Characters and Caricaturas [SEP] inception
Characters and Caricaturas
Characters and Caricaturas is an engraving by English artist William Hogarth, that he produced as the subscription ticket for his 1743 series of prints, "Marriage à-la-mode", and which was eventually issued as a print in its own right. Critics had sometimes dismissed the exaggerated features of Hogarth's characters as caricature and, by way of an answer, he produced this picture filled with characterisations accompanied by a simple illustration of the difference between characterisation and caricature.
Picture.
Hogarth's earlier
of the words character and caricatura", he designed the subscription ticket for "Marriage à-la-mode" to clearly illustrate their error. Untitled at the time of issue, it is now known as "Characters and Caricaturas" or just Characters Caricaturas. At the foot of the picture, Hogarth illustrated the difference between characterisation and caricature by reproducing three character figures from the works of Raphael, and four caricatures: "Due Filosofi" from Annibale Carracci; a head originally by Pier Leone Ghezzi, but here copied from