Karikatuur

This pen-and-ink sketch caricatures a man with exaggerated facial features—a prominent nose and thin mustache—shown in three-quarter view. The artist employs cross-hatching to model form, a technique inherited from centuries of European print satire. The work descends from the tradition of Gillray and Rowlandson, where physical distortion served political and social commentary. This sketch exemplifies how caricature's formal innovations—exaggeration, simplification, grotesque proportion—became foundational to modern cartooning and the emerging comic strip form.