The miniature painter's manual containing progressive lessons on the art of drawing and painting likenesses from life on card-board, vellum, and ivory, with concise remarks on the delineation of character and caricature (1844)
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper · leaf 93
st is en-dowed with the genuine spirit of caricature :the resemblance of face and figure of theindividuals he presents to public notice areperfect; he uses no unnatural distortion offeatures—no vulgar amplification of personaldeformity. It is the ludicrous situationand employment of the various… … 73 resemblance, as if the sketchy likenesses ofGilray, H. B., and others, were not previ-ously studied, and numerous outlines of thehead formed, altered, and amended, beforethe one that is allowed to pass appears be-fore the public. The amateur artist thatwishes to produce caricatures, must…
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