Characters and Caricaturas April 1743 William Hogarth British When Hogarth designed this image in 1743, caricature was an Italian mode still little known in Britain. The London printmaker Arthur Pond had begun, in 1736, to issue etchings based on caricatures by Pier Leone Ghezzi, Annibale Carracci, Carlo Maratti, and Guercino, choosing for the most part robustly grotesque examples. Hogarth found Pond's prints distasteful and created "Characters and Caricaturas" to warn against what he saw as a debased foreign form. This first state, which served as a receipt for subscribers to his "Marriage a la Mode" series of engravings (1745), condemns exaggeration and elevates naturalism, the latter begin for Hogarth, a preeminent goal. A panel at the bottom establishes a basic dichotomy: three heads after Raphael, representing an acceptable physiognomic range for character, are contrasted with a row of repellent caricatures derived from Ghezzi, Carracci, and Leonardo. Above, further examples of ch

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Characters and Caricaturas April 1743 William Hogarth British When Hogarth designed this image in 1743, caricature was an Italian mode still little known in Britain. The London printmaker Arthur Pond had begun, in 1736, to issue etchings based on caricatures by Pier Leone Ghezzi, Annibale Carracci, Carlo Maratti, and Guercino, choosing for the most part robustly grotesque examples. Hogarth found Pond's prints distasteful and created "Characters and Caricaturas" to warn against what he saw as a debased foreign form. This first state, which served as a receipt for subscribers to his "Marriage a la Mode" series of engravings (1745), condemns exaggeration and elevates naturalism, the latter begin for Hogarth, a preeminent goal. A panel at the bottom establishes a basic dichotomy: three heads after Raphael, representing an acceptable physiognomic range for character, are contrasted with a row of repellent caricatures derived from Ghezzi, Carracci, and Leonardo. Above, further examples of ch

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