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   The word Caricature does not lend itself easily to precise definition. Etymologically it connects itself with the Italian

    caricare

   , to load or charge, thus corresponding precisely in derivation with its French equivalent

    Charge

   ; and—save a yet earlier reference in Sir Thomas Browne—it first appears, as far as I am aware, in that phrase of No. 537 of the

    Spectator

   , "Those burlesque pictures which the Italians call

    caracaturas

   ."

   Putting the dry bones of etymology from our thought the essence, the life-blood of the thing itself, is surely this—the human creature's amusement with itself and its environment, and its expression of that amusement through the medium of the plastic arts. So that our

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