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BIOGRAPHICAL 
ANECDOTES 

O    F 

WILLIAM    HOGARTHj 

WITH 

A  CATALOGUE  OF  HIS  WORKS 

CHRONOLOGICALLY    ARRANGED: 

AND  OCCASIONAL  REMARKS. 

THE  THIRD  EDITION,  ENLARGED  AND  CORRECTED. 


LONDON: 

PRINTED    BY   AND    FOR   JOHN   NICHOLS, 

IN  RED-LION-PASSAGE,  FLEET-STREET. 

M  Dec  LXXXV. 


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£IOGR.iPHICAL  .ANECDOTES 


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RiNiIItmI  fts  thfActdirecis  Sov'  j 


[  la  ]• 


MEMORANDUM. 


3 

I 


JPECT   and   gratitude    having    en- 
me  to  compile    a   memoir  of  my 
deceafed  Mafter  and  Patron  Mr.  Bowyer, 
in  the  fame  performance  I  included  anec- 
dotes of  all  the  eminent  perfons  any  way 
connected  with  him.      A  note  of  about  a 
'  page's  length   was  allotted   to  Hogarth. 
'  While   it  was  printing,  Mr.  Walpole's 
Fourth  Volume  on  the  fubjedt  of  Englilh 
Painters  came  out,  and  was  followed  by 
an  immediate   rage  for  collcdting  every 
I  icrap   of  our  Artift's  defigns.      Perfever- 
I  ing  in   my  enquiries  among  my  friends, 
Ll  had  now  amalfed  fo  much   intelligence 
I  relative  to  thefe  engravings,  that  it  could 
f  no   longer  be  crowded  into  the   fituation 
I  originally  meant  for  it.      I   was  therefore 
advifed  to  publilh  it  in  the  form  of  a  Iix- 
penny  pamphlet.     This  intended  publi- 
cation, however,  grew  up  by  d  grees  into 
a  three-fliilling  book,  and,  within  a  year 
^^L  a  2  aad 


O'^. '' .  -jR  5 


C    iv    ] 

Eatf  nfrerwards,  was  fwelled  into 
almoft  its  prefeiit  bulk,  at  the  price  ot  fix 
fbillings.  Such  was  the  origin  and  pro- 
grefs  of  the  following  flieets,  which,  with 
many  corretftionsj  Sec.  have  now  reached  a 
Third  Edition. 


y,N. 


Tfov.  10,  1785, 


ADVER- 


t     V      ] 


ADVERTISEMENT 


TO    THE    SECOND     EDITION. 


THE  author  of  thefe  imperfedt  fheets  cannot 
prefcnt  them  a  fecond  "time  ro  the  world,  before  ho 
has  cxpreffed  his  gratitude  for  the  extreme  candour 
ivith  which  they  have  been  treated  by  the  Menthlf 
Rcviezvers.  If  J.  N.  ha?  hoe  availed  himfclf  of  all 
the  corrcftions  defigned  for  his  fcrvice,  it  is  becaufe 
the  able  critic  who  propofes  them  has  been  deluded 
by  intelligence  manifellly  erroneous.  _/,  W.  received 
each  particular  he  has  mentioned,  in  refpeil  to  the 
affillanca  beftowed  on  Higarib  while  his  Anahjis  was 
preparing,  from  Dr.  More!!,  a  gentleman  who  on  that 
fubjcdt  could  not  eafily  miftake.  Implicit  confideuce 
ought  rather  to  be  repofed  In  a  literary  co.idjutor  lu 
the  deceafed,  than  in  any  confiftory  of  females  that 
ever  "mumbled  their  wifdom  over  a  goffip's  bowl." 
Authors  rarely  acquaint  domeftic  women  with  the 
progrefs  of  their  writings,  or  the  projiorrion  of  aid 
they  folicic  from  their  friends.  If  it  were  needful 
that  Dr.  Morell  fhould  tranflate  a  Greek  paffage  *  for 
Hogiulh,  how  chanced  it  that  our  artift  Ihould  wane 
to  apply  wh:it  he  did  not  previoufly  underftand  ?  I 
nuift   add,   that  the  feniimenis,    puhlilhcd   by  the 

•  Wheresb'iuts  is  thit  tranflaiion  of  a  Cnek  paflHge  to  bs 
found  in  ihe  AnalyQi  ?     It  may   have  efcaped  my  Jia.lv   re-  I 


i 


frarchea. 


Rtviewi^. 


I 


rvtewer  concerning  thefe  /fnecdotes,  bear  no  rcfetn- 
blaiicc  to  the  opinion  circulated  by  tlie  cavillers  with 
whom  he  appears  to  have  had  a  remote  connexion. 
The  patties  who  fumiflied  every  circumftance  on 
which  he  founds  his  reiterated  charges  of  error  and 
mtfin formation^  are  not  unknown.  Ever  fince  this 
little  work  was  edited,  the  people  ibout  Mrs.  Ho- 
garth have  paid  their  court  to  her  by  decrying  it  as 
**  low,  ftupid,  or  falfe,"  without  the  Jlighteft  ac- 
knowledgement for  the  fums  of  money  it  has  con- 
duded  to  The  Golden  Head  in  Leicefier  Fields.  While 
the  talents  of  the  writer  alone  were  queftioned  by 
fuch  inadequate  judges  of  literary  merit,  a  defence 
on  his  part  was  quite  unneceflary.  He  has  waited, 
however,  with  impatience  for  an  opportunity  of 
making  fome  reply  to  their  groundlefs  rcAeftions  on 
his  veracity.  This  purpofe  he  flatters  himfelf  will 
have  been  completely  executed  after  he  has  ob- 
ferved  that  all  credentials  relative  to  his  difputed 
aflertion  (hall  be  ready  (as  they  arc  at  this  moment) 
for  the  Reviewer's  iufpeftion.  J.  N.  cannot  indeed 
difmifs  his  prcfent  advertifement  without  obferving, 
that  though  the  amiable  partialities  of  a  wife  may 
apologize  for  any  contradiction  fuggcftcd  by  Mrs. 
Hogarth  hcrfelf,  the  EngHJb  language  is  not  ftrong 
enough  to  cxprcfs  the  contempt  he  feels  in  regard 
to  The  accumulated  ceafure  both  of  her  male  and 
her  female  ParaCtes.  y.  N, 

iSW.  I,  1782. 


C  vu  2 


Advertisement  to  the  first  Edition* 

WHEN  this  pamphlet  was  undertaken,  the 
Author  had  no  thought  of  fwelling  it  to  it's  prefcnt 
bulk ;  but  communicating  his  defign  to  his  friends, 
they  favoured  him  with  various  particulars  of  in- 
formation. Some  of  thefe  accommodated  themfelves 
to  his  original  plan,  if  he  can  be  luppofed  to  have 
had  any,  but  others  were  more  intradable.  Still 
aware  of  the  value  even  of  disjointed  materials,  which 
his  profeffion  would  not  afford  him  leifure  to  com- 
pad  into  a  regular  narrative,  and  confcious  that  thefe 
fheets,  rude  and  imperfedt  as  they  are,  may  ferve  to 
promote  a  publication  Icfs  unworthy  of  its  fubjedt, 
he  difmifTes  his  prefent  work  without  any  laboured 
apology  for  the  errors  that  may  be  detedted  in  it ; 
claiming,  indeed,  fome  merit  on  account  of  intelli- 
gence, but  not  the  leaft  on  the  fcore  of  arrangement 
or  compofition.  He  takes  the  fame  opportunity  to 
obferve,  that  many  curious  anecdotes  of  extraordi- 
nary perfons  have  been  unfortunately  loft,  becaufc 
the  pofleflbrs  of  thofe  fugitive  particulars  had  not 
the  power  of  communicating  them  in  proper  form, 
or  polilhed  language,  and  were  unwilling  to  expofe 
them  in  fuch  a  ftate  as  thefe  are  offered  to  the  world. 


Ah^  9,  1 78 1. 


a  4  The 


\ 


The  ingenious  Mr.  Crayen  of  Leipzig  hav- 
ing tranflated  theFirft  Edition  of  thcfe  Anec- 
dotes, &c.  into  the  German  Language,  dif- 
patched  a  copy  of  his  work  to  y.  N.  attended 
by  the  obliging  letter  here  fubjoined  : 

SIR, 
THOUGH  I  have  not  the  honour  of  being 
acquainted  with  you,  I  hope  your  goodnefs  will  ex- 
cufc  the  liberty  I  take  of  fending  you  a  German 
tranilaiion  of  the  Biographical  Aiiccdetes  of  Mr.  Ho- 
garth you  published.  Being  convinced  of  the  merits 
of  your  produdlion,  and  its  ufefulnefs  to  fuch  col- 
Icflors  of  prints  and  connoiflcurs  in  our  country  as 
don't  undcrftand  the  En^lijb  language,  I  undertook 
this  tranllation,  and  flatter  myfelf  you  will  be 
pleafed  to  accept  of  it  as  a  proof  of  my  real  efteem 
for  you. 

You  will  find,  that  I  did  not  always  adhere  lite- 
rally to  the  original,  but  made  fomc  abridgments, 
alterations,  notes,  &c.  &c.  But  I  hope  you  will  do 
me  the  juftice  to  confider,  that  I  wrote  for  my  coun- 
trymen, and  therefore  left  out  fuch  palTages,  poems, 
anecdotes, 


i 


[    ix    ]  

anecdotes,  &c.  $cc.  as  would  have  been  entirely  tin* 
inrerefting  to  them,  and  have  fwelled  the  volume  to 
no  purpofe. 

As  to  the  typographical  performance,  I  think  you 
will  be  tolerably  laclsfied  of  it.  Though  the  noble 
art  of  printing  is  of  Gennan  origin,  your  nation  has 
improved  and  brought  it  to  the  higheft  pitch  of 
perfection  in  point  of  neatnefs,  elegance,  and  cor- 
reftncfs. 

I  remain,  with  all  pofEble  efteem. 

Sir,- 
Your  moft  obedient 


Leipzig  in  Saxony, 
the  i^rhjan,  1783. 


and  mofl  humble  fervant, 

A.  CRAVEN, 


t  X  ] 


1E  following  are  Tranflattons,  by  a  Friend^ 
from  the  Dedication  and  Preface  to 
Mr.  Cr  A  yen's  performance. 


I 


D  E  D  I  C.A  T  I  O  N. 


To  Mr.  Gottfried  Winkler,  in  Leipzig. 

Honoured  and  Worthy  Friend, 

PARDON  my  prcfumption  in  offering  you  the 
llcnder  fruit  of  a  few  leifure  hours.  Receive  it  with 
your  wonted  kindnefs,  and  judge  of  it  not  by  the 
trifling  value  of  the  work,  but  by  ihe  intention  of  its 
Author,  whofe  moft  zealous  wifli  has  long  been  to 
find  an  opportunity  of  publickly  offering  yon,  how- 
ever fmail,  a  memorial  of  his  rcfpeit  and  friend- 
fhlp. 

If  my  labour  in  adding  a  mite  towards  the  diffu- 
fion  of  the  knowledge  of  the  Arts,  is  honoured  with 
the  approbation  of  fo  enlightened  a  Connoilfeur,  I 
Ihall  feel  myfelf  completely  rewarded. 

Receive 


J 


[     li     ] 

Receive  at  the  fame  time  my  fincereft  thanks  for 
the  obliging  communication  of  your  Copy  of  Ho- 
garth's prints,  of  which,  in  my  translation,  I  have 
more  than  once  availed  myfelf. 

Live,  honoured  Sir,  many  days ;  happy  in  the 
bofom  of  your  worthy  family,  in  the  circle  of  your 
friends,  and  in  ihe  enjoyment  of  thofe  treafures  of 
the  Arts  you  have  coliefled  with  fuch  diftingui&ed 
U&e.     Remain  alfo  a  friend  of 


Yours,  &c. 


The  Translator, 


PREFACE. 


To  the  GzRMAS  Reader. 


COIXECTORS  of  the  Fioc  Am  were  already 
polleircil  ot  Catdsguts  and  Mfxoires  Raijonaees  of  the 
engraving!  of  many  great  maflers,  for  which  their 
ackno'A'lcdgemenis  are  due  to  the  iaduflry  of  a 
Ger/aint,  ijemiert,  a  Hec^uet,  a  VtrtiUf  i  dc  tf^attTf 
&c.  Sec 

But  a  fimilar  illuftralion  of  Hosarth's  copper- 
plates was  ftill  wanting;  though  it  may  be  aflied 
what  works  have  a  juftcr  claim  to  a  diflinguifticd 
place  in  a  compleat  collcdion,  than  thole  of  this 
inflruftive  moral  painter,  this  creative  genius  ? 

On  this  account,  it  ts  prefumed  that  the  German 
Lover  of  the  Arts  will  deem  himfelf  indebted  to 
the  T(anflator,  for  giving  him,  in  his  own  tongue, 
a  concife  and  faithful  verfton  of  a  book  that  has 
lately  made  its  appearance  in  London,  under  the 
title  of  "  Biographical  Anecdotes  of  fl'.  Hcgarth, 
**  and  a  Catalogue  of  bis  Works  chronologically  ar- 
*'  ranged." 

7  The 


< 


I 


The  Compiler  as  well  as  Editor  of  this  work  h 
Mr.  John  Nichols,  a  PriHler  and  Bvekfvlltr  m 
/,'/«</,)»,  who,  bymuch  reading,  and  an  intimate  ac- 
quaintance with  the  Arts  and  Literature  of  his 
Country,  has  honourably  diftinguiflied  himfelf  a- 
mong  his  profeffional  brethren.  Ho'k  modeftly  he 
himfelf  judges  of  this  his  ufeful  performance,  ap- 
pears from  hia  preface  to  the  work. 

It  is  true,  Mr.  Ko:!ack  Walpolr,  who  pofll-ffes 
perhaps  the  comple-itcrt  collection  of  the  prinrs  of 
this  Marter,  fomc  years  ago  publitlied  a  Catalogue 
of  them  -,  but  this  is  only  to  be  found  in  his  work, 
intituled,  "'  Anecdotes  of  Puitilhg  in  Eng'.j >uf  coUeiied 
*•  by  G.  Vcrtui;,  and  ■publijktd  by  U.  WalpUi"  a  per- 
formance confifting  of  four  volumes  in  410,  too 
coltly  for  many  collcflors,  and  inconvenient  foj 
others.  Moreover  all  that  is  to  be  found  there  re- 
lative to  Hogarth,  is  not  only  included  in  Mr. 
Nichh'i  publication,  but  is  alfo  improved  by  confi- 
derable  additions,  fo  that  the  curious  reader  has  H^al- 
pole's  Catalogue  incorporated  with  the  prefent  wotk. 

The  liberty  of  abridgement,  as  mentioned  in  thft- 
title,  is  venrurcd  only  in  regard  to  fuch  diflufe  illuf- 
trations,  repetitions,  anecdotes,  and  local  flories,  as 
would  be  alone  intcrcfting  to  an  Etiglijhman;  in  a  word, 
in  fuch  parts  as  do  not  immediately  contribute  to 
the  illuftration  of  Hogarth's  plates,  and  would  have 
tired  the  patience  of  the  Gtrman  reader.  Of  the  verfe* 
affixed  to  each  copper-plate  the  firft  and  laft  words 
only  are  given,  as  thofe  afford  fufficient  indication 

for 


I 


for  a  coUeilor  who  wiftics  to  become  acquainted 
wirh  any  particular  print.  How  far  fome  remarks 
of  the  TranQator  are  ufcful,  or  otherwife,  is  left  fo 
the  indulgent  decifion  of  Judges  in  the  Arts. 

He  ttiuft  not  however  forget  it  is  his  duty  to  ac- 
knowledge the  goodnefs  of  old  "Mr.  Hansen  of 
Ltipjig.  fhis  gentleman's  readinel's  in  permitting 
him  to  examine  his  excellent  colleftion  of  the  en- 
gravings of  5r//;yl&  artifts,  for  the  purpofe  of  com- 
paring and  illuftrati:ig  fcveral  paffigcs  in  the  origi- 
nal of  this  work,  claims  his  warmefl  thanks,  and  a 
public  acknowledgement. 


I 


Lelpfi^,  February  1783. 


The  Translator. 


c 

17]         ^^^1 

■■     Lift  of  Gentlemen,   Artifts,  &c.  who  furniflied  in-  ^^| 

V         cidental  intelligence 

0  the  Author  of  this  WorL     ^H 

Mr.  Afiiby- 

Mrs.  LfztrV.                        ^H 

Mr.  Baftre. 

Mr.  Lh'ify.                       ^M 

l\Tr.  Baynes. 

Dr.  I:r<.                  ^^^H 

Mr.  5^/fA<.v— dead. 

Mr.  Lym.             ^^^H 

Mr.  Bindley. 

^^^^H 

Mr.  Birch. 

Mr.  Malme.           ^^^^^^H 

Mr.  Bt^wle. 

Dr.  Mmkbtufi.                  ^H 

Mr.  Braiibiiiaite, 

Or.  Mrc/J— dead.              ^H 

Mr    Bro'^ning. 

Mr.  Morrifnn.                       ^^H 

Lord  C:\>rlcmont. 

Mr.  Pink'erton,                   ^H 

Mr.  CbarUon. 

Mr.  RjT»fr.                         ^^| 

Mr.  Os/f — dead. 

Mr.  '-'»•/.                          ^H 

Mr.  Ce/wan. 

Sir  7i>yi™  RtynMs.             ^H 

Mr.  a.vf. 

Mr.  Riihards.                   ^^H 

Mr.  nojpy. 

Mr.  K^rrj— dead.             ^H 

Pr.  Ducaiel — dead. 

Mr.  Ru';.;f>                         ^^H 

Mr.  Duncembe, 

Mr.  5/et-rf/ir.                   ]^^| 

Mr.  Edwards. 

Mr.  T^^nf.                      ^^H 

Mr.  Fsrrtf/?— dead. 

Mr.  -Thuma!.                     ^H 

Mr.  f<f/7f.— dead. 

Mr.  7rrr.                        ^H 

Mr.  Goodifon, 

Mr.  WMrm.                  ^H 

Mrs.  GoJ/ing. 

Mr.  H'sttcr.                      ^H 

Mr.  Gmp*. 

Mr.  7.  C.  fKi/i<r.              ^H 

Mr.  «„//. 

Mr.  Pl',,/;;^.                      ^H 

Sir  >/'«  Hawkins, 

Dr.  Warton,                        ^H 

Mr.  Hendtr/on, 

Mr.  »f'o>                            ^B 

Mrs.  Hogarth. 

Mr.  (F./tS— dead.            ^H 

Dr.  i/ttn/fr— dead. 

Mr.  Wbalily.                     ^H 

Mr.  ^.  /;-f/a«</. 

Mr.  A.  H^rr.                     ^1 

pr.  JoAn/o/j— dead 

Mr.  H.  IVbiie.                   ^M 

Mr.  A'fjj/f. 

Mr.  IVilkei.                         ^H 

Eilhop  of  A'//(?/«. 

Mr.  l\'ili'iams.                    ^^^ 

Mr.  Lans. 

Dr.  Hrif*(.                        ^B 

COL- 

COLLECTORS  of  HOGARTH. 

Mr.  Ayton  *. 
Mr.  Bedford, 
Mr.  Bellamy. 
Mr.  Clare. 
Mr.  Crickitt. 

Dr.  DuCAREL-f-. 

Lord  Exeter. 

Mr,  Foster  J. 

Mr.  GooDisoN. 

Mr.  GuLSToN. 

Sir  John  Hawkins,  K'. 

Mr.  Henderson  |j. 

Mr.  Ireland. 

Dr.  LoRT. 

Mr.  Morrison. 

Mr.  Rogers  $. 

Mr,  Steevens. 

Mr.  Walpole. 

Mr.  WiNDHAMf. 

•  Hit  collection  wa»  cut  up,  and  fold  at  Dicki«feB*s,  Nn» 
Stnd  Street. 

f  Died  May  it),  178;.  His  colleflion  devDlrcs  to  hia  Nephew 
snd  Heir,  Mr.  Ddcarel,  lately  retumeii  from  The  Eafi  JitJm, 

J  Died  Oa.  3,  178J.  His-Jinproved  culleaion  fold  at  Bar- 
ferj't  auflion  rooms,  laic  Langforifs,  March  4,  1783,  for 
jf.  105.     Mr.  Crickitt  was  tlicPiirchafcr. 

II  Mr.  H^NDEKsoH  fold  his  colle^ion  lo  Sir  Jdhk  Elliot 
for/.  116.  in  AfTtlx-fi^. 

^  Died  January  a,  1784.     Hii  collci^ioti  remaliH  with  hia 


Ktphew  and  Heir,  Mr.  Coi 


.F.S.A. 


fl  The  Right  Hon.  mUiam  ffuidbam,  M.  P.  for  Ntrw!cb. 

Extrad 


[    xvii    3 

Extrad  from  the  Daily  Advertiser^ 

January  27,  I783# 


^  HOGARTH'S  ORIGINAL  WORKS. 

^'  AS  an  opinion  generally  prevail?,  that  the  genuine 
impreffions  of  HogartVs  works  are  very  bad,  and  the 
plates  retouched  ;  Mrs.  Hogarth  is  under  the  neceffity 
of  acquainting  the  public  in  general,  and  the  ad- 
mirers of  her  deccafed  hufband's  works  in  particular, 
that  it  has  been  owin^  to  a  want  of  proper  attention 
in  the  conducing  this  work  for  fome  years  paft,  that 
the  imprefions  in  general  have  not  done  juftice  to 
the  condition  of  the  plates ;  and  fhe  has  requefted 
fome  gentlemen  moft  eminent  in  the  art  of  engrav- 
ing/ to  infpei^  the  plates,  wiio  have  given  the  fol- 

lowing  opinion ; 

^  London^  Jan.  21,  1783. 

**  We,  whofe  names  are  underwritten,  having  care- 
fully examined  the  copper-plates  publilhed  by  the 
late  Mr.  Hogarth^  are  fully  convinced  that  they  hf  viJ 
Slot  been  retouched  lince  hU  death. 

FRANCIS  BARTOLOZZI. 
WM.  WOOLLET*. 

WM.  WYNNE  RYLAND  + 

*  Died  Miy  23,  1785. 

+  Executed  ^</^., 29,  lySj, 

b  "  N.  B. 


>  .. 


[     xviii     ] 

'  N.  B.  All*  the  original  works  arc  now  properly 
and  well  printeJ,  and  to  be  had  of  Mrs.  Hogarth,  at 
her  houfe  at  The  Golden  Head,  in  Leicefter-FUldi." 

This  is  one  of  the  mod  extraordinary  tcftimonials 
ieverla\d  before  the  public.  Hogarth  died  in  1764. 
Since  [hat  time  his  plates  have  been  injudicioufly 
and  unmercifully  worked,  fo  as  to  leave  no  means 
of  afcertaining,  through  any  obfcrvaiion  or  proccfs 
of  art,  the  exa£t  period  when  they  were  laft  repair- 
qd.  Notwithftanding  this  difficulty,  in  the  year 
1783,  we  6nd  feveral  engravers  of  eminence  declar- 
ing their  full  conviftlon  on  the  fubjeft.  All  we  can 
do  is.  to  fuppofc  their  confidence  was  grounded  on 
the  veracity  of  Mrs.  Hcgarth.  1  believe  the  parties 
as  to  the  h€t ;  and  yet  It  was  impoffiblc  for  Meflieurs 
B.  W.  and  R.  to  be  adequate  judges  of  the  truth  to 
which  they  have  fct  iheir  names  as  witnefles. 

*  By  *'  *//  ihe  original  works,"  Mrj.  tjegarih  mean*  only 
fuch  plates  as  arc  in  her  pniTcllion.  See  page  xx,  where  a  great 
munbcr  of  others,  equally  original,  are  tounil. 


Prin»J 


fnnU  fmiii/k J fylAr.  Hog AKTU:  GenuimlmfnJlums*  tf  which 
tfr« /tf  3^  ^tf^tf/ Mrs.  Hog  AR  T  u*8 //<»j^ /«  Leiccfler  Fields,  1 782. 
Size  of  the  Plates  1. 

16^  Inches  by  14  Frootifpiece 


s. 


XSJ  by  111 
16  by  14 

18  by  15 

19  by  15I 
l6|  by  13 
t8|  by  1^ 
16  by  14 
x6  by  14 
18  by  14 
^o|  by  i6| 
18  by  II 
2o\  by  16 
Ditto, 
aoi  by  i6f 
22  by  17 
Ditto, 
Ditto, 

19I  by  12 
14  by  io| 
14  by  9 
lof  by  8§ 
12  by8i 

14  by  io| 
.9  by.  8 
6il)y  7f 
12  by  8| 

15  by  13 
Ditto, 

I J  by  ijj 
Ditto, 
9  by  8 
17  by  13 
i2by9f 
12I  by  9 
xo  by  IX 
9by7| 


Harlot's  Progrefs,  fix  prints  x 

Rake's  Progrefs,  eight  prints  2 

Marriage  a-la-mode,  fix  prints  x 

Four  Trmes  of  the  Day,  font  prints  x 

Before  and  After,  two  prints  o 

Midnight  Converfation  o 

DidrefsM  Poet  o 

Enraged  Muficiaa  o 

Seuthwark  Fair  o 

Cinrrick  \n  Y.\ug  RicbarJ  111.  o 

Calais^  or  theRoaft  Beef  of  Old  England  o 

Paul  before  Felix  o 

Ditto,  with  Alterations  o 

M^es  brought  to  Pharaah^s  Daughter  o 

Mar,ch  to  Finchky  o 

Strolling  AdrelTes  drefling  in  a  Barn  o 

Four  Prints  of  an  Ele^on  2 

Bi(bop  of  Winchejier  o 

Idlenefs  and  Induftry,  X2  prints  o 

Lord  Lovat  o 

Sleeping  Congregation  o 

Conn  try -Inn  Yard  o 

Paul  before  Felix^  Remirani  o 

Various  Characters  of  Heads  o 

Cotumhus  breaking  the  ^gg  o 

The  Bench  o 

Beer  Street  and  Gin  Lane^  two  prints  o 

■  Four  Stages  of  Cruelty,  four  prints  o 

Two  Prints  of  an  Invafion  o 

A  Cock  Match  o 

The  Five  Orders  of  Periwig?  o 

The  Medley  o 

The  Times  o 

JVilkes  o 

Bruifcr  o 

Finis  o 


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o 
o 

o 
6 
o 

o 
o 
o 
o 

o 
6 
o 
6 
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6 
6 
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6 
o 
o 
o 
o 
o 
o 
6 
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6 
o 
o 
o 
o 
o 
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If^B,  Any  perfon  purchalingthe  whole  together  ipav  have  them  de- 
livered bound,  at  the  Price  of  Thirteen  Guineas ;  a  iufiicient  Margin 
will  be  left  for  framing.— The  Analysis  of  Beauty,  in  Quarto, 
may  alfobe  had,  with  two  explanatory  Prints,  Price  15  Shillings. 

#  Cnuint  laDpreflions— ]  Qgery^tbe  meaniogof  fuch  an  epithet  in  this  place  ? 

b  Z  Cre- 


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Crediie  Po/lerU 

In  the  years  1781, 1782, &c.  the  following  Pieces  of  Hog  ah  th 
are  known  to  have  been  fold  at  the  prices  annexed. 


Lord  B(^e.  5 

Charmcn  of  the  Age«  5 

Bootby  fyUhf  &c.  5 

DifGOvcry.  3 

Altar-piece,  i 

Bich'j  Gfory.  4 

Btaver^i  Military  Pun.  3 

Biack^$/ilti  Figures.  i 

Boyt  peeping,  &c.  i 

Jpniiius,  I 

B€tr  Stnet  wkh  Vartat.  1 

X>arge  Hudibrms.  ,5 

Inarch  to  FincbUy  Aq. 

F.  Proof.  % 

Do.    fini(baly    without 

letters.  $ 

Feaoon.  R<  for  Kicb,  III.  i 
Power  of  AttT.  f.  Hofp,  1 
Orator  HiniQ.  i 

VttPgtKS. 

WTich. 

Jacobite's  Journal. 
Jiutitb  and  Hokpbtrtiii, 
Smrab  Malcolm. 
Larse  Mafquerade. 
Small,  lirfi  impreflioD. 
Scots  Opera. 
Woman  fweariog,  &c. 
Lady  Btrom, 
Hogarti  with  Dof 
Do.  Serjeant  Painter. 
Do.  icratchcd  over. 
Pirjeui  and  Amdromida. 
Firft  Diftrcft  Poet. 
Do.  Enraged  Muficiau. 
idMraye. 

Beoch,  61ft  fifipreinon. 
Bxrlingtn  GaU, 


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4 

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16 

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Samcko  at  Dinner.  i 

Firft  Eicdion.  3 

Fair.  1 

Farmer's  Return.  o 

GuUivtr.  o 

Hin.ym.^nAA.BulUmi 
//tfirrar^yproof  imprelDon.  i 
Hfgarib,  Eng'  ,Shop  Bill .  i 

o 
o 


2 
1 

2 
a 


Montt. 

Fine. 

Coat  of  Arms,  Sir   G. 

Fagtt  &c. 
Times,  6rft  impreiCoQ. 
Mafterof  the  Vineyard. 
rurk*s  Head. 
Harlot's  Progrcfs,  firft 

impreffioQ,  red.  10 

Marriage  Alasnode.  3 
Rake's  Progrefs.  4 

Four  Times »  2 

Prentices,  I  ft  impreffion.  4 
£le£(ions,  ift  impreftion.  6 
Gmrrick  in  Ricb.  III.  1 
Gate  of  Calais^  o 

Pmul  hurlefaticd,  i 

Scrolling  Aorcfles.  1 

Three  additional  Prints 

to  BemvfT^  ice.  1 

MUward'j  Ticket.  4 

Mulic     introduced     te 

Amelia.  I 

MarttM  /'#/<lir/,meziociatoo 
SpiUer's  Ticket.  5 

Two  Plates  to  MiUoK,  % 
Front ifpiece    to   Livt' 

ridg**s  Songs.  t 

Concert.      St,    Marys 

Chapel.  5 


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HOGARTH. 


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HOGARTH. 

THIS  gf eat  and  original  Genius  is  faid  by  Dr« 
Burn^  to  have  been  the  defccndant  of  a  family 
originally  from  Kirkby  Thore^  in  Wefimor eland :  and  I 
am  affured  that  his  grandfather  was  a  plain  yeoman, 
who  poffefled  a  fmall  tenement  in  the  vale  of  Bomp^ 
toiij  a  village  about  15  miles  North  of  KenJal^  in 
that  county.  He  had  three  fons.  The  eldeft  affifted 
his  father  in  farmings  and  fucceeded  to  his  little  free- 
hold. The  fecond  fettled  in  Troutbeck^  a  village 
eight  miles  North  Weft  of  Kendaly  and  was  remar- 
kable for  his  talent  at  provincial  poetry  -f*.     The 

third, 

*  Hiftory  of  Weftmor eland ^  Vol.  I.  p.  479. 

t  "  I  muil  leave  you  to  the  annals  of  Fanne/*  fays  Mr# 
V<Atr^  the  ingenious  Lciflurer  on  Natural  Philofophy,  who 
flavoured  me  with  thefe  particulars,  *'  for  the  reft  of  the 
**  anecdotes  of  this  great  Genius  ;  and  fiiall  endeavour  to 
"  flicwyou,  that  his  family  pofTefTed  fimilar  talents,  but  they 
"  were  deftined,  like  the  wild  rofe, 

•  To  wiifte  their  fweetnefs  in  the  defart  air.* 
"  Happy  (hould  I  be  to  refcue  from  oblivion  the  name  of  Aid 
*^  Hogart^  whofc  fongs  and  quibbles  have  fo  often  deligh fd 
**  my  childhood  !  Thefe  fimple  llrains  of  this  mountain  Tl^etf 
"  crltus  were  fabricated  while  he  Jield  the  plough,  or  was 
"  leading  his  fewel  from  the  hills.  He  was  as  critical  an  ob- 
**  ferver  of  nature  as  his  nephew,  for  the  narrov/  ticld  he  had 
"  to  view  her  in  :  not  an  incident  or  an  abfurdity  in  tlie  ncigh- 
**  bourhood  efcaped  him.  If  any  one  was  hardy  ■  •.  ugh  to 
"  break  through  any  decorum  of  old  and  eil^iblilhed  repute  ; 

B  ''  if 


C   «   ] 

third,  educated  at  St.  Bee's^  who  had  kept  a  fchool 
in  the  fame  county,  and  appears  to  have  a  man  of 

ibme 

**  if  any  one  attempted  to  orcr-rcach  his  neighbour,  or  caft  a 
^  leering  trye  ar  his  wife;  he  was  fuie  to  heir  himfeif  fiing 
*•  oirer  the  whole  parifli,  nay,  to  the  very  boundaries  of  the 
**  ffrfimcnJaMj  d\2L\c^  \  to  that  his  fongs  were  faid  to  have  a 
**  greater  effed  on  tbe  manners  of  his  neighbourhood,  than 
•*  even  the  Urmons  of  the  parfon  himfeif. 

**  But  his  poeiical  talents  were  not  confined  to  the  tneidentf 
**  of  his  village.  1  myfeif  have  had  the  honour  to  bear  a 
**  part  in  one  of  his  plays  (1  fay  onff  for  there  are  fcvcral  of 
**  chem  extant  in  MS.  ia  the  mountains  of  Weftmorelamd  at  this 
•*  hour).  This  plfy  was  called  «  The  Deftmaion  of  Tr^/ 
*'  It  was  written  in  metre,  much  in  the  manoer  of  Lofex  de 
**^yega^  or  the  ancient /V^iwifr  drama;  the  unities  were  not 
too  (Iriflly  obferved,  for  the  iiege  of  ten  years  was  all  re* 
prefented  ;  every  hero  was  in  the  piece  ;  fo  that  the  Dra-^ 
matis  Pcricnz  confined  cf  every  lad  of  genius  in  the  whole 
pariQi.  The  wooden  horfe — HeHor  dragged  by  the  heels— 
•*  the  fury  of  DUmed- — the  flight  of  JEneas — and  the  burning 
*•  of  the  city,  were  all  reprefented.  1  remember  aot  what 
*^  Fairies  had  to  do  in  all  this  ;  but  as  1  happened  to  be  about 
*^  three  fret  high  at  the  time  of  this  flill-talkcd-of  exhibition^ 
I  perfonatcd  one  of  theie  tiny  beings.  The  flage  was  a  fa- 
brication of  boards  placed  about  fix  feet  high,  on  ftrong. 
•*  pofts  I  the  green -re  cm  was  partitioned  off  with  the  fame 
**•  marei  iais ;  it*s  cidir;g  was  the  azure  canopy  of  heaven ; 
'*  and  the  boxes,  pit,  and  galleries,  were  laid  into  one  by  the 
•*  Great  Author  of  Nature,  for  they  were  the  green  (lope  of 
**  a  fine  hill.  Dcf^ifc  not,  rc^ider,  this  humble  flate  of  the 
••  provincial  drama  ;  let  me  tell  you,  there  were  more  fpeAa- 
*•  tors,  for  thice  days  together,  than  your  three  theatres  itt 
**  J,ct.tLM  would  hold  ;  and  let  me  add,  flill  movt  to  your 
cont'i.ficn,  that  you  never  law  an  audience  half  fo*  wdX- 
plcoicd. 

Tne  exhihirion  was  bctpm  with  a  grand  pfoceilio!),  fronv 
"  the  villapc  to  a  great  fti^ne  (dropt  by  the  Devil  about  a: 
•*  quarter  of  a  mile  off,  when  he  tried  in  vain  to  ered  ar 
•*  bridge  acrofs  Jflndfrarrr  ;  fo  the  people,  unlike  the  reft  of 
•*  the  world,  have  remained  a  ven*  good  fort  of  people  evef 


Cft 


\ 


ibftic  learning,  went  earjy  to  London^  'whete  he  fci 
liimed  hi^  original  dcciipatidii  of  a  fcHooI-inaffer  iii 

••  fiocQ.  1  hf  the  proceffion  was  Ifcgnn  by.  tKe  mitiftrcU  or 
•*  five panfhcs,  and  were  followed  by  a  yeoman  on  b,ull-bac]c 
"  — jron  ftare  ! — ftop  then  tilf  I  Jnforttf  you  tHzt  this  adept 
*/  had  fofaf  civil ifed  h'is  bull,  that  he  wbUld  fuffcrihe ycomaif 
^  tooDpudt  his  back,  arid  even  to  play  upon  his  £ddle  there* 
**  The  inarlagers  befought  Hiixi  to  join  theprocefliofl;  but  th<5 
**  bully  not  being  accuftomed  to  n)ujt:h  company;  ani^  parti*' 
"  cularly  f6  miicK  applaufe  ;  whether  he  was  intoxicated  witfaf 

)i\  of 


...       P' 

'*  tail,  andv  like  another  Earofd^  cafried  o^  th^  affrighted 
^  yeoman  and  his  .fiddle,  over  hedge  and  ditch  ^  till  he  arrived 
'*  at  his  own*  field. .  This  accideift  rathe^  infiam6d>  than  de-! 
"  pnelled  the  good  humour  ariOd^  itoiH  the  proceffion  |  and. 
**  t&  clown,  of  jack-pud^ing  of  the  pieces  aVaifc^  himfelf 
I  ib  well  of  ttM  incident,^  tb'it  the  lunss  arid  fibs  of  t6e  fpec* 
**  tators  we^  in  m'snlfeft  danger^    This  chara^ef  was  the 

V  inoft  i^hpoHan't  perfonage  iti  the  whole  {>lay  t  ibr  his  office: 
**  was  to  tufif  the  nioft  ferious  parts  of  the'  drama  itxto  bur- 

V  ie^iue  and  ridicule:  he  was  acbt^pound  of  Harle^ium  and 

V  the  Merry  Andrew,  of  father  the  Arch- fool  oif  our  ancient 
**  kings.  His  drefs  was  a  white  jacket,'  covered  wfth  bulls^' 
**.  bear8,  birtfs,  fifli/  &c.  put  in  various  coloured  cloth;  .  Hia 

V  trowfefs  were  decorated*  in  like  manner,  afld  huiig'  rounc( 
*.*  with  imall  bells  ;  and  his  pap  was  that  of  Folly,*  decorated 
*.*  with  bell8j'  aid  an  otter's  brufh  impendmg.  The  lath  f^Vord 
?  muft  be  of  gfeat  afitiquity  iti  this  liland,'  for  it  has  beea 
^  the  appendage  of  a  jack-pudding  ib  the  rnbuhtains  (Si  Weft* 
**  mreldnd  time  but  of  mind. 

"  The  play  was  opened  by  Chfs  chara^ef  with  a  lorig^ 
I!  which'  an^eted  the  double  pufpofe  of  a  ptay-bill  and  k 
^*  prologue^  for  his  ditty  ga^e  the  audience  aforetafte  of  th^ 

V  hieful  incident!  they  were  abdtft  fo  behofd ; ,  and  it  Called 

V  out  the  adtors/  one  by  on'e,'  t<j'  lihakc  the  fpcrators  ac-. 
'*  quatnt^d  with  their  names  ana  6hafa6!efs^'  v^alkhig  found 
7  and  routid  till  the  whole  J>ramatfs  Ferfboai  rtfiaid^  one  great 
•*  tflfefclt  on  the  ftagc.     Thie  audience  being*  thus  become  a*^-;^ 

if  X  *<  quaih^cd 


[  4  :i 

Ship-Court  in  The  Old  Bailey,  and  was  occafionally 
employed  as  a  corredkor  of  the  prcfs.  A  Latin  let- 
ter, from  Mr.  Richard  Hogarth,  in  1697  (preferved 
among  the  MSS.  in  The  Britijb  Mufeum,  N®  4^77* 
50.)  relates  to  a  book  which  had  been  printed  . 
with  great  expedition.  But  the  letter  fhall  fpeak  for 
itfelf*. 

A  Diftio- 

**  quaintcd  with  the  aftors,  the  play  opened  with  Far'n  run- 
^*  ningaway  with  Hglen^  and  Menelaus  fcampering  after  them; 
•*  then  followed  the  death  of  Patroclus^  the   rage  of  Achilles^ 
**  the  pcrfuafions  of  UlyJJes^  &c.  &c.  and  the  whole  interlarded 
*^  with  apt  fongs,  both  ferious  and  comic,  all  the  produ6tioa 
**  of  Aid  Hogaru     The  bard,  however,  at  this  time  had  been 
**  dead  fome  years,"  and  I  believe  this  F^te  was  a  Jubilee  to 
'^  his  memory  ;  but  let  it  not  detract  from  the  invention  of 
**  Mr.  Garrick^  to  fay  that  his  at  Stratford  was  but  a  copy  of 
**  one  forty  years  ago  on  the  banks  of  Windirmere*     Was  it 
**  any  improvement,  think  yon,  to  introduce  feveral  hulls  into 
**  the  proceffion  inflead  of  one?  But  I  love  not  comparifons, 
•*  and  fo  conclude.     Yours,  &c.  Adam  Walker.** 

However  Aid  Hogard  might  have  fucceeded  in  the  dramatic 
line,  and  before  a  rudic  audience,  his  poems  of  a  different 
form  are  every  way  contemptible.  Want  of  grammar,  metre, 
fenfe,  and  decency,  are  their  invariable  chara^teriftics.  This 
opinion  is  founded  on  a  thorough  examination  of  a  whole 
bundle  of  them,  tranfmitted  by  a  friend  fince  the  firft  publi- . 
cation  of  this  work. 

