Cartoon
Originally this term referred to the full-scale preliminary sketch made for a painting. This outline, usually done in chalk or charcoal, was then transferred onto the easel-painting or fresco. Today, a cartoon is a humorous drawing or parody of people or events. It can be a series of drawings that tells a story, as in a strip cartoon.
King Henry VIII; King Henry VII
by Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1536-1537
NPG 4027
Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
by Sir George Hayter
1820
NPG 1695(a)
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia
by Jacques Joseph 'James' Tissot
published in Vanity Fair 16 October 1869
NPG 4707(2)
Anthony Trollope
by Sir Leslie Ward
study for drawing published in Vanity Fair 5 April 1873
NPG 3915
John Edward Redmond
by Sir Leslie Ward
7 July 1904
NPG 2983
Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr
by Powys Evans
circa 1930
NPG 5806
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
by Robert Stewart Sherriffs
1929
NPG 5224(4)
Norman Parkinson
by Mark Boxer
1981
NPG 5920(20)