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Leonardo da Vinci - Characters & caricaturas / W. Hogarth fecit.
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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.
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
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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