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Chaplin caricature
A caricature of film comedian Charlie Chaplin.

A caricature (from the Italian caricatura, which means "loaded portrait") is a portrait or drawing of a person that exaggerates the way they look, usually to create a humorous effect, or a political statement.

Images for kids

  • Beerbohm-Beardsley

    Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley by Max Beerbohm (1896), taken from Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen

  • Graffiti politique de Pompei

    Ancient Pompeiian graffiti caricature of a politician

  • Caricature gillray plumpudding

    James Gillray's The Plumb-pudding in danger (1805), which caricatured Pitt and Napoleon, was voted the most famous of all UK political cartoons.

  • Caricature of Ammon Bundy

    An example of a caricature created using computerized techniques, superimposed over a photographic image

  • MattCaric

    A modern, street-style caricature of a man (c. 2010), with the subject on the right

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