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Date: 1828
Format: Sketches from an 1828-29 trip to Italy
Description: According to Clary (2003), De la Beche's earliest cartoons were in his diary, and were social and political in nature. In this sketch he drew himself of having a cameo-portrait taken while in Rome. He did not particularly like Rome, and criticized it as a place that catered to "personal vanity". He wrote that in having the cameo taken he "became as great a fool as any". Yet he cannot have been too annoyed, as he is smiling in the self-portrait, and as he chose to have it done. Perhaps his criticism should be taken in the same sense as a person criticizing the culture of the Las Vegas Strip but nevertheless indulging in a few games of slots.
Two cartoons on religion and Seeing the Raphaels at the Vatican are from the same trip.
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Sources & further discussion:
Clary, Renee M. "Uncovering strata: an investigation into the graphic innovations of geologist Henry T. De la Beche." Thesis. (2003). pg 220. Link [digitalcommons.lsu.edu]
McCartney, Paul J. (1977). Henry De la Beche: Observations on an Observer. Friends of the National Museum of Wales.
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Clary, Renee M. "Uncovering strata: an investigation into the graphic innovations of geologist Henry T. De la Beche." Thesis. (2003). Link [digitalcommons.lsu.edu]
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