*  **  Vir  Clariflime,  ExcuiTo  Malplghto  intra  fcx  vel  pluri- 
^^  mumfeptemfeptimanas  tetamen  per  totuminconfulco,  culpa 
**  eft  in  Bibliopolam  confercnda,  qui  adeo  fedinanter  urgebat 
**  opus  ut  moras  nedtere  nequivimus,  Utiit  fit,  tamen  mihimet 
**  adulor  inc  fatis  refte  authoris  &  verba  &  men  tern  cepiiTe 
**  (diligenter  cnim  no^cs  atque  dies  opere  incubui  ne  tibi  vei 
*'  ulH  rcgiorum  tuorum  fodalium  molellus  forem).  Rudiora 
^*  tamen  (quorum  fpecimen  infra  exhibcre  placuit)  &  Italico* 
•*  Latina^  juxta  prxceptnm  tuurii,  fmlVa  feci ,  aliter  fi  fccif- 
^*  fern,  totus  fere  liNer  mutationem  futiiiTet.  Authorem  tarn 
**  pueriiiter  &  barbare  loquentem  nuoquam  aotehac  evolvi  quod 

*^  memioerim; 


[    5    ] 

A  Didionary  in  Latin  and  Englifi,  which  he 
compofcd  for  the  ufe  of  fchools  *,  ftill  exifts  in  MS. 
He  married  in  London ;  and  our  Hero^  and  his  filters 
ISarj  and  Anne,  are  believed  to  have  been  the  only 
produft  of  the  marriage. 

William  Hogarth  •f-  is  faid  (under  the  article 
TflORNHiLL  in  the  Biographia  Britannica)  to  have 

been 

'*  meminerim  ;  faciat  ergo  lector,  ut  folent  nautse,  qui  dum 
**  foctetaqua,  nares  pilillkndo  comprimunty  fpretis  enim  verbis 
^  fenfoni,  fi  quis  ell,  attendat.  Multa  (infinita  poen^  dixerim) 
'*  authoris  errata  emendavi,  qusedam  tamen  non  animadveria 
"  vercor;  Augea  enim  ftabulum  non  nili  Hercules  rcpurgavit. 
**  Partem  Italico  fermone  confcriptara  praetermitto,  iftam  enim 
"  provinciam  adornare  fufccpit  Do£^or  Prageftee  Italus  ;  quamt 
**  bene  rem  geffit,  ipfe  viderit.  Menda  Typographica,  fpero, 
'*  aut  nulla,  aut  levia  apparebunt.  Tuam  tamen  &  Regiae 
"  Societatis  cenfuram  exoptat  Bicilem,  Tibi  omni  iludio  ad- 
'^  didiffimus, 

"  RicHARDUs  Hogarth,  .....  Preli  Curator." 

*  He  publiflied  "  Grammar  Difputations ;  or,  an  Exami« 

"nation  of  the  eight  parts  of  fpeech  by  way  of  queftion  and 

"  anfwer,  Englijb  and  Latin^  whereby  children  in  a  very  little 

"  time  will  learn,   not  only  the  knowledge  of  grammar,  but 

**  likewife  to  fpeak  and  write  Latin ;  as  I  have  found  by  good 

"  experience.     At  the  end  is  added  a  Ihort  Chronological  in- 

"  dex  of  men  and  things  of  the  greateft  note,  alphabetically 

**  digefled,  chiefly  relating  to  the  Sacred  and  Roman  Hillory, 

**  from  the  beginning  of  the  World,  to  the  Year  of  Chrift 

**  1640,  and  downwards.  Written  for  the  ufe  of  fchools  of 

*^  Great-Britain^    by  Richard  Hogarth   Schoolmailer,    1712.'* 

This  little  book  has  alfo  a  Latin  title-page  to  the  fame  pur» 

pofe,  "  Difputationes  Grammaticales,  &c.'*  and  is  dedicated, 

"  Scholarchis,  Ludimagiftris,  et  Hyfodidafcalis  Magna  Btitan^ 

^'nia.'' 

t  Hdgart  was  the  family  name,  probably  a  corruption  of 
Hogberd^  for  the  latter  is  more  like  the  local  proaunciatioa 
than  the  fii  ft.  This  name  difguftcd  Mrs,  Hogart ;  and  before 
the  birib  of  her  fon,  (he  prevailed  upon  her  huiband  to  liquify 

B  3  it 


C  6  3 

\)ccn  hQvn  in  |(Jg8,  ij)  the  parifh  pf  St.  Bartboh^ 
piew  ♦,  London^  to  which  parifh,  it  is  added,  he 
was  afterwards  ^  bencfaftor.  The  outfej  of  his  life, 
Jiowcver,  was  unpromifing.  ^f  He  was  bound/'  fay^ 
Mn  Wa^oUy  **  to  a  mean  engraver  of  arm^  on  plate.'^ 
Hogarth  probably  chofe  this  occupatioa,  as  it  re- 
quired fome  ikill  in  drawings  to  which  his  geniu^ 
vvas  particularly  turned^  and  which  he  contrived 
affiduoufly  to  cultivate.  His  pi^fler,  it  fince  ap^ 
pearsj  was  Mr.  EUis  Gamble ^  a  iilyerfniith  of  cmi- 
iiencp,  who  refided  in  Cranbmrn-Jlreet ^  Leicefterifields. 
In  this  pfofeffion  it  is  not  unufual  to  bind  appren- 
tices to  the  fingle  branch  of  engraving  arms  and 
cyphers  on  every  fpecies  qf  metal ;  and  in  that  par^ 
ticular  department  of  the  bufinefs  young  Hogarth 
yiz^  placed  f  \  f*  but^  before  bis  time  was  expired^ 

4 

it  into  Hefiftib.  Thif  circumfiance  was  told  to  roe  by  Mr.  ^W- 
1/r,  who  ii  a  native  of  HyimarilanJ.     By  Dr.  MoreO^  I  waa 

infbrmed  that  hit  real  naroe  was  Ho^0rj^  or  Hogardi  which 
lirofelf  altered^  by  c(iaDging  d  into  9,  the  Saxon  tb. 

'^  On  what  authority  this  is  (aid,  I  am  yet  to  learn.  The 
resiflers  of  Si*  Barthohmew  the  Greats  and  of  St.  Barthohmew 
ibe  Ixfs^  have  both  beep  fearched  for  the  fan>e  information 
with  fhiiticfs  folicitude.  The  fchool  of  Hegartb^s  father,  in 
jyia,  was  in  the  panih  of  J/.  MartU^s  Ludgate.  In  the  rcgillcr 
of  that  parifh,  therefore,  the  births  gf  bis  chilclrcu|  and  hit 
own  dca;n,  may  probibly  b^  found  t« 

4  f  his  circumdance  has,  fince  it  was  firft  written,  beeq 
reniied  by  >  gentleman  who  has  often  heard  a  fimiUr  account 
^rom  one  of  the  Imjl  IJtmd  Jffjt^'Mtifi^s  at  Goldfiniibs-Hall^  who 
^as  i^pprentice  to  a  GlveKmith  in  the  fame  ftreet  witH  Hegartb^ 
And  intiinatc  with  him  during  the  great^ft  pairt'of  his  life. 

}  Tb«  rtgiAcr  gf  St,  iU^rimU  Ltu^sHt  hu  alfo  been  fearched  to 

me  purpofc.         '  


[73 

^  lie  felt  the  irapulfc  of  genius,  and  that  it  dircfltcd 
**  iim  to  painting." 

During  his  apprenticelhip,  he  fet  out  one  Sunday^. 
with  two  or  three  companions,  on  an  excurfion  to 
Wibgate.  The  weather  being  hot,  they  went  into 
a  public-h6ufe,  where  they  had  not  been  long,  be- 
fore a  quarrel  arofc  between  fome  perfons  in  the 
feme  room.  One  of  the  difputaius  ftruck  the  other 
00  thfc  bead  with  a  quart  pot,  and  cut  him  very 
mucht  The  blood  running  down  the  man's  face, 
together  with  the  agony  of  the  wound,  which  had 
diftorted  })is  features  into  a  mod  hideous  grin,  pre- 
fentcd  Hogarthf  who  ihewed  himfelf  thus  early 
"  apprifed  ©f  the  mode  Nature  had  intended  he 
^'  ihould  purfue,*'  with  too  laughable  a  fu"bjed  to 
be  oviprlooked*  He  drew  out  his  pencil,  and  pro- 
duced on  the  fpot  one  of  the  mod  ludicrous  figures 
that  ever  was  feen.  What  .rendered  this  piece  the 
more  valuable  was,  that  it  exhibited  an  exaft  like- 
ncfs  of  the  man,  with  the  portrait  of  his  antagonift, 
and  the  figures  in  caricature  of  the  principal  perfons 
gathered  round  him.  This  anecdote  was  furniflied 
by  one  of  his  fellow  apprentices  then  prefent,  a 
pcrfon  of  indifputable  charadcr,  and  who  continued 
his  intimacy  with  Hogarth  long  after  ihey  both  grew 
Dp  into  manhood. 

^^  His  apprenticelhip  was  no  fooner  expired/*  fays 
Mr.  Walpole^  ^*  than  he  entered  into  the  academy  in 
♦^  St^  Martinis  Lane,  and  ftudied  drawing  from  the 
"  life,  in  which  he  never  attained  to  great  excel- 

B  4  **  leiice. 


C    8    ] 

'^  lencc.  It  was  charaftcr,  the  paffions^  the  foul, 
*'  that  his  genius  was  given  him  to  copy.  In  co- 
••  louring  he  proved  no  greater  a  maftcr  :  his  force 
*'  lay  in  cxprcflion,  not  in  tints  and  chiaro  fcuro/* 

To  a  man  who  by  indefatigable  induftry  and  un- 
common ftrength  of  genius  has  been  the  artificer  of 
his  own  fame  and  fortune,  it  can  be  no  reproach  to 
have  it  faid  that  at  one  period  he  was  not  rich.     It 
has  been  aflerted,  and  we  believe  with  good  founda- 
tion, that  the  fkill  and  afliduity  of  Hogarth  were, 
even  in  his  fervitude,  a  fingular  affiftance  to  his  own 
family,  and   to  that   of  his  maftcr.     It  happened, 
however,  that  when  he  was  firft  out  of  his  time,  he 
certainly  was  poor.     The  ambition  of  indigence  is 
ever  produdtive  of  diftrcfs.     So  it  fared  with  Ho^ 
garthy  who,  while  he  was  furnifhing  himfclf  with 
materials  for  fubfequcnt  perfcdlion,  felt  all  the  con- 
tem-»t  which  penury  could  produce.    Being  one  day 
diftrcircd  to  raife  fo  trifliPig  a  fum  as  twenty  (hillings, 
in  order  to  be  revenged  of  his  landlady,  who  ftrove 
to  compel  him  to  payment,  he  drew  her  as  ugly  as 
pofliblc,  and  in  that  fingle  portrait  gave  marks  o^ 
the  dawn  of  fupcrior  genius  *•     This  ftory  I  had 
once  fuppoled  lo  be  founded  on  certainty  ;  but  fince, 
on  other  authority,  have  been  aflurcd,  that  had  fuch 
an  accident  ever  happened  to  him,  he  would  uQt 
have  failed  to  talk  of  it  afterwards,  as  he  was  always 

*  Ufiivcifil  Mufciim,  1764.  p.  549.  The  fame  kind  of 
revenge,  however,  wis  t.ikcn  by  F'cnio^  who,  on  the  cieling  of 
St.  George*s  Hall  at  M'lndfor^  bDrrowcd  the  face  of  hirs^  Man iot^ 
the  houlckecpcr,  for  one  of  the  Furies. 

fond 
3 


C  9  3 

fend  of  contraftiDg  the  necefSties  of  his  youth  with^ 
the  affluence  of  his  ipaturer  age.  He  has  been  heard- 
to  fay  of  hiinfelf,  "  I  remember  the  time  when  I 
"  have  gone  moping  into  the  city  with  fcarce  a  IhiU 
**  ling  in  my  pocket ;  but  as  foon  as  I  had  received 
*^  ten  guineas  there  for  a  plate,  I  have  returned 
*'  home,  put  on  my  fword,  and  fallied  out  again, 
<<  with  all  the  confidence  of  a  man  who  had  tea 
'^  thoufand  .pounds  in  his  pocket/'  Let  me  add, 
that  my  firft  authority  may  be  to  the  full  as  good 
as  my  fecond. 

How  long  he  continued  in  obfcurity  we  cannot 
exa&ly  learn  ;  but  the  firA  piece  in  which  he  diflin* 
guiflied  himfelf  as  a  painter,  is  fuppofed  to  have  been 
a  reprefentation  of  Wanftead  Ajfembly  *.  In  this  arc 
introduced  portraits  of  the  firft  earl  Tylneyf  his  lady, 
their  children,  tenants,  &c.  The  faces  were  laid' 
to  be  extremely  like,  and  the  colouring  is  rather  bet- 
ter than  in  fome  of  his  late  and  more  highly  finilhed 
performances. 

From  the  date  of  the  earlieO:  plate  that  can  be  af* 
certained  to  be  the  work  of  Hogarth,  it  may  be  pre- 

4 

*  This  picture  is  noticed  in  the  article  ^hornhiU^  in  the  Bio* 
gruphia  Britanniea^  where,  inftead  of  Wanftead^  it  it  called 
the  Wandfworth  aflembly.  There  feems  to  be  a  referentc  to 
it  in  *'  A  Poetical  Epihfc  to  Mr.  Hogarth^  anenoinent  Hiftory 
♦*  and  Convcrfation  Painter,"  written  \ViJune  1730,  and  pub- 
liQied  by  the  author  (Mr.  Mitchell)^  with  two  other  epidles, 
in  1 73 1,  4to. 

**  Large  families  obey  your  hand  ; 

**  AJftmhlies  rife  at  your  comipand.'* 
Mr.  Hogarth  defigned  that  year  the  frontifpiece  to  Mr.  Mt* 
cheWs  Operai  tbi  Highland  Clans. 

fumed 


t      .0      ] 

began  ballnefs,  on  his  otk 
at  leaft  as  early  as  the  year  1720. 

His  firft  employment  fccms  to  have  been  the  en- 
gnrring  of  arms  and  fhop-bills.  The  next  ftcp  was 
to  defign  and  furniih  plates  ft>r  bookfcUers  ;  and 
here  we  are  fortunately  fapplied  with  dares  *'.  Thir- 
teen folio  prints,  with  his  name  to  each,  appeared 
in  "  Auhry  dc  la  Motraye's  Travels,"  in  1723; 
feven  fmaller  prints  for  **  Jpufeius'  Golden  Afs" 
in  1724  ;  fifteen  head-pieces  to  "  Beazur't  Military 
*'  Punifhments  of  the  Ancients,'*  and  five  frontjf^ 
^eces  for  the  tranflation  of  Lajfandra,  i  n  five  vol  umcs, 
12°,  1725;  fevcntcen  cuts  for  a  duodecimo  edition 
of  Hudibras  (with  5tf;/fr'j  head)  in  17:61  two  for 
*'  Perfeus  and  Andromeda,"  in  1730;  two  for  Milton 
[the  date  uncertain];  and  a  variety  of  others  be^ 
|ween  1726  and  1733. 

"  No  fymptom  of  genius,"  fays  Mr.  WalfoU^ 
**  dawned  in  thofc  plates.  His  Hudibras  was  the  firrt 
*'  of  his  works  that  marked  him  as  a  man  above  the 
**  common;  yet,  what  made  him  then  noticed,  now 
*'  furprifes  us,  to  find  fo  litlle  humour  in  an  undcr- 
*'  taking  fo  congenial  to  his  talents." — It  is  certain 
that  he  often  lamented  to  his  friends  the  having  parted 
with  his  property  in  the  prints  of  the  large  Hudibras, 
without  ever  having  had  an  opportunity  to  improve 
them.  They  were  purcliafcd  by  Mr.  Philip  Overton  f, 


i 


particular  account  will  be  given  ia, 
+  Brotht-r   to  Hmry  Ovrrtta,  ihe  well-Vnown  publillier  of  ' 


•  Of  all  thefe  1  more 
e  Catalngne  annexed. 


«i4irMry  ptin 


affi\aitSi.Sffa\l„ti  Churchy 


E  "   3 

jff  The  Gulden  £u€k,  near  St.  Dunjlar^s  Church  in  Fkef-^ 
Stnet ;  and  ftill  remain  in  the  pq^ei&pn  of  his  fuc? 
f eflor  Mr.  Siofer* 

Mr.  Bowles  at  the  Slacjk  Hcr/e  \n  Ccrnbill  was  one 
pf  his  earlieft  patrpiis.  I  hac)  j^een  told  that  he 
bought  nwny  a  pla^e  from  Hogarth  by  the  weight  of 
the  copper ;  but  am  only  certain  that  (hi^  occurrence 
happened  in  a  fingle  in|[lanc(?,  when  the  ^Ider  Mr. 
Bowles  of  St.  Paul's  Churfh^yard  offered^  oyer  a 
lK)ttle9  half  a  crown  a  pound  for  a  plate  juft  thet^ 
^Qppleted*  Tt^i3  circuo^ftance  was  within  the  know^ 
)edge  of  Dr.  DucareL-r-Qvx  irtift's  next  friend  in  tha^ 
jine  was  Mr.  Philip  OvertM^  who  paid  him  a  fpm^-^ 
)vhat  better  price  fojf  his  labour  and  ingenuity. 

Whfsn  }fl,r.  Walpole  fpcaks*  of  Hogartb^s.  early  per* 
formances^  he  phferves,  that  they  pfe  pot  above  the 
labours  pf  the  people  who  are  generally  employe4 
})y  bookfellers.  Left  any  reader  ^ould  inadvertently 
fuppofe  this  candid  writer  deiigned  the  minuteft  re* 
flection  pn  thqfe  artifts  to  whpm  the  decoration  of 
modern  volumes  is  confided,  it  is-  neceffary  to  ob- 
ferve,  that  his  apcqunt  of  Hogarth,  &c.  was  printed 
pff  abqve  teq  years  ago,  before  the  qames  of  Cipriani^ 
Angelica^  Bartolozzi^  Sherwin,  apd  Mortimer  were 
found  at  jhe  bottom  of  any  plates  defigned  for  the 
prnament  of  poems,  or  dramatic  pieces. 

^*  On  the  fuccefsj  however,  qf  thqfe  plates/-  Mr.  • 
1/Falpple  fays^  "  he  commenced  painter,  a  painter  of 

9nd  fold  many  of  Hogarth* s  early  pieces  coarfcly  popjed,  as  has 
i|inc^  been  done  by  DUey  in  Bayj  CJ^urcb-yard^ 

'  *f  portraits  J 


[       12      ] 

**  portraits ;  the  mod  ill-fuited  employment  imagi- 
•*  nable  to  a  man  whofe  turn  certainly  was  not  flat- 
*^  tery,  nor  his  talent  adapted  to  look  on  vanity 
<^  v^ichout  a  fneer.     Ycc  his  facility  in  catching  a 
*'  likenefs^  and  the  method  he  chofe  of  painting  fa- 
**  milies  and  converfations  in  fmall,  then  a  novelty, 
**  drew  him  prodigious  bufinefs  for  fomc  time.     It 
*^  did  not  laft^  either  from  his  applying  to  the  real 
**  bent  of  his  difpofition,  or  from  his  cuftomers  ap- 
^^  prehending  that  a  fatirift  was  too  formidable  a 
**  confeflbr  for  the  devotees  of  fclf-love/*    There 
arc  Hill  many  family  pidures  by  Mr.  Hogarth  cxift- 
iog,  in  the  flyle  of  ferious  converfation-pieces.     He 
was  not  however  lucky  in  all  his  refemblances,  and 
has  fometimes  failed  where  a  crowd  of  other  artifls 
have  fucceeded.    The  whole-length  of  Mr.  Gar  rid 
fitting  at  a  table,  with  his  wife  behind  him  taking 
the  pen  out  of  his  hand  *,  confers  no  honour  on  the 
painter  or  the  perfons  reprefcnted  "f-.     He  has  cer- 
tainly mifled  the  charadter  of  our  late  Rofcius^s  coun- 
tenance while  undidurbed  by  paffion  ;  but  was  more 
lucky  in  feizing  his  features  when   aggravated  by 
terror,  as  in  the  tent  fcenc  of  King  hicbard  III.     It 
is  by  no  means  aftoniftiing,  that  the  elegant  fymmetry 
of  Mrs.  Garrick's  form  ihould  have  evaded  the  efforts 

*  This  conceit  is  borrowed  from  yanho^i  picture  of  Cottey 
Qhherj  whofe  daughter  has  the  fjimc  cmjjioymcnt. 

t  It  appears  that  Mr.  C.  was  diflatisficd  wi'h  his  likencfs, 
or  that  fome  difpute  arofe  between  him  and  the  painicr,  who 
then  llruck  his  pencil  acrofs  the  face,  and  damaged  it.  The 
pifhire  was  unpaid  for  at  the  time  of  his  death.  His  widow 
then  fent  it  home  to  Mr.  Garrici^  without  any  demand. 

of 


E   '3  3 

of  ooeto  whofe  ideas  la  baffe  nature  was  more  faml* 
liar  tban  the  grace  infeparable  from  thofe  who  have 
been  educated  in  higher  life.  His  talents^  therefore, 
could  do  little  juftice  to  a  pupil  of  Lady  Burlington. 

What  the  prices  of  his  portraits  were,   I    have 
ft'ove  in  vain  to  difcover ;  but  fufpedt  they  were  ori- 
ginally very  low,  as  the  people  who  are  beft  ac* 
9!Uainted  with  them  chufe  to  be  filent  on  that  fubjed. 

In  the  Bee,  vol.  V.  p.  552.'  and  alfo  in  the  Gen- 
tleman's Magazine,  vol.  IV.  p.  269.  are  the  following 
Vcrfcs  to  Mr.  Hogarth,  on  Mifs  Fs  pidure,  1734. 

*'  To  Chloe*s  pifture  you  fuch  likenefs  give. 
The  animated  canvas  feems  to  live ; 
The  tender  breafts  with  wanton  heavings  move. 
And  the  ibft  fparkling  cyeS  infpire  with  love  2  J 
While  I  furvey  each  feature  o*er  and  o'er, 
I  turn  Idolater y  and  paint  adore  : 
Fondly  I  here  can  gaze  without  a  fear. 
That,  Chloe,  to  my  love  you'd  grow  fcvere ; 
That  in  your  Piilure,  as  in  Life,  you'd  turn 
Your  eyes  away,  and  kill  me  with  your  fcorn  : 
No,  here  at  leaft  with  tranfport  I  can  fee 
Your  eyes  with  foftnefs  languilhing  on  me. 
While,  Ch/oe,  this  I  boaft,  with  fcornful  heart 
Nor  ralhly  cenfure  Hogarth,  or  his  art. 
Who  all  your  Charms  in  ftrongeft  Light  has  laid. 
And  kindly  thrown  your  Pride  and  Scorn  injhade.'^ 

At  Rivenhall,  in  EJfex,  the  feat  of  Mr.  Wejlern^ 
is  a  family  pidure,  by  Hogarth,  of  Mr.  fp^cjlern 
and  his  mother  (who  was  a  daughter  of  Sir  Anthony 

Shirley), 


I 


C     H    ] 

thlr}ey\  Chancellor  Hoadly,  Archdeacon  Clarkf 
Plumptre,  the  Rct.  Mr.  Cole  of  Milton  near  Cam- 
bridg£t  and  Mr;  Henry  Taylor  the  curate  there  ♦,  1 736; 

In  the  gallery  Of  the  late  Mr.  Cole  6f  Afiltcn,  wai 
a!fo  a  fmal!  whole-length  picture  of  Mr.  Wejiern  -f-,  by 
Hogarth,  a  (Iriking  refctnbUncc.  He  is  drawn  fitting 
in  his  Fellow -Commoner's  habit,  and  fquarc  cap 
with  a  gold  taflelj  in  his  chamber  at  Cbre  Hall, 
o\'cr  the  arch  towards  the  ri\Tr  ;  and  our  aftifl,  as  the 
chimney  could  i^pt  be  exprcifcd,  has  drawn  a  cat 
ficting  near  izj  agreesbtc  to  his  humour^  to  fliew  the 
fituatioDi 

*'  When  I  fat  ib  him,"  fays  Mr.  Qilt,  "  near  fifty 
"  years  ago,  the  cuflom  of  giving  vailS  to  fervant< 
*'  was  not  difcontinacd.  On  my  taking  leave  of  our 
"  painter  at  the  door,  and  his  fervant's  opening  i^ 
*'  or  the  coach  door,  I  Cannot  tell  which,  I  offered 
'*  him  a  fmall  gratuhy  ;  bnt  the  man  very  politely 
*'  refufed  it,  telling  me  it  would  be  as  much  as  the 
"  lofs  of  his  place,  if  his  matter  knew  it.  This  warf 
**  fo  uncommon,  dnd  fo  liberal  in  a  man  of  Mr.  i7c- 
"  garth'}  profcflion  at  that  time  of  day,  that  it  much' 
"  ftruck  me^  as  nothing  of  the  fort  had  happened 
''  to  me  before.'' 

*  Afterwafdi  rrftor  of  Crawty  in  HaifrfJ^irr  j  author  0^ 
''  Btit  Mardtfai'i  LetTcs,"  ■'  Confufion   worfc  confouiided, 
aad  many  oiher  celrbrated  worki. 

f  He  died  of  ihe  ftnaji-pox,  Alig.  i»,  1719,  and  it  faid," 
ih  the  '*  Politieal  btnic,"  to  have  poffcffcd  5000I.  a  year.' 
He  married  a  fiOcr  of  lord  Balrmaa^  by  whom  he  left  a  foa' 
waAvna  daugh»r>,' 


« 
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t    iS    ) 

tt  was  likewife  Mr.  Hogarth's  quftom  to  iketcd  dAt 
the  fpot  any  remarkable  face  which  particularly 
Uruck  him,  and  of  which  he  wilhed  to  preferve  the 
remembrance.  A  gentleman  ilill  living  informs  toe, 
tlxat  being  once  with  our  painter  a,t  the  Bedford 
Oqffee-boufey  he  obiierved  him  to  draw  fomeihiqg^ 
^^ith  a  pencil  on  his  naiU  Enquiring  what  had  bccit 
hi3  employment^  he  was  fliewn  the  countenance  (a 
whimfical  one)  of  a  perfon  who  was  then  at  a  (imall 
^iftance. 

It  happened  in  the  early  part  of  HogattVs  life^ 
that  a  nobleifiah,  who  was  uncommonly  ugly  and 
^efarmed^  came  to  fit  to  him  for  his.  pi&ure.  It  was 
Executed  with  a  ikill  that  did  honour  to  the  artift's 
abilities ;  but  the  likenefs  was  rigidly  obferved,  with^ 
Cut  even  the  neceffary  attention  to  compHm.ent  oif 
flattery.  The  peer>  difgufled  at  this  counterpart  o£ 
his  dear  felf,  never  once  thought  of  payiiig  for  a  re'^ 
fleAor  that  would  only  infult  him  with  his  deformities.* 
Some  time  was  fuffered  to  elapfe  before  the  artift  ap* 
plied  fot  his  money  j  but  afterwards  many  applica^ 
tions  were  made  by  him^  (who  had  then  no  need  of  ^ 
banker)  for  payment,  without  fuccefs.  The  painter^ 
however,  at  laft  hit  upon  an  expedient,  which  hef 
knew  mull  alarm  the  nobleman's  pride,  and  by  that 
means  anfwer  his  purpofe.  It  was  couched  in  the 
following  card : 

•*  Mr.  Hogarth's  dutiful  refpefls  to  Lor^  ti>m  ;. 
^  finding  that  he  does  not  mean  to  have  the  pifture 
••  whiahi  was  drawn  for  him/  is  informed  again  of 


'*  Mr.  Ks  netfeffity  for  the  money  j  if,  thcfcfortf, 
**  his  lordfliip  docs  not  fend  for  it  in  three  days,  it 
wjll  be  difpofed  of,  ^  with  the  addition  of  a  tail, 
and  fome  'other  little  appendages,  to  Mr.  HarCy 
*^  the  famous  wild-beaft  man ;  Mr.  H.  having  given 
*'  that  gentleman  a  conditional  promife  of  it  for  an 
**  exhibition -pidure,  on  his  lordfliip's  refufal.** 

This  intimation  had  the  defired  effedt.  The  pic- 
ture was  fent  home,  and  committed  to  the  flames. 

To  the  other  anecdotes  of  this  comic  Painter  may 
be  added  the  following.  Its  authenticity  mull  apo- 
logize for  its  want  of  other  merit 

A  certain  old  Nobleman,  not  remarkably  gene- 
rous, having  fent  for  Ho^rarth,  defired  he  would  re- 
prefent,  in  one  of  the  compartments  on  a  ftaircafe, 
Pharaoh  and  his  Hoft  drowned  in  the  Red  Sea ;  but 
at  the  fame  time  gave  our  artift  to  underftand,  that 
no  great  price  would  be  given  for  his  performance. 
Ho^irth  agreed.  Soon  after,  he  waited  on  his  cm- 
plover  for  payment,  who  feeing  that  the  fpace  al- 
lotted for  the  pidure  had  only  been  daubed  over 
with  red,  declared  he  had  no  idea  of  paying  a  pain- 
ter when  he  had  proceeded  no  further  than  to  lay 
his  ground.  *'  Grcun  !  faid  Hogarth,  there  is  no 
grouyid  in  the  cafe,  my  lord.  The  red  you  perceive, 
is  the  Red  Sea,  Pharaoh  and  his  Hoft  are  drowned 
as  you  defir  d,  and  cannot  be  made  objedts  of  Cght, 
for  the  ocean  cowts  then  all.*' 

Mr.  Walpole  has  remarked,  that  if  our  artift  "  in- 
*^  dulr;fd  his  fpirit  of  ridicule  in  ]  crlonalities,  it 
**  never  procLeded  beyond  fketches  and  drawing^,** 

and 


and  wonders  ^'  that  he  never,  witjKyti^^fi^^  If  ^ 

"  livcrcd  the  very  features  of  anyftakntical  perfon.^nL  !| 
But  this  elegant  writer,  who  may|h|fij^^^y  Kavp  re. 
ccived  hisT  education  in  a  Courts 
opportunities  of  acquaintance  among  the  low  popular 
cbaraderi  with  which  Hogarth  occafionally  peopled 
bis  fccncs  ♦.  The  Friend  to  whom  I  owe  this  re- 
mark  was  afTured  by  an  ancient  gentleman  of  unqueC* 
tionable  veracity  and  acutenefs  of  obfervation,  that  al- 
moft  all  the  perfonages  who  attend  the  levee  of  the 
Rake  were  undoubted  portraits  ;  and  that,  in  South- 
vjork  Fair  and  the  Madem  Midnight  Converfatiorty  as 
many  more  were  difcovcrable.  In  the  former  plate 
he  pointed  out  EJfex  the  dancing*maker ;  and  in  the 
latter,  as  well  as  in  the  fecond  plate  to  the  Rak^s 
Fiopefsy  Figg  the  prize-fighter -f.  He  mentioned 
fcYcral  others  by  name,  from  his  immediate  know- 
ledge both  of  the  painter's  defign  and  the  charafters 
rcprcfcnted  j  but  the  reft  of  the  particulars,  by  which 
hefupported  his  affertions,  have  efcaped  the  memory 
of  my  informant,  I  am  alfo  affured,  that  while  Ho^ 
garth  was  painting  the  Rakers  Progrefsj  he  had  a 
fummcr  refidence  at  IJleworth ;  and  never  failed  to 
queftion  the  company  who  came  to  fee  thefe  pic- 
^rcs,  if  they  knew  for  whom  one  or  another  figure 

*  I  have  heard  that  he  continually  took  iketches  from  na- 
ture as  he  met  with  them,  and  put  them  into  his  works  -,  and 
'^  is  natural  to  fuppofe  he  did  fo. 

t  Sec  the  Catalogue  at  the  end  of  thefe  Anecdotef.  A 
^^ry  coofiderable  number  of  perfonalitics  are  there  pointed 
out  under  the  account  of  each  plate  in  which  they  ar«  found. 

C  was 


was  dcfigocd.    When  they  guefled  wrong,  be  fee 
them  right. 

Mr«  fVdlpoIe  has  a  iketch  in  oil,  given  to  him  by 
Hogartbj  who  intended  to  engrave  it.  It  was  done 
at  the  time  when  the  Houfe  of  Commons  appointed 
a  committee  to  inquire  into  the  cruelties  exercifed  on 
prifoners  in  the  The  Fleeiy  to  extort  money  from  them. 
•*  The  fcene,**  he  fays,  **  is  the  committee ;  on  the 
"  table  are  the  infti  umcnts  of  torture.  A  prifoner 
**  in  rags,  half-ftarved,  appears  before  them;  the 
''  poor  man  has  a  good  countenance,  that  adds  to 
**  the  interefl.  On  the  other  hand  is  the  inhuman 
*'  gaoler.  It  is  the  very  figure  that  Sahator  Roja 
*'  would  have  drawn  for  hgo  in  the  moment  of  de- 
"  tedtion.  Villainy,  fear,  and  confcience,  are  mixed 
*'  in  yellow  and  livid  on  his  countenance ;  his  lips 
"  are  contracted  by  tremor,  his  face  advances  as 
eager  to  lie»  his  legs  ftep  back  as  thinking  to 
make  his  cfcape ;  one  hand  is  thruft  precipitately 
•*  into  his  bofom,  the  fingers  of  the  other  arc  catch- 
*'  ing  uncertainly  at  his  button-holes.  If  this  was  a 
'*  portrait,  it  is  the  moil  ftriking  thit  ever  was 
**  drawn  ;  if  it  was  not,  it  is  ftili  finer.**  1  he  por- 
trait was  that  of  Batnbridge  *  the  warden   of  The 

Fleet  I 

♦  The  late  Mr  CoU^  of  Milun.  in  his  copy  of  thcfe  Me- 
moirs, had  written  againll  the  name  of  Bambridge^  **  Father 
**  to  the  late  attorney  of  that  name,  a  worthy  fon  of  fucb  a 
"  father.  He  lived  at  Camhridgi^^  And  in  a  copy  of  the 
(iH^  edition,  on  occafion  of  a  note  (afterwards  withdrawn) 
which  mentioned  *'  Mr.  Bakn'*s  having  quarrelled  with 
•*  JIcarnc\*  Mr.  G^/f  wrote,  **  Mr.  ^^/t/r  quarrelled  with  no 

**  man  \ 


C  i9  3 

FIteti  and  the  (ketch  wa^  taken  in  the  beginning  of 
the  jear  1729,  vthen^Bufnbridgf  an4  .ttigpn^  (hi3 
|)rcdeceilbr  *)  were  under  eqcamination.  Both  were 
declared  ^^  notorioufly  guilty  of  great  breaches  of 
''  tnift^  extortions,  cruelties,  and  other  high  crimes 
'*  and  miiUemea&ojs  ;**  both  were  fent  to  Newgate ; 
VkI  Bambridge  w^s  difqualified  by  a&  of  parliament  f. 
The  fon  %  ^^  Huggins  was  pofiefled  of  9  valuable 

painting 

'*  man  :  he  might  coolly  debate  with  Mr.  Hcame  on  a  difpu* 
*  table  point.  It  is,  therefore,  a  mifreprefentation  of  Mr. 
*'  Aubr^i  private  character,  agreeable  to  the  petulance  of 
"  this  age." 

*  Tbe  wardenihip  of  The  Fleets  a  patent  office,  was  pur* 
tha&d  of  the  earl  of  Clarctulonj  for  5000  /•  by  John  Huggins^ 
eiq.  who  was  in  high  favour  with  Sunderland  and  Craggs^  and 
eoAfeqoently  obnoxious  to  their  fucceiTors.  Huggins^s  term  in 
the  patent  was  for  his  own  life  and  his  fon's.  But,  xnAugufi 
Z7>^  being  far  advanced  in  years,  and  his  fon  not  caring  to 
take  upon  him  fo  troublefome  an  office,  he  fold  their  term  in 
the  patent  for  the  fame  fum  it  had  coft  him,  to  Tfjomas  Bam- 
Wi^  and  Dongal  CuthBert,     Muggins  lived  to  the  age  of  90. 

t  Mr.  Rayner^  in  his  reading  on  Stat.  2  Geo^  II.  chap.  32. 
thereby  Bantbridge  was  incapacitated  to  enjoy  the  office  of 
warden  of  The  Fket^  has  given  the  reader  a  very  circumflantiai 
account,  with  remarks,  on  the  notorious  breaches  of  truil,  &c. 
Committed  by  Bamhridge  and  other  keepers  of  Tbe  Fktt-Frifon. 
For  this  publication,  fee  /^^rr^rj  Bibliotheca  Legum  byBrooke^ 
1777^  p.  16. 

**'  A  report  from  the  Committee  appointed  to  enquire  into 
**  the  State  of  the  Gaols  of  this  Kingdom,  relating  to  the 
*'  Afarjba^a  prifon ;  with  the  Refolutions  of  the  Houfe  of 
**  Commons  thereupon,"  was  publilhed  in  4to.  1729;  and 
reprinted  in  8vo,  at  Dublin  the  fame  year*  It  appears  by  a 
MS.  note  of  Old^s^  cited  in  Britijb  Topography^  vol.  I.  p.  636, 
that  Bambridge  cut  his  throat  20  years  after. 

t    IVilUmm  Muggins^  efq.  of  Heudly  Parh^  Hants^  welMcnowtl 
hf  his  tranllation  of  the  Orlando  Furiofo  of  Ariojlo.     Being  tn« 

C  2  tended 


C  *<*  ] 

painting  from  this  Iketch,  and  alfo  of  a  fcene  in  the 
BeggOr*!  Opera  ;  both  of  them  full  of  real  portraits. 
On  the  c'ifperfion  of  his  effedts,  the  latter  was  pur- 
chafed  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Monkhoufc  of  Siueerts  College^ 
Oxford.  It  is  in  a  gilt  frame,  with  a  buft  of  Gay  at 
the  top,  It*s  companion,  whofe  prcfent  pofleflbr  I 
have  not  been  able  to  trace  out,  had,  in  like  man- 
ner, that  of  Sir  F;vf;/r// P/Tf^,  one  of  the  judges,  re- 
markable for  his  feverity  *  j  with  a  halter  round  his 
neck. 

The 

tended  for  holy  orders,  he  was  Tent  to  Ma^tlakn  CoUrge^  Ox* 
ford^  where  he  took  the  degree  of  M.  A.  April  30,  1761  ; 
biit,  on  the  death  of  his  elder  brother  in  17^6,  declined  all 
thoughts  of  entering  into  the  church  He  died  July  2,  1761  ; 
and  left  in  MS.  a  tragedy,  a  farce,  and  a  tranfiation  oi  Dante ^ 
of  uhich  a  fpecimen  was  publifhed  in  the  Briiijh  Maga^ 
z'ncy  1760.  Some  flattering  vcrfes  were  addrefled  to  him 
in  1757,  on  his  verfion  of  jirioftoi  which  arc  preferved  in 
the  Gentleman* s  Ma^azine^  vol.  XXVII.  p.  180;  but  are  not 
worth  copying.  The  lart  Mr.  Muggins  left  an  ellatc  of  2000 L 
a  year  to  his  two  fons-in-law  Thomas  Gatehouft^  Efq;  and  Dr. 
Mttfgrave  of  (  hinnpr, 

*  Sir  Francis  Page* i  *?  Charaftcr,"  by  Savage^  thus  gibbets 
him  to  public  deteil.ition : 

"  Fair  Truth,  in  courts  where  Jullice  fliould  prefidc, 
'*  Alike  the  Judge  and  Advocate  would  guide  ; 
**  And  thcfc  would  vie  each  dubious  point  to  clear, 
**  To  flop  the  widow's  and  the  orphan's  tear  ; 
••  Were  all,  like  Torke*^  of  delicate  addrefs^ 
**  Strength  to  difcern,  and  fwcctnefs  to  exprefs, 
*•  Learn'd,  juft,  polite,  bom  every  heart  to  gain, 
*'  Like  Comyns  f  mild  ;  like  Forte/cm  %  humane, 

^  Sir  Philip  Yerhe,  chief  juflice  of  the  King's  Bench,  afterwards  lord- 
chancellor  sni!  carl  Hardwicke. 

f  Sir  John  Comyns,  chief  baron  of  the  Exchequer. 

I  Hon.  It^illiamFortefcMe,  then  one  of  the  juftices  of  the  court  of  Com- 
mon Pleasi  atterwaidi  miller  of  the  Rolls. 

"  All- 


C   "   3 

The  Duke  of  L^^(//  has  alfo  an  original  fcene  in 
the  Star's  Opera,  painted  by  Hogarth.  It  is  that  in 

which 

• 

"  All-cloquent  of  truth,  divinely  Icnown, 
**  So  deep,  fo  clear,  all  Science  is  his  own. 

