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.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1743.

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

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

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3 ed., London 1989, p. 338 [156]

R. Paulson, Hogarth, his life, his art, and times, New Haven and London 1971, p. 472 [181]

Wellcome Collection 39181i

Attribution of the heads from inscription under the images