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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 162568, member: 56"]Preparatory drawings for things including tapestries were called cartoons. </p><p><a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cartoon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cartoon" rel="nofollow">http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cartoon</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cartoon&allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cartoon&allowed_in_frame=0" rel="nofollow">cartoon (n.)</a> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cartoon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cartoon" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.etymonline.com/graphics/dictionary.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>1670s, "a drawing on strong paper (used as a model for another work)," from French carton, from Italian cartone "strong, heavy paper, pasteboard," thus "preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper" (see <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=carton&allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=carton&allowed_in_frame=0" rel="nofollow">carton</a>). Extension to comical drawings in newspapers and magazines is 1843: <i>"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!"</i> ["Punch," June 24, 1843]</p><p><br /></p><p>See the Raphael cartoons in the V&A:</p><p><a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/r/raphael-cartoons/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/r/raphael-cartoons/" rel="nofollow">http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/r/raphael-cartoons/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 162568, member: 56"]Preparatory drawings for things including tapestries were called cartoons. [URL]http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cartoon[/URL] [URL='http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cartoon&allowed_in_frame=0']cartoon (n.)[/URL] [URL='http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cartoon'][IMG]http://www.etymonline.com/graphics/dictionary.gif[/IMG][/URL] 1670s, "a drawing on strong paper (used as a model for another work)," from French carton, from Italian cartone "strong, heavy paper, pasteboard," thus "preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper" (see [URL='http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=carton&allowed_in_frame=0']carton[/URL]). Extension to comical drawings in newspapers and magazines is 1843: [I]"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!"[/I] ["Punch," June 24, 1843] See the Raphael cartoons in the V&A: [URL]http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/r/raphael-cartoons/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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