**  Of  licart  impure,  and  impotent  of  head, 
**  In  hiftory,  rhetoric,  ethics,  law,  unread  ; 
•*  How  far  unlike  fuch  worthier,  once  a  drudge, 
"  From  floundering  in  low  cafes,  rofe  a  Judge. 
^*  Form'd  to  noake  pleaders  laugh,  his  nonfenfe  thunders, 
**  And  on  low  juries  breathes  contagious  blunders. 
•*  His  brothers  blufh,  becaufe  no  bhiih  he  knows, 
**  Nor  e'er  *  one  uncorrupted  finger  (hows  *.' 
**  See,  drunk  wirh  power,  the  circuit-lord  exprel ! 
**  Full,   in  his  eye,  his  betters  ftand  confeft; 
*'  Whofe  wealth,  birth,  virtue,  from  a  tongue  fo  loofe, 
**  'Scape not  provincial,  vile,  buffoon  abufe. 
'^  Still  te  what  circuit  is  ailign^  his  name, 
^^  There,  fwift  before  him,  flies  the  warner — FanMr. 
^*  Contcft  ftops  (hort,  CoRfent  yields  every  caufc 
*'  To  CoA  ;  Delay  enditres  them,  and  withdraws. 
**  But  how  *fcapc  prifoners  ?  To  their  trial  chain'd, 
**  All,  all  (hall  ftand  condemn'd,  who  ftand  arraign'd, 
**  Dire  guilt,  which  elfe  would  deteftation  caufe, 
"  Prcjudg*d  with  infult,  wondrous  pity  draws. 
*'  But  'fcapes  e'en  Innocence  his  harfli  harangue  ? 
"  Alas  ! — e'en  Innocence  itielf  muft  hang  ; 
"  Muft  hang  to  pleafehim,  when  of  fpleen  poiTeft, 
^*  Muft  hang  to  bring  forth  aa  abortive  jeft. 

*'  Why  hv'd  he  not  cr«  Star- chambers  had  fnii'd, 
**  When  fine,  tax,  cenfure,  all  but  law  prevailed ^ 
•*  Or  law,  fubfervient  to  fonae  murderous  will, 
*'  Became  a  precedent  to  murder  ftilli 
*'  Yet  e'en  when  portraits  did  for  traitors  bleed^ 
**  W^as  e'er  the  jobb  to  fuch  a  Have  decreed, 
**  Whofe  favagc  mind  wants  fophift-art  to  draw, 
*^  O'er  murder'd  virtue,  fpecious  veils  of  law  ? 

*'  Why,  Student,  when  the  bench  your  youth  admits, 
•*  Where,  though  the  worft,  with  the  beft  rank'd  he  fus  ; 

*  w  When  l^age  one  uncorrupted  finger  (hows.**  D.  of  Wharton. 

C  3  "  Whcra 


C  "   3 

which  Lucy  and  Polfy  arc  on  their  knees,  before 
their  refpcftive  fathers,  to  intercede  for  the  life 
of  the  hero  of  the  piece.  All  the  figures  are  either, 
known  or  fuppofed  to  be  portraits.  If  I  am  not  mif- 
informed,  the  late  Sir  Thomas  Robin/on  (as  well 
known  by  the  name  of  Long  Sir  Tiomas)  is  (landing 
in  one  of  the  fide-boxes.  Macheath^  unlike  his 
fpruce  reprefentative  on  our  prefent  ftage,  is  a 
Douching  bully;  and  Polly  appears  happily  difen- 
cumbered  of  fuch  a  hoop  as  the  daughter  of  Peacbum 

•*  Where  found  opinions  you  attentive  write, 
^*  As  once  a  Raymond^  now  a  Lee  to  cite, 
**  Why  paufe  you  fcornful  when  he  dint  the  court  } 
*^  Note  well  his  cruel  quirks,  and  well  report* 
'<  Let  his  own  words  againil  himfelf  point  clear, 
**  Satire  more  (harp  than  verfc  when  roofl  fevere." 
Nor  was  Salvage  lefs  {tytre.  in  his  profe.     On  the  trial  of 
this  unfortunate  poet,  for  the  murder  of  James  Simdair  in 
2737,  Judge  Page,  who  was  then  on  the  bench,  treated  him 
with  his  ufual   infolcnce    and    frverity ;    and,  when  he  had 
fummed  up  the  evidence,  endeavoured  toexafperate  the  jury, 
«s  Mr.  Savage  ufed  to  relate  it,  with  this  eloquent  harangue  3 
**  Gentlemen  of  the  Jur)',  you  are  to  confider  that  Mr,  Savage 
••  is  a  very  great  mnn,  a  much  greater  man  than  you  or  I, 
•'  gentlemen  of  the  jury;  that  he  wears  very  fine  cloaths, 
*♦  much  finer  cloaihs  than  you  or  I,  gentlemen  of  the  jury  j 
*'  that  he  has  abundance  of  money  in  his  pocket,  much  more 
**  money  than  you  or  I,  gentlemen  of  rhe  jury  :  but,  gentle- 
•*  men  of  ihejur\-,  is  it  not  a  very  hard  cafe,   gentlemen  of 
**  the  jury,  that  Mr.  Savage  Qxould  therefore  kill  you  or  me, 
•*  gcniler.icn  of  the  Jury  ?*' 

Pope  alfo,  H,}race^  B.  11.  Sat.  i,  has  the  following  line  : 
**  Hard  words  or  hanging,  if  your  judge  bcPtfg'r." 
And  Firlirin^^  in  i^rm  Jcnei^  makes  PartriJ^eizy^  with  great 
ra'vete^  after  prcmifing  that  jiul^o  Page  was  a  very  brave  man, 
a:ui  a  man  ot  great  wir,  *'  It  is  indcca  charming  (port  to  hear 
**  trials  on  liie  and  cc^ith  I" 

4  within 


[  as   ] 

within  our  younger  memories  has  worn.  His  Grace 
gave  -^5  /.  for  this  plfture  at  Mr,  Rich's  auftion.  Ar 
nother  copy  of  the  fame  Tccne  was  bought  by  the 
late  Sir  fVilliam  Saunderfon ;  and  is  now  in  the  pof- 
feOion  of  Sir  Henry  Gough.  Mr,  Walpole  has  a  paint- 
ing of  a  fcene  in  the  fame  piece,  where  Machcath 
is  going  to  execution.  In  this  alfo  the  likenefles  of 
fValker^  and  Mifs  Fenton  afterwards  Dutchefs  of  Bol^^ 
ion  (the  original  Macbeatb  and  Folly)^  are  prcferved* 
In  the  year  1726,  when  the  affair  of  iW/iry  T<?/rx, 
the  rabbit-breeder  of  Godalmingy  engaged  the  public 
attention,  a  few  of  our  principal  furgeons  fubfcribed 
their  guinea  a-piece  to  Hogarth^  for  an  engraving 
from  a  ludicrous  iketch  he  had  made  on  that  very 
popular  fubjed.  This  plate,  amongft  other  portraits, 
contains  that  of  the  notorious  St.  Andre,  the  anato- 
mift  to  the  royal  houfehold,  and  in  high  credit  as  a 
furgeon.  The  additional  celebrity  of  this  man  arofe 
either  from  fraud  or  ignorance,  perhaps  from  a  due 
mixture  of  both.  It  was  fupported,  however,  after- 
wards,  by  the  reputation  of  a  dreadful  crime*  His 
imaginary  wealth,  in  fpite  of  thefe  difadvantages,  to 
the  laft  infured  him  a  circle  ^of  flatterers,  even 
though,  at  the  age  of  fourfcore,  his  converfation 
was  oSeniive  to  modeft  ears,  and  his  grey  hairs  were 
renderecl  ftill  more  irrevercnd  by  repeated  adts  of 
untinacly  lewdnefs*.      A  particular  defcrip^ion  of 

this 

•  The  truth  and  propriety  of  thcfe  flrl^iirc?  halving  been 
.  difputed  by  aa  ingcoious  correfpondcnc  in  the  Puifiit:  Advert'fer^ 

C  4  ^  his 


t    i4    ] 

tills  plate  will  be  given  in  the  future  catalogue  df 
Hogarth's  works* 

In  1727,  Hof:artb  ajireed  with  Morris^  an  uphol- 
ftcrer,  to  furnilh  him  uith  a  defign  on  canvas,  rcpre- 
fcnting  the  clement  of  F  arth,  as  a  pittern  for  tapellry* 
The  work  not  being  j  crformed  to  the  fatisfadtion  of 
JVfcr/.,  he  refulcd  to  pay  for  it;  and  our  artill  lutd 
him  for  the  money.  This  fuit  (which  was  tried  be* 
fore  Lord  Chief  Jufticc  E\r^  at  PVeJlminfter,  May  28, 
1728)  was  determined  in  favour  of //(?fjr/A.  Ihc 
brief  for  the  deiendaat  in  the  caufe^  is  prcfcrved 
below  f . 

In 

his  letter,  with  remarks  on  it,  it  fubjoined  by  way  of  appendix 
to  the  prefent  work.  In  this  place  performances  of  fuch  a 
length  would  have  ia^ermpted  the  narrative  rdpc^ing  Hogartb 
and  bis  productions.     See  Appendix  I. 

t  In  c5i  Banco. 
WitttAM  HocAltTH  Plaintiff.  Joshua  Mokrts,  Defendant. 
,-..„-  f  The  Plaintiff  declares,  that  on  the  30th  oi December^ 
•'^'**  Ii7i7f  at  Jyefiminfier  zforeh'idy  Defendant  was  in* 
debted  to  him  30/.  for  painter's  work,  and  for  divers  mate- 
rials laid  out  for  the  faid  work  ;  which  Defendant  faithfully 
promifed  to  pay  when  demanded. 

Plaintiff  alfo  declares,  that  Defendant  promifed  to  pay  for  the 
faid  work  and  other  materials,  as  much  as  the  fame  was  worth  ; 
and  Plaintiff  in  fa<ft  fays  the  fame  was  worth  other  30/. 

Plaintiff  alfo  declares  for  another  fum  of  30  A  tor  money 
Itld  out  and  expended  for  Defendant's  ufe,  which  he  promifed 
to  pay. 

The  faid  Defendant  not  performing  bis  fcveral  promlfe^  the 
plaintiff  hath  brought  this  a^ion  to  his  damage  30/.  for  which 
this  adion  is  brought.  •• 

To  which  the  Defendant  hath  pleaded  ncn  ajfumpjit^  And 
thereupon  iffue  is  joined^ 

CASE. 

The  Defendant  is  an  upholAcrer  and  tapeflry-worker,  and 

waa 


In  J  730,  Mr.  Hifgartb  married  the  only  daughter 

of 

was  recommended  to  Plaintiff  as  a  perfon  (kilful  in  painting 
patterns  for  that  pufpofe ;  the  Plaintiff  accordingly  cume  to 
Defendant,  who  informing  him  that  he  had  occnlion  ror  a  ta<* 
pcftry  defign  of  the  Element  of  Earth,  to  be  pointed  on  can- 
vas. Plaintiff  told  Defendant  he  was  well  ikiHcd  in  painnng 
that  way,  and  promifed  to  perform  it  in  a  workmanlike  man- 
ner;  which  if  he  did.  Defendant  undertook  to  pay  iiim  for  it 
twenty  guineas. 

Defendant,  foon  after,  hearing  that  Plaintiff  was  an  engraver^ 
and  no  painter,  was  very  unegfy  about  the  work,  and  ordered 
his  fervant  to  go  and  ncqnairu  Plaintiff  what  he  h.  d  heard  ; 
and  Plainti^  then    told   the  laid  fervant,    *  tl.ut  it  was  a  bold 

♦  undertaking,  for  that  he  never  old  iiay  thing  of  that  kuid 

*  before  \  and  that,  if  his  mailer  did  not  like  it,  he  ILould  n  ^t 

•  pay  for  it/ 

Thar  ieveral  times  fending  after  Plaintiff  to  brin<j  the  f  .me 
to  Defendant's  houlc,  he  did  not  chink  tit  f<«  co  do ;  but  c  if- 
ried  the  fame  to  a  private  place  where  T*vteridant  keeps  Ibiuc 
j>eople  at  work,  and  there  left  it.  A^  j-ot  \s  Defendant  was 
informed  of  it,  ht  fent  for  it  homt;,  and  confuked  with  his 
workmen  whether  the  defign  was  fo  painted  as  they  could 
work  tapcdry  by  it,  and  they  were  all  unauunous  that  it  waf 
not  finidied  in  a  workmanlike  manner,  and  that  it  was  impo£> 
fible  for  them  to  work  tapellry  by  it. 

Upon  thk,  Defendant  lent  the  paiatingback  to  Plaintiff  bjr 
ills  fervant,  whojicqur^intcd  him,  ^  that  the  lame  did  not  aufvi^ 

*  tiie  Defendant's  purpofe,  and  that  it  w.is  of  no  ule  to  him  j 

*  bur  if  he  would  finifh  it  \i\  a  proper  tnanner,  Defenc'ant  would 

•  take  It,  and  p:iy  for  it.' 

Defendant  employs  fome  of  the  fined  hands  in  Europe  la 
working  tapelhy,  who  are  mod  of  them  foreigners,  and  have 
worked  abroad  as  well  as  here,  and  are  perfect  judge*  of  per- 
formances of  this  kind. 

The  Plaintiff  undertook  to  6ni(h  faid  piece  in  a  month,  but 
it  was  near  three  months  before  he  fent  to  the  Defendant  to 
view  it ;  who,  when  he  faw  it,  told  him  that  he  could  nut  uiake 
any  ufc  of  it,  and  was  fo  dif»ppointed  for  want  of  it,  ih^r  he 
was  forced  to  put  his  workmen  upon  working/ other  taptlby 
tjiai  WAS  aut  befpoke,  to  the  value  of  200/.  which  now  lies 


C  *«  ] 

of  Sir  James  Tbornbill  ♦,  by  whom  he  had  no  child. 

by  hiniy  and  another  painter  is  now  painting  another  proper 
pattern  for  the  fa  id  piece  of  tapeflry. 

To  prove  the  cafe  as  above  fci  fonh,  call  Mr.  IViUiamBraJ' 

To  prove  the  painting  not  to  be  performed  in  a  workman- 
like manner,  and  that  it  was  impoflible  to  make  tapeflry  by  it, 
and  that  it  was  of  no  nfc  tci  I'faintiff,  call  Mr.  Bernard Dorrider^ 
Mr.  PhiWps^  Mr.  Dt  Friend,  Mr.  Danten,  and  Mr.  Pajon:^ 

[Hy  the  counftl's  memoranda  on  this  brief  it  appears,  that 
the  witnciTes  examined  for  the  Plaintiff  were  Thomai  King^  Fan^ 
derhanh^  Le  Card,  Thornhilly  and  Cullumfton^'* 

*  Jamti  7hornhiU,  efq.  ferjeant-paintcr  and  hiftory-paintcr 
to  King  George  I.  In  June  1 7 1 5,  he  agreed  to  paint  the  cupola 
of  5/. PauVs  church  for  4000/.  and  was  knighted  in  April  ii%o% 
Id  a  flattering  account  given  of  him  immediately  after  his  deaths 
which  happened  May  13,  1734,  in  his  57th  year,  he  is  faid  to 
hare  bceii  ^'  the  greateft  hiftory-paintcr  this  kingdom  ever 
*^  produced,  witnefs  his  elaborate  works  in  Crreenvjicb'HoJffital^ 
.  **  the  cupola  oi St,  Fau.\^  the  altar-pieces  oi  AU' Souls  CaUegt 
•*  in  Oxford,  and  in  the  church  of  JVeymouth,  where  he  wa» 
•*  born  ;  a  cirling  in  the  palace  of  Hampton  ^:ourt,  by  order  of 
•*  the  late  Earl  oi  Halifax :  his  orhcr  works  fhine  in  divers 
•*  noblcmens*  and  gentlemens*  houfes.  His  later  years  were 
•*  employed  in  ropying  the  rich  cartoons  of  Raphael  in  the 
**  gallery  of  Hampton-Court^  which,  though  in  decay,  will  be 
•*  revived  by  hib  curious  pencil,  not  only  in  their  full  propor- 
**  tions,  .but  in  many  other  fizcs  and  ihapes,  he  in  a  courfe  of 
**  years  had  drawn  rhem.  He  was  choien  reprefentative  in 
«*  the  two  Inft  parliaments  for  }Vcymouth,  and  having,  by  hif 
«*  own  induftry,  acquired  a  coniiderable  elUte,  re-purchafed 
**  the  feat  of  his  anceftors,  which  he  re-edified  and  cmbelliihed. 
•*  He  was  not  only  by  j)afcnr9  appointed  hi  (lory-painter  to 
•*  their  late  and  prelent  majeltics,  bur  ferjeant-paintcr,  by 
•*  \;hich  be  was  to  paint  all  the  royal  palaces, coaches,  barges, 
•*  and  the  rnyal  navy.  This  late  patent  he  furrendercditi  fa- 
•*  vour  of  his  only  fon  John  ^hornhii\  F f<j;  He  left  no  other 
••  ifliic  but  one  daughter,  now  the  vv.fe  of  V.r  U'm..HogeKrth^ 
•*  ad'pircd  fjr  his  curious  m:niaf.i:e  co:ivert;ri  >n  paintings. 
**  Sir  yameshis  left  a  nioSi  valuable  Coli«.i5tion  of  pictures  and 
•*  other  curiuliiics/* 

This 


[  n  3 

This  unioDi  indeed^  was  a  flolen  one,  and  cohfe- 
quently  without  the  approbation  of  Sir  James^  who, 
confidering  the  youth  of  his  daughter,  then  barely 
dghteea,  and  the  ilender  finances  of  her  hufband, 
as  yet  an  obfcure  artift  *,  was  not  eafily  reconciled  to 
the  match.     Soon  after  this  period,  however,  he  be- 
gan his  Harlot^s  Progrefs  (the  coffin  in  the  laft  plate 
is  infcribed  5f//^wiA^r  2,  1731)5  arid- was  advifed  by 
Lady  TbomhiU  to  have  fome  of  the  fcenes  in  it  placed 
i>  the  way  of  his  father-in-law.     Accordingly,  one 
Morning  early,  Mrs,  Hogarth  undertook  to  convey 
^eral  of  them  into  his  dining-roonu     When  he 
*^ofe,  he  enquired  from  whence  they  came ;   and 
^itxg  told  by  whom  they  wdre  introduced,  he  cried 
out^  a  Very  well ;    the  man  who  can  furnifli  repre- 
^ntations   like  thefe,    can  alfo  maintain  a  wifd 
Without  a  portion."    He  defigned  this  remark  as 
^  excufe  for  keeping  his  purfe-ftrings  clofe ;   but, 
*^On  after,  became  both  reconciled  and  generous  to 
^•^^  young  couple. 

Our  artift's  reputation  was  fo  far  eftablilhed  iii 
1731,  that  it  drew  forth  a  poetical  compliment  from 
Mr.  Mtchelly  in  the  epiftle  already  quoted^ 

An  allegorical  cieling  by  Sir  James  Tbornhsll  is  at 
the  houfc  of  the  late  Mr.  Huggins^  at  Headley  Parkf 
Hants.  The  fubjeft  of  it  is  the  ftory  of  Zephyrus 
and  Flora ;  and  the  figure  of  a  Satyr  and  fome  others 
were  painted  by  Hogarth. 

*  He  was  called  on  this  occafion,  in  the  Craftfrnan,  "  Mr. 
•*  Hogarth^  an  ingenious  dcfigner  and  engraver." 

In 


C   ^3   ] 

In  1732  (the  year  in  which  he  was  one  of  the 
party  wiio  made  A  Tour  by  land  and  Water ^  which 
will  be  duly  noticed  in  the  Catalogue)  he  ventured 
to  attack  Mr.  fopCj  in  a  plate  called  *'  The  Man 
*^  of  Tafte  ;**  containing  a  view  of  the  Gate  of  £«r- 
lhigt:7i'houje ;  with  Vope  whitewalhing  it,  and  bc- 
fpattcring  the  Duke  of  Cbandos^s  coach  *.  This  plate 
was  intended  as  a  fatire  on  the  translator  of  Horner^ 
Mr.  Kent  the  arcbitedt,  and  the  Earl  of  Burlington. 

♦  ^'^  Pope  piibliflicd  in  173 1  a  poem  cMt^  Falfe  Tafte ^  in 
••  which  he  very  particularly  and  fcvcrcly  criticifes  the  houfe, 
•*  the  furniture,  the  g.irdcns,  and  the  entertainments  of  Timon^ 
'^  a  man  of  great  wealth  and  little  tade.  By  7imon  he  was 
**  univerfally  liippofed,  and  by  the  £arl  of  Burlington^  to 
'*  whom  the  poem  is  addrefled,  was  privately  faid  to  mean 
*^  the  Duke  of  Ciandos  ;  a  man  perhaps  too  much  delighted 
*'  with  pomp  and  Ihew,  but  of  a  temper  kind  and  beneficent, 
**  and  who  had  confequently  the  voice  of  the  publlck  in  hit 
**  favour.  A  violent  outcry  was  therefore  raifed  againfl  the 
**  ingratitude  and  treachery  of  Pope^  who  was  faid  to  hive 
**  Leeri  indebted  to  the  patronage  of  Chandos  for  a  prefent  of 
'^  a  thousand  pounds,  and  who  gained  the  opportunity  of 
**  infulting  him  by  the  kindnefs  of  his  invitation.  The  receipt 
'^  of  the  thoul'and  pounds  P^/r  publick^y  denied;  but  from  tho> 
^*  reproach  which  the  attack  on  a  character  fo  amiable  brought 
*•  upon  him,  he  tried  all  meant  of  cfcaping.  The  nanic  <>f 
**  Cltla>id\sz%  employed  in  an  apology,  by  vihich  no  man  was 
**  fatiiHed  \  and  he  was  at  Ull  reduced  to  (lieltcr  his  ttmuiity 
*^  behind  diiUmulation,  and  endeavour  to  make  that  dlfbtlicvcd 
**  which  he  never  had  confidence  openly  to  deny.  He  wrote 
••  an  exculpatory  letter  to  the  Duke,  which  was  anfwered 
**  with  great  magnanimity,  as  by  a  man  who  accepted  his 
*'  excufe  without  believing  his  proklTions.  He  laid,  that  to 
•*  have  ridiculed  his  tafle,  or  his  buildings,  had  been  an  indif- 
*•  fcrcnt  uftlon  in  another  man  ;  bat  that  in  Popc^  after  the 
*•  reciprocal  kindnelt  that  had  been  exchange  J  between  thcni, 
••  it  had  been  lefs  cafily  cxculcd."'  Zv,  Jubn/on^  in  bis  Life  cf 
Pope. 

5  It 


[    ^9    ] 

It  was  fortunate  for  Hogarth  that  he  efcaped  the  laih 

of  the  former.     Either  Hogartb^s  obfcurity  at  that 

time  was  his  protedtion,  or  the  bard  was  too  prudent 

to  cxafperate  a  pahiter  who  had  already  given  fuch 

proof  of  his  abilities  for  fatire.     What  muft  be  have 

felt  who  could  complain  of  the  "  pidured  fliape** 

prefixed  to  GuUiveriana^  Pope  Alexander's  Supremacy 

und  hfallibiUty  examined j  &c.  by  Ducket^  and  other 

pieces,  bad  our  artift  undertaken  to  exprefs  in  colours 

a  certain  tranfadtion  recorded  by  Gbber  ? 

Soon  after  his  marriage,  Hogarth  had  fummer- 
lodgings  at  Soutb'-Lambetb ;  and  being  intimate  with 
Mr.  Ty^/,  contributed  to  the  improvement  of  The 
Spring  Gardem  at  VauxbaU^  by  the  hint  of  embellilh- 
ing  them  with  paintings,  fome  of  which  were  the 
fuggeftions  of  his  own  truly  comic  pencil.  Among 
thefe  were  the  "  Four  parts  of  the  Day,'*  copied 
by  Hayman  from  the  defigns  of  our  artift.  The 
fcenes  of  "  Evening"  and  "  Night'*  are  ftill  there  ; 
and  portraits  of  Henry  VIII.  and  Anne  BuUjn  once 
adorned  the  old  great  room  on  the  right  hand  of  the 
entry  into  the  gardens.  For  his  affiftance,  Mr.  ^yers 
gratefully  prefented  him  with  a  gold  ticket  of  ad- 
miffion  for  himfelf  and  his  friends,  infcribed 

IN  PERPETUAM  BENEFICII  MEMORIAM. 

This  ticket,  now  in  the  poffeffion  of  his  widow,  is 
itill  occafionally  made  ufe  ef. 

Ih  1733  his  genius  became  confpicuoufly  known. 
The  third  fcene  of  his  **  Harlot's  Progrefs**  intro- 
duced him  to  the  notice  of  the  great.    At  a  board 

of 


[    30    3 

«f  Trcafury  ivhich  was  held  a  day  or  two  after  the 
appearance  of  that  prints  a  copy  of  it  was  (hewn  by 
one  of  the  lords,  as  containing,  among  other  excel* 
kncieSj  a  ftriking  likenefs  of  Sir  Jobn  Gonfon  *.    It 

gave 

*  That  Sir  yoha  Gonfon  took  a  very  a^jve  part  againfl  tb^ 
Ladies  of  Pkafure,  is  recorded  by  more  than  one  of  their 
irotaries :  In  "  A  View  of  the  Town,  1735,"  by  Mr.  7.  GiU 
hert^  a  fellow  of  Ptter  Houfe  Cambridge^  and  ati  intimate  coxxx'* 
paoioD  of  Lovelifig  -*-,  I  meet  with  thefe  lines : 

•*  Though  laws  fevere  to  punifh  guilt  were  made, 
**  What  honeft  man  is  of  thefe  laws  afraid  } 
^'  All  felons  aguinft  judges  will  exclaim, 
•*  As  harlots  ftartle  at  a  Gonfon^s  name,** 
The  magiftrate  entering  with  his  myrmidons  was  deiigned 
as  the  reprefentative  of  this  gentleman,  whofe  vigilance  on 
like  occ^^ons  is  rocprded  in  the  following  elegant  Sapphic 
Ode,  by  Mr.  hoveling.    This  gentleman  was  educated  at  ff^in* 
cheficT'Jhhool^  became  a  commoner  of  Trinity  Colkgey  Oxford^ 
urat  ordained  deacon,  lived  gaily,  and  died  young.     His  il}'le, 
however,  appears  to  have  been  formed  on  a  general  acquain* 
tance  with  the  language  of  Roman  poetry  ;    nor  do  any  of  his 
cflfufions  betray  that  poverty  of  expreffion  fo  confpicuous  in 
the  poems  of  Nicholas  Hardinge^  efq.  who  writes  as   if  Horace 
was  the  only  claffic  author  he  had  ever  read. 

Ad  Johannem  Gonfcnumj  Equitem. 
Pellicum,  Gonfoncy  animofus  hoilis. 
Per  minus  caftas  Druria  tabernas 
Lenis  incedens,  abeas  Diones 

iEquus  alumnis ! 
<Nupcr  (ah  didu  miferum !)  Oli*vera 
Flevit  ereptas  viduata  moechas, 
Qpas  tuum  vidit  genibus  minores 

Ante  tribunal. 
Dure,  cur  tanti  in  Femris  miniftras 
iEiluas  ir^  ?  'pofito  furore 

f  In  the  cone6l;ion  of  Lovi&mg*s  Poems,  X74if  are  two  by  CiUgri, 
Ltwkng  alfo  addrtflfcd  a  poem,  not  printed  in  his  works,  '*  Giloiri§/MO,** 
^jjnd  in  Giiktrt*s  Poems,  publiihcd  1747,  is  *'  A  fainili«r  £piille  (q  my 
**  hitikA  BiM  Loveling*'* 

Hue 


C  31   3 

gaTe  DDivef  fai  {atisfadion ;  *  from  the  Treafury  eack 

lord 

Hue  adeSy  multk  &  prece  te  vocantem 

Gratior  audi ! 
Nonne  fat  moechas  mal^  feriatas 
Urgct  infeftis  fera  fors  procellis? 
Adderis  quid  tu  ulterior  puellis 

Caufa  doloris? 
Incolunt,  eheu  !  thalamos  fupernos, 
Nota  quae  fedes  fuerat  Poetis  ; 
Nee  domuin  argento  gravis,  ut  folebat^ 

Dextra  revcrtit. 
N3nnpha  quat  nuper  nituit  theatro, 
Nune  flat  obfcuro  mifera  angiportu, 
Suppliei  vellens  tunicam  rogatque 

Voce  Lyaumm 
Tc  voce  rebus  Druria  mentis; 
Voci  communi  Britonum  Juventus 
Tc  vocat,  nunc  6 !  dare  te  benignuxn 

Incipe  votig. 
Singulum  tunc  dona  feret  lupanar  : 
Liberum  mittet  Rofa  Luiitanum, 
Gallic!  Haywarda  et  generofa  mittet 

Muncra  Baccbi. 
Sive  te  forian  moveat  libido, 
Aridis  pellex  rcquiefcet  lilnis, 
Callida  effoetas  renovare  lento 

Verberc  vireo. 
The  fame  poet,  fpeaking  of  the  exhilarating  cffeSs  of  Gin» 
which  had  juft  been  an  ofaje<St  of  Parliamentary  notice,  has 
the  following  ilanza : 

Utilis  mcechx  fuit  &  Poets  ; 
Sprevit  hinc  Vates  Dolopum  catervas, 
Moecha  Gonfonum.  tetrica  minantem 

*  FroDtc  laborem. 
Thus,  between  the  poet  and  the  painter,  the  fame  of  our 
harlot -hunting  Juftice  is  preferved.  But  as  a  flave  anciently 
rode  in  the  fame  chari<)t  with  the  conqueror,  the  memory  of 
a  celebrated  flreet-robber  and  highwayman  will  defcend  with 
that  of  the  magiftrate  to  pofterity,  James  Dalton^s  wig-box 
being  placed  on  the  tefter  of  che'Harlot*8  bed.    I  learn  from 

the 


r  3«  3 

lord  repaired  to  the  print-lhop  for  a  copy  of  it,  and 

Hogartb  rofc  completely  into  fame.  This  anecdote 
was  related  to  Mr.  Huggim  by  Qjrijiopber  Tiljotiy  efq. 
one  of  the  four  cfiief  clerks  in  the  Treafury,  and  at 
that  period  under-fecretary  of  ftatc.  He  died  Auguft 
25,  1742,  after  having  enjoyed  the  former  of  thefc 
oiEces  fifty-eight  years.  I  ihould  add,  however, 
that  Sir  John  Gopfon  is  not  here  introduced  to  be 
made  ridiculous,  but  is  only  to  be  coniidered  as  the 
image  of  an  adivc  magiftrate  identified. 

1  he  familiarity  of  the  fubjeft,  and  the  propriety 
of  it*s  execution,  made  the  *'  Harlot's  Progrcfs*' 
taftcd  by  all  ranks  of  people.  Above  twelve  hundred 

the  Cruhftreet  Journal^  that  he  wai  executed  on  the  1 2th  of 
Ma^f  1730.  ^'\l  John  Gonfm  died  January  g^  176J.  He  <vas 
remarkable  for  the  charges  which  he  ufed  to  deliver  to  the 
gnnd  juries,  which  are  iaid  to  have  been  written  by  Orator 
Henley.  The  following  puffs,  or  fneers,  concerniog  them, 
arc  found  in  the  firft  number  of  tht  Gruhjlrcet  Journal^  dated 
January  8,  1730.  **  Ycllcrday  began  the  General  Quarter 
••  Seiiion*;,  &c.  when  Sir  JohnCronfttn.  b-jing  in  the  chair,  give 
*^  a  mod  incomparable^  learned^  ^nd^ng  charge  to  the  Grand 
«*  Jury."     Daily  PoJI. 

•*  The  Morning  Pofl  calls  Sir  JobiCs  Qhargc  excellent^  Urnmtd 
^  9nd  ky€iU  Tiie  Evening  Pttft  calls  it  an  excellint  leBurc  and 
•*  nfeful  tbargey 

Thr».c  of  thcfc  performances  had  been  publiihed  in  1718  *• 
8ir  Joints  niuie  is  aifo  pr^fcrvcd  in  Mr  P#?/A  works  : 
**  1  alkcrs  I'tc  Iearn*d  to  bear  ;  Motuux  1  knew ; 
**  HenUy  himfclf  I've  heard,  and  /  udgell  too, 
♦*  The  Doctor's  wormwood  ftyle,  the  ha(b  of  tongues 
*^  A  pedant  Uiukcs,  the  dorm  of  Gonfon^s  lungs.'^ 

Fourth  Sat.  of  Dr.  Donne  vcrlified. 

•  One  charj;c  by  Sir  John  Gonfon  is  in  the  Political  State,  vol.  XXXV. 
fb  50  i  and  two  oit)Ci»  m  vol.  XXXV 1.  pp  314.  333*t 

names 


t    33    1 

nmes  were  entered  in  oiir  artilPs  fubfcription-booki; 
It  was  made  into  a  pantomime  by  Tbeopbihts  Giber  i 
and  again  rcprefented  on  the  ftage,  under  the  title 
of  yie  Jew  decoyed,  or  a  HarIoi*s  Progrifr,  in^a 
Ballad  Opera«  Fan-mounts  were  likewife  engraved, 
containing  miniature  reprefentaticms  of  all  the  fix 
plates«  Thefe  were  ufually  printed  off  with  red  ink, 
three  compartments  on  one  fide^  and  three  on  the 
other  *. 

The  ingenious  Abbe  Du  Bos  has  often  complained^ 
that  no  hiftory-painter  of  his  time  went  through  a 
feries  of  aftions,  and  thtis,  like  an  hiftorian,*  painted 
tbe  fucceflBve  fortune  of  an  hero^  from  the  cradle  to 
the  grave.    What  Du  Bos  wiihed  to  fee  done.  Ho* 
garth  performed.     He  launches  out  his  young  ad- 
venturer  a  fimple  girl  upon  the  town^  and  conduds 
her  through  all  the  viciffitudes  of  wretchednefs  to  a 
premature  death.    This  was  painting  to  the  under. 
Handing  and  to  the  heart;    none  had  ever  before 
made  the  pencil  fubfervient  to  the  purpofes  of  mo- 
rality and  infirudtion ;   a  book  like  this  is  fitted  to 
every  foil  and  every  obferver,  and  he  that  runs  may 
read.     Nor  was  the  fuccefs  of  Hogarth  confined  to 
his  perfons.     One  of  his  excellencies  confifled  in 
what  may  be  termed  the  furniture  f  of  his  pieces ;  for 

as 

*  It  was  cuftomaiy  in  HogartVs  family  to  give  thefc  fans  to 
the  maids. 

+  Among  the  fmall  articles  of  furniture  in  the  fcencs  of  J&- 
garthy  a  few  objects  may  fpccdily  become  unintelligible,  be- 
caufe  their  archetypes,  being  out  of  ufc,  and  of  periOiable  na- 

D  turei| 


[    34    3 

as  ialbhi!me  and  hiftorical  reprcTentatioas  the  Tewer 
trivial  circumftances  arc  permitted  to  divide  the  fpcc- 
tator's  attention  from  the  principal  figures,  the  greater 
is  their  force  ;  fo  in  fcencs  copied  from  familiar  life, 
a  proper  variety  of  little  domeftic  images  contributes 
to  throw  a  degree  of  verinmilitude  on  the  whole. 
*'  The  Rake's  Icvce-room,"  fays  Mr.  Wa/pole,  "  the 
**  nobleman's  dining-room,  the  apartments  of  the 
"  hufband  and  wife  in  Marriage  Alamode,  the  Al- 
**  derman's  parlour,  the  bed-chamber,  and  many 
**  others,  are  the  hiftory  of  the  manners  of  the  age." 
It  may  alfo  beobferved,  that  Hoganh,  both  in  the 
third  and  laft  plate  of  the  Harlot's  Progrefi,  has  ap- 
propriated a  name  to  his  heroine  which  belonged  to 
a  well-known  wanton  then  upon  the  town.  The 
Grubjireet  Journal  for  Augujl  6,  1730,  giving  an  a( 
count  of  fcveral  proftitutcs  who  were  taken  up,  in*' 
forms  us  that  "  the  fourth  was  Kate  Hackabout 
*'  (whofe  brother  was  lately  hanged  at  Tyburn)^  3 
"  woman  noted  in  and  about  the  hundreds  of 
*'   Drury,  i^cJ' 

In  1735  our  arttft  loft  his  mother,  as  appears 
the  following  extrafl  from  an  old  Magazine  ;  "  June 


tnrei,  can  no  longer  be  found.  Such  is  tht  Dare /er  Larit  (a 
cireiibr  board  with  piecei  of  looking-glaftinfcrted  in  it),hung 
up  over  the  chimney-piece  of  ihe  Dijlnfi'd  Peii ;  and  ihc  J/-xi 
Caie  (a  dry  talte'ef*  bifcnit  perforated  wtlh  many  holei,  and 
fbrmerlygivcnftway  in  grrai  qnaniitiei  3l  the  Fcafiof  Paffover), 
generally  ufed  only  :i a  a  Hy-lrap,  and  hung  ttpai  fuch  nj^aiol^ 
the  wall  in  the  Tixth  plate  of  the  Hmrler'j  Pragrt/i.  I  hive 
frequently  met  with  both  ihcfc  aniclei  in  mean  boufet. 


C    35    ) 

^  Iff  tJSS^  Died  Mrt.  HcffiHb^  mothet  to  ihfc 
^  celebrated  paiater,  of  a  fright  from  the  fire  which 
*'  happened  on  the  pth,  in  Ceal  Couri^  Si.  MartinU 
**  LMm^  and  burnt  thirteen  houfes  * ;  amongft  others^ 
^  one  belonging  to  JoAn  Hygpns,  efq.  late  Warden 
^  of  7J^  Fil^r/,  was  greatly  damaged/* 

The  "  Rake's  Progrefs''  (publiflicd  in  the  fame 
]rear^  and  fold  at  Hogarth's  houfe,  the  Golden  Head 
in  Leuefier  Fieldi)^  though  **  perhaps  fuperior^  had 
•*  not,"  as  Mr.  WalpoU  obferves,  "  fo  much  fucceft^ 
'*  from  want  of  novelty  ;  nor  is  the  print  of  the 
**  arreft  equal  in  merit  to  the  others  \. 

••  The  curtain^  however/'  fays  he,  **  was  tooW 
^*  drawn  afide,  and  his  genius  flood  difplayed  in  it» 
*'  full  lullre.  From  time  to  time  our  artift  continued 
^'  to  give  thofe  works  that  ihould  be  immortal,  if 
'^  the  nature  of  his  art  will  allow  it.  Even  the  xt^ 
^'  ceipts  for  his  fubfcriptions  had  wit  in  them.  Matiy 
^*  of  his  plates  he  engraved  bimfelf,  and  often  e±* 
•*  punged  faces  etched  by  his  affiftants,  when  they 
^'  had  not  done  juftice  to  his  ideas.    Not  conredt 

with  ihining  in  a  path  untrodden  before,  he  was 

ambitious  of  diflinguifhing  himfelf  as  a  painter  Of 


u 

€€ 


*  The  fire  began  at  the  houfe  of  Mrs.  Calloway^  who 
Iccpt  a  brandy-(hnp.  This  woman  was  committed  to  Ne^vc^grnhf 
h  appearing,  among  other  circum fiances,  that  (he  had  threat* 
cned  ••  to  be  even  with  the  landlord  for  having  given  her 
warning,  and  that  (he  would  have  a  bonfire  on  the  aoth  of 
Jmne^  that  ihould  warm  all  her  rafcally  neighbours.'* 
f  Hogarth  attempted  to  improve  it,  but  without  much 
fococfs.  The  adUicional  figures  are  quite  cpifodicaU  See 
the  Catalogue. 

Da  "  hiftory; 


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I    36    ] 

*^  hiftory  J  and  lA  I736.prefcnted  to  thp  hofpital.  oiP 
** .  S/.  Bartbohmew^  of  which  he  had  been  appointed 
"  a  governor*,  a  painting  of  the  Fool  of  Bet  be fda^ 
'*  and  another  of  the  Good  Samaritan.    But  the  gc- 
f^  nius  that  had  entered  fo  fpelingly  into  the  calami- 
*^  ties  and  crimes  of  familiar  life,  dcferted  him  in  a 
walk  that  called  for  dignity  and  grace.      The 
burlefquc  turn  of  his  mind  mixed  itfelf  with  the 
moft  fcrious  fubjedls.    In  the  Pcol  of  Bethe/day  a 
^^  fervant  of  a  rich  ulcerated  lady  beats  back  a  poor 
man  that  fought  the  fame  celeftial  remedy ;  and 
in  his  Danae  [for  which  the  Duke  of  Ancajlir 
f  ^  paid  60  guineas]  the  old  nurfe  tries  a  coin  of  the 
:**  golden  Ihower  with  her  teeth,  to  fee  if  it  is  true 
**  gold.     Both  circumftances  are  juftly  thought,  but 
'^^  rather  too  ludicrous.     It  is  a  much  more  capital 
^^  fault   that  Danae  herfelf   is  a  mere  nymph  of 
**  Drury.     He  feems  to  have  conceived  no  higher 
**  degree  of  beauty/'    Dr.  Parfons  alfo,  in  his  Leo 
tures  on  Phyfiognomy,  4to.  p.  58,   fays,  "  Thus 
*'  yielded  Danae  to  the  Golden  Shower,  and  thus 
^^  was  her  pai&on  paiated  by  the   ingenious    Mr. 
«*  Hogarth:' 

The  novelty  and  excellence  of  Hogarth's  perfor- 
mances  foon  tempted  the  needy  artift  and  print- 

*  In  Seymour*s  hiftory  of  London^  vol.  IL  p.  885,  is  the 
following  notice  of  our  artift  : 

•«  Among  the  Governors  of  St,  BartMomf^.v's  Hoffital,  wai 

**  lately  chofen  Mr.  William  Hogarth  the  celebrated  printer, 

<'  whvO,  uc  are  told,  defigns  to  paint  the  ftair-cafcof  the  faid 

*  •*  hofpital,  and  thereby  become  a  bcnefador  to  it,  by  giving 

<*  his  labour  gratis." 

dealer 


dealer  to  avail  themfelves  of  his  defigns  *,  and  rob 
him  of  the  advantages  which  he  was  entitled  to  de- 
five  from  them •   This  was  particularly  the  cafe  with 
the  "  Midnight  GDnverfation/'  the  **  HarlotV*  and 
**  RakeV  Progreffcs  -f»,  and  the  reft  of  his  early 
work^.  -  To  put  a  flop  to  depredations  like  thefe  on 
the  property  of  himfelf  and  others,  and  to  fecure 
the  emoluments  refulting  from  his  own  labours,  as 
Mr.  Walpoh  obferves,  he  applied  to  the  legiflature, 
and  obtained  an  aft  of  parliament,   8   George  IL 
chap*  3^,.  to  veft  an  exclufive  right  in  deiigners  and 
engravers,  and  to  reftrain  the  multiplying  of  copies 
of  their  works  without  the  confent  of  the  artift  J* 

This 

V  *  He  bought  up  great  quantities  of  the  copies  of  his  works  ; 
and  they  ilill  remain  in  poiTeflion  of  his  widow.  The  **  HaN 
**  lot's**  and  the  ••  Rakers'*  Progrefs,  in  a  fmaller  fize  than 
the  original,  were  publilhedy  with  his  permiffion,  by  Thomas 
Bakc^eUj  a  printfeller,  near  the  Horn  tavern^  Fleet^Jireet. 

