# Seven caricatures

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/melzi-francesco-r5ea8e25a73e1ea/seven-caricatures-r3524b258364188>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [MELZI, Francesco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/melzi-francesco-r5ea8e25a73e1ea>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Pen and sepia ink on white paper, 180 x 120 mm

## Commentary

These heads are mostly copies after Leonardo da Vinci&#39;s original drawings. Carefully finished with great attention to detail, they are not mechanical copies, but deliberate reworkings of the originals by the copyist.

## Related artworks

- [Five Grotesque Heads](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/melzi-francesco-r5ea8e25a73e1ea/five-grotesque-heads-rcd1eed0da3323c>)
- [Flora](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/melzi-francesco-r5ea8e25a73e1ea/flora-r9b0a3874a287d5>)
- [Flora](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/melzi-francesco-r5ea8e25a73e1ea/flora-r9e97850cccff6f>)
- [Pomona and Vertumnus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/melzi-francesco-r5ea8e25a73e1ea/pomona-and-vertumnus-ra667e4e953e5a6>)
- [Portrait of Leonardo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/melzi-francesco-r5ea8e25a73e1ea/portrait-of-leonardo-r7e412796540427>)
- [St Anne with the Virgin and the Child Embracing a Lamb](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/melzi-francesco-r5ea8e25a73e1ea/st-anne-with-the-virgin-and-the-child-embracing-a-lamb-r01dc38bddcb372>)
- [Two Grotesque Heads](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/melzi-francesco-r5ea8e25a73e1ea/two-grotesque-heads-r18911ab07ae3f1>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)