Thomas Rowlandson, whose work in seen here, was a master of this form, from Italian for "to load"
Although the heads here were probably not intended as caricatures,... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "The eighteenth century in English caricature" [PAR] Etymologically it connects itself with the Italian caricare , to load or charge, thus ... 
James Gillray, and his vigorous contemporary Thomas Rowlandson, what a feast 
.... one of the unconscious ironies of art history that the artist, whose work shows 
... Form, we have seen already, lay outside  in certain manifestations entirely... [DOC] [TLE] Caricaturist | Define Caricaturist at Dictionary.com [PAR] According to the caricaturist, Thomas Rowlandson, chaos ensues.