+  Of  the  Harlot^s  Frogrefs  I  have  feen  no  Icfs  than  eight 
piratical  imitations. 

X  Lord  Gardenfion^  one  of  the  lords  of  fcffion  in  Scotland^ 

on  delivering  his  opinion  in  the  court  of  feflion  upon  the  que- 

ftion  of  literary  property,  in  the  caufe  of  Hinton  and  DonaUfon 

and  others,  all  bookfellers,  in  July  1773,  ^^"'  introduced  the 

works  of  Hogarth :  **  There  is  nothing  can  be  more  fimihr 

**  than  the  work  of  engraving  is  to  literary  compofition.     I 

**  will  illuftrate  this  propofition  by  the  works  of  Mr.  Hogarth^ 

•*  who,  in  my  humble  opinion,  is  the  only  true  original  aaih*.  r 

•••  which  this  age  has  produced  in  England.     There  is  hirdly 

•*  any  charader  of  an  excellent  author,  which  is  not  juftly  a*.  - 

**  plicable  to  his  works.     What  compofition,  what  varu  : . , 

•*  what  fentimcnt,  what  fancy,  invention,  and  humour,  wc 

**  difcover  in  all  his  performances !  In  every  one  of  them  an 

•*  entertaining  hiftory,  a  natural  defcription  of  charafters,  ao'^ 

♦*  an  excellent  moral,    1  can  read  his  works  over  aad  ovc  •  . 

D  3  "  Hot.:..  . 


[     38     } 


This  ftsmte  was  drawn  by  hU  friend  Mr.  Ut^Hu  * 
who  took  for  his  model  the  eighth  of  Queen  j 
in  favour  of  literary  propeity  ;  but  it  was  not  fo  i 
euraiely  executed  as  entirely  to  remedy  the  evil ;  fqi 
in  a  caufc  founded  on  it,  which  came  before  I 
Uardwiike  in  Chancery,  that  excellent  Lawyer  deter* 

"  Haraet't  char^^eriClic  of  excellency  in  n-riiing,  Jk!i'  rrftl'iia 
**p!aitiiii  and  cTcry  time  1  penife  them,  1  dilcover  new 
•*  besuiici,  and  feel  frcfli  enicrtainmcni  :  can  1  fay  more  in 
*'  comnicndatii'n  of  ihe  literary  compofilinnt  of  a  Btilfr  or  ■ 
"Su'ifif  There  \t  grear  aitihority  for  this  parallel ;  the  le- 
**  gilUiitrc  h.tt  CLtnTiOercd  the  u-orkt  nf  aiithura  and  eiigravert 
"  in  the  fame  light ;  t!iey  have  granted  tlie  fame  prote^ion  t» 
•'  both;  and  it  is  remarliable,  th^t  the  aft  of  paiiiament  forihe 
*'  pcD[c£iioD  (.f  ihofe  sbo  invent  new  ent{ra*ingf,  or  pcintt, 
"  it  almofl  in  the  fimc  «orii»  with  the  aft  for  the  proteitian 
••  and  cacouragcmeni  of  lircrary  com p*ifi' ions."  Thii  it  taken 
&o(n  a  4to  pamphlet,  puhlilliedin  \-jT\hy  JanuiSaJK'itB^  cf(|. 
advnc4:r,  one  of  the  eounfe)  in  ihc  caufe. 

•  "  T!i;it  Hi^/nipenned  theftalute,  I  wai  toMby  Mr. //»■ 
*' ^ar/i  himfcif.  The  deterinination  of  Lord  llardiuLkt  vi»» 
"  lhu<  occaBoned.  Jfffiry,  the  prinifellcr  at  the  corner  of 
*'  Si.  M'UtWi  Lam,  had  employed  an  artifi  to  draw  aod  en- 
*'  grave  a  print  reprefenting  the  Briiifti  Herring  FiftacTy;  and, 
"  having  p^id  htm  for  ji,  iwok  an  aflignmeni  of  the  right  to 
*'  the  prgpcrty  in  ic  accruing  lo  ihc  arnit  by  the  a^t  of  parlia- 
■"  roent.  The  proprietorj  of  one  of  the  magazines  pirated 
"  it  in  a  Gipilar  fize,  and  Jrftrys  brought  hit  biil  for  an  in- 
"  junflion,  to  which  the  defendaatt  demurred:  and,  upon 
"  argiin-eot  of  the  demurrer,  ihc  fame  v/ai  allowed,  for  the 
"  reafon  abtivemcniioned,  ^inA  the  bill  difmilTed.  H»garib 
*'  attended  ibe  heating  ;  and  lamented  to  me  that  he  had  cni- 
•*  pliiyed  Hyg^int  to  draw  the  aft,  addling,  that,  when  he  firft 
"  prfjcfted  it,  he  Imped  it  would  be  fuch  an  encouragement 
•'  10  engraving  and  printfelling,  that  prinlfellert'  would  fi>on 
"  bctoice  31  nuTieniui  as  bakert' lliopt ;  which  hope,  iiot- 
*'  withllanding  the  above  chcvk.  does  at  thii  limefccm  to  he 
*'  pretty  nearly  gratified."  For  ih,;  kbh  ay  rta^tri  art  iaJtbirJ 
I*  Sir  JoliD  Uawkint. 

mined 


t   $9   1 

mined  that  no  aflfignee^  claiming  under  an  aiSgn- 
ment  from  the  original  inventor^  could  take  any  be* 
nefit  by  it.  Ikgartb^  immediately  after  the  pafling 
the  ad^  pttbliflied  a  finall  prints  with  emblematical 
devieesj  and  the  following  infcription  exprefling  hii 
gratxtttde  to  the  three  branches  of  the  legiilature : 

**  Id  humble  and  grateful  acknowledgment 
Of  the  graee  and  goodnefs  of  the  LEGISLATURE, 

ManifeAed 

In  the  ACT  of  PARLIAMENT  for  the  Encouragement 

Of  the  Arts  of  Defigning,  Engraving,  &c. 

Obtained 
Bj  the  Eodearcmny  and  alnx>ft  at  the  fole  Expence^ 
Of  the  Defigncr  of  this  Print  in  the  Year  173$; 

By  which 
Not  only  the  Profeflbrs  of  thofe  Arts  were  refcued 
From  the  Tyranny,  Frauds,  and  Piracies 
Of  Monopolizing  Dealers, 
And  legally  entitled  to  the  Fruits  of  their  own  Laboun ; 
But  Genius  and  Indufiiy  were  alfo  prompted  ' 
By  the  moft  noble  and  generous  Inducements  to  exert  themfelres ; 

Emulation  was  ezcited| 
Ornamental  Compofitions  were  better  underftood ; 
And  every  Manufa^ure,  where  Fancy  has  any  concern. 
Was  gradually  railed  to  a  Pitch  of  ?erfedion  before  unknown ; 
laibmuch,  that  thoie  of  Geeat-Bilitaik 

Are  at  prefent  the  moft  Elegant 
And  the  moil  in  Efleem  of  any  in  Euaops/* 

This  plate  he  afterwards  made  to  ferve  for  a  receipt 
for  fubfcriptions^  firft  to  a  print  of  an  *'  Eledion 
**  Entertainment  ;'*  and  afterwards  for  three  prints 

D  4  more^ 


C    4»    ] 

more,  reprefentlng  the  ^'  polling  for.Biembers  for 
^^  parliament,  canvafling  for  votes;  anil-^h^ring  the 
<^  members.'*    The  royal  crown  at  the  tpp  of  this 
receipt  is  darting  its  rays  on  mitres,  gctron^ts,  the 
Chancellor's  great  feal,  the  Speaker's  hat,  &c.  &c: 
and  on  a  fcroU  is  written,  **  An  A&.  for  the  Encou- 
**  ragement  of  the  Arts  of  Defigning,  Engraving, 
^*  and  Etching,  by  vetting  the  Properties  thereof  in 
^^  the  Inventors  and  Engravers,  during  the  Time 
**  therein  mentioned."     It  was  "  Defigned^  etched, 
*^  and  publiihed  as  the  A&  direds,  by  fF.  Hogarth^ 
•'  March   20,  1754."     After  Hogarth's  death,    the 
legiflature,  by  Stat.  7  Geo.  III.  chap.  38.  granted  to 
his  widow  a  further  exclufive  term  of  twenty  years 
in  the  property  of  her  hufband's  works. 

In  1736  he  had  the  honour  of  being  diftinguifhed 
in  a  mafterly  poem  of  a  congenial  Ilumourift.  The 
Dean  of  St.  Patrick* s^  in  his  "  Defcription  of  the 
**  Legion  Club,"  after  pourtraying  many  charadlcrs 
with  all  the  fcvcrity  of  the  moll  pointed  fatire,  ex-. 
claims, 

"  How  I  want  thee,  humorous  Hogarth ! 
**  Thou,  I  hc::r,  a  pleafant  rogue  art  J 
**  Were  but  you  and  I  acquainted, 
•'  Every  monfter  fliould  be  painted  : 
*^  You  fliould  try  your  graving  tools 
^*  On  this  odious  group  of  fools ; 
*^  Draw  the  beafts  as  I  defcribe  them ; 
**  Form  their  features,  while  I  gibe  them ; 

•'  Draw 


J'- 


C  4«  3 

f«  praw  them  like,  fori  oflure  jrc, 

•*  Yc^jWiU;  need  no  <tfrifoi;j^ra. 

^^  Draw  them  fo,  that  we  may  trace  .j 

"  All  the  foul  in  every  face." 

.  ....  •  * 

An  elegant; compliment  was  icon  after  paid  to  f&« 
^orth  by  SomerviUj  the  author'  of  The  -  Cbace,  who 
dedicates  his  Hobbinol  to  him  as  to  ^^  the  greateft 
"  matter  i^-the  burlefque  way/-     Yet  Fielding,  in 
the  Preface  to  Jo/epb  Andrews,  fays,  >*  He- who 
^^  ihould   call  the  ingenious  Hogarth  a  bUrlef^ue 
"  painter,  would,:  in  my  opinion,  dp  him  very  little 
"  honour,  ^for.  fureit  is -much  cafier,  much  lefs 'the 
*^  fubjedt  of  admiration,  to  paint  a  man  with  a  nofe^ 
*'  or  any  other  feature  of.a.  prepofterous  fizc,  or  to 
"  expofe  him^ih  fome  abfurd  or  monftrous^  attitude^ 
^'  than  to  exprefs  the  afie&ions  of  men  on  canVas. 
'^  It  hath  been  thought  a  vaft  commendation  cf  a 
"  painter,  to  fay  his  figures  feem  to  breathe ;  l)ut 
^'  furcly.it:  is  a  much  greater  and  nobler  applaufe, 
"  that  they  appear  to  think  */' 

*  "  What  Caricatura  is  in  painting,  fays  Fielding^  Burlefque 
is  in  writing ;  and  in  the  fame  manner  the  comic  writer  and 
painter  correlate  to  each  other.  And  here  I  ihall  obfenre, 
that  as  in  the  former  the  pointer  feems  to  have  the  advantage  ; 
fo  it  is  in '  the  latter  infinitely  on  the  fide  of  the  writer  :  for 
the  Monflrons  is  much  eafier  to  paint  than  defcribe,  and  the 
Ridiculous  to  defcribe  than  paint.  And  though  perhaps  this 
latter  fpecies  doth  not  in  either  fcience  fo  ilrongly  afiedl  and 
agitate  the  mufcles  as  the  other ;  yet  it  will  be  owned,  I  be- 
lieve, that  a  more  rational  and  ufeful  pleafurc  ariies  to  us 
frona  it," 

Vincent 


C  f  ] 

Vmeent  Bounu,  that  claflical  ornamenc  cf  /T^/?- 
minjler  Stbocl,  addreffcd  the  following  copy  of  hen- 
dccafyllableft 

"  Ad  GcTLIELMUM  HoGARTH,  XIo^kIixM* 

"  Oyi  mores  hominum  improbos,  iaeptotf 
"  Incidis,  nee  inclcganter,  reri, 
*•  Derifor  lepidus,  fed  &  fevcrus, 
**  Correftor  gravis,  at  ncc  mvenuftus  ; 
"  Seu  pingis  merctricios  amores, 
"  Et  fccnas  mifera  viccfque  vitx  ; 
••  Ut  tcntat  prctio  rudem  puellam 
f*.Corruptrijc  anus,  impudcns,  obe&i 
,  -jff,  Ut  (c  vbc  rcprimtt  Ubidinofus 

•  f*  Seortator,  vencri  paratus  omni : 
**  Seu  dcfcribcre  vis,  facete  cenfor, 
"  Bacchanalia  fera  protrahentcs 

,  *^  Ad  conSnia  craftina"  diei, 
.  r".  Fraflos  ciim  cyathis  tubes,  matellatn 
,  .Sf.  Not!  plcnam  oiodo  fed  fuperfluentetn, 
"  Et  fortetn  validumque  combibonem 
"  Litantem  fupcr  amphord  rcplet^i 
"  Jiicundiftimus  omnium  fereris, 
*'  Nullique  arti6cum  fecundus,  xtas 
"  Qiios  prxfcns  dedir,  aut  dabit  futura. 
,  f*  Matte  6,  cja  age,  maiSe  fis  aniicu* 

•  **  Vircuti :  vitiiquc  quod  noraris, 
*'  Pcrgas  pingerc,  Si  cxhibere  coriim. 
"  Cenfura  utilior  tua  «quiorque 
•'  Omni  vel  falirarum  accrbitntc, 
"  Omni  vcl  rigidiflimo  cachinno." 


C    43    1 

By  priated  propoTaby  dated  Jan.  i$,  1744-5,  £^ 
ggrth  offered  to  the  higheft  bidder  **  the  fix  piduret 
<(  called  The  Harlot's  Progn/s^  the  eight  pidures 
•^  called  Tbe  Rake's  Progrefs^  the  four  pidures  re* 
^  prefefitbg  Mornings  Noon,  Evemf^,  and  Nigit^ 
^  and  that  of  ACompof^  rfSiroiUng  ASreffes  dr^ffmg 
^^  in  a  Barn ;  all  of  them  his  own  original  paintings^ 
^'  from  which  no  other  copies  than  the  prints  have 
^*  ever  been  taken.'*  The  biddings  were  to  remain 
open  from  the  firft  to  the  laft  day  of  Fehruary^  on 
theie  conditions  :  ^'  i.  That  every  bidder  ihall  have 
**  an  entire  leaf  numbered  in  the  book  i>f  iale,  on 
<<  the  top  of  which  will  be  entered  the  name  and 
*^  place  of  abode,  the  fum  paid  by  him,  the  time 
'^  when,  and  for  which  pidure. — 2.  That,  on  the 
'^  lad  day  of  fale,  a  clock  (ftriking  every  five  mi- 
^'  nutes)  fhall  be  placed  in  the  room ;  and  when  it 
^'  hath  (truck  five  minutes  after  twelve,  the  fir  ft 
*'  pidure  mentioned  in  the  fale-book  will  be  deemed 
^*  as  fold ;  the  fecond  pidure  when  the  clock  hath 
*'  ftruck  the  next  five  minutes  after  twelve;  and 
**  fo  on  fucccffively  till  the  whole  nineteen  pidhires 
*^  are  fold.  3.  That  none  advance  lefs  than  gold 
^  at  each  bidc^ing.  4.  No  perfon  to  bid  on  the  laft 
•*  day,  except  thofe  whofe  names  were  before  en- 
*•  tered  in  the  book. — As  Mr.  Hogarth's  room  is  but 
**  fmall,  he  begs  the  favour  that  no  pcrfons,  except 
^'  thofe  whofe  names  are  entered  in  the  book,  will 
^*  come  to  view  his  paintings  on  the  laft  day  of  fale."* 

The 


r  44  ] 

The  piAures  were  fold  for  the  following  prices : 

Six  Harlot's  Progrefs,  at  1 4  guineas  each  ^.88  4    o 

Eight  Rake'sProgrefsjat  22  guineas  each  184  16    o 

Morning,  20  guineas                                 21  o    o 

Noon,  37  guineas                                      38  17    o 

Evening,  38  guineas                                 39  18    o' 

Night,  26  guineas                                     27  60 

Strolling  Players,  26  guineas                     27  6    o 


427     7    o 


At  the  fame  time  the  fix  piftures  of  Marriage- a-la-' 
mode  were  announced  as  intended  for  Sfale  as  foon 
as  the  plates  then  taking  from  them  Ihould 
be  completed.  This  fct  of  Prints  may  be  regarded 
as  the  ground-work  of  a  novel  called  "  The  Marriage 
**  A&j'  by  Dr.  Sbebbeare,  and  of  "  The  Clandcftine 
**  Marriage/'  In  the  prologue  to  that  excellent 
comedy,  Mr.  Garrick  thus  handfomely  expreffed  hi^ 
regard  for  the  memory  of  his  friend  : 

**  Poets  and  painters,  who  from  nature  draw 
**  Their  beft  and  richeft  (lores,  have  made  this  law : 
**  That  each  ihould  neighbourly  affift  his  brother, 
**  And  ftcal  with  decency  from  one  another. 
"  To-night,  your  matchlefs    Hogarth   gives  the 

**  thought, 
"  Which  from  his  canvas  to  the  ftage  is  brought. 
•*  And  who  fo  fit  to  warm  the  poet's  mind, 
**  As  he  who  pidturM  morals  and  mankind  ? 

''  But 


1  * 


^  • 


€€ 


t    AS    1 

^  Sot  Dot  the  fame  their  chiraders  and  fceneft  ; 
^^  Both  Ifibour  for  one  end^  by  different  means  : 
^'  Each,  as  it  fuits  him,  takes  a  fep^rate  road, 
'^  Tbeif  one  great  objed:.  Marriage  a  la  Mode  ! 
*^  Where  tides  deign  with  cits  to  have  and  hold, 
^^  And  change  rich  blood  for  more  fubftantial  gold! 
*^  And  honoured  trade  from  intereft  turns  afide. 

To  hazard  happinefs  for  titled  piide. 

The  painter  dead,  yet  ilill  he  charms  the  eye; 

While  England  lives^  his  fame  can  never  die  : 
**  But  he,  *  who  ftruts  his  hour  upon  the  ftage/ 
^  Can  fcarce- extend  his  fame  for  half  an  age ; 
**  Nor  pen  nor  pencil  can  the  ador  fave, 
**  The  art,  and  artift,  fliare  one  common  grave  ••** 

*  This  idea  originally  occurred  in  Colle^  Cllher^s  Apohj^^ 
From  thence  it  was  traDfplantedby  L/^'^into  his  celebrated 
poem  intituled  7ht  ABor.  Lying  thus  in  the  way  of  Garrick^ 
he  took  it  up  for  the  ufe  of  the  prologue  already  quoted. 
Ladly,  Mr,  Sheri Jan  J  in  his  beautiful  ilf<?/i(?/$-,  condefcended  to 
borrow  it^  only  becaufe  it  fpared  him  the  labour  of  unlocking 
the  richer  ftorehoufe  of  his  own  imagination. 

I  may  however  remark  that  Cthher^  when  he  fuggefted  thif 
mortifying  reflection,  had  more  reafon  on  his  fide  than  fome 
•of  his  fucceifors  who  have  indulged  themfelves  in  the  fame  do* 
lorous  Urain  of  complaint.  To  whatever  oblivion  the  cele- 
brated aftors  of  the  laft  age  have  been  refigned,  the  pencil  of 
Hogarth^  Dancey  Zoffani^  and  Reynolds^  had  left  Mr.  Garrick 
not  the  flighted  reafon  to  be  apprehcnfive  that,  in  his  own 
particular  cafe,  the  art  and  the  artift  would  alike  be  forgotten. 
Aleanwhile,  let  our  heroes  of  the  (lage  be  taught  to  moderate 
their  anxiety  for  podhumous  renown,  by  a  recollection  that 
their  peculiar  modes  of  excellence  will,  at  lead,  be  as  well 
preferved  to  futurity  as  thofe  of  the  lords  Chatham  and  Man/* 
fields  whofc  talents,  perhapS|  might  fupport  an  equal  claim  to 
perpetuation. 

6  Hogarth 


I 


■      [    4«    ] 

He^hgrfh  Iiad  projcdcd  a  Happy  Marriage,  hj  waf  fl 
of  counterpart  to  his  Marriage  A  la  Mode.  A  defigo  J 
for  the  firft  of  his  intended  fix  plates  he  had  ikctched  ' 
out  in  colours  ;  and  the  following  is  as  accurate  aa' 
account  of  it  as  could  be  furnifhcd  by  a  gentleman 
who,  long  ago  enjoyed  only  a  few  minutes'  fight  of  , 
fb  imperfcft  a  curiofity. 

The  time  fuppofed  was  immediately  after  the  re- 
torn  of  the  parties  from  church.  The  fcenc  lay  in 
the  ball  of  an  antiquated  country  manfion.  On  one 
fide,  the  married  couple  were  reprefcnted  fitting.  , 
Behind  them  was  a  group  of  their  young  friends  of 
botb  fexes,  in  the  aft  of  breaking  bride-cake  over 
their  heads.  In  front  appeared  the  father  of  the 
young  lady,  grafping  a  bumper,  and  drinking,  with 
a  fcemiiig  roar  of  exultation,  to  the  future  happinefs 
of  her  and  her  hutband.  By  his  fide  was  a  table 
covered  with  refrcftiincnts.  Jollity  rather  than  po- 
Ittenefs  was  the  defignation  of  his  charaifter.  Under 
the  fcreen  of  the  hall,  feveral  ruftic  muficians  In 
grotefque  attitudes,  together  with  fervants,  tenants, 
&c.  were  arranged.  Through  the  arch  by  which 
the  room  was  entered,  the  eye  was  led  along  a  paf- 
fcgc  into  the  kitchen,  which  afforded  a  glimpfe  of 
faccrdotai  luxury.  Before  the  dripping-pan  flood  a 
well-fed  divine,  in  his  gown  and  caflbck,  with  his 
watch  in  his  hand,  giving  direftions  to  a  cook,  dreft  , 
all  in  white,  who  was  employed  in  balling  a  baunch-l 
of  venifon. 

Among  the  faces  of  the  principal  figures,  none* 

but:] 


C    47    ]: 

l:M]t  diat  of  tbe  young  ladf  was  completdy  fioHhed. 
JEJfigartb  had  been  often  reproached  for  his  inability 
«o  impact  grace  and  dignity  to  his  heroines.    The 
"fcride  was  therefore  meant  to  vindicate  his  pencil 
£rom  fi>  degrading  an  imputation.    The  effort^  how* 
^vecy  was  unfuccefsful.     The   girl    was  certainly 
pretty ;   but  her  features,  if  I  may  ufe  the  tenxij^ 
ivere  uneducated.    She  might  have  attra&ed  notice 
as  a  chambermaid,  but  would  have  failed  to  extort 
applaufe  as  a  woman  of  faihion.    The  parfon,  and 
hb  culinary  aflbciate,  were  more  laboured  than  any 
other  parts  of  the  pi^re.    It  is  natural  for  us  to 
dwell  longefl;  on  that  diviiion  of  a  fubjed:  which  is 
mod  congenial  to  our  private  feelings*    The  painter 
(at  down  with  a  refolution  to  delineate  beauty  im« 
proved  by  art ;  but  feems,  as  ufual,  to  have  deviated 
into  meannefs ;  or  could  not  help  negle&ing  his  ori« 
ginal  purpofe,  to  luxuriate  In  fuch  ideas  as  his  iitua« 
tion  in  early  life  had  fitted  him  to  exprefs.     He 
found,  himfelf,  in  ihort,  out  of  his  element  in  the 
parlour,  and  therefore  haftened,  in  queft  of  eafe  and 
amufement,  to  the  kitchen  fire.      ChurcbiUy   with 
more  force  than  delicacy,  once  obferved  of  him, 
that  he  only  painted  the  backfide  of  nature.     It  mult 
be  allowed,  that  fuch  an  artift,  however  excellent 
in  his  walk»  was  better  qualified  to  reprefent  the  low- 
bom  parent,  than  the  royal  preferver  of  a  foundling. 
The  iketch  already  defcribed  (which  I  believe  is 
in  Mrs,  Garrick^s  poflTeflion)  was  made  after  the  ap- 
pearance of  Marriage  d  la  Mode,  and  many  years  be« 

fore 


fijrt  tifr^ffifi's  dcaili.  Why  he  did  not  pirfevcre  iii'^^H 
Ms  plan,  during  fuch  an  inren'al  of  timr,  we  cail^^^| 
only  gucfs.  It  is  probable  that  his  undertaking  re-^^H 
quired  a  longer  fucccflion  of  images  relative  to  do-'^^| 
mcftic  happtnefs,  than  had  fallen  within  his  notice,  ^^| 
or  courted  his  participation.  Hogarth  had  no  chiU'  ^^| 
drcn ;  and  though  the  nuptial  union  may  be  happ/^^B 
without  them,  yci  fuch  happinefs  will  have  nothing  j^H 
pifturefque  in  it;  and  we  may  obfcrve  of  this  truljT  ^^| 
natural  and  faithful  painter,  that  he  rarely  ventured  ^ 
10  exhibit  fcenes  with  which  he  was  not  perfeftly 
well  acquainted. 

Let  us,  however,    more  completely  obviate    an  ^J 
objciSion  that  may  be  raifed  agaioft  the  propriety  of  ^^| 
ihe  foregoing  criticifm.    .Some  reader  may  urge,  that   ^™ 
perhaps,  all  circumftances  confidercd,  a  wedding  ce- 
lebrated at  an  old  manfion-houfc  did  not  require  the 
appearance  of  confummate  beauty,  refined  by  the 
powers  of  education.     The  remark  has  feeming  juf- 
tlce  on  its  fidei    but  Hogarth  had  previoufly  avowed 
his  intent  to  exhibit  a  perfect  face,  divefted  of  vnal- 
garlty ;    and  fuccecdcd  fo  well,  at  lead  in  his  own 
opinion,  that  he  carried  the  canvas,  of  which  WK^^fil 
are  now  fpeaking,  in  triumph  to  Mr.  Carrick,  whovB^^V 
private  ilritturcs  on  it  coincided  with  thofe  of  the 
perfon  who  furnifhes  this  additional  confirmation  of 
our  painter's  notorious  ignorance  in  what  is  ftyled— 
THi;  GRACFFiTL.     From  the  account  I  have  receive* 
concerning  a  defign  for  a  previous  compartment  t 
longing  to  the  fame  ftory,  ihcrc  is  little  reafon  to  ta- 

menc 


rive^Hfl 

tbe^l 


C    49    3 

fnent  the  lofs  of  it.  It  contained*  no  appeal  either 
to  the  fancy  or  to  the  hearts.  An  artift^  who^  re- 
prefenting  the  marriage  ceremony  in  a  chapel^  ren- 
ders the  clerk,  who  lays  the  haflbcks,  the  principal 
figure  in  it^  may  at  lead  be  taxed  with  want  of 
judgement. 

Soon  after  the  peace  of  Aix  la  Chapelle^  he  went 
over  to  France f  and  was  taken  into  cuftody  at  Calais, 
while  he  was  drawing  the  gate  of  that  town>  a  cir- 
cumftance  which  he  has  recorded  in  his  pidlure^  in- 
tituledj  "  O  the  Roaft  Beef  of  Old  England  T  pub- 
lilhed  Marth  26>  1749^  He  was.  adually  carried 
before  the  governor  as  a  fpy^  and,  after  a  very  ftriO: 
examination,  committed  a  prifoner  to  Grandjire^  his 
landlord^  on  bis  promifing  that  Hogarth  fliould  not 
go  out  of  his  houfe  till  it  was  to  embark  for  England. 
This  account,  I  have  good  authority  for  faying,  he 
himfelf  gave  to  his  friend  Mr.  Goftling  at  Canterbury^ 
at  whofe  houfe  he  lay  the  night  after  his  arrivd. 

The  fame  accident,  however,  has  been  more  cif- 
cumftantially  related  by  an  eminent  Engiijh  engraver, 
who  was  abroad  when  it  happened.  Hayman^  and 
Cbeere  the  ftatuary,  were  of  the  lame  party* 

While  Hegartb  was  in  France^  wherever  he  went, 
he  was'fure  to  be  diffatisfied  with  all  he  faw.  If  ah 
elegant  circumftance  either  in  furnirurci  or  the  or^- 
namcnts  of  a  room,  was  pointed  out  as  deferving 
approbation,  his  narrow  ^nd  conftant  reply  wa?j 
*'  What  then?  but  it  is  French  I  Their  houfes 
*^  are  all   gilt  and  b — t."     In  the  ftreets  he   was 

£  often 


t  50  1 

often  clamouFODfly  rude.  A  tattcr'd  bag,  or  a  pair 
of  filk  flocking5  with  holes  b  them,  drew  t  tor- 
rent  of  imprudent  language  from  him.  In  vain 
did  my  informant  (who  knew  that  many  Scotch  and 
Irijh  were  often  within  hearing  of  thefc  reproaches, 
and  would  rejoice  at  leaft  in  an  opportunity  of  get- 
ting our  painttr  mobbed)  advife  him  to  be  more 
cautious  in  his  public  remarks.  He  laughed  at  all 
fuch  admonition,  and  treated  the  offerer  of  it  as  a 
pufillanimous  wrc'ci:,  unworthy  of  a  refidence  in  b 
free  country,  n-.iking  him  the  butt  of  his  ridicule 
for  fevcral  evenings  afterwards.  This  unreafonablc 
pleafjnTry  was  at  length  completely  extinguilhed  by 
what  happened  while  he  was  drawing  the  Gate  at 
■Calati ;  for  though  the  innocence  of  his  defign  was 
rendered  perfectly  apparent  on  the  tcftioiony  of  other 
fltctcbcs  he  had  about  him,  which  were  by  no  mean* 
fuch  as  could  ferve  the  purpofc  of  an  engineer,  he 
was  told  by  the  Commandant,  that,  had  not  the 
peace  been  a<5tually  jigned,  he  Ihould  have  been 
obliged  to  have  hung  him  up  immediately  on  the 
Tamparts.  Two  guards  were  then  provided  to  con- 
vey him  on  Clipboard  i  nor  did  they  quit  him  till  he 
was  three  miles  from  the  fliore.  They  then  fpun  him 
round  tike  a  top,  on  the  deck;  nnd  told  him  he  »-u 
at  liberty  to  proceed  on  his  voyage  without  farther 
attendance  or  moleftation.  With  the  fllghtcft  allu- 
lioa  to  the  ludicrous  particulars  of  this  affair,  poor 
Hegarth  was  by  no  means  plcafed.  The  leading  cir- 
cumftancc  in  it  his  own  pencil  has  recorded.. 


t  51  3  .  .   . 

Soda  ^er  this  period  he  purchafed  a  Iktla  houfe 
ACUJwick ;  where  he  ufiully  paffed  the  greateft 
part  of  the  fummrr  feafoB^  yet  not  without  ogoii* 
fiooai  vifits  to  his  dwelling  tn  Lekefter  Fitidi. 

In  17  jj5  he  appeared  to  the  world  in  tdie  charac* 
ter  of  an  author^  and  publilhed  a  4}uarto  valuing 
intituledj  ^*  The  Analyfis  of  Beauty^  written  with  a 
*'view  of  fixing  the  fluAuating  Ideas  of  Tafie.'* 
In  diis.  performance  he  Ihe ws»  by  a  variety  of  ex« 
amplesy  that  a  curve  is  the  line  of  beauty^  and  that 
iDUod  fwelling  figures  arc  mod  pleafing  to  the  eye ; 
and  the  truth  of  his  opinion  has  been  countenanced 
by  fubfequent  writers  on  the  fubjed:. 

Aax)Dg  the  letters  of  Dr.  Bircb  is  the  following 
iix)rtone^  fent  with  the  '*  Analyfis  of  Beauty/'  and 
dated  .Nfev.  25, 1 753  :  "  Sir,  I  beg  the  favour  of  you 
'^  to  prefent  to  the  Royal  Society  the  enclofed  work, 
"  which  will  receive  great  honour  by  their  accept- 
'^  ance  of  it.  I  am.  Sir,  your  moft  obedient  hum* 
"  ble  fervant,  Wm.  Hogarth/' 

In  this  book,  the  leading  idea  of  which  was 
hieroglyphically  thrown  out  in  a  frontifpiece  to  his 
works  in  17451  he  acknowledges  himfelf  indebted 
to  his  friends  for  afliftance,  and  particularly  to  one 
gentleman  for  his  corre&ions  and  amendments  of  at 
lead  a  third  part  of  the  wording.  This  friend,  I  am 
aflured,  was  Dr.  Benjamin  Hoadly  the  phyfician,  who 
carried  on  the  work  to  about  a  third  part,  Chap.  IX. 
^d  then,  through  indifpofition,  declined  the  friendly 
oS«;e  with  regret.  Mr.  Hogarth  applied  to  his  neigh- 

£  a  bour^ 


€€ 


i   5«  J 

boufj  Mr.  Ralph ;  but  it  was  impoflible  for  two  fucli 
perfont  to  agree,  both  alike  vain  and  pofitive.    He 
proceeded  no  farther  than  about  a  iheet,  and  they 
then  parted  friends,  and  feem  to  have  continued  fuch. 
In  the  Eftimate  of  the  Manners  and  Principles  of  the 
Times,  vol.  I.  p.  47,  publilhed  in  1 757  by  Dr.  Brown, 
that  author  pays  a  compliment  to  Mr.  Hogarth's  ge- 
nius.    Mr.  Ralphs    animadverting   on    the    work, 
amongft  other  things,  fays,  '*  It  is  happy  for  Mr. 
^*  Hogartbf  in  my  humble  opinion,  that  he  is  brought 
*'  upon   the  flage  in  fuch  company,  rather  for  the 
*^  fake  of  fattening  fome  additional  abufe  upon  the 
**  public,  than  of  beftowing  any  fpecial  grace  upon 
him.     ^  Neither  the  comic  pencil,  nor  the  ferious 
pen  of  our  ingenious  countrymen  (fo  the  Efti- 
•*  mator  or  Appraifer's  Patent  of  Allowance  runs) 
**  have  been  able  to  keep  alive  the  tafte  of  Nature 
'*  or  of  Beaut)'.*    For  where  he  has  chofcn  to  be  a 
niggard  of   his  acknowledgements,    every  other 
man  would  chufe  to  be  a  prodigal  :   Nature  had 
"  played  the  Proicus  with   us,    had  invited  us  to 
*'  purfuc  her  in  every  Ihape,  but  had  never  fuffered 
"  U3  to  overtake  her  :    Beauty  all  had  been  fmitten 
•'  with,  but  nobody  had  been  able  to  aflign  us  a 
**  rule  by  which  it  might  be  defined  :  This  was  Mr. 
*'  Hogarth's  tafk ;   this  is  what  he  has  fucccedcd  in  ; 
•'  coinpofition  is  at  laft  become  a  fcioncc;    the  ftu- 
^*  dent  knows  what  he  is  in  fcarch  of;    the  connoif- 
"  feur  what  to  praifc ;    and  fancy  or  fafhion,    or 
"  prefcription,  will  ufurp  the  hacknied  name  of  taflc 

^'  no 


tf 


C    53    3 

'^  no  more.  So  that,  whatever  may  he  faid  in  dif- 
*'  paragement  of  the  age  on  other  accounts^  it  has 
^^  more  merit  and  honour  to  claim  on  this^  than  any 
*^  which  preceded  it.  And  I  will  venture  for  once 
**  to  prophefy,  from  the  improvements  already  ma- 
*^  nifeftedy  that  we  ihall  have  the  arts  of  defigning 
^^  to  value  ourfelves  upon,  when  all  our  ancient  vir« 
**  tues  are  worn  out/' 

The  office  of  finifiiing  the  work,  and  fuperintend* 
ing  the  publication,  was  laftly  taken  up  by  Dr.  Mo^ 
relly  who  went  through  the  remainder  of  the  book  *. 
The  preface  was  in  lik?  manner  corredled  by  the 
Rcy.Mr.Townley.  The.  family  of //(?rjr/^  rejoiced 
when  the  lad  fhcet  of  the  Analyfts  was  printed-  olF; 
as  the  frequent  difputes  he  had  with  his  coadjutors, 
m  the  progrefs  of  the  work,  did  not  much  harmonize 
his  difpoiition. 

This  work  was  tranflated  into  German  by  Mr^ 
Mylinsy  when  in  England^  under  the  author's  infpec- 
tion  ;  and  the  tranflation,  containing  twenty-two 
iheets  in  quarto,  and  two  large  plates,  was  printed  in 
LfindoHj  price  five  dollars. 

Of  the  fame  performance  a  new  and  correA  edition 

♦  Dr.  jif,  once  obfervcd  to  J.  N.  in  a  letter  on  this  fuhjeft, 
^  In  the  13th  chapter  I  was  fomewhat  puzzled  with  the^f 
**  and  roufiJ^  or  the  concave  and  cowvex^  appearing  the  reverfe ; 
*'  till  the  fun  happily  ihining  in  upon  the  corqice,  I  had  a  fair 
••  example  of  what  he  intended  to  exprefs.  The  next  chap- 
••  ter,  wirh  regard  to  colour hg^  did  not  go  on  quite  fo  fmooth ; 
••  for,  if  I  fatisfied  hm^  I  was  not  fatisfied  myfeif  with  his 
**  peculiar  principles ;  nor  could  I  relifh  his  laying  the  blame 
•♦  on  the  €olourmtn^  &c," 

E  3  was 


C    54    1 

WIS  (Jafy  Tj  1754)  propofed  for  publication  at  Bcr^ 
Sn,  bj  Cb*  Fr.  Vok^  with  an  ezplanatioD  of  Mr.  H«- 
gariVs  iaiirical  prints,  tranflated  from  the  French ; 
the  whole  to  fubfcribm  for  one  dollar^  but  ^fter  fix 
weeks  to  be  raifed  to  two  dollars. 

An  ItaBan  tranflation  was  alfo  publifbed  at  Leghorn 
SB  176 1,  8rOy  dedicated  *^  All*  illuitriflime  Signora 
^  I%ina  M^hMiux^  Jhmz  In^Ie/e.^ 

**  This  book,**  Mr.  ff^alpoU  obfcrvcs,  ^*  had  many 
^  fcnfibk  hints  and  obfervations ;  but  it  did  not 
^  carry  the  convi^os,  nor  meet  the  univerfal  ac* 
**  quiefcence  he  ezpe&ed,  As  he  treated  his  con* 
*•  temporaries  with  fcom,  they  triumphed  over  this 
^' publication  *9  and  irritated  him  to  czpofe  him, 

**  Many 

^  One  exception  to  tfait  remark  oc^rs  in  rhr  G^ntlemuin'i 
Mfgmzhtt  for  I7$4«  p.  14  ;  where  the  rcvicner  of  the  Analyfit 
obfervei,  that  it  is  "  a  book  written  with  ibac  precthon  aad 
**  perfpicuity  which  can  on)y  reAilt  froo^  a  pert'e^  koonrlcdge 
**  of  hifi  fubjefi  in  al!  iti  extent.  Hit  rules  are  illustrated  by 
**  near  two  hundred  flgnm,  engraved  by  faimfelf ;  the  know* 
^*  ledge  which  it  contains  is  uoiverfaiiy  vfeiul,  and  as  all  terroi 
**  of  art  are  avoided,  the  language  uill  be  uuiverfaliy  under- 
*<  fiood.  The  pki}-er  and  the  dancing- mafic r,  whom  others 
*'  coniider  as  pattemi  of  jnfi  aifrioD  and  gtnreel  dcportjaaiit, 
**  are  not  leis  iaSni£ted  than  the  ftatu;iry  and  ibe  painter ; 
^*  nor  is  thpre  any  fprdes  of  beauty  or  elegance  that  is  not 
**  here  invrAigatcd  and  anpl)'fed. 

