Excerpt from Hogarth's Rejected and Suppressed Plates: Consisting of the Seven Discarded Plates to Illustrate Cervantes's Don Quixote and the "Two Little Pictures, Called Before and After, for Mr. Thomson"; With an Essay by the Late John La Farge A caricature which should be as much a portrait of real life as Hogarth's would not to-d'ay allow us to look behind the scenes. Might take it for any representa tion of commonplace life, select or otherwise; it would need to be aided by some abstract artistic rendering: for instance. To be in select black - and - white, like Mr. Du Maurier's drawmgs. The caricaturist of to - day who wishes to produce an adequate effect is obliged to syn thetize like Mr. Caran d'ache, and help us to understand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.