2-705-926 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Characters and Caricaturas', 1807, (1827). Hogarth's response to the criticism that his characters were caricatures: above are characters with exaggerated features, and below is an illustration of the difference between characterisation and caricature, with examples. On the left are three character figures after Raphael, and on the right four caricatures after Annibale Carracci, Pier Leone Ghezzi and Leonardo da Vinci. Engraving after the original of 1743 by Hogarth. [Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London, 1807]. From "The Works of Wiliam Hogarth", Volume II, by The Rev. John Trusler. [J. Goodwin, London, 1827]