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Api, editorial cartoon 23.2.1894

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Location: Finnish art - Editorial cartoons 1 - older
Title: Api, editorial cartoon 23.2.1894*
Artist:  Aapo "Api" Kohonen (All)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Illustration
For Sale Status: NFS
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Added to Site: 4/19/2017

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This is one of the first pen and ink cartoons ever done for publication in Finland. The cartoon magazine Matti Meikalainen was the first of its kind in Finland to switch to photo-engraving, enabling drawings made on paper to be reproduced. Prior to that, cartoons were done as wood engravings. The magazine made the switch in the beginning of 1894 when a new editor/owner Aapo Kohonen took it over. One of the two first pen and ink artists to appear was pen-name "Api". Researchers have made the assumption that this would've been Kohonen himself.
This is the cartoon for issue 4/1894. The face of the Don Quixote character (presumably a caricature of Viktor Magnus von Born) has been redrawn in the printed version.

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