**  A  book,  by  whirh  the  author  has  difcovered  fuch  fupe* 
**  riority,  could  fearce  fiail  of  creating  many  enemies ;  thofe 
^*  whe-tdznit  hit  Analyfis  to  be  juA,  are  difpoled  to  deny  tb«t 
^*  it  is  new.  Though  in  the  year  174S1  having  drawn  a  fef* 
^  peotise  line  on  a  painter's  pallet,  with  theie  words  under 
^  it,  <  the  Itoe  of  beauty/  as  a  frooti^iece  to  his  prints,  no 
^*  ^S^'^"  hieroglyphic  ever  produced  greater  variety  of  ipcm 
#  cmUtioBi  bpth  painters  and  fculpiois  then  came  to  ct^uira 

••the 


C  s$  3 

^^  Many  wretched  burlefque  prints  came  out  to  ri- 
<^  dicule  his  iyftem.  ThcFe  was  a  better  anfwer  ta 
*'  it  in  one  of  the  two  prints  that  he  gave  to  illuf- 
**  trate  his  hjrpothefis.  In  the  bait,  had  he  con^becfc 
^^  bimfelf  to  fuch  outlines  as  compofe  awkasdneftt 
^  and  deformity,  he  would  have  proved  half  lu» 
^  afl^Ftion ;  but  he  has  added  two  iamples  of  grace 
*^  in  a  young  lord  and  lady>  that  are  ftrikingly  ftiffl 
^  andaffeded.  They  area  Bath  beau  and  z  countyi 
**  Beauty." 

Hcgartb  had:  one  failing  in  common  with  moft 
people  who  atuun  wealtb  and  eminence  without  the 
9id  of  libera]  educatioo.  He  afiedted  to  defpife 
every  kind  pf  knowledge  which  he  did  not  pofiefs. 
Having  eft^blifiied  his  fame  with  little  or  no  obliga^ 
noi^to  literalure,  he  either  conceived  it  to  be  need- 
]eik^  or  decried  it  becaufe  it  lay  out  of  his  readu 
His  fentiments^  in  fliort,  refembled  thofe  of  Jsack 
Cadiy  who  pronounced  fentence  on  the  clerk  of 

*^  the  meaning  of  a  fymbol,  which  they  foon  pretended  ta 
**  hsive  been  their  old  acquaintance  ;  though  the  account 
^  they  could  give  of  its  properties  were  fcarce  io  fatisftdoiy 
**  as  that  of  a  day-labourer,  who  conflantly  ufes  the  kn/er^ 
««  could  give  of  that  inflnunent,  as  a  mechanical  power.  The 
**  work,  however,  will  live  when  thefe  cavils  arc  forgotten ; 
**  and  except  the  originals,  of  which  it  is  pretended  to  be  a, 
<«  copy,  are  produced,  there  is  no  quedion  but  that  the  name 
^  of  the  author  will  defcend  to  pofterity  with  that  honour 
'*  which  competitors  only  can  wilh  to  withhold." 

It  ibould  be  obferved,  however,  that  the  general  decifion  on 
H^gartb^s  performance  may  be  juft.  Certain  we  are,  that  it 
hai  not  been  reverfed  by  the  opinion  of  the  Firft  of  our  Ms* 
4eni  Painters. 

£  4  Chatham 


[    56    ] 

Cbafbanif  becaufe  he  could  write  and  read.  Till^ 
ID  evil  hour,  this  c(^)ebrated  anift  commenced  an 
author,  and  was  obliged  to  employ  the  friends  al- 
ready mentioned  tp  cotre^  his  Analyfi$  of  Beauty  *y 
he  did  not  fecm  to  have  difcovered  that  even  fpelling 
was  a  neceflary  qualification ;  and  yet  he  had  ven- 
tured to  ridicule  f  the  late  Mr.  Riches  deficiency  as 
to  this  particular,  in  a  npte  which  lies  before  the 
Rake  whofe  play  is  refufed  while  he  remains  in  con- 
finement for  debt.  Previous  to  the  time  of  which 
we  are  now  i[5eaking,  one  of  our  artiiPs  common 
topicks  of  declamation  was  the  ufcleflhei^  of  book% 
to  a  ipan  of  his  profefiioQ.  In  Deer^ftreiU  among 
other  vplumes  configned  by  him  tp  the  paftry  cppk, 
we  find  ^urnbuU  on  ancient  Fainting^  a  treatife  which 
Hogarth  Ihould  have  been  able  to  underftand,  before 
be  ventured  to  condemn*  Garrick  himfelf,  however, 
was  not  more  dudile  to  flattery.  A  word  in  favour 
of  Sigi/munda,  might  have  commanded  a  proof  print, 
or  forced  an  original  fkctch  out  of  our  artift's  hands. 
The  furnifher  of  this  remark  owe?  one  of  his  fcarceft 
performances  to  the  fucccfs  of  a  compliment,  which 
might  have  ftuck  even  in  Sir  Godfrey  KnelUr^s  throat. 

•  The  Anal^^:  itfclf  however  alfords  fufficicnt  fpccimens  of 
inaccuracy  in  fpclling.  Thus  we  have  (prcf.  p.  xix.)  Sychmen 
ipifead  of  Cyclamtn  ;  (p.  44.)  calc/donian  for  C/j»a!crdonian  ; 
{p.  65.)  nuckles  for  inucklcs ;  (p.  97.)  Irif-^-ftitch  for  Iris- 
fiicch,  &c.&:c.  In  the  (heeci  that  contain  thefe  errors ,  it  is 
eafy  to  conceive  that  Ho^artb  mud  have  been  his  owncorre&or 
of  the  prcfj. 

+  It  IS  fo  extraordinary  for  an  illiterate  perfon  to  ridicule 
inaccuracy  of  fpdlingi  that  this  might  probably  be  a  real 
blunder. 

The 


C   S9   J 

The  foUowing  autlien(icated  flory  of  ourwtift 
will  alfo  fenre  to  flieir;liow  much  marc  eafy  it  it  to 
detcdt  iU-plaoed  €t  hyperbolical  adulation  refpeding^ 
others^  than  when  appUed  to  ourfelves •  Ikgarsk 
being  at  dinner  with  the  great  CbefeldtHf  and  fixne 
other  company^  was  told  that  Mr.  TiB&r  Fr^^  .iur** 
geon  of  Si.  Bartbol0mew^s  ib/pital^  a  few  evenings 
before  at  Dick^s  C^ee^oufif  hzdzSkntd,  that  Greene 
was  as  eminent  in  compofidon  as  HanieL  ^^  Tha£ 
'^  fellow  Freke^  replied  Hbgartb,  '^  is  always  (hooting 
^  his  bblt  abfnrdly  one  way-  or  another  1  Handel  is  a 
<<  giant  in  mufic;  Gr(rdif.(inly  a  light  Florimd  kind  of 
**  a  compoftr.** — ^*  Ay,"  fays  our  artift's  informanry 
^^  but  at  the  fame  time  Mr.  Freke  declared  you  Were 
^  as  good  a  portrait- painter  as  Vandjck^^^^^^  There  he 
<«  was  in  the  right,"  adds  Hcgarib ;  '^  and  fo  by  .Gr<—  I 
M  am,  give  me  my  time,  and  let  me  dioofe  my  fub- 
♦fjed!''. 

With  Eh*.  Hoadlyj  the  late  Chancellor  of  Wincbejier^ 
Mr.  Hogarth  was  always  on  terms  of  the  ftridteft 
friendlhip,  and  frequently  vifited  him  at  Winckefler^ 
St.  Crefs^  and  Alresferd.  It  is  well  known,  that  Dr. 
Hoadlfs  fondnefs  for  theatrical  exhibitions  was  fo 
great,  that  few  viiitors  were  ever  long  in  his  houfe 
before  they  were  folicited  to  accept  a  part  in  fome 
interlude  or  other*  He  himfelf,  with  Garrick  and 
Hogarth^  once  performed  a  laughable  parody  on  the 
fcene  in  Julius  Ca/ar,  where  the  G^7^*appean  to 
Brutus.  Hogarth  perfonated  the  fpedre ;  but  fo  un- 
retentive  was  his  memoryj  thatj  although  his  fpeech 

conned 


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dmfifted  wily  of  two  lines,  he  was  unaWe  to  get 
riiem  by  beart.  At  laft  tboy  hit  on  the  following 
<fipedicnt  in  his  favour.  The  vcrfc*  he  was  ro  €)©-■  [ 
hver  were  written  in  fuch  large  letters,  on  the  omfid» 
oi  an  iiluminated  paper- lanthorn,  that  he  could  read 
them  whco  he  entered  with  it  in  his  band  on  thft  i 
ftaga.  Hogarth  painted  a  fcene  on  this  occalion,  re^ 
prcfcnting  a  futling  booth,  with  the  Duck  of  Cianber- 
land's  head  by  way  of  fign.  He  aJfo  prepared  ihe 
play-bill,  with  charafterifttc  oinaments.  The  ori- 
ginal drawing  is  ftill  preferved,  and  wc  could  wifti  it 
were  engraved ;  as  the  flighted  Sketch  from  the 
defign  of  fo  grotefque  a  painter  would  be  welcome 
CD  the  numerous  colleiaors  of  his  works. 

Hogarth  was  alfo  the  moft  abfcnt  of  men.  At 
table  he  would  fometimes  turn  round  his  chair  as  if 
he  had  finished  eating,  and  as  fuddcaly  would  return 
it.  and  fait  to  his  meal  again.  I  may  add,  that  he 
pnce  diEcficd  a  letter  to  Dr.  Headiy,  thus, — "  To 
•*  Che  Dodor  at  Chelfia."  This  epillle,  however, 
by  gtrad  luck,  did  not  mifcarry;  and  was  prefervcd 
by  the  laxe  Chancellor  of  Winthefiert  as  a  plcafaDk 
memorial  of  his  friend's  extraordinary  inattention.      * 

Another  remarkable  inftancc  of  Hogarth's  abfcncfl  3 
was  told  rac,  after  the  firft  edition  of  this  work,  by  one 
of  his  intimate  friends.  Soon  after  he  fct  up  his 
carriage,  he  had  occafion  to  pay  a  vilit  to  the  lord- 
mayor  (I  believe  it  was  Mr.  Reckford).  When  ho 
want,  the  wcat^r  was  fim ;  but  bufinefi  deuined 
him  til>  a  viokoc  fliower  of  rata  came  on.  He  was 
t  let 


iet  oMt  of  th^  Manfion-houfe  by  a  different  door  frooni 
that  at  whigh  he  entered ;  aad,  feeing  the  i ata^  bfi« 
gan  itnmcdiately  to  call  (or  a  hagkncy-coach*  Not 
one  was  to  be  met  with  on  any  of  the  neighbouuog 
(lands }  and  our  artiflt  (allied  forth  to  brave  the 
(lornia  and  a&ually  reached  Ldctficr^Us  withoiK 
beftowidg  a  thought  on  his  own  carriagp^  till  Vixu 
Bogarih  (furprized  to  fee  him  i^  wet  aad  (jj^aibed) 
a&ed  where  he  had  left  it, 

Mr.   WaipoU^   in  the  following  note,  p.  69,  it 

willing  to  expofe  the  indelicacy  of  the  FUmiJb  pain<> 

lersy  by  comparing  it  with  the  purity  of  H^arti. 

^^  Whep  they  attempt  humour^"  fays  our  author^ 

*'  it  is  by  making  a  drunkard  vomit ;  they  take  eva» 

^^  cuations  for  jokes ;  and  when  they  make  us  fick^ 

'^  think  they  make  us  laugh.    A  boor  hugging  a 

^'  frightful  frow  is  a  frequent  incident^  even  in  the 

^*  works  of  Temers.*'    Shall  we  proceed  to  examine 

whether  the  fcenes  painted  by  our  countryman  are 

wholly  free  from  the  fame  indelicacies  ?  In  one  plat^ 

of  Hudibra^f  where  he  encounters  a  Skimmingion^  a 

man  is  making  water  againft  the  end  of  a  houfe, 

while  a  taylor's  wife  is  moil  fignificantly  attending 

to  the  dirty  procefs.     In  another  plate  to  the  fame 

work^  a  boy  is  piiSng  into  the  ihoe  of  Ra^ho,  whAt 

the  widow  is  (landing  by.    Another  boy  in  the  En^ 

raged  Mufician  is  eafing  nature  by  the  fame  mode  j 

^d  a  Uttle  mifs  is  looking  earneftly  on  the  operatioiw 

In  the  March  to  Fmcbley,  a  difeafed  foldier  has  no 

t)e(ter  employment ;  and  a  woman  is  lik^wife  (lai;ing 

at 


t  6o  :l 

ii  htm  out  of  a  wiD(!b'i^«  This  circumftahce  did  not 
efcape  the  obfervation  of  Rouquet  the  enamelkr; 
whofe  remarks  *  on  the  plates  of  our  artift  I  (hall  have 
siore  than  once  occaiion  to  introduce*  ••  II  y  a,^ 
feys  he,  "  dans  quelqucs  endroits  de  cct  excellent  ta- 
**  bleau,  dcs  objets  pcut  ctrc  plus  propres  ^  peindre 
**  qu'a  decrire.  D bu  vicnt  que  les  oreilles  font  plus 
**  chaftc  que  les  yeux  ?  Ne  fcroit  ce  pas  parce  qu'ort 
"  pcut  regarder  certains  objets  dans  un  tableau,  et 
"  feindrfe  de  ne  pas  Ics^  voir;  et  qu*il  neft  pas  A 
•*  ats6  d'entcndre  une  obfccnicc,  et  de  feindre  de  ne 
**  Tentendre  pas  !  L'objct,  dont  je  vcux  parlcr,  eft 
^*  toutefois  peuconfiderable;  il  s'agitreulementd*un 
•*  foldat  a  qui  le  voyage  de  Montpelicr  convjendroit 
*'  mieux  que  cclui  A'EcoJfe.  1 /amour  lui  a  fait  une 
^*  bkffure,  &c/'  Was.this  occurrence  delicate  or  pre* 
cious  enough  to  defcrvc  fuch  frequency  of  repetition  ? 
In  the  burlcfquc  Paul  before  Felix,  when  the  High 
Prieft  applies  his  fingers  to  his  nofe,  we  have  reafon 
to  imagine  that  his  manoeuvre  was  in  confequcnce  of 
fome  otfenfivc  efcape  during  the  terrors  of  the  pro- 
conful  of  'Judea^  who,  as  he  is  here  reprefented, 
conveys  no  imperfcd*  image  of  a  late  Lord  Mayor, 
at  the  time  of  the  riots  in  London.  In  this  laft  in- 
ftance,  indeed,  I  ought  to  have  obfcrved  that  Hogarth 
mean  to  fatirize,  not  to  imitate,  the  painters  of  lioU 
land  and  Flanders*  But  I  forbear  to  dwell  any  longer 
on  fuch  difgufting  circumflances;  begging  leave  only 
to  a(k,  whether  the  canvas  of  Tenters  exhibits  nattier 

♦  Some  account  of  this  work  will  be  given  in  a  future  page. 

objects 


C  ^i  3 

obje&s  than  t1}ofe  of  the  woman  cracking  a  loufe 
between  her  nails  in  the  fourth  plate  of  the  HarUfs 
Progrefsi  a  Scotch  bag- piper  catching  another  in  his 
neck  while  he  is  performing  at  the  EleAion  feaft « 
Aurora  doing  the  fame  kind  office  for  a  Syren  or  Nereid, 
in  the  Strollers  y  &c. ;  the  old  tooth  lefs  Freruh  bcl- 
damSy  ilobbering  (Venus  forbid  we  ihould  call  it  ki£- 
fing)  each  other  in  the  comic  print  entitled  Noon ; 
the  chamber-pot  emptied  on  the  Free  Mafon's  head, 
in  the  Rejoicing  Night ;  or  the  Lilliputians  giving  a 
clyfter  to  Gulliver  f  In  fome  of  thefe  inftances,  how- 
ever,  the  humour  may  compenfate  for  the  'indelicacy » 
which  is  rarely  the  cafe  with  fuch  Dutch  piAures  as 
have  juftly  incurred  the  cenfure  of  Mr.  IValpoIe* 
Let  us  now  try  how  far  fome  of  the  compofitions  of 
Hogarth  have  befriended  the  caufe  of  modelty*  In 
the  Harlots  Progrefsj  Plate  VK  we  meet  with  a  hand 
by  no  means  bufied  in  manner  fuitable  to  the  pu* 
rity  of  its  owner's  fundtion,  Hogarth  indeed,  in 
three  different  works,  has  delineated  three  clergy- 
men ;  the  one  as  a  drunkard ;  the  fecond  as  a  glut- 
ton ;  and  the  third  as  a  whoremafter,  who  (I  borrow 
Rouquef^s  v^ords)  "  ell  plus  occupedc  fa  voifine  que 
**  de  fon  vin,  qi^il  repand  par  une  d'ftraftion  qu* 
"  elle  lui  caufe."  He  who,  in  the  eyes  of  the  vul- 
gar, would  degrade  our  profeffors  of  religion,  .de- 
fervcs  few  thanks  from  focicty.  In  the  Rakers  Pro» 
grefs,  Plate  the  lad,  how  is  the  hand  of  the  ideal 
potentate  employed,  while  he  Is  gazing  with  no  very 
modeft  afpcdl  on  a  couple  of  young  women  who  pafg 

z  before 


I 


[  <«  ] 

hrt  hii  erf!  mimbered  55  ?  and  to  wtiat  particti* 
lar  objed  are  the  eyes  of  the  faid  females  fuppofcd  to 
be  direded  *  ?  Nay,  in  what  purfuit  is  the  grenadier 
engaged  who  ftandj  with  his  face  toward  the  wall  in 
Plate  9.  of  Indajlry  end  Wme/sF  May  we  addrefs  an- 
other queftion  to  the  reader?  Is  iht  *' /mile  of  Socrates,*' 
or  the  •'  benevolence  of  the  dcfigncr,*'  very  dlRinguifli- 
able  in  the  half  dozen  laft  inftances  ?  It  has  been  ob- 
fcTTcd  indeed  by  phyfiognomlfts,  that  the  Jmile  of 
the  real  Socrates  rcfembkd  the  grin  of  2.  falyr;  and 
perhaps  a  few  of  the  particulars  here  alluded  tO|  a* 
well  as  the  prints  entitled  Before  and  After,  ought 
to  be  considered  as  a  benevolence  to  fpeculative  old 
maids,  or  miffts  nor  yctenfranchifed  from  a  boarding 
fchooU  Had  this  truly  fenfibic  critic,  and  elegant 
writer,  been  content  to  obfcrvc,  that  fuch  grofs  cir- 
cumftances  as  form  the  chief  fubjcft  of  Flemijb 
piftures,  are  only  incidental  and  fubordinatc  in  thofe 
of  our  artift,  the  remark  might  have  cfcaped  rcpre- 
hcnfion.  But  perhaps  he  who  has  told  us  that  **  S/, 
**  f  *■/■/  hand  was  once  improperly  placed  before  the 
"  wife  of  Felix,"  fliould  not  have  fufTered  more 
glaring  infults  on  decency  to  pafs  without  a  cenfure. 
On  this  occafion,  though  I  may  be  found  to  differ 
from  Mr.  ifalpole,  1  am  ready  to  coofefs  how  much 

•  See  a  note  on  Marriaji'a-la-MeJt  (under  the  j-ear  1 745)  f 
frotn  whence  it  fiiffictemly  appe:irt,  that  iitJtlUacUi,  See.  had 
been  imputed  in /fi^artii't  performances,  and  ihat,  tlicrefore, 
nbcn  he  advertised  the  fix  platet  of  Marria^t-a-la-Mede,  be 
thought  it  neceffhry  10  atTure  die  public  that  no  'iKiitlkary,  <"»- 
Jtanry,  Qt  ftrftntHty^  would  bo  found  in  any  of  thefe  n 
Icntuiioo*'  . 

regardl 


f  ^  3 

itgSLvA  h  ^due  to  the  opinkntt  of  tt  geifttenikn  WtiMb 
{nind  has  been  bng  exdrcifcd  ttm  ft  fobjeft  which  is 
atooft  new  to  me;  efpecbiHy  when  I  recoiled  thtt 
my  prefent  refearcbes  would  have  bad  tio  guide,  bitt 
for  the  lights  held  tmt  in  die  kft  vdHme  of  tht 
Anecdotes  of  Pamtihg  in  England^ 

Hogarth  boafied  that  he  could  draw  a  ^eant  wHih 
his  pike,  going  into  an  alehoufe^  and  his  Dog  fe!* 
lowing  hhn,  with  only  three  ftrotes  ;----^hicb  he  cx^ 
ecuted  thus : 


B 


A*  The  perfpcdive  line  of  the  door. 
R  The  end  of  the  Serjeant's  pike,  who  is  gone  in. 
C.  The  end  of  the  Dog's  tail,  who  is  following  him. 
There  are  fimilar  whims  of  the  Caracci. 

A  fpecimen  of  HogartVs  propenfity  to  mcrrimetit, 
on  the  mofi  trivial  occafions,  is  obfervable  in  one  of 
his  cards  requelling  the  company  of  Dr.  Arnold  Ring 
to  dine  with  him  at  the  Mire  ♦.  Within  a  circle^  tD 

*  The  exigence  of  this  card  having  been  douoted,  it  it 
-engraved  in  our  title-page,  from  the  original  now  in  Charki 
Street^  Groftfenor  ^nare^  in  the  poiTeffion  of  Dr.  fVri^bt. 

which 


C  64 

which  a  knife  and  fork  are  the  fupportcrSf  the 
written  part  is  contained.  In  the  center  is  drawn  a 
pye,  with  a  niitn  on  the  top  of  it ;  and  the  invita- 
tion of  our  artift  concludes  with  the  following  fport 
on  three  of  the Gr^^ifc  letters— to  Eia  Beta  Pi*.  The 
reft  of  the  infcription  is  not  very  accurately  fpelt. 
A  quibble  by  Hogarth  is  furely  as  refpe&able  as  a 
conundrum  by  Swift. 

•*  Some  nicer  virtuofi  have  remarked,  that  in  the 
*'  ferious  pieces,  into  which  Hogarth  has  deviated 
•^  from  the  natural  biafs  of  his  genius,  there  are 
•*  fome  ftrokcs  of  the  ridiculous  difccrniblc,  which 
**  fuit  not  with  the  dignity  of  his  fubjcft.     In  his 

PREACHING  OF  St.  Paul,  a  dog  fnarling  at  a  cat'f-; 

and  in  his  Pharaoh's  Daughter,  the  figure  of 
**  the  infant  Mofes^  who  expreffes  rather  archnefs 
'*  than  timidity  ;  arc  alledged  as  inftances,  that  this 
"  artift,  unrivalled  in  his  own  walk,  could  not  rcfift 
**  the  impulfe  of  his  imagination  towards  drollery, 
**  His  pidlure,  however,  of  Richard  III  is  pure  and 
**  unmixed,  without  any  ridiculous  circumftances, 

*  This  pun  reminds  us  of  a  fimihr  one  from  Garth  to 
JRowe^  who  making  repeated  ul'c  of  iiis  fnuff-box,  the  DoBor 
at  lad  fent  it  to  him  with  the  two  G^eck  letter:  written  on  the 
l*d>  9f  h  (^^^t  ^^)'  '^^  ^^'^3  the  four  Dennis  was  fo  provoked, 
^8  to  declare,  thut  **  a  man  wlio  could  make  fuch  a  vile  pan, 
•*  would  not  fcruplc  to  pick  a  pocket." 

f  The  cat  fpitting  at  the  dog  is  a  circumftance  in  the  fourth 
plate  of  Iiidrjfry  and  IdUnefs^  where  it  is  naturally  introduced. 
The  dog^  attends  on  a  porter  who  is  bringing  in  goods  ;  and 
the  warchoufe  cat,  who  confiders  this  animal  as  an  invader,  is 
preparing  to  defend  her  perfon  and  prcmifes. 

"  and 


C  6s  ] 

•*  and  ftrongly  imprefles  terror  and  amazement/*  As 
thcfc  obfervations  arecxtraded  from  the  Jirj}  edition 
of  Dr.  WartotiS  •*  Effay  on  the  Genius  and  Writings 
**  of  Popi^*  it  would  be  uncandid  if  we  did  not  ac- 
company them  with  the  following  note  from  a  lubfe- 
quent  edition  of  that  valuable  performance  :  <*  The 
'^  author  gladly  lays  hold  of  the  opportunity  of  this 
'^  third  edition  of  his  work,  to  confefs  a  miftakc  he  had 
•*  committed  with  refped  to  two  admirable  paintings 
•*  of  Mr.  Hogari/jf  his  Pai'L  Pkeachino,  and  his 
"  Infant  Mo^ls  ;  which,  on  a  cloler  examination, 
**  are  not  chargeable  with  the  blcnjilhes  inputed  to 
•*  them.    Juftice  obliges  him  to  declare  the  high 
**  opinion  he  entertains  of  the  abilities  of  this  ini- 
•*  mitable  artift,    who  fhines  in  fo  many  different 
*'  lights,  and  on  fuch  very  diffimilar  fubjtds ;  and 
*'  whofe   works  have   more   of  what   the.  ancients 
•*  called  the  H0OZ  in  them,  than  the  compofi.ions 
•*  of  any  other  Modern.     For  the  reft,  the  author 
**  begs  leave   to  add,  that  he  is  fo  far  from  being 
**  alhamed  of  retracing  his  error,  that  he  had  ra- 
'«  thcr  appear  a  Man  of  Candour,  than  the  beft 

^  CuiTic  that  ever  lived*." 

In 

♦  When  this  ample,  nay,  redundant,  apology  by  Dr.  Jo^ 
ftflh  Wm-t^n  firft  made  its  appearance,  Hogarth  wa^  highly  de* 
lighted  with  as  much  of  it  at  he  undcrftood.  l^ut,  not  knew* 
log  the  import  of  the  word  HOOX,  he  haf^.ntd  m  his  frieiidt 
for  information.  All,  in  their  turn,  fported  with  his  want  of 
Acill  in  the  learned  languages ;  Uril  telling  him  ir  wns  Grecl; 
for  one  ftrange  thing,  and  then  for  another,  fo  that' his  mind 
remained  in  a  (late  of  fufpence ;  as,  for  aughc  he  knew  to  the 

F  contrary^ 


t  • 


C   '«  3 

In  one  of  the  early  exhibitions  at  Spring  Gardetitt 
a  very  iilcafing  (hiall  pifture  by  Hogarth  marfc  its 
firft  eppearance.  It  was  painted  for  the  cail  of 
CharUmont,  in  whpfe  collection  it  remains*.  It  was 
intituled,  Piiquet^  or  Virtue  in  Danger,  and  (hews 
us  a  young  lady,  who,  during  a  t^te-^^titty  had  juft 
loft  all  her  money  to  a  handlomc  otiicer  of  her  own 
age.  He  is  reprefcnted  in  the  aft  of  returning  her 
a  handful  of  bank  bills,  with  the  boj>e  of  exchang- 
ing them  for  a  foftcr  acquifuion,  and  more  delicate 
plunder.  On  the  chimney-piece  is  a  watch-cafe  and 
a  figure  of  Time  over  it,  with  this  motto — NUNC 
Hogarth  has  caught  his  heroine  during  this  moment 
of  hciication,  this  ftruggle  with  herfelf,  and  has 
marked  her  feelings  with  uncommon  fuccefs.  "Wa- 
vering chaftity,  as  in  this  inftance,  he  was  qualified 
to  difplay ;  but  the  graceful  referve  of  Iteady  and 
exalted  virtue  he  would  certainly  have  failed  to  ex* 
prefs.  He  might  have  conveyed  a  perfeft  idea  of 
iuch  an  IpbtgetUa  as  is  defcribcd  by  Mr.  Hayley,  in 
one  of  the  cantoes  of  his.  beautiful  poem  on  the 
Triumphs  efTtmfitr  ;  but  the  dignity  of  the  fame  fe- 
male at  the  fauric  altar  would  hare  baffled  the  moll 
vigorous  eSbrts  of  his  pencil. 

contrary,  fume  fuch  muning  mifjht  lie  nnrfer  thdie  crooked 
letters,  a*  would  ovcrlci  ihc  contplimciiti  paid  him  in  (he  for- 
mer parli  of  ihe  paragraph.  No  Hioic  liroe,  therefore,  had 
palTed  before  he  eould  dctennine  whether  he  ought  to  ntr*€t 
or  continue  hi$  charge  agaioft  bis  adverfary  :  but  ii  wai  at  kfl 
obliterated.  Fur  feveral  months  afterwardt,  hnwever,  poor 
Hegarih  never  praifed  hit  provilion  oi'  hit  wme,  without  being 
aflud  what  proportion  of  the  H90£  he  fuppofed  to  be  >a  citbcr. 
*  An  eiigraviog  from  thii  pidiiie  roiy  be  cxpcfied  from 
Mr.  Livtfitf. 


i  «7  3 

Hogarti^  Plequtt,  or  Pirtue  in  Danger^  when  ex- 
hibited at  Sfrif^  Gdrdens,  in  Mfjf,  176  ij  produced 
the  following  explanation : 

Ye  fair^  ht  warned,  and  {bun  thofe  arts^ 

That  farithtefs  men  do  life  for  hearts : 

Weigh  o'6r  and  o^er  the  deftinM  man^ 

And  oft  this  little  lefibn  fcan  ; 

If  he  his  charafter  don't  fear. 

For  yours  he*tt  very  little  care : 

With  fcorn  repulfe  the  wretch  lb  bold. 

Nor  pawn  your  virtue  for  his  gold ! 

Of  gaming  (cards  or  not)  beware^ 

Tis  very  6ften  found  a  fnare ; 

But^  left  my  precept  tlill  fliould  fail. 

Indulge  me — whilft  I  tell  a  tale  : 
Dorinda^  chearful,  young,  and  gay. 

Oft  Ihone  at  Balls,  at  Park,  and  Play  ^ 

Bleft  with  a  free,  engaging  air, 

In  IhoYt,  throughout  quite  debonnair ; 

(Excufe  me — fliall  I  tell  the  truth  ?)       ^ 

That  band  of  mifled,  heedlefs  youth, 

Graming—  had  quite  poflefsM  her  mind. 

To  this  (no  other  vice)  inclinM  : 

She  oft  would  melancholy  fit. 

No  partner  near  for  dear  Picquet ! 

**  At  laft  a  cruel  fpoiler  came," 

And  deeply  learn'd  in  all  the  game  ; 

A  fon  of  Mars^  with  iron  face, 

Adorn'd  with  impudence  and  lace  ! 

Acquaintance  with  her  foon  he  gains. 

He  thinks  her  virtue  worth  his  pains : 

F  %  Cards 


^^^Wf 


Cards  (after  nonrenfe)  amc  in  courfci 
By  fap  advances,  not  by  force. 
The  tabic  fct,  the  cards  arc  laid, 
Dorinda  dreams  not  ftie's  betray'd ; 
The  cards  run  crofs,  ftic  fumes  and  frets, 
Her  brilliant  necklace  foon  flic  betts> 
She  fears  her  watch,  but  can't  refill, 
A  mtniature  can  fcarce  be  mill  I 
Jit  lafl  both  watch  and  trinkets  go, 
A  prey  to  the  devouring  foe  : 
Nay  more  (if  fame  but  tells  us  troc). 
She  loll  her  di'mond  buckles  too  I 
Her  bracelets  next  became  his  prize. 
And  in  his  hat  the  treafure  lies. 
Upon  her  Virtue  next  he  treats, 
And  Honour's  facred  name  repeats : 
Tenders  ihc  trinkets,  fwears  and  lies. 
And  vows  her  pcrfon  is  a  prize  I 
Then  fwears  (with  hand  upon  his  breafl) 
That  he  wiibout  her  can't  be  bled ! 
Then  plies  her  with  redoubled  pains, 
T'  exchange  her  virtue  for  his  gains  : 
Shame's  purple  wings  o'erfliade  her  face. 
He  triumphs  over  her  difgracc  ; 
Soon  turns  to  jeft  her  fcruplcs  nice. 
In  fiiort,  Ihc  falls  ! — a  facrificcl 
Spoil'd  of  her  virtue  in  her  prime. 
And,  knoi-ving  Heaven  detcfts  the  crime, 
Is  urg'd,  perhaps,  to  dare  his  rod, 
'*  And  niHi  unfummoo'd  to  her  God  V 


C  69  3 

Ye  fair,  if  happinefs  yc  prize^ 
Regard  this  rule.  Be  timely  wife.'* 

In  the  *^  Miier's  Feaft/'  Mr.  Hogarth  thought 
proper  to  pillory  Sir  Ifaac  Shard j  a  gentleman  pro^ 
yerbially  avaricious.  Hearing  this,  the*  fon  of  Sir 
Ifaac,  the  late  Ifaac  Pacatus  Shard  •,  efq,  a  young 
Twn  of  fpirit,  juft  returned  from  his  tsravels,  called 
at  the  painter's  to  fee  the  pidure ;  and,  among  the 
reft,  aiking  the  Cicer$ne  ^^  whether  that  odd  figure 
^  was  intended  for  any  particular  perfon^**  on  his 
replying,  ^^  that  it  was  thought  to  beyery  like  onfe 
**  Sir  Ifaac  Shard  ;*'  he  immediately  drew  his  fword", 
and  daihed  the  canvas*  Hogarth  appeared  inftantly 
in  great  wrath  ;  to  whom  Mr.  Shard  calmly  juftified 
what  he  had  done,  faying,  ^'  that'  this  was  a  verjr 
^  \2nwarrantable  licence ;  that  he  was  the  injured 
^^  party's  fon,  and  that  he  was  ready  to  defend  any 
•^  fuit  at  law  j"  which,  however,  was  never  infti- 
tilted. 

About  1757,  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Thomhill, 
refigned  the  place  of  king's  ferjeant-painter  in  favour 
of  Mr»  Hogarth ;  who  foon  after  made  an  experi- 
ment in  painting,  which  involved  him  in  fome  dif- 
grace.    The  celebrated  collcftion  of  pidhires  be* 

longing  to  Sir  Luke  Schaub  was  in  1758  fold  by  pub- 

• 

*  A  polite  gentleman,  of  great  learning,  and  much 
efteemed.  He  had  ibme  good  piflures,  and  a  very  fine  li- 
brary, in  the  great  ho\)fe  at  FeMam  (formerly  inhabited  by 
Lord  Trevor)^  which,  together  with  a  contiderable  eftate 
there,  was  bequeathed  to  him  by  his  augt  Mrs.  /////• 


I 


[    7"    3 

lie  auffion  * ;  and  the  admired  plftiire  of  Sip/munr/4 
(purchafed  by  Sir  Thomas  Sebright  for  404/.  5/,) 
exdted  Mr.  Hogarth's  emulation. 

**  From  a  contempt  of  the  ignorant  viitnofi  of 
'*  the  age,"  fays  Mr.  WalpoUf  *•  and  from  indigna- 
*'  tioD  «  the  impudent  tricks  of  pidhire-deak-rs, 
"  whom  he  faw  continually  recommcmiing  and 
« ■  vending  vile  copies  to  bubble  collcGors,  and  from 
*•  having  never  ftudicd,  indeed  having  fcen,  few 
*'  good  piflures  ofihe  great  //u/w/i  maftcrs,  he  ptr- 
'*  fuaded  himfclf  that  the  praifcs  btftowcd  on  thofe 
"  glorious  works  were  nothing  but  the  cffefts  of 
**  prejudice.  He  talked  this  language  rill  he  bc- 
**  lieved  it ;  and  having  heard  it  often  aHened,  as  is 
**  true,  that  rime  gives  a  meUownefs  to  colours  an4 
**  improves  them,  he  not  only  denied  the  propofi^ 
"  tioti,  but  maintained  that  plflures  only  grew 
f  black  and  worfe  by  age,  not  dillinguiftiing  bc^ 
•*  tween  the  degrees  in  which  the  proportion  might 
*'  be  trucor  falfc.  He  went  farther  :  he  determinc4 
**  to  rival  the  ancients — and  unfortunately  phofc  one 
<*  of  the  finefl  pi^urci  in  England  as  the  objeft  of 
^'  his  competition.  This  was  the  celcbiared  Syr/; 
**  muniia  of  Sir  Luie  S^baui^  now  in  the  pofltflioq 
"  of  the  Duke  of  Newca^/c,  faid  to  be  painted  by 
**  Corrcggie,  probably  by  Furino,  but  no  matter  by 
"  whom.  It  is  impoffibie  to  fee  the  pltfture,  or  read 
"  Dryden's  inimitable  talc,  and  not  feel  that  the  fame 
*  of  th»  col- 

f*  foi4 


^ 


•  See  the  navie]  of  the  purchafer 
IcAtOD,  in  the  GntlcmM'i  Afi^«uM, 


,  and  prici 
'.Jit,  p.  > 


i:  n  3 

^  fi>nl  animated  both.  After  many  eiTays^  Hogarth 
^  at  laft  produced  his  Si^fimmda^^hvLt  no  more  like 
^  Sigifinuuda^  than  I  to  Htnuks.  Not  to  mention 
•*  the  wretchednefs  of  the  colouring,  it  was  the  re- 
**  prefentation  of  a  maudlin  (trumpet  juft  turned  out 
*^  of  keeping,  and,  with  eyes  red  with  rage  and 
^  ufquebaughy  tearing  off  the  ornaments  her  keeper 
^  had  given  her.  To  add  to  the  di%uft  raifed  by 
^  fuck  vulgar  expreffion,  her  fingers  were  bloodied 
•*  by  her  lover's  heart  *,  that  lay  before  her,  like 

«*  that 

*  Re  painted  tlie  heart  from  an  injeAed  one  provided  for 
him  by  Citfar  HmmBm  the  furgfcon  \  and,  on  the  anthority  of 
repeated  ioQ^e^ioOy  I  venture  to  affirm,  that  the  fingers  of 
jSf^j/^iMMM^  are  unflained  with  blood,  and  that  neither  of  her 
haodf  i«  employed  in  rending  oi:nament8  from  her  head,  or 
any  other  part  of  her  perfon.  In  this  inftance  Mr.  H^alpoU*s 
foemory  mull  have  failed  him,  as  I  am  con6dent  that  his  roif* 
reprefentation  was  nndefigned.  It  is  whifpered  (we  know  not 
with  how  much  truth)  that  Mrs.  H.  was  hurt  by  this  defcrip- 
tioo  of  the  picture,  and  that  ihe  returned  no  thanks  for  the 
volume  that  contains  it,  when  it  was  fent  to  her  as  a  prefeiit 
by  its  author.  It  ihould  feem  that  (he  dill  deligns  to  difpofc 
of  this  ill-fated  performance,  and  thinks  that  its  reputation 
required  no  additional  biaft. 

1  hare  reprinted  this  note,  without  corre&ion^  that  I  might 
diereby  obtain  the  fairer  opportunity  of  doing  juilice  to  Mr. 
JFalpoIe^  concerning  the  faithfulnefs  of  whofe  memory  I  had 
ventured  to  exprefs  a  doubt.  Genuine  information  is  not  al- 
ways to  be  had  ;  nor  (hall  I  hefitate  a  moment  to  apologize 
for  the  fallaeiouihefs  of  mine.  The  fingers  of  Si^i/mmiuU  were 
^rigimaify  ftained  with  blood.  This  indelicate  and  oflen&ive  cir- 
cnmftance  was  pointed  out  by  fome  intelligent  friend  to  /£^» 
gartb^  who  relu^antly  effaced  it. 

A  correfpondent,  however,  on  reading  this  work,  has  fur- 
niihed  an  additional  reafon  why  the  lady  already  mentioned 
may  be  offended  by  the  fevcrity  of  Mr.  H^alpoWt  ftridures  on 
Si^Jmunda.  **  It  has  been  whifpered  that  Count  Guifcard's 
•*  Vfiskw  was  a  copy  from  the  daughter  cfSir  Jama  fbonthiu. 

.  f  4  "If 


t€ 


r  7»  3    . 

that  ^f  a  ihcrp,  for  her  dinner  ♦•    None  of  the 
**  fober  grief,  no  dignity  of  fupprcffed  anguifli,  no 
•*  bvoluntary  tear,  no  fettled  meditation  on  the  fate 
**  flic  meant  to  meet,  no  amorous  warmth  turned 
"  -  holy  by  dcfpair ;  in  fliort,  all  was  wanting  that 
**  fliould  have  been  there,  all  was  there  that  fuch  a 
"  ftory  would  have  banifl:ed  from  a  mind  capable  of 
*^  conceiving  fuch  comi>licaced  woe ;  woe  fo  ftcrnly 
'*  felt,  and  yet  fo  tenderly.     Hogarth's  performance 
•*  was  more  ridiculous  than  any  thing  he  had  ever 
^*  ridiculed.     He  fet  the  price  of  400/.  on  it,  and 
*'  had  it  returned  on  his  hands  by  the  perfon  for 
*•  whom  it  was  painted.     He  took  fubfcriptions  for 
"  a  plate  of  it ;  but  had  the  fenfe,  at  laft,  to  fup- 
*'  prefs  ir.  I  make  no  more  apology  for  this  account 
^^  than  for  the  encomiums  I  have  bellowed  on  him* 
**  Both  are  didated  by  truth,  and  are  the  hiftory  of 
**  a  great  man's  excellencies  and  errors.    Milton,  it 

•*  If  this  circuirftancc  he  true,  the  very  accompliflied  Critick 
*'  of  Strawierry  Hill  will  own  at  l«aft  that  her  wrath  and  Juno's 
«*  had    the   fame   provocation,  *  Judicimm    Farldis^  fpretaqu% 
**  injuria  form dt^    Impartiality,  however,  obliges  us  to  add^ 
**  that  Mn.  Hogarth^  though  in  years,  is  ftill  a  very  fine  wo« 
**  man  ;  ami  that  Mr.  Walpole*s  idea  of  what  a  pifture  oiBi* 
<«  g'fmtiniia  ought  to  exprefs,  is  poetically  conceived,  and  de- 
*^  livered  with  uncommon  elegance  and  force  of  language« 
•*  'l\iit  Joler  grief ^  \\{r  dignity  of fupprtjed  anguifh^  the  involun^ 
«*  iary  tcar^  iht  fettled  meditation  on  the  fate  Jbt  meant  to  meet^ 
«*  and  the  amorous  ivarmtb  turned  holy  hy  dej^air^  arc  words  that 
**  fill  the  place  of  colours,  fuppiy  all  the  imperfc^ions  of 
**  Hogarth*s  dcfign,  and  fucceed  even  where  a  Furino  or  a  Cer^ 
*•  rc^gio  may  have  fnilcd  " 

*  I'his  circumflance  wat  ridiculed  in  a  grotefque  print, 
called  A  Harlot  iUtUering  ^er  a  hullocICi  heart.  By  WHUam 
H^jrart. 

