ABSTRACT
The symbolic visual references to Grandville's aesthetic freedom and his comprehensive role as author and artist, as seen in the illustrated cover and frontispiece, are spelled out for the reader. Their reviews, critiques, and biographical sketches amass to body of critical discourse that legitimizes Grandville and his work by making the artist a topic of discussion. While Grandville is attributed the lowest rank, his chosen medium and his work nonetheless become part of the visual canon of the nineteenth century. We can therefore read Grandville's career in terms of both triumph and defeat. Delord inserts his entire nameas opposed to Grandville's reduction to initials into the final corner of the image, signaling his participation in the work. The hat crowns Grandville, marking caricature and parody as Un autre monde's dominant artistic modes. Grandville's move from illustrator to artist-author in Un autre monde is supported by the work's additional containment of the writer: la plume as one of the artist's characters.
