Ângelo Agostini and the Cartoons at the Imperial Twilight

Preliminary Notes on the Abolition in Brazil

Abstract

This paper aims at pointing out relevant questions on the analysis of
the work of nineteenth-century cartoonist Ângelo Agostini, as well
as to present pertinent arguments on the analysis of images in the
historiographical field. To this end, the text locates the artist’s production
in contextual terms, as an heir to an art tradition that has in the
nineteenth century its first golden age: the political and social cartoon.
Then, after a brief consideration of the analysis of images in historical
studies, two cartoons produced by Agostini on the great theme of
abolitionism are interpreted as exemplary analysis.