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Ridicule

Act of insulting or making light, often using caricature

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  • Alexander the Great being mocked by the apprentices in the studio of Apelles. Etching by Salvator Rosa.

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    Alexander the Great being mocked by the apprentices in the studio of Apelles. Etching by Salvator Rosa.

    Salvator Rosa | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 38761i
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    A discourse on ridicule

    | Date: 1716
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    An essay on ridicule

    Ramsay, Allan, 1713-1784. | Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]
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    A vindication of my Lord Shaftesbury, on the subject of ridicule Being remarks upon a book, intitled, Essays on the characteristics.

    Bulkley, Charles, 1719-1797. | Date: MDCCLI. [1751]
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    An essay towards fixing the true standards of wit, humour, raillery, satire, and ridicule . To which is Added, an Analysis Of the Characters of An Humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger De Coverly, and Don Quixote. Inscribed to the Right Honorable Robert Earl of Orford. By the Author of a Letter from a by-stander.

    Morris, Corbyn, 1710-1779. | Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]
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