Charge [in Painting]

call’d also over-charge, is an exaggerated representation of any person; wherein the likeness is preserved but ridicul’d; by picking out and heightening something already amiss in the face; whether by way of defect or redundancy: Thus v. gr. If a man has a nose a little larger than ordinary, and the Painter makes it extravagantly long; or if very short, the Painter makes it a mere stump, and the like of any part.