Excerpt from Rules for Drawing Caricaturas: With an Essay on Comic Painting<br><br>The features of the human face, and the form and proportions of the body and limbs are in particular coun tries fubjeci to certain peculiarities; an agreement with, or material deviation from which, confiitutes the local idea of beauty or deformity. I fay local, becaufe it does not appear that there are any fixed or pofitive ideas of either; if there were, they mufi neceffarily be the fame every where, which is by no means the fact for they differ fo greatly in different places, that what 18 efieemed a perfec tion in one country, is in another pronounced a defot mity.<br><br>In China and Morocco, exceffwe corpulency is el'teem ed a beauty and among the vallies of the Alps, the na tives return thanks to God for his partiality to them in decorating their necks with thecomely goiter or craw, here 'late1y {hewn as an object of the mofi {hocking deformity.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.