«  is 


t  n  ] 

*  B  faid,  preferred  his  Paradi/e  Regained  to  h*$  im* 
•*  mortal  poem  •/• 

Hognrtt^  however,  gave  dtredions  before  his  death 
that  the  Sigtfmunda  ihould  not  be  fold  under  joo  L 
and,  greatly  as  he  might  have  been  mortified  bf 
ChurctdlVs  inve&ive,  and  the  coldnefs  with  which 
the  pidure  was  received  b^  the  reft  of  the  world  f , 

he 

*  ••  Many  canfes  may  Titiate  a  writcr't  judgement  of  hit  owii 
works.    Od  that  which  bat  coft  him  much  labour  he  fets  a 
high  value,  becaufe  he  is  unwilling  to  think  that  he  has  beai 
diligent  in  vain  ;  what  has  been  produced  without  toillbme  eft 
forts  is  confi<1efed  with  delight,  as  a  proof  of  vigorous  faculties 
and  fertile  invention ;  and  the  Inil  work,  whatever  it  be,  has  ne^v 
ceifarily  rood  of  the  grace  of  novelty,    Mtkony  however  it  hap* 
pened  had  this  prejudice,  and  had  it  to  himfelf.*'  Dr.  Johnsow« 
f  Sigifmunda^  however,  though  flie  milled  of  judicious  ad- 
mirers, had,  at  lead,  the  good  fortune  to  meet  with  a  flatterer 
in  the  late  Mr.  Rohert  LUyJ^  whole  poem  intituled  Geuiiu^ 
J^nvy^  and  7/W,  addreiled  to  WtUiam  Hogarth^  efi^.  ha«  Cbp 
following  lines.     Time  is  the  fpeaker. 

•«  While  Sigifinumda^s  deep  diftrefs 
•*  Which  looks  the  foul  of  wretchednefs ^ 
'*  When  I,  with  flow  and  foftening  pen^ 
<*  Have  gone  o*er  all  the  tints  agen, 
^'  Shall  urge  a  bold  and  proper  claim| 
•*  To  level  half  the  ancient  fame; 
**  While  future  ages,  yet  unknown, 
•*  With  critic  air  fliall  proudly  own 
♦•  Thy  Hogarth  firft  of  every  clime 
♦*  For  humour  keen,  or  flrong  fublime,  &€•*• 
It  is  but  juftice,  on  one  hand,  to  add,  that  when  LUfJynott 
this  eulogium,  he  was  not  yet  enlifted  under  the  banners  of 
fa£lion ;  but  impartiality,  on  the  other  hand,  requires  w« 
Ihould  obferve  that,  having,  like  Hogarth^  feen  few  pidur^ 
by  the  beft  mafters,  he  was  treating  of  an  an  he  did  not  uh^ 
llerfland. 

The  authors  of  the  Montblf  Review  are  of  opinion,  that 
Mr.  Wlal^li  fpeaks  too  contemptuoufly  of  Sigi/mutiJa^  and  that 
there  it  no  ground  for  tl)e  infiauation  that  the  perfon  for 

whom 


I    74    ) 

JieneTtr  wholly  at)arKtoiied  his  dcfiga  of  hating  a  ^ 
pUce  prepared  from  it.     Finding  abundant  confola" 

whom  it  ttas  paiatctl  thought  meuily  of  it.     "  Wc  h.ivc  in  ■ 
"  «ur  polTeflion  (fay  tticy)  a  letter  to  H«ganb  from  the  noble  ^ 


'  peifuii 
'  lowing 


referred 
terms ; 


ivhich  he  ckprelTct  himlclf  in  the  fol* 

■/  rea/fy  ihiisk  the  ptrformancc  fi  firiking  ttni^ 


*  immileilrt  that   the  ceitfiaaiif  htrviig  it  htfvt  rnt'i  tyn, 

'  it  »ftt»  ece^imiHg  melaiuiifffy  idiat  U  arifi  /'■  ettt'i  mini,  «,'AiVi| 


B  itiig  Jrira-it  Icfort  if. 


mUaft  Jiximijh  !n  iht  Utfi.** 


Surely  [his  cpiille,  ifffcnuinCi  wat  ironical.  OrAiallwelup- 
pofe  that,  afterward),  his  lordfiup  oaly  faw  the  jii^ure  thrmigh 
the  (Ufgufliiig  medium  of  die  price  ?  Mr.  WVit/i'i  opininn  of 
the  piece  will  be  bell  conveyed  ia  his  own  word*,  which  are 
therefore  copied  in  p.  3i. 

Dr.iU^rW/,  an  intimate  friend  of  Mr.  i/o;(ir/i,«howu  applied 
to  for  itiformatioD,  relunied  for  anfuer:  "  Hii  excelkocicftt  | 
*■  as  well  a)  bit  foiblei,  are  fo  univerfally  known,  that  I  canr  ' 
**  not  add  to  (he  former,  and  would  not,  if  I  could,  to  >b« 
'*  latter.  1  (hould  think  wt  lived  in  a  \«ry-ill-naiuied  worlrf, 
"  if  the  wbimi  and  foIhcB  in  a  man'i  life  were  to  be  expolcda 
**  and  his  oddities  and  millakes,  uh^ra  mitnt,  fetioufly  coa- 
■'  demned.  But  the  unhappy  affair  of  A^i/niinMUreqliiret  ania 
•'  madvcrfion.  And  1  will  venture  lo  fay  that  even  thi>  Sigif, 
"  mtiHda  would  not  have  deferved  fo  many  hard  thing*  » 
*'  hare  been  fa  id  of  it,  \i  Mi .  Hegarih  bad  timely  and  pro- 
"  perly  obfcrvtd  the  caution — Mmiuii  Jt  Taiula.  But  it  wai 
*'  lo  altered,  upon  the  criticifio  of  one  ConnintTeur  or  ano- 
*'  ihet ;  and  cfpcrially  wlicn,  relying  no  longer  upon  flrength 
"  of  geniui,  be  had  recourfe  to  the /rigteti  itttt  unAf^iiitat 
*'  woe  of  a  female  friend  ;  tttat,  when  it  ^peiuwi  ut  the  cx- 
•■  hibition,  I  fcarccknev  it  again  myl«If,  asd  from  a  pafT^iblg 
"  picture  IE  became  lit:le  belter  than  ih«  wretched  figure 
"  here  r«pi(fenled.  In  n>y  opimon,  1  never  faw  a  finer  re* 
■*  fcniblaacc  of  flcfli  and  blood,  vthilc  il  «  canvas  wat  wum, 
•*  I  tncAD  v.ti  i  but.  like  that  of  real  fl^ib,  ai  fbon  as  it  wjs 
**  chilled,  the  beamy  wore  off.  And  thii,  be  faid,  could  not 
**  be  helped,  ai  no  col«ur«,  but  thofe  of  pure  n.iture,  as 
**  ult'awwiwf,  &c.  nould  keep  their  naturaibrightnefi.  But 
"  it  is  granted  that  colouring  «a>  not  Mr.  HsgAnb't  forte; 
*'  and  the  fubjc^t  «c  aic  upon  ia  »  ditigreeable  ooc." 

lioa  1 


^0fi^  )a  t^p  flattetf  of  ipl&love^  lie  appealed  Scoax  ti« 
public  judgement  to  his  own,  and  had  adualljr  tftlked 
with  the  eekbfaled  Mr,  Hn!f  about  the  price  of  the 
engravings  whkh  was  to  haire  been  executed  ft om  a 
^alkr  paiatiiRg*^  CQpiisd  by  himfblf  from  the  large 
jpoe.  Death  abwe  feeur^d  him  from  the  coocempt 
(vifh  obAtnacy  woidd  ha^e  riveted  on  his  manne.  To 
ezpcieis  a  ibrrow  like  that  of  ToMcnd's  daughtex^  fear 
fnoifim  artUb  are  fully  qualified.  We  muft  except 
indeed  Sic  Joftma  RiymUs^  with  whofe  penotl  Beauty 
in  ^  her  forans^  and  the  pafliona  in  all  their  varie* 
tv^s^  w^  equaUy  familiar. 

Since  the  preccdbg  paragraph  was  written,  the 
compiler  of  this  volume  Jhas  feen  an  unfinilhed 
plate  of  Sigi/munda,  attempted  after  the  manner  of 
£delim^k,  etched  by  Mr.  Bafire^  but  not  bit-in^  and 
frotp  vhich  ccmfequently  no  proof  can  have  been 
taken.  The  fize  of  the  pkte  ia  i8  inches  by  i6t« 
The  outlines  in  genera!,  and  particularly  of  the 
face,  were  completed  under  the  immediate  dire&ion 
pf  Mr.  Hpgarthjir.    It  was  intended  to  bepubliihed 

*  The  firil  ftetch  in  oil  for  Si^lfmunday  and  a  drawing  from 
the  fini(K)ed  pidure,  are  in  the  poffeffion  of  Mr.  Samuel  Ireland. 

t  At  the  Club  of  Arti{U,  it  was  not  unufual  to  reproach 
Hogarth  with  want  of  due  attention  to  the  Ancients,  whom  he 
always  afff^ied  to  defpife.  It  accidentally  happened  that  Mr. 
Bafire^  whiift  this,  plate  was  in  hand,  was  employed  likewife 
in  engraving,.  £or  the  Society  of  Antiqnaries,  two  plates  of  aa 
antique  bronze  from  thecolleiftion  of  Mr.  HM's^  fo  remarkably 
groteique,  that  Mr.  Hogarth  veiy  readily  confented  that  his 
)>Iate  ihould  be  poftponed,  and  declared,  *'  he  could  not  have 
f^  fcpagiaed  that  the  Ancients  had  pollefied  fo  much  humour.'^ 

.         -  by 


r  -ji  3 

)  wild  would  tears  lb 

"  As  give  four  hundred  pound»  to  cry  ? 

**  I  own,  he  chole  the  prudent  parr, 

"  Rather  to  break  his  word  than  heart ; 

•'  And  yet,  mcthinks,  "lis  ticklift  dealing, 

"  With  one  fo  delicate— in  feeling. 

"  However,  let  the  picture  ruft, 

•*  Perhaps  time's  price^nhancing  duft, 

"  As  ftatues  moulder  into  earth, 

"  When  I'm  no  more,  may  mark  its  worth  j- 

"  AnJ  future  coimoifleurs  may  rife, 

**  Honed  as  ours,  and  full  as  wife, 

**  To  puff  the  jncce  and  painter  too, 

"  And  nuke  aoe  then  what  Gaiiio  's  now,". 

**  Tlic  Ijift  memorable  event  in  our  aftift's  life," 

as  Mr.  VValpole  obfcrves,  "  was  his  quarrel  with  Mr. 

*'  Wilkiiy  in  which,  if  Mr.  Hogarth   did  not  com- 

"  mence  diroft  hoftiVrties  on  the  latter,  he  at  leaft 

•'  obliquely  gave  the  firft  offirnce,  by  an  attack  on 

•*  the  friends  and  pany  of  that  gentleman.     This 

*'  conduft  was  the  more  furprizlng,  as  he  had  all 

"  his  life  avoided  dipping  his  pencil    in  political 

**  contefts,  and  had  *arly  refufcd  a  very  lucrative 

"  offer  that  was  made  to  engage   him    in  a  fet  of 

"  prims  againft  the  head  of  a  court- party.    Without 

**  entering  into  the  merits  of  the  caufc,  I  (hall  only 

"  ftate  tke  hOi.  In  Srpletnbtr  1 76a,  Mr.  Hogarth  pu- 

••  blifhed  his  print  of  The  Tmef,    It  was  anfv.ered 

••  by  Mr.  JViliit  in  a  fcvcre  Piorih  Briton  •.    On  thii 

*  See  hcr«ftei,  p.  8j. 


i:  79  1 

^  the  painter  c  AHJitcd  the  oHicatufii  flf  ^e  wrhcn 
^*  'Mt.'ChurcinUj  the  poet,  then  Mgiged  in  the  war, 
**  and  wrote  his  epiftle  to  Hogarth,  not  the  brighteft 
^*  of  his  worfcf  ♦,  and  in  which  the  fevereft  Rrdkcs 
"**  fell  on  a  defefi:  that  the  painter  had  neither  caufed 
•^  nor  could  amend — his  agef;  and  Vrhich,  how* 
*w  ever,  was  neither  remarkable  nor  decrepit ;  much 
*^^  lefs  had  it  impaired  his  talents,  as  appeared  by  his 
*<  having  compofed  but  fix  months  befote  one  of 
•*  his  moft  capital  works,  the  fatire  oYi  the  Metho- 
**  difts.  In  revenge  for  xk&&  eptftle,  Hogarth  carica- 
•*  tured  CburchtU^  under  the  form  of  a  canonical  bear, 
**  with  a  club  and  a  pot  of  porter — et  vituU  iu  dig^ 
^*  nus  &  hie — never  did  two  angry  men  of  their  abi- 
*^  Utics  ihrow  mud  with  lefs  dexterity.* 

The  concluding  obfervation  of  Mr.  Wdlpok  is  mor- 
tlfyingf y  true.  It  may  te  amufing  to  compare  the 
account  given  of  this  fquabble,  which  long  engrdTed 
the  attention  of  the  town,  with  the  narrative  of  it 
printed  by  Mr.  WiUies ;  who  dates  the  circumftances 
of  it  in  the  following  manner  : 

*•  Mr.  Hogarth  was  one  of  the  firft'  who,  in  the 
*^  paper  war  begun  by  lord  Bute  on  his  acceffion  to 
*^  the  Treafury,  facrificed  private  friendlhip  at  the 
^  altar  of  party  madnefs.    In  1762,  the  Scotch  mi- 

*  In  the  Beauties  of  all  the  Maipzines,  17739  p*  440,  Is  a 
droll  ^^  Epiflle  from  Jacob  Henriques^  born  lanho  Domini,  &c. 
**  to  Mefiieurs  Hogarth  and  Churchill  greering." 

t  For  this  the  Satariil  unmercifully  apologizes  in  the  c^- 
clulion  of  his  poem,  which  may  be  fcen  in  the  Catalogue^ 
under  ttie  fear  1763,  in  a  note  on  N°  2. 

7  **  nifter 


I 

I 


t    So    ] 

I  variety  of  hireling)  Into  Bis  'ptf^- 
**  fome  of  whom  were  gratified  with  peiiiions,  others 
"  with  places  and  penfioas.  Mr.  Hcgartb  was  only 
•*  made  ferjeant-paiatei  to  his  majefty,  as  if  it  was 
**  meant  to  infinuatc  to  him,  that  he  was  not  allowed 
•'  to  paint  any  thing  but  the  wainfcot  of  the  royal 
•*  apartments.  The  term  means  no  more  than  houfi' 
•*  fainter,  and  the  nature  of  the  poll  confined  him 
•*  to  that  bufinefs.  He  was  not  employed  io  any 
•'  other  way.  A  circumftance  can  fcarcely  be  ima- 
**  gined  more  humiliating  to  a  man  of  fpirit  and 
"  genius,  who  really  thought  that  he  more  particu- 
"  larly  excelled  in  portrail'pcimitig. 

"  The  new  m'miftcr  had  been  attacked  In  a  variety 
"  of  political  papers.  The  Norlh  Briton  in  particu- 
"  lar,  which  commenced  the  week  after  Tbe  Briton, 
«  waged  open  war  with  him.  Some  of  the  numbers 
'*  had  been  afcribed  to  Mr.  Wilkes,  others  to  Mr. 
"  Churchill,  and  Mr.  Lloyd.  Mr.  Hogarth  had  for 
"  feveral  years  lived  on  terms  of  friendlhip  and  io- 
'*  limacy  with  Mr.  Churchill  and  Mr.  Wiikeu  As  the 
**  Buckinghamjbire  militia,  which  this  gentleman  bad 
,  •*  the  honour  of  commanding,  had  been  for  fome 
"  months  at  Winchcjler  guarding  the  French  prifo- 
**  ners,  the  Colonel  was  there  on  that  duty.  A  friend 
**  wrote  to  him,  that  Mr.  Hcgarth  intended  foon  to 
•*  publilh  a  political  print  of  The  Times,  in  which 
**  Mr.  Pitf,  Lord  Temple,  Mr.  Churchill,  and  himfelf, 
■*  were  held  out  to  the  public  as  objects  of  ridicule. 
'*  Mr.  lyUkts,  on  this  notice,  rcmooftratcd  by  two  of 

**  ihcir 


i 


C  81  3 

^<  their  common  friends  to  Mr.  Hogarib,  that  fuch  t 
*^  prpceediqg  would  not  only  be  unfriendly  in  the 
**  higheft  degree,  but  extremely  injudicious ;  for 
'*  fuch  a  pencil  ought  to  be  univerfal  and  moral,  to 
*'  fpeak  to  all  ages,  and  to  all  nations,  not  to  be  dipt 
^<  in  the  dirt  of  the  fa&ion  of  a  day,  of  an  infigni« 
*'  ficant  part  of  the  country,  when  it  might  command 
**  the  admiration  of  the  whole.  An  anfwet  was  fent^ 
^^  thai  neither  Mr.  Wilkes  nor  Mr.  Churchill  were  at* 
'*  tacked  in  ne  ^mes,  though  Lord  Teff^le  and  Mr. 
**  Pitt  were,  and  that  the  print  flxould  foon  appear* 
**  A  fecond  mefiagc  foon  after  told  Mr.  Hegartb,  that 
*'  Mr.  WiUes  fliould  never  believe  it  worth  his  while 
**  to  take  notice  of  any  refledions  on  himfelf ;  but 
**  if  hrs  friends  were  attacked,'  he  Ihould  then  think 
**  he  Was  wounded  in  the  moft  fenfible  part,  and 
'*  would,  as  well  as  he  was  able,  revenge  their  caufe  ; 
adding,  that  if  he  thought  the  North  Btiton  would 
infert  what  he  fent,  he  would  make  an  appeal  to 
the  public  on  the  very  Saturday  following  the  pub- 
lication of  the  print.  H^e  Times  foon  after  ap- 
peared, and  on  the  Saturday  following  \^Sept.  25, 
**  1762,]  N**  17,  of  the  North  Briton^  which  is  a  di- 
*•  redt  attack  on  the  king's  ftrjeant-painter  ♦.      If 

«•  Mr. 

^  As  much  of  this  paper  as  relates  to  our  artift  is  here 
fubjoined : 

•*  The  humourous  Mr.  Hogarth^  the  fuffofed  author  of  the 
**  Analjifii  0f  Beautyy  has  at  lad  entered  the  lift  of  politicians, 
•*  and  given  us  a  print  of  Sp&e  Times,  JFhrds  are  man^sprovincr^ 
**  fays  Pope  I  but  they  are  not  Mr,  Hogarth* s  ^xoy'mct.  He 
**  (bmewfaere  meations  his  being  indebted  to  a  friend  for  a 

O  **  third 


It 

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C  81  3 

_  _W  •  •  m  a 

*'  Mr.  Wilkis  did  write  that  paper,  he  kept  his  word 

'^  better  with  Mr.  Hogarth,    than  the  painter  had 

*^  done  with  him. 

€€  It 

**  third  part  of  the  wording:  that  ii  his  phrafe.  We  all  titter 
'**  the  inf^ant  he  takes  up  a  /tm,  but  we  tremble  when  we  fee 
**  the  pencil  in  his  hand.  I  will  do  him  the  juftice  to  (ay,  that 
**  he  polTefics  the  rare  talent  of  gihbetting  in.  colours,  and 
**  that  in  moll  of  his  works  he  has  been  a  very  good  moral  fa- 
'*  tirift.  His  forte  is  there,  and  he  ihould  have  kept  it.  When 
'*  he  has  at  any  time  deviated  hombif  own  ptcmlimr  'walk,  he 
**  has  never  failed  to  make  himfelf  perfectly  ridiculous.  I 
*'  need  only  make  my  appeal  to  any  one  of  his  hifttrical  or 
**  portrait  pieces,  which  are  nov^*  confidered  as  almoft  beneath 
**  all  criticSfm.  The  favourite  Slglfmunda^  the  labour  of  fo 
**  many  years,  the  boafted  effort  of  his  art,  was  not  human, 
'*  If  the  figure  had  a  referoblance  of  any  thing  ever  on  earth, 
*'  or  had  the  leaft  pretence  to  meaning  or  exprefiion,  it  was 
**  what  he  had  (een,  or  perhaps  made,  in  real  life,  his  own 
'*  wife  in  an  agony  of  palTion ;  but  of  what  paflion  no  con-> 
**  noifTeiir  could  guefs.  All  his  friends  remember  what  tire* 
**  fome  difcourfes  were  held  by  him  day  after  day  about  the 
**  tranfcendent  merit  of  it,  and  how  the  great  names  oi  Ra* 
^*  phael^  Fandyke^  and  others,  were  made  to  yield  the  palm  of 
**  beauty,  grace,  expreilion,  &c.  to  Jiim,  for  this  long  la- 
**  lK)ured,  yet  flill,  uninterefting^  fingle  figure.  The  value  be 
'**  himfelf  fet  on  this,  as  well  as  on  fome  other  of  his  ^orks, 
**  almoft  exceeds  belief;  yet  from  poUceacfs  or  fear,  or  fome 
**  other  motives,  he  has  a&ually  been  paid  the  moft  ailonifliing 
^*  fums,  as  the  price,  not  of  his  merit,  but  of  his  unbounded 
'•  vanity. 

**  The  darling  paiHon  of  Mr.  Hogarth  is  to  (liew  the  faulty 
*•  and  dark  fide  of  every  object.  He  never  gives  us  in  perfec- 
**  tion  the  fair  fact  of  nature^  but  admirably  well  holds  out 
**  her  deformities  to  ridicule.  The  reafon  is  plain.  All  ob« 
**  jeds  are  painted  on  his  retina  in  a  grotefque  manner,  and 
'*  he  has  never  felt  the  force  of  what  the  French  call  is  helU 
**  tiotwri.  He  never  caught  a  fingle  idea  of  beauty,  grace,  or 
**  elegance ;  but,  on  the  other  hand,  he  never  milled  the  leaft 
**  flaw  in  almoft  any  produ^ion  of  nature  or  of  art.    This  is 

'«hii 


I  83  J 

^^  It  is  perhaps  worth  remarking,  that  the  painter 
'*  propofed  to  give  a  feries  of  political  prints,  and 

*«  that 

**  hli  true  charader.  He  has  fucceeded  veiy  happily  in  the 
**  way  of  humour,  and  has  mifcarried  in  every  other  attempt, 
*'  This  has  arifcn  in  fome  meafure  from  his  bead,  but  much 
'*  more  from  his  heart.  After  Marriage  a  la  MoJe^  the  public 
*^  wiflitd  for  a  feries  of  prints  of  a  baffy  marriage.  Hogarth 
**  made  the  attempt,  but  the  rancour  and  malevolence  of  his 
**  mind  made  him  very  foon  turn  with  envy  and  difguft  from 
**  objeds  of  fo  pleafing  contemplation,  to  dwell  and  feaft  a 
**  bad  heart  on  others  of  a  hateful  caft,  which  he  purfued, 
^  for  he  found  them  congenial,  with  the  moll  unabating  zeal, 
**  and  unrelenting  gall. 

**  I  have  obferved  fonae  time  his  fiulngjwn.    He  has  long 

**  been  very  dim^  and  atmofi  ^rm  if  his  beams,  '  He  feems  To 

**  confcious  of  this,  that  he  now  glimmen  with  horrovued  light m 

**  Jebn  BuU*s  hottfe  in  flames  has  been  hackneyM  in  fifty  diffc- 

*^  rent  prints  ;  and  if  there  is  any  merit  in  the  figure  on  (lilts, 

**  and  the  mob  prancing  around,  it  is  not  to  be  aCcribed  to 

**  Hogartby  but   to  Callot.    That  fpirited  ItaUan^  whom  the 

'*  Engiyb  painter  has  io  carefully  ftudied,  has  given  us  in  the 

'*  Balli  diSfeJfania  di  Jacomo  Callot^  the  very  fame  ideas,  but 

'^  infinitely  more  ludicrous  in  the  execution.    The  piece  it 

-  **  Smaraolo  anrnuto.     Raff  a  di  Boio.    The  Times  mud  be  con* 

**  fclTed  deditute  of  every  kind  of  original  merit.    The  print 

**  at  firft  view  appears  too  much  crouded  with  figures  ;  and  is 

**  in  every  part  confufed,  perplexed,  and  embarrafied.     The 

^^  fiery  is  net  well  told  to  the  eye;  nor  can  we  any  where  difcovcr 

**  the  fainted  ray  of  that  genius,  which  with  a  few  ftrokes  of 

**  the  pencil  enabled  us  to  penetrate  into  the  deepeft  recelTes 

**  of  thought,  and  even  caprice,  in  a  rake^  a  harlot^  and  a  fre* 

**  Jfigate  yoMfig  man  of  quality* 

••  J  own  loo  that  I  am  grieved  to  fee  the  genius  of  Hogarth^ 
*^  which  flionld  take  in  all  ages  and  countries,  funk  to  a  level 
•*  with  the  miferabie  tribe  of  party-etchers,  and  now,  in  his 
**  rapid  decline,  entering  into  the  poor  politics  of  the  faction 
*^  of  the  day,  and  dci'ccnding  into  low  perfonal  abufe,  indcad 
*•  of  inftru^ing  the  world,  as  he  could  once,  by  manly  moral 
-**  fatire.  Whence  can  proceed  fo  furprizing  a  change  ?  Is  it 
^*  the  fiowardncTs  of  old  age  ?     Or  is  it  that  envy  and  inipa- 

9  2  **  ticnce 


C  84  ] 

<<  that  Tie  Times  were  marked  Plate  I.    No  farther 

<<  progrefs  was  however  made  in  that  defign.    The 

*^  public 

**  tience  of  refplendent  merit  in  every  way,  at  which  he  has 
*<  always  fickened  ?  How  often  has  he  been  remarked  to  droop 
*^  at  the  fair  and  hooefi  applaufe  given  even  to  a  friend, 
**  though  he  had  particular  obligations  to  the  very  fame  gen- 
**  tleman  !  What  wonder  then  that  fome  of  the  moft  refpec- 
*'  table  chara&ers  of  the  age  become  the  objeAs  of  his  ridi« 
**  cule }  It  is  fufiicient  that  the  reft  of  mankind  applaud  ; 
**  from  that  moment  he  begins  the  attack,  and  you  never  can 
**  be  well  with  him,  till  he  hears  an  univerfal  outcry  againd 
**  you,  and  till  all  your  friends.have  given  you  up.  There  is 
**  bciides  a  filly  affectation  of  fingularity,  joined  to  a  ftrong 
**  defire  of  leading  the  reft  of  the  world :  when  that  is  once 
'*  found  impradlicable,  the  fpleen  engendered  on  fuch  an  oc« 
**  cafion  is  difcharged  at  a  particular  objed,  or  ends  in  a  ge- 
*'  nerai  mifanthropy.  The  public  never  had  the  leaft  Ihare  of 
**  Hogarth's  regard,  or  even  good-will.  Gain  and  tfoniiy  have 
*<  fteered  his  little  bark  quite  through  life.  He  hat  never 
^  been  confiftent  but  with  refpe£t  to  thole  two  principles. 
**  What  a  defpicable  part  has  he  a6led  with  regard  to  the  fo- 
**  cicty  oi  Arts  and  Sciences!  How  fliuffling  has  his  conilux't 
•*  ^en  to  the  whole  body  of  Artifts !  Both  thefe  ufefi:!  I'ocic- 
^*  ties  have  experienced  the  moft  ungentcel  and  offcnfivc  bcha- 
•*  viour  from  him.  There  is  at  this  hour  fcarccly  a  linglc 
*•  man  of  any  degree  of  merit  in  his  own  proteltion,  with 
**  whom  he  docs  not  hold  a  profcfTed  enmity.  Is  is  impoffiblo 
*<  the  lea  ft  degree  of  fricndfhip  could  ever  fubfift  in  this  in- 
'*  tercourfe  of  the  arts  with  him  ;  for  his  infufferabic  vanitv 
**  will  never  allow  the  leaft  merit  in  another,  and  no  man  or' 
**  a  liber.nl  turn  of  mind  will  ever  condefcend  to  feed  his  pride 
••  with  the  grofs  and  fulfomc  praife  he  experts,  or  to  burn  the 
'*  incenfe  he  claims,  and  indeed  fnuffs  like  a  moft  gracious 
*'  god.  To  this  he  joins  tio  i'mall  ftmre  of  jealoufy  ;  in  con- 
'*  fequence  of  which,  he  has  all  his  lite  endeavoured  to  lupprefs 
'<  riling  merit,  and  has  been  vcr)'  expert  in  every  mean  under- 
**  hand  endeavour,  to  extinguiih  the  leaft  fpark  of  genuine 
^*  fire.  But  all  treHius  was  not  born,  nor  will  die,  with  Mr. 
**  Ilo^arth:  and  notwithftanding  all  his  ungenerous  efforts  to 
^^  damp  or  chill  it  in  another,  i  will  crufi  ig  a  difcerning  and 

•<  liberal 


C  «5  3 

"  public  beheld  the  firft  feeble  eflforts  with  execra- 
'^  tionsy  and  it  is  faid  that  the  caricaturift  was  too 

**  much 

**  liberal  fpirit  in  the  Knglljb  nation,  to  patronize  and  reward 
<*  all  real  merit.  It  will  in  the  end  rife  fuperior  to  the  idle 
'*  laugh  of  the  hour,  which  thefe  triflers  think  it  the  higheft 
'*  praife  to  be  able  to  raife.  For  my  part,  I  firarcely  know  a 
*'  more  profligate  principle,  than  the  indifcriminately  facri- 
**  ficing  every  thing,  however  great  or  good,  to  the  dangerous 
**  talent  of  ridicule  ;  and  a  man,  whofe  fole  objedt  is  dummodo 
**  rifum  excutiatj  ought  to  be  avoided  as  the  word  peft  of  fo* 
'*  ciety,  as  the  enemy  moft  to  be  feared,  I  mean  a  treacheroiu 
**  friend.  Such  a  man  will  go  all  lengths  to  raife  a  laugh  at 
**  your  expence,  and  your  whole  life  will  be  made  miferable 
/*  from  his  ambition  of  diverting  the  company  for  half  an 
*•  hour, 

**  I  love  to  trace  the  ideas  of  a  Genius,  and  to  mark  the 
**  progrefs  of  every  art.  Mr.  Hogarth  has  heard  much  of 
•*  the  cohwehs  of  the  law,  and  the  Jpinning^m  jpider-weh^  feV. 
**  This  is  thrown  on  paper,  and  the  idea  carefully  treafured. 
**  Lord  Hardwicie  being  at  the  head  of  the  law,  and  defervedly 
*'  in  as  high  eileem  with  his  countrymen  as  any  man  who 
'*  ever  held  the  feals,  unfpotted  in  life,  and  equally  revered 
*'  by  prince  and  people,  becomes  an  excellent  fubje£t  for  the 
**  fatirical  pencil  of  a  malevolent  painter.  He  is  accordingly 
*'  emblematically  reprefented  by  Mr.  Hogarth  as  a  great  fpider 
**  in  a  large,  thick  web,  with  myriads  of  the  carcafes  of^^es^ 
••  clients  I  fuppofe,  fucked  to  death  by  the  gloomy  tyrant. 
**  Mr.  Hogarth  had  heard  of  Mr.  Pittas  being  above  all  his 
**  fellow -citizens,  and  of  his  fuperior  virtue  having  raifed  him 
•*  to  an  envied  and  dangerous  height  of  grandeur.  Now  this 
'*  he  has  taken  literally,  and,  with  the  kind  aid  of  Callot^  has 
^*  put  Mr.  Pitt  on  flilts,  and  made  the  people  look  up  to  him  i 
*^  which,  after  all  this  infipid  ridicule,  they  will  continue  to 
'*  do,  as  a  kind  of  tutelar  deity,  from  whom  they  expect 
'*  that  fecurity  and  thofe  blellings  they  defpair  of  from  others. 
**  As  to  the  conceit  of  the  hellowsy  to  fignify,  I  fuppofe,  Mr. 
••  Pitt's  endeavours  to  blow  up  the  flames  of  war  and  difcord, 
•*  it  is  at  once  very  poor  and  very  falfe.  His  whole  condpft 
*<  the  laft  feffion  in  parliament,  and  out  of  the  houfe  ever 
y  finccy  has  demonilrated  the  contrary :   ne^ne  ihto  hoc  ora* 

G  3  •*  tionc 


[     86    ] 

"  mneltlrtirt  by  the  general  opinion  of  mankind, 
*'  poffefs  himfelf  afterwards  fuificicntly  for  the  ex 
"  cution  of  fuch  a  work* 

**  Whc| 

*'  tione  Jehtm,  fei  «««/«  mapt  viti  ti  moribus  cemfraha'y 
"  Cic.  dc  Fin. 

'*  Lord  I'cmplt  is  a  noblem.in  of  fine  parti  nnd  tinftillied  hap;  J 
"  nour,  who  has  (hewn  a  ihorough  diJinterefiedncrj,  a  greaf  3 
"  lore  of  liberty,  aod  a  fteady  aitMhmetit  to  the  public, 
*'  every  pnri  of  hit  contluft  through  lite.  It  wa»  impoflibl^^ 
**  fuch  a  charafler  could  be  miflcd  by  ihc  poifoooui  Ihafts  of  1 

•'  eUTy,  which  we  fee  pointed  at  all  fiipcrior  virtue 

"  Mr.  Hfgarih's  wit  on  this  noble  lord  is  confiped  to  the 
•'  wretched  conceits  of  the  Temfli  Cofcc-hovfc,  and  a  fquiri  to 
•'  fignify  t\it  flawing  aa  .  je  roiniftry.  I  really  believe  thi»  wit 
**  is  all  Mr.  Heganh'i  owe. 

"  When  3  man  of  parts  dedicates  his  talents  to  the  fervice 
"  of  his  country,  he  Jtfervcs  the  higheft  rewards;  when  he 
*'  nukes  them  fubfersicnt  to  bafe  purpofes,  he  tneriln  execra* 
*'  tion  aod  punilhmcnt.  Amont;  the  Spa^am,  mufic  and  poe- 
*'  try  were  made  to  ferve  the  nobltft  piirpofci  of  the  Lacrjf. 
*'  manias  ftate.  A  itianly  courage  and  great  contempt  of 
'*  death  were  infpiredliy  them;  and  the  poet,  mufician,  fol- 
'*  dier,  and  patriot,  were  often  the  fame  good  citizen,  wht> 
"  defpifed  the  low  mtchcmic  inert  of  the  profcflion,  and  wai 
•*  zealous  only  for  the  glory  of  his  coiinrry.  In  the  year 
•'  174.6,  when  the  Guarji  were  ordered  to  march  to  Fia.-hby, 
"  on  the  moft  important  (crrice  they  could  be  employed  in, 
•'  the  cxtinguifhing  a  Scettijb  rebellion,  which  threatened  the 
•' intire  roin  of  the  illuflrious  family  on  (he  liirone,  an<],  in 
*'  confequcnce,  of  our  Hbertiei,  Mr.  Hoganb  came  out  with 
"  B  print  to  make  them  tiJicuIoits  to  their  oounirymcn  and  to 
"  all  EuTfpt;  or  perhaps  it  rather  was  to  tell  the  Steli  in  his 
*'  way  how  little  the  Guard*  were  to  be  feared,  and  that  they 
"  might  fafcly  advance.  That  the  ridicule  mi^hl  not  ftop 
"  bere,  atid  that  it  might  be  as  of&nlive  at  pufTible  to  his  own 
"Jbvtrtign,  he  dedicated  the  print  to  the  king  of  Prti[ilia  •, 
**  as  an  eiKitiTapf  ef  am.  \%  this  pattiolilm!  Id  old  ^«n^ 
f!  or  in  any  of  the  Gncian  ftates,  he  would  have  been  pii> 
*  Ttut  is  the  orthography  of  Air.  Htgarib,     Sec  th4  print.  * 


C    ?7    1, 

^'  When  Mr.  Wm^s  was  the  fecond  time  brougbt 
••  from  the  ^awer  to  Wefiminfter^haU^  Mr.  Hogotth 
*'  (kulked  behind  in  a  corner  of  the  gallery  of  the 
^'  Court  of  Common  Pleas ;  and  while  the  Chief  Juf- 
^*  tice  Pratt  *,  with  the  eloquence  and  courage  of  old 

**  nifhed  as  a  profligate  citizen,  totally  devoid  of  all  principle. 
**  In  Engiattd  he  Is  rewarded,  and  made  /irjeant  painter  to 
*<  that  very  king's  grandfon.  I  think  the  term  means  the 
^*  fame  as  what  is  vulgarly  called  >^<7«/^'painter ;  and  indeed 
**  he  has  not  been  fuffered  to  caricature  the  royal  family.  The 
**  pod  of  portrdit-patnter  is  given  to  a  Sc9tfmmiy  one  Ran^ay\ 
'*  Mr*  Hogarth  is  only  to  paint  the  wainfcot  of  the  rooms,  or, 
'*  in  the  phrafe  of  the  art,  may  be  called  thtit  ^nmei-faUter^ , 
^'  But  how  have  the  Guards  offended  Mn  Hogarth^  for  he  it 
•*  again  attacking  them  in  Tht  Times  f  Lord  Harringtons  it* 
**  cond  troop  of  grenadier  guards  is  allowed  to  be  very  pcrfeft 
•*  in  every  part  of  military  difciplinc;  and  Hogarth's  friend, . 
*'  the  kingofPri^,  could  have  (hewn  him  the  real  trApor* 
'*  tance  of  it.  He  had  heard  them  much  applauded,  and 
**  therefore  muft  abufe  them.  The  ridicule  ends  however  in 
**  mrs  compoffd  hy  Harrington^  and  in  a  piece  of  cl&ck'Work ; 
'S  but  he  ought  to  have  known,  that  though  rbomme  machisu 
•*  is  not  found  philofophy,  it  is  the  true  doctrine  of  tactics. 

**  The  Militia  has  received  fo  many  jull  tedimonies  of  ap- 
'^  plaufe,  both  from  their  king  and  country,  that  the  attack 
*'  of  envy  and  malevolence  was  long  expected.  But  I  dare  fay 
**  this  poor  jeftcr  will  have  Mr.  George  TownJhend*s  free  confcnt 
*•  to  vent  his  fpleen  upon  him  and  the  gentlemen  of  Norfolk* 
**  I  believe  he  may  ever  go  on  in  this  way  almoft  unnoticed ; 
•*  at  one  time  ridiculing  the  Guards  for  a  difordcrly^  and  at 
"  another  the  Militia  for  an  exa^  and  orderly  march.  Mr. 
**  Tows^fiend  will  flill  have  the  warm  applaufe  of  his  country, 
*'  and  the  trueft  fatisfadtion,  that  of  an  honeft  heart,  for  his 
•*  patriot  labours  in  eftablilhing  this  great  plan  of  internal  de- 
**  fence,  a  Militia^  which  has  delivered  us  from  the  ignominy 
••  of  firiign  hirelings^  and  the  ridiculous  fears  of  invafion,  by 
'*  a  brave  and  well-difcipHned  body  of  EngUJhmen^  at  all  times 
•*  ready  and  zealous  for  the  defence  of  their  country,  aad  of 
^^  its  laws  and  conditution.'* 

*  The  prefent  Lord  Camdem^ 

G  4  «  Rome^ 


C    88    ] 

^^  Rome,  was  enforcing  the  great  principles  of  Magna 
^^  Cbarta,  and  the  EngUfi  conftitution,  while  every 
'*  breaft  from  him  caught  the  holy  flame  of  iibeny, 
'^  the  painter  was  wholly  employed  in  caricaturing 
^^  the  perfon  of  the  man ;  while  all  the  reft  of  his 
^^  fellow  citizens  were  animated  in  his  caufSy  for  they 
^^  knew  it  to  be  their  own  caufe,  that  of  their  coun- 
^^  try,  and  of  its  laws.  It  was  declared  to  be  fo  a 
**  few  hours  after  by  the  unanimous  fentcnce  of  the 
**  judges  of  that  court,  and  they  were  all  prefent. 

