The Diary of J. J. Grandville and the Missouri Album ─ The Life of an Opposition Caricaturist and Romantic Book Illustrator in Paris Under the July Monarchy

This first major study in English of Grandville allows him to speak for himself through a careful examination of his diary, fragments of which are to be found in a previously unexamined album of drawings in the Special Collections of the University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries. Since the majority of Getty's sources originate from the artist's diaries, this book provides valuable new insights into Grandville's life and work, particularly during those years most extensively represented: 1830, 1833, and 1846. An epilogue explores the genesis of the Missouri Album.

Clive F. Getty is a professor of art history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is a laureate of the Academie de Stanislas in Nancy and the recipient of that city's medaille d'or.