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| Title |
The Bench (with the Five Orders of Periwigs)
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| Artist |
William Hogarth |
| Date |
1758 (reprinted 1822) |
| Medium |
Etching and Engraving |
| Location |
The Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections,
Northwestern University
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This unfinished print stresses the distinction between Character
and Caricature that Hogarth makes in Characters Caricaturas
(1743) and Analysis of Beauty (1753). Character, when done
well should reveal the true nature of a person, while caricature
is mere burlesque. The inscription below is significant to
the development of physiognomy as an artistic and scientific
practice:
It has ever been allow'd that, when a Character
is strongly mark'd in the living Face, it may be considered
as an Index of the mind, to express which with any degree
of justness in Painting requires the utmost Efforts of a great
Master
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