"  The  print  of  Mr.  Wilkes  was  foon  after  pub- 
*'  lifted,  drawn  from  the  life  by  IVilUam  Hogarth.  It 
*^  muft  be  allowed  to  be  an  excellent  compound  cari" 
^^  caiuraf  or  a  caricatura  of  what  nature  had  already 
^^  caricatured.  I  luiow  but  one  ftort  apology  can  be 
•*  made  for  this  gentleman,  or,  to  fpcak  more  pro- 
'*  perly,  for  the  perfon  of  Mr.  IVilkes.  It  is,  that 
*'  he  did  not  make  himfelf,  and  that  he  never  was 
^^  folicitous  about  the  cafe  of  his  foul,  as  Shakfpeare 
^^  calls  it,  only  fo  far  as  to  keep  it  clean  and  in 
*^  health.  I  never  heard  that  he  once  hung  over  the 
*^  glafly  ftrcam,  like  another  Narcijus,  admiring  the 
*•  image  in  it,  nor  that  he  ever  ftolc  an  amorous 
•'  look  at  his  counterfeit  in  a  fide  mirrour.  His 
'•  form,  fuch  as  it  is,  ought  to  give  him  no  pain, 
**  becaufe  it  is  capable  of  giving  plcafurc  to  others. 
•*  1  fancy  be  finds  himfelf  tolerably  happy  in  the 
**  clay-cottage  J  to  which  he  is  tenant  for  life^  becaufe 
^*  he  has  learnt  to  keep  it  in  good  order.  While 
«« the  ftarc  of  health  and  animal  fpirits,  which  hea- 

.  <*  vcn 


C    «9    ] 

'*  ven  has  given  him»  iliall  hold  out^  I  can  fcarccly 
'^  imagine  he  will  be  one  moment  peevilh  about  the 
^^  outfide  of  fo  precarious,  fo  temporary  a  habitation, 
^^  or  will  even  be  brought  to  own,  ingemum  Galha 
^^  male  habitat.    Monfieur  tft  mat  logi» 

^^  Mr.  Churchill  was  exafperated  at  this  perfinat 
*^  attack  on  his  friend.  He  foon  after  publilhed  the 
*^  Epiftie  to  ffllliam  Hogarth  «,  and  took  for  the  motto, 
^*  ut  piSura  poejis.  Mr.  Hogartb^i  revenge  againft 
*^  the  poet  terminated  in  vamping  up  an  old  print  of 
^*  a  pug' dog  and  a  bear,  which  he  pubiifhed  under 
«  the  title  of  The  Bruifer  C.  Churchill  (once  the 
^*  Revd. !)  in  the  character  of  a  Rujftan  HercU'^ 
«*  les.  &c.'* 

The  Editor  of  the  Monthly  Review^  for  November^ 
1769,  in  an  account  of  Mr.  Wilkes^s  correfpondcnce, 
remarks,  **  The  writer  of  this  article  had  in  fub* 
*^  ftance  the  fame  relation  from  the  mouth  of  Mr. 
^'  Hogarth  himfclf,  but  a  very  little  while  before  his 
<'  death  f ;  and  the  leading  fads  appeared,  from  his 
"  candid  reprefentation,  in  nearly  the  fame  light  as 
"  in  this  acount  which  our  readers  have  been  juft 
**  peruling." 

*  This  gave  rife  to  a  catchpenny,  intituled ,  **  ^«/'  Reply 
**•  to  Parfon  Bruin ;  or,  a  Political  ConferencC|  occafioned  by 
«'  an  Epiftie  to  miUam  Htgitrib^  £fq;"  4to. 

f  *^  Which  was  prohably  accelerated  by  this  unlucky  (we 
*^  had  alrooft  faid  unnatural)  event ;  for  Wllkis^  Churcbil!^  and 
**  Hogarth^  had  been  intimate  friends,  and  might  have  conti- 
**  nued  fuch  as  long  as  they  lived,  had  not  the  daemon  of  po- 
**  iitics  and  party  fown  diicord  among  them,  and  dllTolved 
♦•  rtclr  union.'* 

6  I  have 


C    9*    II 

I  have  been  aiRircd  by  tbftftiepd^  who  firJft  carried 
txid  read  the  mvedive  of  CkwrcldU  to  Hogarth^  that 
he  feemed  quite  infeoibJbe  to  the  oiofi  farcafiical 
parts  of  it.  He,  wa«  fi>  thoroug^l^  wounded  before 
by  the  North  Briion,  efpecially  widi  regard  to  what 
related  to  domeftic  happinefs,  that  he  htj  ho  where 
open  to  a  frefli  ftroke.  Some  readers,  however,  may 
entertain  a  doubt  on  this  fubjc^  A  man  feels  moft 
exquifitely  when  the  merit  of  which  he  is  proudeft  is 
denied  him ;  and  it  might  be  urgedj  that  Hogarth 
was  more  foUcitous  to  maintain  the  charafter  of  a 
good  painter,  than  of  a  tender  hulband. 

One  quotation,  however,  from  CburchilTi  Epiftlc 
the  warmeft  admirers  of  our  matchlefs  artift  muft  be 
pleafed  with : 

^'  In  walks  of  humour,  in  that  caft  of  ftyle, 
<'  Which,  probing  to  the  quick,  yet  makes  us  fmile ; 
'^  In  Comedy,  his  natural  road  to  fame, 
^^  Nor  lee. me  call  it  by  a  meaner  name, 
^^  Where  a  beginning,  middle,  and  an  end, 
*^  Are  aptly  join*d ;  where  parts  on  parts  depend, 
''  Each  made  for  each,  as  bodies  for  their  foul, 
**  So  as  to  form  one  true  and  perfed  whole, 

♦  — the  friend ]  Dr.  Mfrell.    The  conduct  of  this  gen- 
tleman cannot  fail  to  put  the  reader  in  mind  of  Sir  Fretful 
Plagiary s  complaint  in  Mr.  Sheridan's  Critic:  ** — if  it  is  abufe, 
^*  why  one  is  always  fure  to  hear  of  it  from  one  damo*d  |^od-> 
**  naiurcd/r/Vff^  or  another." 

«  Where 


[    9»     1 

•'  Where  a  plain  ftorj^to  the  eye  is  t»ld, 
*«  Which  we  conceive  the  moment  we  behold  •  j 
*^  Hogarth  unrivard  ilands,  and  fliall  engage 
i*  Unrivard  praife  to  the  moll  diflant  age/' 

Hogarth  having  be^n  faid  to  be  in  his  dotage  wh^n 
he  produced  his  priot  of  the  Bear,  it  fhould  feem  as 
if  he  had .  been  provoked  to  make  the  following  ad- 
ditions to  this  print,  in  order  to  give  a  further  fpe- 
cimen  of  his  fiill  exifting  genius* 

In  the  form  of  a  framed  picture  on  the  painter^s 
palette,  he  has  fcprefehted  an  Egyptian  pyramid  ^f ,  on 
the  fide  of  which  is  $  Chejhire  cheefe  j;,  and  round  it 

3000  iL 

*  M  While  thinking  figures  &om  the  canvas  ftart^ 
**  And  Hogarth  is  the  Garrkk  of  his  art/* 
is  a  couplet  in  Smart^s  Hilliad  §. 

f  The  pyramid,  &c.  This  ftroke  of  f.^tire  was  retorted  on 
Hogarti^  and  employed  to  exprefs  his  advanced  age  and  de- 
clining abilities ;  while  the  CbeJInre  cheefe,  with  3000  /•  on  it» 
feemed  to  imply  that  he  himfslf  merited  an  annual  penfton. 

X  I  received  this  explanation  from  an  injpniaus  friend.— 
The  late  Mr.  Rogers  explained  it  thus :  "  Mr.  Pitt  is  repre- 
^*  fented  in  it  fitting  at  his  eafe  [in  the  pofirion  of  the  great 
**  Sir  Ijaac  Newton  in  WcJlmtnft9r^Ahhey\  with  a  milUftone 
**  hanging  over  his  head,  on  which  is  written  3000/.  in  allufion 
'*  to  his  faying,  that  Hanover  was  a  mill-flone  round  the  neck 
^'  oi  England^  on  account  of  the  expences  attending  it ;  and  his 
^*  afterwards  adding  himfelf  to  the  public  expences  by  ac- 
^*  cepting  a  penfion  of  3000/.  a  year.  He  is  firing  a  mortar- 
^*  piece  levelled  at  a  Dove  bearing  an  olive-branch  (the  fymbol 
^  of  peace)  perched  on  the  flamlard  of  England ;  and  is  fup- 

§  The  compliment  from  the  KiHtad  to  Mr.  Hogarth^  Mf.  Smart 
obferves,  '<  is  reciprocal ,  and  rcflc6ifcs  a  luftre  on  Mr.  Garruk^  both 
^'  of  them  having  fimilar  talents,  equally  capable  of  tiic  highcft  clc- 
'*  vation,  and  of  reprcfcntiog  the  ordinary  fccnes  of  life  with  the  mod 
U  esquiiite  humour." 

**  ported 


C    9^    ] 

3000  /.  per  annum ;  and  at  the  foot  a  Roman  Ve* 
tcran  in  a  reclining  pofture,  deiigned  as  an  ailufion 
to  Mr.  PitCs  reiignation.  The  cheefe  is  meant  to 
allude  to  a  former  fpcech  of  his,  wherein  he  faid 
that  he  would  rather  fubfift  a  week  on  a  Che/hire 
chccfc  and  a  iboulder  of  mutton,  than  fubmit  to  the 
implacable  enemies  of  his  country. 

But  to  ridicule  this  charadtcr  fiill  more,  he  is,  as 
he  lies  down,  firing  a  piece  of  ordnance  at  the  ftan- 
dard  of  Britain,  on  which  is  a  dove  with  an  olive- 
branch,  the  emblem  of  peace.  On  one  fide  of  the 
pyramid  is  the  City  of  London,  reprefented  by  the 
figure  of  one  of  thQ  Guildball  giants,  going  to  crown 
the  reclining  hero.  On  the  other  fide  is  the  king  of 
Fruffia^  in  the  charader  of  one  of  the  Ca/ars^  but 
fmoking  his  pipe.  In  the  center  fiands  Hogarth 
himfelf,  whipping  a  Dancing  Bear  (Churchill)  which 
he  holds  in  a  firing.  At  the  fide  of  the  Bear  is  a 
Monkey,  defigned  for  Mr.  Wilkes.  Between  the  legs 
of  the  little  animal  is  a  mop-fiick,  on  which  he 
feems  to  ride,  as  children  do  on  a  hobby-horfe  :  at 
the  top  of  the  mop-ftick  is  the  cap  of  liberty.  The 
Monkey  is  undergoing  the  fame  difcipline  as  the 
Bear.     Behind  the  Monkey  is  the  figure  of  a  man, 

*'  portrd  by  the  Cir\-  of  LarJan^  denoted  by  the  two  Giants  in 
*'  CulUhaU.  lL\i;ayib  ii  flogging  li'ilkss  and  Churihill^  and 
*'-  n.. iking  thcin  dance  to  the  icrnpings  of  a  fidier ;  defigned 
*•  5?)  rc])rc1ci.:  a  NoLlemin  [Earl  li-mpU]^  who  patronized 
**  tiicm  in  T765,  and  who,  tor  his  unmeaning  face,  has  ever 
*' iKtii  dcKii'jcd  without  a  feature.     Sec  Trujlir\  Trcfaoe, 

but 


C    93    3 

but  with  no  lineaments  of  face^  and  playing  on  a 
fiddle.    This  was  dcfigned  for  Earl  Temple* 

At  the  time  thefe  hoftilities  were  carrying  on  in  a 
manner  fo  virulent  and  difgraceful  to  all  the  parties, 
Hogarth  was  vifibly  declining  in  his  health.  In 
1762,  he  complained  of  an  inward  pain,  which, 
continuing,  brought  on  a  general  decay  that  proved 
incurable  *•  This  laft  year  of  his  life  he  employed 
in  retouching  his  plates  with  the  aflliftance  of  feveral 
engravers  whom  he  took  with  him  to  Chifwick.  On 
the  25th  of  OSober,  1764,  he  was  conveyed  from 
thence  to  Leicifier-Jields,  in  a  very  weak  condition, 
yet  remarkably  chearful;  and^  receiving  an  agreeable 

*  It  may  be  worth  obfcrving,  that  in  "  Independence,"  a 
poem  which  was  not  publifhed  by  ChurcblU  till  the  iafl  week  of 
September^  17^49  l^C  conAders  hii  antagonift  as  a  departed 
Genius : 

**  Hogarth  would  draw  him  (Envy  muft  allow) 
**  E*en  to  the  life,  was  Hogarth  living  now." 
How  little  did  the  fportive  Satirift  imagine  that  the  power  of 
pleating  was  fo  foon  to  ceafe  in  both !  Hogarth  died  in  four 
weeks  after  the  publication  of  this  poem  ;  and  Churchill  fur- 
vived  him  but  nine  days.  In  fome  lines  which  were  printed  ia 
Novemher  1764,  t lie  compiler  of  thefe  Anecdotes  took  occafioa 
to  lament  that 

«« Scarce  had  the  friendly  tear, 

•*  For  Hogarth  died,  efcap'd  the  generous  eye 

•*  OF  feeling  Pity,  when  again  it  flow'd 

*'  For  ChitrchilPs  fate.     Ill  can  we  bear  tl\c  iofs 

**  Of  Fancy's  twin-born  offspring,  clofe  ally'd 

**  In  energy  of  thought,  though  different  paths 

•*  They  fought  for  fame  !  Though  jarring  pafliont  fway'd 

**  The  living  artifts,  let  the  funeral  wreath 

**  Unite  their  memory  !'* 

letter 


letter  from  the  American  Dr.  FrMklin^  drew  up  a 
rough  draught  of  an  anfwer  to  it ;  but  going  to  bed^ 
he  was  feized  with  a  vomitings  upon  which  he  rung 
his  bell  with  fuch  violence  that  he  broke  it^  and 
expired  about  two  hours  afterwards  in  the  arms  of 
Mrs.  Mary  Lewis,  who  was  called  up  on  his  being 
taken  fuddenly  ill.  To  this  lady,  for  her  faithful 
fervicesy  he  bequeathed  loo/.  After  .the  death  of 
Hogartb^s  fifter,  Mrs.  Lewis  fucceeded  to  the  care  of 
his  prints  ;  and,  without  violation  of  truth,  it  may 
be  obfervcdy  that  her  good  nature  and  afiability  re- 
commend thefe  performances  which  ihe  continues  to 
difpofe  of  at  Mrs.  Hogartb^s  houfe  jn  Leicefter-fquare, 
Before  our  artift  went  to  bed^  he  boaftcd  of  having 
eaten  a  pound  of  beef-fteaks  for  his  dinner  ^^  and 
was  to  all  appearance  heartier  than  he  liad  been  for 
a  long  time  before.  His  diforder  was  an  aneurifni ; 
and  his  corpfe  was  interred  in  the  church-yard  at 
Cbifwick,  where  a  monument  is  ereded  to  his 
memory,  with  this  infcription^  under  his  family 
arms: 

"  Here  lieth  the  body 

Of  miliam  Hogartb,  Efq. 

Who  died  OElober  the  26th,  1 764, 

Aged  67  years.** 

*  The  Mtnthhf  Rcfievoer  unintentionally  reads  fipper^  In- 
dead  of  Mmnefm  As  to  this  article  of  minute  intelligence^ 
whether  it  be  true  or  fahc,  it  was  communicated  by  Mis. 
LewU. 


On 


C    95  1] 

•        •   •         • 

On  another  fide^  which  is  ornamented  witli  a 
mafque^  a  laurel  wreath,  a  palette,  pencils^  and  a 
hobkj  infcribed  *'  Analyfis  of  Beauty,"  are  the  fol- 
lowing verfes  by  his  friend  Mr.  Garrick : 

*'  Farewell,  great  painter  of  mankind. 

Who  feach'd  the  tiobleft  point  of  art ; 
Whofe  pidtur'd  morals  charm  the  mind. 

And  through  the  eye  corredt  the  heart. 
nonius  fire  thee,*  reader,  ftay. 

If  nature  touch  thee,  drop  a  tear ; 
If  neither  move  thee,  turn  away,  - 

For  i£)^ar/i&V  honourM  duft  lies  here.^ 

On  a  third  fide  is  this  infcription  : 

"  Here  lieth  the  body 

OiThimtJudiibThombill, 

Relift  of  Sir  James  Tbcmbill,  knight. 

Of  Tbornbill  in  tlie  county  of  Dorfet. 

She  died  November  the  12th,  1757, 

Aged  84  years." 

< 
And  on  the  fourth  fide  e 

**  Here  lieth  the  body 
Of  Mrs.  Jnne  Hogartb,  filler 
to  William  Hogarib,  Efq. 
She  died  Augujl  the  13th,  1 771, 
Aged  70  years." 


Mr. 


C   96  3 

Mr.  Hayleyt  in  his  juftly  admired  EfiJiU  i»  M  ' 
Eminent  Painter  (Mr.  Remmy),  has  fince  exprcfled 
himfcif  concerning  our  artift  in  terms  that  confer 
yet  higher  honours  on  his  comic  excellence  : 

*'  Nor,  if  her  favour'd  hand  m.iy  hope  to  fhcd  T 
"  The  flowers  of  glory  o'er  the  /kilful  dead, 
"  Thy  talents,  Hogarth  !  will  flic  leave  unfung  ; 
**  Charm  of  all  tyes,  and  Theme  of  every  tongue  ij 
*•  A  feparate  province  'twas  thy  praife  to  rule 
*•  Self-form'd  thy  Pencil !  yet  thy  works  a  Schooy 
"  Where  ftrongly  painted,  la  gradations  nice, 
**  The  Pomp  of  Folly,  and  the  Shame  of  Vice, 
*'  Reach'd  thro'  the  laughing  Ej'e  the  mended  MiOj 
"  And  moral  Humour  fjwrtivc  Art  refin'd. 
*'  Whik-  fleecing  Manners,   as  minutely  ftiown 
"  As  the  clear  profpcft  on  the  mirror  thrown  ; 
"  While  Truth  of  Charaflcr,  exaftly  hit, 
"  And  dreft  in  all  the  dyes,  of  comic  wit ; 
*'  While  thefe,  in  Fielding's  page,  delights  fupply, 
*'  So  long  thy  Pencil  with  his  Pen  (hall  vie. 
"  Science  with  grief  beheld  thy  drooping  age 
"  Fall  the  fad  vidim  of  a  Poet's  rage  : 
"  But  Wit's  vindi^ive  fpleen,  that  mocks  cotltroiri 
"  Nature's  high  tax  on  luxury  of  foul ! 
•*  This,  both  in  Bards  and  Painrors,  Fame  forgives  | 
*'  Their  Frailty's  buried,  but  their  Genius  lives." 

Thus  far  the  encomiaft,  who  fecks  only  for  oppor- 
tunities of  bellowing  praife.  A  more  impartial  nar- 
rative will  be  ej:i)cded  from  the  biographer. 

It 


It  nqJiybe  truly  obfervedof  Hogarth ^x)\2t  all  his 
povfers  of  delighting  were  re  (trained  to  his  pencil  *. 
Having  rarely  been  admitted  into  polite  circles,  none 
of  his  (harp  cornets  had  been  rubbed  off,  fo  that  he 
continued  16    the'  lalt  a  grofs    uncultivated   man. 
The'llighteft  contradiSiott'  tranfported  him  into  rage^ 
To  be  member  of  a  Club  confiding  of  mechanics,  or 
fhofe'fiCt  matty  removes  above  them,  fcems  to  have 
Bteti^tlAt  Utmbft  of  his  focial  ambition ;  but  even  in 
thcfe  allehiblies  he  was  oftener  fent  to  Coventry  for  mif- 
behaviour;   than  any  other  perfon  who  frequented 
them.    To  fome  confidence  in  himfelf  he  was  cer- 
tainly entitled ;  for,  as  a  comic  painter,  he  could  have 
claimed  no  honour  that  would  not  moft  readily  have 
been  allowed  him  ^ ;  but  he  was  at  once  unprinci^ 
pled  and  variable  in  his  political  conduct  and  attach- 
ments.    He  is   alfo  faid  to  have  beheld  the  rifing 
eminence  and  popularity  of  Sir  Jojhua  Reynolds  with 
a  degree  of  envy  ;  and,   if  I  am  not  mifinformed, 
frequently  fpoke  with  afperity  both  of  him  and  his 
performances.    Juftice,  however,  obliges  me  toadd^ 
that  our  artift  was  liberal,  hofpitable,  and  the  mod 
pundhialof  pay-maftcrs;  fothat,  in  fpite  of  the  emo- 
luments his  works  had  procured  to  him,  he  left  but  an 

*  Mr.  iralpoJe  once  Invited  Gn^  the  Poet  and  Hogarth  to 
dine  with  him  ;  but  what  with  the  referve  of  the  one,  and  t 
want  of  colloquial  talents  in  the  other,  he  never  pafTed  a  duller 
tine  than  between  thefe  roprefentatives  of  Tragedy  and  Comtdjj 
being  obliged  to  rely  entirely  on  his  own  etibrcs  to  fupporc 
converfacion. 

f  The  moft  folid  praife,  perhaps,  that  ever  was  given  to  our 
trtift,  was  a  legacy  of  200/.  *^  for  the  great  pleafure  the  tcfla- 
"  tor  had  received  from  his  works." 

H  incoiifiderable 


[    9»     ] 

inconiiderable  fortune  to  bis  widow.    His  pUtcs  \ 
deed  nre  fuch  rcfoarccs  as  may  not  fpeedily  be  t] 
hauflcd.    Some  of  his    domeOics   had  lived  mai 
years  in  his  fcr^'ice,  a  circumftancc  that  always 
flcds  credit  on    a  maftcr.    Of  moft  of  ihefe 
painted  Urong  likenclTcs  on  a  canvas  ftilt  in 
ihgartb'i  pofleffion. 

His  widow  has  alfo  a  portrait  of  her  h 
and  an  excellent  buft  of  him  by  Roul/i/liaCt  a  flri 
refemblance  ;  and  one  of  his  brothcr-tn-law 
7hcmhilly  much  refrmbling  the  countenance  of  MtS. 
"Hogarth.  Several  of  his  portraits  alfo  remain  in  hgr 
pofTeinon  \  viz.  a  finifhed  portait  of  Mrs.  Mary  Lewis ^ 
themes  Ceomhci of  Dorfttjh'tre^  ^g^d  io8 ;  Lady 
hiU;  Mrs.  Hogarth  herfclf,  &c.  &c. 

A  portrait  of  Hogarth  ;vith  his  hat  on,  painted  for 
the  late  Rev.  Mr.  TmnnUy  by  Welldoti,  and  faid  to 
be  finilhed  by  himfelf,  is  in  the  poiTeflion  of  Mr, 
James  Townleyj  proSor  in  DoHors  Comment.  A  mez- 
zotinto  print  from  it  will  be  nientioned  under  the 
year  1781  in  the  Catalogue. 

Mr.  Edmards,  of  Beaufort  Buildings,  has  the  por- 
trait of  Sir  Geer^e  Hay,  The  Savoyard  Girl,  The 
Bench,  and  Mary  ^een  of  Scots  *,  by  Hogarth. 

A  converfationpiece  by  him  is  likcwifc  at  Wun- 
fead  in  Effex,  the  feat  of  Earl  Tylney  f.  And  Mrs. 
Hoadtf  has  a  fcene  of  Rimger  and  Clarinda  in  The 
Sufpitious  Hu/band  -,  and  the  late  Chancellor  Hoadij 

n  for  H  portrait  of  Rln.  CbotrngnAltj,  buE 
two  fittmgt,  to  ilic  Qiiecn. 


Lewis' 


*  Origipully  beg 
■ttercd,  arter  one  ui 

♦  See  p.  9. 

3 


repeating 


C  '99    3 

repeidflg  a  fong  to  Dr.  Greene^  for  him  to  compofe  \ 
both  by  Hegartbn  The  firft  of  thefe  is  an  indifferent 
pi&ure,  and  contains  very  inadequate  likenefles  of 
the  perfons  reprefented. 

One  of  the  beft  portraits  Hogarth  ever  painted, 
is '  at  tJchfieU.  It  is  of  a  gentleman  with  whom 
he  was  very  intimate,  and  at  whofe  houfes  at 
Mortlake  and  in  Ironmongers- Lane  he  fpent  much  of 
his  tune — Mr.  Jofepb  Porter^  of  London,  merchant, 
who  died  yf|pr/V  7,  1749.  Mrs.  Pt^r/^r  the  filler  of  this 
gentleman  (who  was  daughter  of  Dr.  Jobn/on's  wife 
by  a  fbrtner  hufband)  is  in  pofifeffion  of  the  pic- 
tiirc.— 7^*^  Steers,  efq.  (of  The  Paper  Buildings  in 
^be  TeOipIe)  has  an  audtion  by  Hogarth,  in  which  Dr. 
Cbauncey,  Dr,  Snagg,  and  others,  are  introduced ; 
and  the  Earl  of  Exeter  has  a  butcher's  (hop,  with 
Siiiri^  fighting,  &c. 

Of  Hogarth's  leflTer  plates  many  were  deftroyed. 
"When  he  wanted  a  piece  of  copper  on  a  fudclen^  he 
would  take  any  from  which  he  had  already  worked 
off  fuch  a  number  of  imprefiions  as  he  fuppofed  he 
ihould  fell  He  then  fent  it  to  be  effaced,  beat  out, 
or  otherwife  altered  to  his  prefent  purpofe. 

The  plates  which  remained  in  his  pOfifeffipn  were 
fecured  to  Mrs,  Hogarth  by  his  will,  dated  Jugwji  12, 
1764,  chargeable  with  an  annuity  of  80 /.to  his 
lifter  Jnne  *,  who  furvived  him.    When,  oti  the 

* 

.  ^  To  whom,  in  cafe  ofMn.  H^gartPs  rotnying  again,  he 
gBTc  cbe  plfites  of  Marriage  i  la  Mode,  and  of  the  Harlot's 
and  Ra)Le*<  Progreft. 

H  2  death 


C      lOO     ] 

death  of  bis  other  fifter^  ^e  left  off  the  bufinefs  in 
which  Ihe  was  engaged  (fee^  in  the  Catalogue^  the 
firft  article  among  the  **  Prints  of  uncertain  date,") 
he  kindly  took  her  home,  and  generoufly  fupported 
her,  making  her,  at  the  fame  time,  ufefql  in  the 
difpofal  of  his  prints.  Want  of  tendernefs  and  !!• 
berality  to  his  relatiofis  was  not  among  the  failings 
of  Hogartb. 

Of  HogartFs  drawings  and  contributions  towards 
the  works  of  others,  perhaps  a  number,  on  enquiry, 
might  be  found.  An  acquaintance  of  his,  the  late 
worthy  Mr.  John  Sanderfony  architcA,  who  repaired 
tFoburn  Abbey ^  as  well  as  Bedford  Houfe  in  Bloomjburf' 
fquare,  pofleffed  feveral  of  his  curioiicies.  One 
was  a  fketch  in  black-lead  of  a  celebrated  young  en- 
graver (long  fiuce  dead)  in  a  (alivation.  The  bed 
that  can  be  faid  of  it  is,  that  it  was  mod  difguflingly 
natural  Even  the  coarfe  ornaments  on  the  corners 
of  the  blankets  which  enwrapped  him,  were  charac- 
teriflically  expreffed.  Our  artiil  feems  to  have  re- 
peated the  fame  idea,  though  with  lefs  force,  and 
fewer  adjun&s,  in  the  third  of  his  Elcdlion  prints, 
where  a  figure  fwaddled  up  in  flannel  is  conveyed  to 
the  huftings.  Two  other  works,  viz.  a  drawing  in 
Itidian  ink,  and  a  painting  in  oil  colours,  exhibited 
Bedford  Houfe  in  different  points  of  view ;  the  figures 
only  by  Hogartb.  Another  rcprefented  the  corner  of 
a  ftrcct,  with  a  man  drinking  under  the  fpout  of  a 
pump,  and  heartily  angry  with  the  water,  which, 
by  iffuing  out  too  iaft,  and  in  too  great  quantities, 

bad 


C  10'  3 

#  .  -  ,  •  -  •  .  .• 

"  had  ddugcd  his  face.  Our  great  pabter  had  obliged 
Mr.  Sanderfon  with  feveral  other  comic  iketches,  &c» 
but  moft  of  them  had  been  either  begged  or  flolen^ 
before  the  communicator  of  thefe  particulars  became 
acquainted  with  him. 
In  the  year    1 745,  one  Launcelot  Burton  was  ap- 

'  pointed  naval  officer  ztDeal.  Hogarth  had  feen  him 
by  accident ;  and  on  a  piece  of  paper,  previouily 
imprefled  by  a  plain  copper-plate,  drew  his  figure 
with  a  pen,  in  imitation  of  a  coarfe  etching.  He  was 
repxefented  on  a  lean  Canterbury  hack,  with  a  bottle 
(ticking  out  of  his  pocket ;  and  underneath  was  an 
infcription,  v  intimating  that  he  was  going  down  to 
take  poileffion  of  his  place.  This  was  inclofed  to  ^ 
him  in  a  letter ;  and  fomeof  his  friends,  who  were,  in 

■ 

the  fecret,  protefted  the  drawing  to  be  a  print  which 
they  had  feen  expofed  to  fale  at  the  ihops  in  London  ; 
a  circumftance  that  put  him  in  a  violent  pafHon,  du* 
ring  which  he  wrdte  an  abufive  letter  to  Hogarth^ 
whofe  name  was  fubfcribed  to  the  work.  But,  after 
poor  BurtorCs  tormentors  had  kept  him  in  fufpcnce 
throughout  an  uneafy  three  weeks,  they  proved  to  / 
him  that  it  was  no  engraving,  but  a  fketch  with,  a 
pen  and  ink.  He  then  became  fo  perfeftly  recon^ 
oiled  to  his  refemblance,  that  he  fhewed  it  with  ex- 
ultation to  Admiral  Vernon^  and  all  the  reft  of  his 
friends. 

In  1753,  Hogarth  returning  with  Dr.  Morell  from 

'  a  vifit  to  Mr.  Rich  at  Cowley^  flopped  his  chariot,  and  ^ 

*  got  out,  being  ftruck  by  a  large  drawing  (with  a  ^ 

H  3  coal)f 


t     •! 


b 


I  Ae 


Ufa 


alcboufe.  He  immediately 
made  a  fketch  of  it  wiih  triumph  ;  it  was  a  St, 
Cco'it  "fid  trjt  Utagon,  ail  in  ftrait  lines. 

H'-gartb  iv.ade  one  eflay  in  fculpturt.  He  wanted 
a  (ign  to  diHinguifti  his  houfe  in  IjheJier-fieUU ;  and 
thinking  none  more  proper  than  the  Golden  llind, 
he,  out  of  a  mafs  of  cork  made  up  of  fevcral  thick- 
peiks  compafted  togctlKr,  carved  a  bufl  of  Vandyck, 
which  hr  g^U  and  placed  over  his  door.  It  is  long 
fince  dec:i.)cd,  and  was  fucceedcd  by  a  head  in 
plafler,  Mhich  has  alto  petifticd ;  and  is  fupplied 
by  a  head  of  Sir  tpac  l^ewton.  Hr^arlb  modelled 
another  rcfemblance  of  Vandjck  in  clay ;  which  is 
likew'fe  dt-ftroycd. 

It  is  very  properly  obfcrved  by  Mr.  WalpoU,  that 
"  If  ever  an  author  wanted  a  commentary,  that  none 
<*  of  bis  beauties  ir.ight  be  lofi,  It  is  Hogarth  \  not 
<*  from  being  obfcure  (for  he  never  was  that  but  in 
*•  two  or  three  of  his  firll  prints,  where  iranfient  na- 
*'  tional  fullies,  as  Lotteries,  Iree-mafonry,  and  the 
"  Satitb  Sea,  were  his  topics)  but  for  the  ufe  of  fo- 
"  reigncr<,  and  from  a  multiplicity  of  little  inci- 
*'  dents,  not  cflcntial  to,  but  always  heightening  the 
*'  principal  atftion.  Such  is  the  fpider's  web  cx- 
**  tended  over  the  poor's  box  in  a  parifli  church ; 
"  ihc  blunders  in  archlicfture  in  the  nobleman's  feai» 
*'  fecn  through  the  window,  in  the  firft  print  of 
**  Marriage  a  la  MnU;  and  a  thoufand  in  the  Strollers 
"  dreHingina  barn,  which,  for  wit  and  imagination, 
"  without  any  oche^  aid^  is  perhaps  the  beft  of  all 

"  his 


€€ 


[   103  3 

'*  his  Works;  as,  for  ufeful  and  deep  fatire,  that  on 
**  the  Methodifts  is  the  moll  fublimc.  Rouqueij  the 
^^  enamellcr,  publifiied  a  French  explanation^  though 
a  fuperficial  one,  of  many  of  his  prints,  which, 
it  was  faid,  he  had  drawn  up  for  the  ufe  of  Mar- 
shal BellciJIe,  then  a prifoner  in  England*^ 
However  great  the  deficiencies  in  this  work  may 
be,  it  was  certainly  fuggefted  by  Hogarth^  and 
drawn  up  at  his  immediate  requeft.  I  receive  this 
information  from  undoubted  authority.  Some  ef 
the  circumftances  explanatory  of  the  plates,  b^  com-^ 
municatcd ;  the  reft  he  left  to  be  fupplied  by  Rouquet 
his  near  neighbour,  who  lived  in  the  houfe  at  which 
Gardelle  the  cnameiler  afterwards  lodged^  and  mur- 
dered his  landlady  Mrs.  King.  Rouquet^  who  (as  I 
learn  from  Mr.  Walpole)  was  a  Swifs  of  French  ex- 
tradion,  had  formerly  publifhed  a  fmall  traft  on  the 
ftate  of  the  Arts  in  England,  and  another,  intituled 
**  L'Artdepeintureen  fromageouen  ramequin,  1755;'* 
1 2  mo.  (V.  "  La  France  litteraire,  ou  Diftionaire  des 
"  Autcurs  Franfois  vivans,  par  itf.  Formey^  1 757 .*')  On 
the  prefent  occafian  he  was  liberally  paid  by  Hogarth, 
for  having  cloathed  his  fentiments  and  illuftrations  in 
a  foreign  drefs.  This  pamphlet  was  dcfigned,  and 
continues  to  be  employed,  as  a  conftant  companion  to 
all  fuch  fets  of  his  prints  as  go  abroad.  Only  the  le^ 
ter  defcriptive  of  the  March  to  Finchley  was  particu- 
larly meant  for  the  inftrudlion  of  Marfhal  BelUiJU  *. 

It 

*  Whilil  the  Marflial  was  a  prifoner  !r.  Eft^lmJ^  Monficur 
Coitlo^on  opened  a  fubfcription  at  two  gulneaf)  one  to  br  paid 

H  4  on 


C    IC4    ] 

It  was  added  after  the  three  former  epiflles  had  been 
printed  off,  and  before  the  plate  was  publUhed.  The 
entire  performance,  however,  in  my  opinion,  exhi- 
bits very  (Irong  marks  of  the  vivacious  compiler's 
tafte,  country,  and  prejudices.  Indeed  many  paf- 
fagcs  mud  have  been  inferted  without  the  privity  of 
his  employer,  who  had  no  fkill  in  the  French  lan- 
guage. That  our  clergy  always  affe^  to  ride  on  white 
horfeSy  and  other  remarks  of  a  fimilar  turn,  &c.  &c« 
could  never  have  fallen  from  the  pen  of  Hogarth,  or 
any  other  EfigliJI^man. 

This  epiftle  bears  alfo  internal  evidence  to  the 
fuggeftions  Rouquet  received  from  Hogarth.  Are  not 
the  felf-congratulations  and  prejudices  of  our  artift 
fufficiently  vifible  in  the  following  paiTage  ? 

*'  Ce  Tableau  dis-je  a  le  dcfaut  d'etre  encore  tout 
**  brillant  de  cette  ignoble  fralcheur  qu'on  dccouvrc 
**  dans  la  nature,  et  qu^on  ne  voit  jamais  dans  les  ca- 
**  binets  bien  cilebres.  Le  terns  ne  Va  point  encore  ob' 
**  fcurci  de  cette  dc^efumie,  de  cc  ujagejacri,  qui  le 
*'  cachera  quelquejour  aux  yeux  profanes  du  lulgaire, 
*'  pour  ne  laijfer  voir  fcs  beautes  qu^aux  initiesJ* 

en  fubfcribing,  the  other  on  the  delivery  of  •*  A  Di6>ionary 
•'  of  Arts  and  Sciences,"  in  two  large  folio  volumes.  Many 
of  the  nobiliry,  as  well  as  gentry  fubfcribed  ;  hut  very  few  of 
them  mndc  -jiood  their  fecond  payments,  or  had  the  work  ; 
and  the  author  dedicated  it  (in  gratitude,  it  is  fuppofed,  for 
the  generous  patronage  he  received  from  the  EngliJJj)  to 
Marflial  BdUlflc ;  whofe  place  of  confinement  was  in  The 
Round  Titvcn  at  iriMtJ/or  Caftle ;  where  the  large  dining-rooni 
is  ftill  ornamented  with  a  variety  of  humourous  ir^^r^  engrav- 
ings, and  i'-  imall  library  of  French  books* 

The 


C    "5    ] 

■The  title  of  this  performance  is^  ^'  Lettres  de 
*«  Monfieur  ♦  ♦  k  un  dc  fes  Amb  k  Faris,  pour  lui 
'^  expliquer  les  Eftampes  de  Monfieur  Hogartb^-^ 
"  Imi^xim^  z  Londres :  etfe  vend  chez  ii.  DadJUy^ 
*^  dans  Pali  Mill ;  et  chez  M  Cooper,  dans  Pater^ 
**  ncfter  RoWf  1 746/'    (Le  prix  eft  de  douze  fols.) 

I  ihould  here  obferve,  that  this  pamphlet  affords 
only  defcriptions  of  the  Harlot*s  and  Bjuh^s  Pfogrefi^ 
Marriage  a  la  Mode,  and  the  March  to  FincUey.  Nine 
other  plates^  viz.  the  Modern  Midnight  Conyerfaticn^ 
the  Diftrejid  Poet,  the  Enraged  Mufician,  the  Fair, 
Strolling  ABreJfes  drejjing  in  a  Barn,  and  the  Four 
fhnes  of  the  Day,  are  entimerated  without  parttcufair 
explanation. 

I  am  authorized  to  add,  thar  Hogarth,  not  long 
before  his  death,  had  determined,  in  compliance 
with  the  repeajted  folicitations  of  his  cuftomers,  h^ 
have  this  work  enlarged  and  rendered  into  Englijb, 
with  the  addition  of  ample  comments  on  all  his  pof^ 
formances  undefcribed  by  Rouquet. 

"  Hogarth  Moralifed  *'*  will  however  in  fome  fmall 
degree  (a  very  fmall  one)  contribute  to  preferve  the 

memory 

*  In  the  year  1768  was  publiflied  a  work,  intituled,  **  Ho* 
**  garth  Moralifed.  Being  a  complete  Edition  of  Hogarth* s 
**  Works.  Containing  near  Fourfcorc  Copper- Plates,  moft 
^'  elegantly  engraved.  With  an  Explanation,  pointing  out 
^  the  many  Beauties  that  may  have  hitherto  efcaped  Notice, 
*•  and  a  Comment  on  their  Moral  Tendency,  &c.  .  With  the 
**  Approbation  of  Jane  Hogartk^  Widow  of  the  late  Mr.  K<?- 
«*  garth."* 

The  hiftory  of  the  work  is  as  follows :  The  Rev.  John 
frt^fler  epgaged  with  fome  engravers  in  this  dclign,  after  Ho» 

gariVi 


[     106    ) 

metnoT7'  of  thofe  temporary  circumftaftces  v 
WalpoU  is  fo  juflly  apjirehenfive  will  be  lofl 
rity.  Such  an  undertaking  indeed  requires  a  more" 
incmatc  acquainrance  with  fleeting  cuftoms,  and  paft 
occurrences,  than  the  compiler  of  this  work  can 
pretend  to.  Yet  enough  has  been  done  by  him  to 
awaken  a  fpirit  of  enquiry,  and  point  out  the  means 
by  which  it  may  be  farther  gratified. 

Th«  works  of  Hogarth,  as  his  elegant  biographer 
b»s  well  obferved,  arc  his  hiftor)'  *  i  and  the  curious 


|«tr^/ dntli,  when  they  could  cvrf'n  into  i 
jmpuniiy.  Mri.  Hf^trtb,  finding  her  property  would  be  miKli 
iScAcd  by  it,  wai  gUd  to  accept  an  offer  they  made  her,  of 
emcring  into  p»nt\er(lnp  wiih  them  ;  and  they  were  very  gtad 
to  receive  her,  ktiAwinc  her  naine  nould  give  credit  to  rhe 
ptibliCBtioti,  and  thai  (lie  uould  certainly  Supply  m-tny  ancc- 
doln  to  explain  the  platet.  Such  ai  ate  found  in  the  work 
an  probably  all  hen.  The  other  Ouff  wai  introduced  by  the 
editor  to  eke  eut  ihc  book.  We  are  informed,  that,  when 
th«  underialfing  vim  comple'ed,  in  order  lo  get  rid  of  lier 
pariniTi,  {be  tvai  glad  to  buy  out  their  fharci,  fo  that  ihe 
whole  expcDce  which  fell  on  Ixr  amimnied  to  at  Icafl  700/. 

