Characters & caricaturas,William Hogarth,1743,painter

Title: Characters & caricaturas / W. Hogarth fecit.
Creator(s): Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, engraver
Date Created/Published: 1743.
Summary: Print shows numerous faces drawn by English painter and cartoonist William Hogarth to illustrate what he considered the difference between 'characters' (faces drawn from nature) and 'caricaturas' (faces with exaggerated and grotesque features). He also includes copies of faces drawn by Raphael, Annibale Carracci, and Leonardo da Vinci. In the novel, Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding makes the same distinction, citing the drawings of Hogarth to prove his point.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption continues: For a farther explanation of the Difference betwixt Character & Caricatura see ye Preface to Joh. Andrews.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
Unprocessed in WOOD/Hogarth.69
Subjects:
Faces--1740-1750.
Caricatures--British--1740-1750.
Etchings--British--1740-1750.
Bookmark /2005680354/
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