Caricature
![Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley by Max Beerbohm (1896), taken from Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen](/Images/godic/202501/03/Beerbohm-Beardsley5702.jpg")
![Ancient Pompeiian graffiti caricature of a politician.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Graffiti_politique_de_Pompei5702.jpg")
![James Gillray's The Plumb-pudding in danger (1805), which caricatured Pitt and Napoleon, was voted the most famous of all UK political cartoons.[3]](/Images/godic/202501/03/Caricature_gillray_plumpudding5702.jpg")
![Une discussion littéraire à la deuxième Galerie by Honoré Daumier Lithograph published in Le Charivari newspaper, February 27, 1864](/Images/godic/202501/03/1864_0227_discussion_2805702.jpg")
A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes or through other artistic drawings.
In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.