Forceval, cartoonist (Restoration period) Caricature of the Caricatures. 1815. Etching. 270 x 217. Nice proof on laid paper, coloured with watercolour. Oxidation under the mat. Small reddish stain above the upper board stroke. Margins. Frame. This plate is in the collections of the British Museum and in those of the Carnavalet Museum, similarly coloured. Forceval's mark was a crayfish, seen here as a signature. He collaborated with the merchant and publisher Aaron Martinet. The central character is holding in his hand another satirical plate from the year 1815, Les Habits retournés.