Alma iii. 440 When Rarus shows you his Cartone, He always tells you, with a groan, etc. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 240. 1852 A. Jameson Leg. Madonna (1857) 24 The set of cartoons for the tapestries of the Sistine Chapel. 1867Even. Standard 14 Feb., Coloured cartoons for church windows in stained glass.
2. a. A full-page illustration in a paper or periodical; esp. applied to those in the comic papers relating to current events. Now, a humorous or topical drawing (of any size) in a newspaper, etc. Cf. strip-cartoon.
1843Punch 24 June 258/2 Punch has the benevolence to announce, that in an early number of his ensuing Volume he will astonish the Parliamentary Committee by the publication of several exquisite designs, to be called Punch's Cartoons! Ibid. 15 July 22/2 Substance and Shadow. Cartoon No. I. 1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. xl, One of Mr. Leech's most genial cartoons. 1879Print. Trades Jrnl. xxix. 8 The cartoons bearing on colonial politics. 1900Beerbohm Lett. to R. Turner (1964) 298 His [sc. Pellegrini's] famous Vanity Fair cartoons. Ibid., A pair of original cartoon-drawings. 1910Daily Chron. 1 Mar. 6/6 The cartoon nowadays..is merely party-political. You find a scratchy sketch in the corner of a paper devoted to the week-end football matches or the spring handicaps, or Mr. Asquith's breakfast with the King. ‘Cartoon!’ 1959Chambers's Encycl. III. 117/1 Daumier's example can still be traced in the modern newspaper cartoon. Ibid., Caricatures..began to appear as political cartoons.
b. Cinematogr. An animated cartoon (see animated ppl. a. 1 d). Also attrib.
1916Sci. Amer. 14 Oct. 354/1 Knowledge of motion is a requisite in properly animating a drawing, in spite of the seeming simplicity of the cartoons when viewed on the screen. Ibid., Here may be learned..the production of cartoon films, from the inception of the idea to the projection of the film on the screen. 1923Lit. Digest 5 May 27/2 The moving cartoons now familiar at the picture shows are made with the aid of transparent sheets of pyralin. 1936Discovery Apr. 122/2 The making of motion pictures, cartoons, and sound recording. 1956Ann. Reg. 1955 385 The first feature-length cartoon film, Animal Farm. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren vii. 112 Popeye..another cartoon character originating in America.
▪ II. carˈtoon, v.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To design, as a cartoon (sense 1); to make a preparatory sketch or tracing of.
1887Athenæum 12 Mar. 348/3 Rossetti was greatly struck by this story, and immediately the subject for ‘Michael Scott's Wooing’ was ‘mentally cartooned’.
2. To represent by a cartoon (sense 2); to caricature, or hold up to ridicule.
1884A. A. Putnam 10 Yrs. Police Judge xxii. 194 They make bold to cartoon..the goodly profession of the law. |