[Ads-l] "worm's-eye view" antedating

[Jonathan Lighter]

https://wordhistories.net/2021/04/10/worms-eye-view/  tells the story. (It
appears to have been coined in the 1890s for a series of
perspective-bending cartoons by cartoonist Henry Mayer.)

Earlier ex:

1898 _Life_ (Jan. 18) 25 [HathiTrust]: WORM'S-EYE VIEWS OF US. ...At a
theater.

This seems to be Mayer's first cartoon in the series. No ex. of "worm's-eye
view" turns up in previous volumes

 JL


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:58 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> OED: 1907
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> 1898 _Public Opinion_ (June 16)  XXIV 759: To those who take a worm's-eye
> view of one of the greatest men of our race, Mr. Gladstone is a monument of
> inconsistency.
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> 1902 _Century Magazine_ LXIV (June) 310: From the barred basement window
> where the grimy pressman caught a foreshortened worm's-eye view of the
> crowd.
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