<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Characters and caricaturas] [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[April 1743]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>The subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode".  A group of heads drawn in a naturalistic style seen in profile; below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e."characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Raphael Urbin, Annibale Carracci, and Leonardo da Vinci</dc:description><dc:description>Title from Paulson: Characters and caricaturas.</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image: 3 characters. 4 caricaturas : for a farthar explanation of the difference betwixt character &amp; caricatura see [the] preface to Joh. Andrews.</dc:description><dc:description>Date and state from Paulson.</dc:description><dc:description>The receipt is engraved below the caption: Rec'd [blankl] of [blank] Half a guinea being the first payment for six prints called Marriage a la mode which I promise to deliver when finish'd on receiving half a guinea more. N.B. The price will be one guinea and an half after the time of subscribing.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>