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GROUP OF HEADS,
Intended to display the difference betwixt .
Character and Caricature,
For a further explanation of this difference, seethe Preface
to Joseph Andrews.*
" In Lairesse-, still more in Poussit; and
most of all in Ranhael-y simplicity, greatness
of conception, tranquillity, superiority, sublimity,
the most exalted! Raphael can never be enough
studied, although he only exercised his mind
on the rarest forms, the grandest trails of coun-
tenance.
"In Hogarth, alas! how little of the noble,'
how little of beauteous expression is to be
found, in this, I had almost said, false prophet
of beauty: but what an immense treasure of fea-
tures; of meanness in excess, vulgarity the most
disgusting, humour the most irresistible, and
vice the most unmanly."
Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy.
■"What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in wit.
" <fg; ami in the same manner the comic writer and painter
c"-relate to each other, ^nd here I shall observe, that
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Intended to display the difference betwixt .
Character and Caricature,
For a further explanation of this difference, seethe Preface
to Joseph Andrews.*
" In Lairesse-, still more in Poussit; and
most of all in Ranhael-y simplicity, greatness
of conception, tranquillity, superiority, sublimity,
the most exalted! Raphael can never be enough
studied, although he only exercised his mind
on the rarest forms, the grandest trails of coun-
tenance.
"In Hogarth, alas! how little of the noble,'
how little of beauteous expression is to be
found, in this, I had almost said, false prophet
of beauty: but what an immense treasure of fea-
tures; of meanness in excess, vulgarity the most
disgusting, humour the most irresistible, and
vice the most unmanly."
Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy.
■"What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in wit.
" <fg; ami in the same manner the comic writer and painter
c"-relate to each other, ^nd here I shall observe, that
U 2