Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 2,3): Nature (London, 1793)

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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