La grande mascarade parisienne
Albert Robida wrote and drew La grande mascarade parisienne (Paris: Librairie illustrée/Dreyfous, 1881), a satirical survey of Parisian men, women and courtship for a popular French readership. Line-drawn caricatures with captions show banquet orators, flirting couples, parliamentary uproar and shrimping parties, offering designers loose pen figures, crowd heads and spot vignettes that sit directly in text columns.
