Frederick Waddy was a British artist, caricaturist, cartoonist and printmaker.
Waddy provided cartoon caricatures of many of the leading men of his day for the weekly literary magazine Once a Week. The 1873 publication Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day included illustrations by Waddy accompanying anonymous essays on fifty notable subjects, including Darwin, Swinburne, Tennyson, and Browning.
![A melancholy jester [Frederick Locker]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952989il.jpg)
![A successful dramatist [Andrew Halliday]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952990il.jpg)
![A true poet [Algernon Charles Swinburne]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952991il.jpg)
![A waiting race [Edmund Hodgson Yates]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952992il.jpg)
![Books [Charles Mudie]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952993il.jpg)
![Browning [Robert Browning]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952994il.jpg)
![Illustration [Gustave Dore]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952995il.jpg)
![Goody goody [George MacDonald]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952996il.jpg)
![he earthly paradise [William Morris]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952997il.jpg)
![Her majesty’s tower [William Hepworth Dixon]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952998il.jpg)
![Herald and playwright [James Robinson Planche]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/952999il.jpg)
![History [James Anthony Froude]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/953000il.jpg)
![Natural selection [Charles Darwin]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/953001il.jpg)
![Punch [Shirley Brooks]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/953002il.jpg)
![So he plays his part. As You Like It, act ii, sc. 7. [John Hollingshead]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/953003il.jpg)
![Tinsley Brothers [William Tinsley]](https://mdl.artvee.com/ft/953004il.jpg)