Characters and caricatures; the idealized heads of Saint John and Saint Paul are contrasted with grotesque heads, above them rises a cloud of faces showing different expressions. Etching by W. Hogarth.

Credit: Wellcome Collection

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 23.4 x 20.9 cm

Work type

• Pictures

Lettering

3 Characters 4 caricaturas. Cartons Raphael Urbin pinx. Cavl. Chezze del. Annibal Charraci invt. Leonard da Vinci pinx. For a farther explanation of the difference betwixt character & caricatura see ye preface to Joh. Andrews. W. Hogarth fecit 1743

Contributors

• Hogarth, William,
• Ghezzi, Pier Leone,
• Raphael,
• Carracci, Annibale,
• Leonardo

Subjects

• John, the Apostle, Saint

Genres

• Etchings.

Places

• [Place of publication not identified]

Agents

• [publisher not identified]

Dates

• 1743

Language

• English

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Credit

Characters and caricatures; the idealized heads of Saint John and Saint Paul are contrasted with grotesque heads, above them rises a cloud of faces showing different expressions. Etching by W. Hogarth..{' '} Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY