3 Characters and 4 caricaturas [print] : for a further explanation of the difference betwixt character & caricatura see [the] preface to Joh. Andrews / W Hogarth fecit.

Title and date from Paulson.
Engraving originally issued as a subscription ticket to purchaser's of Hogarth's "Marriage a-la-Mode".
The "3 characters" are engr. after Raphael; the "4 caricaturas" after P.L. Ghezzi, Annibale Carracci, & Leonardo da Vinci; with more characters & caricatures by Hogarth above them.
Commonly known by the title "Characters and caricaturas".
The 2nd state as described by Paulson, with the subscription ticket removed.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted with another print by Hogarth on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).