Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble ..
Bowles's Polite Recreation in Drawing is an 1779 London book of picturesque caricature heads published by Carington Bowles, a print seller, for amateur drawing students. The pictures are pairs of red-brown engraved faces labelled with emotions such as Revenge, Reflection, Despair, Derision, Humility and Horror, each with a small animal comparison. A designer could take the exaggerated expressions and compact paired layouts as a model for character studies.
