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3 Characters and 4 caricaturas [print] : for a further explanation of the difference betwixt character & caricatura see [the] preface to Joh. Andrews / W Hogarth fecit.

Accession number
PML 146853.14a
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London : s.n., 1743?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and date from Paulson.
Engraving originally issued as a subscription ticket to purchaser's of Hogarth's "Marriage a-la-Mode".
The "3 characters" are engr. after Raphael; the "4 caricaturas" after P.L. Ghezzi, Annibale Carracci, & Leonardo da Vinci; with more characters & caricatures by Hogarth above them.
Commonly known by the title "Characters and caricaturas".
The 2nd state as described by Paulson, with the subscription ticket removed.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted with another print by Hogarth on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 204 x 200 mm; sheet: 230 x 205 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Etching shows a group of naturalistic heads in profile and, below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e."characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Annibale Carracci and Leonardo.
Classification
Department