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An historical sketch of the art of caricaturing : with graphic illustrations

Malcolm, James Peller, 1767-1815 · 1813 · London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown · 30 pictures

An historical sketch of the art of caricaturing, written by James Peller Malcolm and published in London in 1813 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, is a survey of satirical drawing for an educated English readership. Its plates are etched caricature studies of faces, grotesque heads, and figures, some rotated on the page, showing exaggerated expressions, distorted proportions, and comic gesture a designer could study for character exaggeration.

Caricature · Grotesque in art

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