Notes on the satirical press and graphic illustration between 1832 and 1843

The political expectations and consequent desire to influence collective social morals at crucial moments of the discontinuous Spanish liberal revolution produced intermittent foci of satirical polarization in the press, which started with utopian impetus and usually faded into compromise or disenchantment after initial hopes were thwarted. In the implicit frame of this hypothesis, this paper takes a look at the period 1832-1845, when the satirical press had to accommodate its early literary form to the inter-media counterpoint of graphic illustration and caricature.