Grotesque Head of an Old Person in Profile
Caricatured bust in profile within a drawn mount border, in pen and brown ink
Set within a ruled mount border, this small sheet shows the grotesque head and shoulders of an elderly person seen in right profile. The features are exaggerated into caricature, with a bulbous nose, sunken toothless mouth, jutting chin and a cap or coiled headdress rising over the brow. The bust is lightly draped and shaded with slanting hatching against a plain ground; no text accompanies the drawing.
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Caricatured elderly head in right profile
An aged face is pushed into grotesque exaggeration: the nose swells forward, the lipless mouth caves inward and the chin thrusts up to meet it, while a rounded cap or bound hair sits high on the head. The shoulders are sketched in loosely below, giving a bust format.