*  *■  Thty  abound,"  f.iy»  an  excellent  judge,  "  io  true  ha- 
'*  mcnf;  and  fatire,  which  ii  generally  well-direfled;  tliey 
"  arc  admirable  moral  lelToni,  and  afford  a  fund  of  eniertain- 
"  mint  fuiicd  to  every  tsllc:  a  circumllance,  which  Chews 
"  them  to  be  j'ift  copies  of  nature.  We  may  cunfider  ihem 
"  too  «s  valuable  repofitorics  of  the  manners,  ciitlum*,  and 
*'  drelTei  of  the  prefcni  jgc.  What  amufement  u'ould  a  col- 
"  lefliort  of  ihri  irind  aff»rd,  drawn  from  every  period  ot  liie 
"  hilloryof  Britain' — How  far  the  workt  of  Ht^atib  will 
"  bear  3  critical  examination,  may  be  the  fuhjcft  of  a  licile 
"  more  enqniry.  Jn  defign  Hc^arth  wai  fcldom  at  a  lofi.  Hi» 
"  inveniton  W3(  tortile,  and  hit  jiidgemeni  accurate.  An  im- 
"  proper  incident  :i  ratcly  introduced]  a  proper  one  rarely 
**  emitted* 


C    W7   1 

tfe  highly  mdebted  to  Mr.  fFalpok  for  a  catalogue 
of  printi^  dxawn  up  from  his  own  valuable  colledios, 

in 

^V,  omitted.  No  one  could  tell  a  ftory  better;  or  make  it,  in 
**  all  its  circumdances,  more  intelligible.  His  genius,  how- 
**  ever,  it  oiiifl  be  owned,  was  fuited  only  to  low,  or  famiiiir 
**  fubjeSl.  It  never  foared  above  common  life :  to  fubjefis 
**  naturally  fublime,  or  which  from  antiquity,  or  other  acci* 
**  dents,  borrowed  dignity,  he  could  not  rife.  In  compoii* 
*'  tion  we  fee  little  in  him  to  admire.  In  many  of  his  prints, 
**  the  deficiency  is  fo  great,  as  plainly  to  imply  a  want  of  all 

•^^  principle;  which  makes  us  ready  to  believe,  that  when  we 
'^  do  meet  with  a  beautiful  group,  it  is  the  effeft  of  chance. 
'*  In  one  of  hit  minor  works,  the  Idle  Prentice,  we  feldom 

^^  fee  a  crowd  more  beautifully  managed,  than  in  the  laft 
**  print.  If  the  (heriff*s  officers  had  not  been  placed  in  a  line, 
^*  and  bad  been  brought  a  little  lower  in  the  pifture,  fo  at  to 
**  have  formed  a  pyramid  with  the  cart,  the  compofition  had 
**  been  unexceptionable  :  and  yet  the  firil  print  of  this  work 
**  is  fo  flriking  an  inftance  of  difagreeable  compofition,  that 

.  **  it  is  amazing,  how  an  artift,  who  had  any  idea  of  beailti- 
**  ful  forms,  couldfuffer  ib  unroafterly  a  perf[>rmance  to  leave 
*\  his  hands.  Of  the  diftribation  of  light  Mttgmrth  had  as 
*^  little  knowledge  as  of  compofition.  In  fome  of  his  piedes 
**  we  fee  a  good  effect ;  as  in  the  execution  juft  mentiooed ; 
**  in  which,  if  the  figures  at  the  right  and  left  comers  had 
^^  been  kept  down  a  little,  the  light  would  have  been  beaufi* 
*'  fully  diAributed  on  the  fore*ground,  and  a  little  fine  le« 
*'  condary  light  fpread  over  part  of  the  crowd':  but  at  the 
*^  fame  time  there  is  fo  obvious  a  deficiency  in  point  of  eiTecl, 
*^  in  moft  of  his  prints,  that  it  is  vecy  evident  he  had  no  prin* 
**  ciples.  Neither  was  Hogmrtb  a  aiafter  in  drawing.  Of  the 
^*  roufcles  and  anatomy  of  the  head  and  handli  he  had  perfe£t 
**  knowledge  ;  but  his  trunks  are  often  badly  moulded,  and 
*^  bb  limbs  ill  fet  on.  I  tax  him  with  plain  bad  drawing ;  I 
*^  fpeak  not  of  the  niceties  of  anatomy,  and  elegance  of  out* 
'*  line  t  of  thefe  indeed  he  knew  nothing  $  nor  were  they  of 
<*  ufe  in  that  nnode  of  defign  which  he  cultivated  x  and  yet  his 
**  figures,  upon  the  whole,  are  infpired  with  fo  much  life 
*^  and  mcaningi  that  the  eye  is  kept  an  good  humour,  in  fpite 

••  of 


in  t77 1.    But  4 s  ficitber  that  catdo^e,' nor  his  9p- 
pendu(to  it  ifi  1780,  have  given  the  whole  of  Mr. 

Hogartb^s 

**  of  its  tnclination  to  (Sod  fault.     The  ancborof  the  Analyfii 

**  of  Beauty,  it  might  be  fuppofed,  would  have  ghren  ui  more 

**  inikaoces  of  grace,  than  we  find  id  the  works  of  i/i^«r/i$ ; 

**  which  fliev;s  drongly  that  theory  and  prafiice  are  not  always 

**  united.   JMany  op|)ortUDitics  his  fuhjc^s  naturally  afford  of 

**  introducing  graceful  attitudes  ;  and  yet  we  have  very  few 

*^  examples  of  rhem.     With  toftaiices  of  pidurefque  grace 

^*  his  works  abound.     Of  hit  expreffion,  in  which  the  force 

*^  of  his  genius  lay,  we  cannot  fpeak  in  terms  too  high.     In 

«*  e\iery  mode  of  it  he  was  truly  excellent.     The  paflions  he 

**  thoroughly  underftood,  and  all  the  effects  which  they  pro- 

**  duce  in  every  part  of  the  human  frame  :  he  had  the  happy 

'*  art  alfo  of  conveying  his  ideas  with  the  fame  precifion  with 

**  which  he  conceived  them. — He  was  excellent  too  in  cx- 

**  preffing  any  humormis  oddity,  which  we  often  fee  ftamped 

**  upon  the  human  face.    All  his  heads  are  caft  in  the  very 

*«  mould  of  nature. '  Hence  that  endlefs  variety,  which  is  dif- 

^  played  through  his  works :  and  hence  it  is,  that  the  differ- 

**  cncc  arifei  between  his  heads,  and  the  affe£led  caricaturas 

'<  of  rhoie  matters,  who  have  fometimes  amufed  therofelves 

.**  with  patcl|ing  together  an  alTemblage  of  features  from  their 

^^  own  ideas.    Such  are  Sfagniokt^s ;  which,  though  admirably 

**  executed,  appear  plainly  to  have  no  archetypes  in  nature. 

«*  H0gsrih\  on  the  other  hand,  are  collections  of  natural  cu- 

*'  riqlilies.  The  0.v/Iyr4/-heads,  the  phyficians*arms,  and  fome 

**  of  his  other  pieces,  arc  exprefsly  of  this  humorous  kind. 

**  They   are  truly  comic  ;    though  ill-natured  effufions   of 

**  .mirth  :  more  entertaining  than  SjnignioUt* t^  as  ihey  are  pure 

*»  nature;   but  Icfs  innocent,  as  they  contain  ilUdire^ed  ridi- 

**  cule. — But  the  fpecics  of  cxpreiTion,  in  which  this  muder 

*'  perhaps  moft  excels,  is  that  happy  art  of  catching  thofe  pe- 

**  culianties  of'  air,  and  gcuurc,  which  the  ridiculous  part  of 

f^  every  profclTion  coatrad  ;   and  which,  for  that  reafon,  be* 

.  **  conic  charadteriilics  of  the  whole.     His  counfellors,  his  un- 

.  *^  dertakcrs,  his  lawyers,  his  ufurers,  are  all  confpicuous  at 

**  light.    Jn  a  word,  almoft  every  profeflion  may  fee,  m  his 

**  workS|  .that  particular  Ipecics  of  affectation  which  they 

"  (hould 


C  ^^  1 

ad^fn^Vt^Stb&AOk  LHopdlttibit -I  Audi  ik»  he  hhmcA 
if,  1)}r  hdHdiig^lAx^Wa^^i  catalogub;:!  'haveet^ 
deavouretd^frpmxlatcu*  dlTooven^  of  oUV  ^i^'s  printi 
in  othct  |CoUediona^"tQ  arrange  tbem  in  chronolojg;i* 
cal  order.  Jt-nuiy  not  bcunamufing  to  ttacd  the  rife 
and  progrela.  oL  a  Genius  ib  Ihikingly  Original; 

Hogarth  ff^  £rft  inopreffions  of  all  his  plates  to 
hisiate  friends  the  Rev.  Mr.  Tczvniey  and  Dr.  ^aac 
Scbomherg  *•  Both  fets  were  fold  iince  the  death  of 
thefe  gentlemto.    That  which  was  Dr.  Scbomberfs 

•*  fliould  moft  dndca^our  to  avoid.     The  execution  of  this 
^  mafterb  weil-fuiced  to  hilfubje^ts,  and  manner  of  treating 
*^  tkem*     He  etches  with  great  fpirit;  and  ne\'er  gires  one 
«*  unncceffaryflroke.     For  myfcif,  I  greatly  more  value  the 
•«  Works  oi  his  own  needle^  than  thofe  high-fini{hed  prints  oq 
**  which  he  eoiploytd  other  engravers.     For  as  the  production 
*^  of  an  effe£^  is  not  his  talent ;  and  as  this  is  the  chief  exceU 
♦*  lencc  of  high  finifliing  ;   his  own  rough  manner  is  certainly 
**  preferable  ;  in  which  we  have  moft  of  the  force  and  fpirit 
**  of  his   expreffion.    The  manner  in    none    of  his  works 
•*  pleafes  me  fo  well  as  in  a  fmall  print  of  a  corner  of  a  play- 
«*  houfe/    There  is  more  fpirit  in  a  work  of  this  kind,  ftruck 
''  off  at  once^  warm  from  the  imagination,   than  in  all  the 
•*  cold  corre^nefs  of  an  elaborate  engraving.    If  all  his  works 
^'  had  been  executed  in  this  ftyle,  with  a  few  improvements  in 
**  the  compofitions,  and  the  management  of  light,  they  would 
**  certainly  have  been  a  much  more  valuable  colteftion  of 
**  prints  than  they  are.     The  Rake's  Progrefi,  and  fome  of 
•*  his  other  works,  arc  both  etched  and  engraved  by  himfelf ; 
*^  they  are  well  done ;  but  it  is  plain  he  meant  them  as  furni* 
*•  turc.     As  works  defigned  for  a  critick*s  eye,  they  would 
<*  certainly  have  been  better  without  the  engraving,  except  a 
««  few  touches  in  a  very  few  places.     The  want  of  effe^  too 
«*  would  have  been  lefs   confpicuous,  which  in  his  higheft- 
*•  finiflicd  prints   is  difagrceably  ftriking.**     Gilpin^  EJfay  om 
Frints^  p.  165. 
*  To  whom  Hogarth  bequeathed  ten  guineas  for  a  ring. 

6  became 


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I 

I 

I 


Pi^P        t  »°  ]  ^H 

beMme  the  property  of  the  late  Sir  >fo  Oh^mn,}tiM 
Tonct;  and  paflcd  after  his  death  into  the  hands  oFh'M.  I 
brother,  the  late  Sii  H'HJiam  Chapmaa.  I  fiioutd  add,  .1 
indeed,  that  our  artift  never  forted  his  impreflioni^l 
fcle^lUng  the  flight  from  the  flrong  ones :  &>  ihac  I 
they  who  wifli  to  poHels  any  equal  feiics  of  bill 
prints,  muft  pick  it  out  of  different  leu.  I 

A  portrait  of  Samuel  Martin^  efq.  the  antagonift  dt  I 
Mr.  U'ilieif  which  Mr.  Hogartb  had  painted  for  hia  I 
own  ufe,  he  gave  as  a  legacy  to  Mr.  Martin.  I 

Mrs.  Biiyrtes,  of  Kmeton-H^U,  near  Richmoiulf  Tork*  I 
JbirBf  has  an  original  pidiure  by  Hogarth,  four  fceC  | 
two  inches  long,  by  two  feet  four  inches  wide.  It  if  ] 
a  landfcape,  wiih  fcvcral  figures ;  a  man  driving  ^ 
fliecp ;  a  boat  upon  a  piece  of  water,  sod  a  diftant  j 
view  of  a  town.  This  piAure  was  bought  in  London^  J 
by  her  lather,  many  years  ago.  ] 

At  Lord  Effx'i  fale,  in  January  1777,  Mr.  Garrick  < 
bought  a  picture  by  Hogarth,  being  the  examination  . 
of  the  recruits  before  the  jufticcs  ShaU<nv  and  Silenct* 
For  this,  il  was  faid  in  the  news-papers,  he  gave  350  j 
guineas.  1  have  Unce  been  told,  that  remove  the  | 
figure  3,  and  the  true  price  paid  by  the  purchafer  '. 
remains.  In  private  he  allowed  that  he  never  gave 
the  former  of  thcfe  Turns,  though  in  the  public  ; 
prints  he  did  not  think  fuch  a  confefljon  neceSary*  j 
It  was  in  reality  an  indiifcrent  performance,  as  tfaolis  j 
of  Hi^anb  commonly  were,  when  he  fttove  to  pfttut  1 
up  to  the  ideas  of  others. 

Mr.  Browning,  of  King's  College^  OimbruJge,  has  ft 
rtnall  pi^ure  by  Hogarth,  reptcfentlng  (Uart-Marktl. 

It 


ft  (ecfns  toliave-been  one  of  our  arcift's  early  per-* 
£Mtnances.      ~ 

Tl^crc  arc  thrfc  ]aigerpii%iHrK^>y  Hofftriif  over 
the  altar  in  the  cburfih  <if  5/,  M^ry  R§dcl>ff  ^^  Bn^^jt 
the  fealxng  pf  fk^  faicrecl  JS^pukjire^  the  AfccniioDy 
and  the  three  Utnes^  hQ^  A  fimi  of  money  wso 
left  40  defray  the  cjcpeuce  of  thefe  ornaments^  and 
it  found  its  way  kktp  H9gartb^*s  pocket.  The  origioal 
^k^hea  in  oil  for  th^e  porfonnances»  are  now  at 
Mih  Hogiirtb*t  hpHie  In  Lricefier^JleUs. 

In  Ijord  Grrfvmor^4  houfe>  at  MHatiiy  Wejimbifter^ 
}s  a  fp3a}l  punting  by  our  arttft  on  the  foUowmg 
fubje&*  A  boy's  pap^r-kite  in  falling  become  en* 
tangled  with  fur^ :  the  boy  arrives  juft  as  a  crow  b 
tearing  it  ^i  pieces.  The  expreffion  in  his  face  is 
worthy  of  Hegartb. 

Hogarth  was  alfo  fuppoCed  to  have  had  fome  hand 
in  the  exhibition  of  figns  '^^  projeded  above  20  years 
ago  by  Bcnml  fharntafi^  of  feftive  memory  \  but  I 
am  informed^  that  he  contributed  no  otherwife  to«* 
wards  this  display,  than  by  a  few  touches  of  challu 
Apiong  the  heads  of  didinguifbed  perfonages,  finding 

^  It  having  been  requcfted  in  the  Catalogue  of  th it  eichiM- 
tion  (which  was- in  Baw-Jlrect^  Cavtni'Gardim)  that  all  remarkt 
on  the  arcifts,  or  their  performances^  might  be  feot  to  The  $/• 
Jam$s^$  Cbronick ;  the  compiler  of  thefe  Anecdote*  tranftnttted 
^  iVH  hafly  liaeSy  whiofa  were  printed  in  that  paper  Jfril  t^^ 
X76a.  They  are  not  wonh  tranfcribing :  but  a  fliortextr^^ 
wili  prcferve  the  assumed  names  of  fome  ai  the  artifis — 

•^  And  Mttfm^re^  Ltfter*s^  /?Vi/* ,  and  Fiflfhottrtu^  name, 
**  With  thine>  FauJyck^  diall  live  toendleit  taine; 
^^  In  your  colledtion  Wit  and  Skill  combine, 
**  And  Hvmotir  flows -hi  every  fiell-cbait  Sign,'* 

tbofe 


chofr  of  die  King  bf  Pruffut  and  the  Emprefs  of 
Huwgarjj  be  changed  the  cad  of  cheir  eyes  (b  as  tcr 
make  chem  leer  fignificantly  at  each  other.  This  is 
telated  on  the  authority  of  Mr.  Colmart: 

Mr.  Bicbardjhn  («  now,**  as  Dk*.  Jokipm  lay», 
^  better  known  by  his  books  thair  his*- piSure^y'* 
though  his  colouring  is  allowed  to  be  mafflerly)-  hav^ 
ing  accounted  for  ibme  claiEcal  -quiftations  in  his 
notes  on  Milton j  unlearned  as  he  was,-  -by  bis  Ton's 
aiiifiing  him  as  a  teleicope  docs  the  eye  in  agrono- 
my ;  tbgartb  ihewed  him  with  a  telefcope-  looking 
through  his  fon  (jp  no  very  decent  attitude)  at  a 
Vir^l  aloft  on  a  Ihclf ;  but  afterwards  deftroyed  the 
plate,  and  recoiled  the  prints.  Qu.  if  any  remain,  and 
what  date?*^  much  queftion  whether  this  fubjed  was 
ever  thrown  upon  copper,  or  meant  for  the  public  eye* 

In  the  **  Nouveau  Didaonnaire  Hillorique,  Caertj 
••  X783,**  our  artitl  is  thus  cbaraderized  :  "  Ses 
*'  compofitioQS  font  mal  dellinees  &  tbibletmrnt  colow 
^^  ties ;  mais  ce  font  des  tableaux  parlaiis  de  divcrfes 
^  fcencs  comiqucs  ou  morales  de  la  vie.  II  avoit 
*•  neglige  le  mechanifme  de  Ion  art,  c'eft  u-dire,  les 
'*  traits  du  pinceau,  le  rapport  dcs  i>aicic!»  entr^clle?, 
^  Teftct  du  clare  obfcure,  rharmonie  du  colons,  &c. 
^  pour  s'elever  jufqu  a  la  perfection  de  ee  mccha- 
"  nifmc,  c'eft  a*dire,  au  poctique  &  au  inuml  de  la 
*'  peinture.  ^  Je  reconnois,*  Jilbit-il,  *  tout  Ic  inonde 
'*  pour  juge  competent (dc  mes  tableaux,  escepte  Its 
"  connoilfeurs  de  protellion.  Un  ieul  excmple  prou- 
''  vera  conibiea  i;:ui£t.      11  avoit  f;uc   graver   une 

*'  eibnipe. 


C    '<3    ] 

^  t&3thpt^  dans  laquelle  il  avoit  ezprim6  avec 
**  €nttpe  les  differens  totirmens  qu*on  fait  eproaver 
*'  iui  atiimslux.  Un  chartier  fouettok  im  jour  fef 
*'  chevaux  avec  beaucoup  de  durete ;  un  boti  hbmroe^ 
*^  touche  de  pitte,  Iui  dit,  '  Miferable  !  tii  n'as  done 
**•  paftvu  Teftampe  6" Hogarth  ?*  II  u'ctoit  pas  feule-» 
^*  mint  peintre,  il  fat  ecfivaiif.  1)  publia  en  1750 
'*  un  trait6  en  Anghis^  intitule,  *  Analyfe  de  la  Beautii 
**  L'autctif  pretend  que  les  foriiies  arfondies  confti« 
^'  tuent  la  beauce  du  corps  :  principe  vrai  \  certain^ 
*'  ^rdSy  faux  a  plufieurs  autres.  Vcj.  fur  cet  ar« 
**  tifte,  la  iecond  volunie  du  *  Mcrcure  dc  France/ 
•'  Janlriet^  *77**' 

Mr.  fitir  Duponfi  a  merchant,  had  the  drawing 
of  Paiil  before  FiUx^  which  he  purchafed  for  20  gui- 
neas, and  bound  up  with  a  fct  of  Hof^arth^s  printfw 
The  ^'faole  fee  was  afterwards  fold  by  audion,  at 
Baket^s^  for  17  /.  fo  VLt.  BiUard  (>{  Little  Britain^  in 
whofe  catalogue  it  ftood  fome  time  marked  at  25  /• 
and  was  parted  with  for  lefs  than  that  fum. 

The  following  original  drawings,  by  Hogartby  arc 
now  in  the  coilcftion  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lort : 

A  coloured  ft:ctch  of  a  Family  Fi^ture,^  with  ten 
whole-length  figures^  moft  infifpidly  employed.  A 
Head  of  a  Sleeping  Ghikl,  in  colours,  as  large*  af 
life,  &c.  &c.  &c. 

When  Hogattb  defigned  the  print  intituled  Afar»f;3ff, 
bis  idea  of  an  0/^ilItf/V/ appears  to  have  been  adopted 
from  one  of  that  forlorn  (ifterhood,  when  emaciated 
ky  corroding  appetites,  or,  to  borrow  Dijden*s  more 

I  forcible 


C     "4    ) 

ibrctbTe  language,  by  '^  agony  of  uaaccomplillieil 
'<  l3vc."  But  there  is  in  being,  and  perhaps  mLekefier^ 
fields^  a  fecond  portrait  by  our  artift,  exhibiting  the 
influence  of  the  fame  misfortune  on  a  more  fleih? 
carcafe.  The  ancient  virgin*  now  created  of,  is 
corpulent  even  to  (hapelcflnefs.  Her  neck  reiembles 
a  collar  of  brawn ;  and  had  her  arms  been  admined 
On  the  canvas,  they  muft  have  rivalled  in  magnitude 
the  thighs  of  the  Famefian  god.  Her  bofom^ 
luckily  for  the  f|iedator,  is  covered  ;  as  a  difplay  of 
it  would  have  ferved  only  to  provoke  abhorrence. 
But  what  words  can  paint  the  cxcefs  of  malice  and 
vulgarity  predominant  in  her  vifage ! — ^aa  inflated 
hide  that  Icems  burfting  with  venom—- a  brow 
wrinkled  by  a  SirdonU  grin  that  threatens  all  the 
vengeance  an  afironted  Fury  wou)d  rejoice  to  exe- 
cute. Such  ideas  alfo  of  warmth  does  this  moun* 
tain  of  quaggy  fleih  communicate,  that,  without 
hyperbole,  one  might  fwear  flie  would  parch  the 
earth  (lie  trod  on,  thaw  a  frozen  poft-boy,  or  over- 
heat a  glafshoufe.  ''  How  dreadful,"  faid  a  by- 
ftandcr,  "  would  be  this  creature's  hatred  !'*  "  Ho\» 
•*  much  more  formidable,"  replied  his  companion, 
•*  would  be  her  iovc  !** — Such,  however,  was  the 
ikill  of  Hoj^tvfh^  iha:  he  could  imprefs  fimihr  indi- 
cations of  fi-ie  virginity  on  features  directly  con- 
traded,  and  force  us  to  acknowledge  one  identical 
charaiiUr  in  the  briai-fuU  and  exhaufted  reprefcnta* 
live  of  involuntary  female  celibacy. 

*  She  IS  (till  living,  and  has  been  loud  id  abnfe  of  :hU 
work»  a.circuir.fuacc  to  uaich  Uie  owes  a  niche  ia  it. 

Mr. 


C    «i5    ] 

^   Mr.  &.  Ireland  has  likewife  a  iketch  in  chalk,  on 
blue  paper;  of  Falflcff  and  his  companions ;  two 
iflLCtches  intended  for  the  '^  Happy  Marriage ;"  a 
ikecch  for  a  pi&ure  to  fliew  the  pernicious  efSrdts  of 
mafquerading ;   iketch  of  King  George  IL  and  th^ 
foyal  family  ;   iketch  of  his  prefent  Majefty;  taken 
haftily  on  Ikeing-the  new  coinage  of  1764;  -  portrait 
of  Hogarth  by  himfelf,  with  a  palette ;    of  Juftice 
Weyb^l    Qi  Sir  Jams  .^bornbill  i   of  Sir  Edward 
IValpale'\'i  of  Vx^intni  George  Lambert^  the  land* 
fcape-painter ;   of  a  boy  \   of  a  girl's  head^  in  the 
character  of  Dianas  finiihed  according  to  Hogari/Zs 
idea  of  beauty  ^  of  a  black  girl ;   and  of  Governor 
Rogers  and  his  family,  a  converfation-piece  ;    eleven 
iketches  from  Nature,  defigned  for  Mr.  Lambert ; 
four  drawings  of  converfations  at  Button^s  Coffee^- 
boufe;  Cymon  and  Ipbigenia;   two  black  chalk  draw- 
ings (landfcapes)  given  to  Mr.  Kirby  in  1762 ;  three 
heads,  ilightly  drawn  with  a  pen  by  Hogartb^  to  ex- 
emplify bis  di(lin£tion  between  CharaHer  and  Gar/- 
cature,  done  at  the  defire  of  Mr.  Townley,  wbofe  fon 
-  gave  them  to  Dr.  Scbomberg ;    a  landfcape  in  oil ; 
with  feveral  other  iketches  in  oil 

The  late  Mr.  Forreft^  of  Tork  Buildings^  was  in 
pofTeffion  of  a  (ketch  in  oil  of  our  Saviour  (defigned 

'  ^  Among  the  complimenti  Hogarttwsis  difpofed  to  pay  hit 
own  genius,  he  aiferted  his  abilicy  to  take  a  complete  likeneit 
in  thrte  ([uarters  of  an  hour.  This  head  of  Mr.  fyiifif  was 
painted  within  the  compafs  of  the  time  prcicnbedy  but  had 
afterwards  the  advantage  of  a  fecond  litting. 

f  iMr.  IFalpfiU  is  now  poflclTed  of  the  poi  trait  of  hit  brother 
Sir  Eikk'urd, 

I  2  as 


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as  a  pattoril  for  painted  glafs),  tofrether  with  the 
original  portrait  of  Tibfon  the  Laceman  *,  and  fcvcral 
drawings  defcriptive  of  the  incidents  that  hap])ened 
during  a  five  days  tour  by  land  and  water.  The 
parties  were  Meffieurs  Hogarth^  Tbornhill  (fon  of  the 
late  Sir  James  )^  Scntt  (the  ingenious  landfcape* painter 
of  that  name),  Totball  -f ,  and  Forrefi.     They  fet  out 

at 

♦  iThis,  and  tfic  preceding  artiefe,  are  now  irt  th«  poffeffion 
of  Ptttr  Cpxe^  ciq.  oi  College  Hiii^  in  the  city,  executor  to  Mr. 
ForreP.^  and  brcuhcrto  the  Rev.  William  Coxe^  who  has  obliged 
the  world  with  his  Tnvcis  ihronijh  Poland^  RvJHa^  &c. 

f  The  following  brief  Memoirs  of  Mr.  WtlUtum  Tothall^ 
F.  A  S*  were  communicated  by  Dr.  Ducarel^  who  was  pcr- 
fonaffy  acquainted  with  Mr.  fotlntlU  and  received  the  intel- 
ligence in  a  letter  from  the  Rc^.  Mr.  Lyn^  Mimfter  of  »^. 
Ma^y^s  at  Drver^  to  whom  the  particulars  in  it  were  related 
by  CHprnin  BitlfiroJe  of  that  town. 

••  Sir,  Donttr^  Jnne  1 1 ,  1781. 

**  The  following  narrative  of  your  friend  TinAaiJ  may  be  de* 
**  penued  uf on,  as  C<<ptain  Buljirodt  int'orms  me  he  frequently 
'*  heard  it  from  Tothall  hin>ie1f.  (^is  father  was  anr  apothe- 
••  cary  in  FUet-flrtei ;  but  dying,  as  Captain  Bnlflr^de  thinks, 
**  while  his  ion  was  young,  and  in  but  indifi'ertnt  circum« 
*'  ftances  (as  his  mother  afterwards  pra£tiled  as  a  midwife], 
••  he  was  taken  by  an  uncle,  who  was  a  ffflimongef.  He  lived 
'*  with  his  uncle  tome  time  ;  but^  not  approving  of  the  bufi- 
**  nels,  r;;n  away  from  him,  and  entered  on  board  a  mcrchanc- 
••  (hip  gnjng  to  The  H'cfi  Ividier,  He  alio  went  fevcral  times  to 
♦•  'Sfxfomndland  During  the  tknc  of  hir  being  in  The  H%ft 
**  Indies^  thoiigh  fo  early  in  life,  he  was  ifvdefatigablc  in  the 
♦'  collcclin*  of  Qiells,  and  biou;;ht  hume  fcveral  utterly  un- 
*•  known  in  f.nvltind.  He  continued  at  fta  till  he  was  almofl 
••  30  years  of  age.  Tii  one  of  his  vo*.  aaf»s  he  was  taken  by 
**  the  SpaMiard  J  and  marched  a  coniidf^rable  way  np'  the 
••  country,  without  lh'>c  or  locking,  with  onJy  a  wooHtn  cap 
**  on  his  head,  and  a  brown  wailkoat  on,  with  a  large  flaff 
**  in  bit  hand.  He  Ii^  afrerwirds  his  pit  ^ure  draw  or  in'  this 
^  drcli.     He  coatiQued  a  prilouer  till  cjcchan^cd^ 

•♦Whe» 


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.  St  midnight,  at  z  moment's  warniog,  from  the  Bed* 
fQtdArms  Tavern,  with  each  a  ihirt  in  his  pocket. 

They 

'<  When  be  was  about  30  yean  of  age«  he  went  as  fhopman 

•*  to  a  woollcn-drapcr  at  the  corner  ot  Tav{pock  Cottrty  Covtnt 
•**  Gardai^  with  whom  he  continued  fome  ycars^  and  his  mafter, 
^  finding  him  a  faithtul  icrvent,  told  him,  *  as  he  dealt 
**  only  in  cloth,  and  hi&  cuHoniers  were  taylors,  he  would 
•*  lend  him  mcney  to  buy  ilialloons  and  trimmini^s,  and  re« 
*'  commend  him  to  his  clmpmen,  if  he  liked  to  take  the  trou* 
**  ble  and  the  profit  of  the  branch  upon  him&lf.'  He  readily 
•*  accepted  the  propoiaL 

**  About  the  lame  time  an  acquaintance  in-  77»f  Weft  Indies 
^*  ient  him  a  puncheon  of  rum.  Before  he  landed  it,  he  con« 
^'  fuUed  his  lualE^er  what  he  Ihould  do  with  it ;  who  advifed 
'*  htm  to  fell  it  put  infmall  quantities*  and  lent  him  a  cellar 
*^  in  his  houfe.  Me  followed  this  advice  ;  and,  finding  the 
••  profits  ronfiderable,  ivrote  to  his  correfpocdcni  in  fhe  Wtft 
••  Indies  to  fend  him  another  fupply ;  Hnd  from  this  time  he 
•*  commeiKTcd  rum,  brandy,  and  4tia!loon  mcrcbant. 

*V  1  cannot  lenrn  how  long  he  continued  in  this  way  ;  but 
**  his  maftcr  having  acquired  a  fortune,  and  being  detirous  of 
**  retiring  from  bufinefs,  left  him  in  piiTctli&n  of  his  whole 
**  ftock  at  prime  coil,  and  he  was  to  pay  him  as  he  fold  it. 
/*  He  now  commenced  wooUcn-drr^per,  and  continued  in  this 
*^  bufinefs  till  he  acquired  a  fum  fiifficient,  as  he  thought,  to 
*'  letire  upon  ;  and  he  left  hin  bufincis  to  his  fiiopman,  the 
**  late  Mr.  Joh  Raj^  on  the  fame  conditions  his  mailer  left  it 
••  to  him. 

**  During  his  refidence  in  Covent  Garden^  he  became  a  mem- 
•*  ber  of  the  club  at  the  BtdforA  Cofee-httifc^  and  of  couri'c 
•*  coRtraded  an  acquaintance  v^'wYl  Hogarth  ^  jL^m^'/*/,  and  other 
*'  men  eminent  in  their  way  ;  and  Hrgartb  lived  iome  time  in 
**  hig  houfe  on  the  footing  of  a  n.oft  iniimatc  friend. 

*^  On  quitting  his  bufinel's  (being  troubled  with  an  afihroa* 
**  tical  coiuplaint)  he  came  and  fettled  at  Dover  i  where,  toon 
**  becoming  cotmcdted  wiih  certain  perions  in  the  fmuggling 
*^  branch,  he  fitted  out  a  bye«boat,  which  was  defigned  (as  is 
'  **  fuppofed)  to  promote  their  bulinci's ;  but  in  this  branch 
**  Fortune,  which  had  hitherto  fmiled  upon  his  endeavours, 
**  now  frowned  upon  his  atttmpts.     The  vcflel,  in  going  over 

1  3  **  with 


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They  had  particular  departments  to  attend  to.  Hi* 
gdrtb  and  Scott  made  the  drawings  ;  ThtimbiH  the 
map;  Tcthali  fi^ithUiUy  dilchargt^d  the  joint  office  of 
treafurer  and  caterer;  and  Forreji  wrote  the  journal. 
l*hey  were  out  five  days  only  ;  and  on  the  fecond 
n^ght  afttr  ihtir  return,  the  book  was  produced, 
bound,  gilt,  and  lettered,  2nd  read  at  the  fame  ta- 
vern to  the  mcp.ibeis  of  the  club  then  preicr*r.  Mr, 
Forrcjt  had  alto  dra;vings  of  two  of  the  merribcrs 
(Gill  rid  Hun:  anJi  Bcr»  Puad),  remarkable  fat  men, 
in  ludicrous  fituaiions.  Etchings  from  all  rhefc  hav- 
ing beers  made  in  1782,  accon^.par.icd  bv  the  orieir.al 
journal  in  k'.ter-preis,  an  accoiint  of  ihern  wi.l  ap- 
pear in  the  Catalogue  under  that  year. 

■•  «i;:h  f'-^n'ir  r>:!fr  1.  fi><,  I'o  rf  J'jrcd  hi  v..  :^n:  he  v.?e  r  v-tr 
•*  frraircrt'ci  m  hiE  c.rcinr.f^ancr?,  snd  he  could  nc:  live  a?  iic 

"  r'.*.'.I?d  do^'T  \ '^  hrrr   hif  r-Vi   trier.*:!  JI/. -a '■:'*■  fe:*  tp:  i'  v.- 

I  .^  a  ■ 

•  ■tC^ka      ■.k.l;     •        •      •■<       •    K.li^      •■>     4>     UVV    .t-^i'la*.      *••••.■• :^ 

*  *  n  I  rs  ♦  ro.T.  /).-  :• "" ,  •  r»  whi •  ^  hi  v.  c  -  !  o  c  ^  o;;  !  i ;•:•;  v  r  «  c  I . 
*'  he  h:»d  :hr  i:r».i::  •orrunc  t:«  find  ir-mc  v^.j-bit  f.iff.if  :  wr.-.:. 

••  :  ;o^ .  *.,    r.:.d   v  ::.«:  h'lnc  i  r.:  T*.  A/it-'    C-l':-*    TiT  7.-.    . 

K.J  cu'Acztii.r.  o!   fhil  5  arc:    fill;'.?  u^ri  K.:«:  b*.  luJ:..  :.  rt 

* '  The  Tr.rt  j;. '  ■  r  ^-   :?  :  h  c  ni  1 '  fra  r  rr  r. :'  v.-  h  a:  I  h :.  v£  c-  :':■;■. :'. 

•*  fcm  C?.n"..  I>*-*"'o»i-,     1:  There   fho;;^c  Sc   arv  niht.:  ;•.::•:- 
•  >  -  ■ 

•'  ».n;arwhicl'  y....  r.-i  drrir.v,:*  n:  krpv—.j;.  '  fii./.  S:  i.-.r-i  y 
*•  TO  irrAc  'he  :nr".:-v,  end  *r  c:«'r.r.'ir.:.:c:.:i  ::  ;  :«.=  :<n..  >;  , 
^*  vou:  mofi  obL'di*;^:  h'Mxblc  icrvAt«:,  ^    1  v.>.*^  .* 

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t   119  3 

A  tranfcript  of  the  journal  was  left  in  the  h^ds  of 
Mr.G<?j?A>Jf  *,whowrotean  imitation  of  it  in  Hudibra/lic 
verfe;  twenty  copies  only  of  which  having  beca 
.printed  in  1781,  ah  a  literary  curioHty  -f ,  I  was  x^ 
quefted  by  fome  of  my  friends  to  reprint  it  at  thq 
end  of  the  fecond  edition  of  this  work.  It  had  ori- 
ginally been  kept  back,  in  compliment  to  the  writer 
of  the  profe  journey  ;  but,  as  that  in  the  mean  time 
had  been  given  to  the  public  by  authority,  to  prc- 
ferve  the  Tour  in  a  more  agreeable  drefs  cannot,  it 
is  prefumed,  be  deemed  an  impropriety.  See  the 
Appendix,  N^  III. 

■ 

♦  inUiMtt  GdftUng^M.  A.  a  minor  canon  of  Canterhitiy 
thedral  for  fifty  years,  and  vicar  of  Sione  in  the  ifle  of  OAfS, 
KmIj  well  known  to  all  lovers  of  antiquity  by  his  truly  on 
•  ginal  •*  Walk  in  and  about  Canttrhury^^  firft  printerd  in  ijf^ 
,  q{  which  there  have  been  three  editions  He  died  Manh  9,  \ 
1777,  in  the  Sid  year  of  his, age.  Of  his  father,  who  was 
firft  a  minor  canon  of  Canterhnry^  and  aftcrwnrds  one  of  the 
prieils  of  the  ch^pcl-royal  and  fub-dean  of  St.  FauPs^  there 
arc  fevcral  anecdotes,  communicated  by  his  Ion,  in  Sir  John 
Ha*uohins^s  **  Hillory  of  Mufic."  To  which  m  ly  be  added 
what  King  Charles  II.  is  reported  to  have  faid  of  him,  **  You 
'*  may  talk  as  much  as  you  pleafe  of  your  nightingales,  but  I 
•*  have  a  Gojling  who  excels  them  all.**  Anpthcr  time,  the 
faine  merry  monarch  preiented  him  with  a  filver  tgg  filled 
with  guineas,  faying,  *^  that  be  had  heard  thuc  eggs  were 
•*  gt)od  for  the  voice.** 

t  See  the  Catalogue,  under  the  year  i782. 


I  4  CATA. 


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CATALOGUE 


O    F 


HOGARTH'S    PRINTS*, 


I  AM  now  engaged  in  an  undertaking,  which 
from  its  nature  will  be  imperfed.  While  //o- 
ptrtb  was  yet  an  apprentice,  and  worked  on  his 
mailer's  account,  we  may  fuppofe  be  was  not  at  li- 
berty to  affix  his  name  to  his  own  performances. 
Nay^  afterwards,  when  he  appeared  as  an  indepen- 
dent artifty  he  probably  left  many  of  them  anony. 
mous,  being  fome times  obliged  to  meafure  out  his 
exertions  in  proportion  to  the  fcanty  prices  paid  for 
them.  For  reafons  like  thefe,  we  may  be  lure  that 
many  of  his  early  plates  muft  have  eluded  fearch ; 
and,  if  gradually  difcovered,  will  ferve  only  ro  Iw  cH 
the  colledions  they  will  not  adorn. — The  judicious 
connoifleur,  perhaps,  would  be  content  to  poficfs 
the  pidhurs  of  R.';fct!k^  without  aiming  at  a  com- 

♦  It  1$  proper  to  acVnovledge,  th«t  ill  I'uch  fhon  f:nftnref 
ind  an  not  a  I  ions  «  n  ihcie  pertcrmancci  a«  kie  dii'iineuiil^ed  hj 
being  primed  boih  in  /;*iVj  and  bettrctn  ir^^'crrfid  c:».T.r.-iaf.  arc 
copied  irviB  the  1. ft  of  Hi^mrtFj  vorlj  puhldbed  br  Mr.  IT^^- 

plctc 


^letc  aflemblage  of  the  Roman  Fayence  tiiat  paiici 
pnder  \\\s  naqie. 

In  fealing  the  dates  of  his  pieces  there  is  alfo.  dif<^' 
ficulty.  Sometimes,  indeed,  they  have  been  inferrjs^ 
from  circuniilances  ^Imoft  infallible ;  as  in  refpe^k.to 
the  Rabbit-bre^d^r^  ^^.  which  WQuid  naturally  have 
been  pubUfhed  in  the  year  1726.  On  other  occaiions 
they  are  deu^rmined  within  a  pertain  compafs  of  time. 

.  Thus  the  Ticket  for  Milward,  then  a  player  ^  I*i>- 
icoln's'lnn  Fields,  ipoft  have  preqedecj  173J,  when  he 
removed  with  Rich  tp  Covent  Gmdeni  apd  h  b 
^equally  fure,  that  Orator  Heniey  chrifiemnj;  an  bfanf, 
and  A  Girl  /wearing  a  child  to  a  grave  citi^n^  cao^ 

.put  before  17 35,  in  which  y^ar  we  Know  that  J.  K. 
$chley^  one  of  Ricart^s  coadjutors,  had  re-engravad 
them  both  for  the  ufe  of  tbe  fourth  volume  of  the 
Religious  Ceremonies^  publiHied  at  Amfierdamm  17 36. 
But  how  are  we  to  guefs  at  the  period  that  produced 
Sancbo  at  Dinner ,  or  The  Dif cover y  f 

The  merits  and  demerits  of  his  performances 
would  prove  deceitful  guides  in  our  refearches.  At 
our  artift  grew  older,  he  did  not  regularly  advance 
in  eltimation ;  for  neither  the  frontifpicces  to  Triftram 

.  Shandy.^  the  Titnes^  the  Bathos,  or  the  Bear,  can  be 
faid  to  equal  many  of  bisearlieft  produdtions. — Under 
fuch  difficulties  is  the  following  chronological  lift  of 
our  author's  pieces  attempted. 

The  reader  is  likewife  entreated  to  obfcrve,  that 
throughout  the  annexed  catalogue  of  plates,  varia* 
tionS|  &c«   J.  N.  has  mentioned  only  fuch  as  he  has 

feen. 


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tem/  Alike  tm willing  to  deceive  or  bedeceived,  he 
bas  fupprefled  all  intelligence  he  could  not  authenti- 
cate from  immediate  infpedion.  He  might  eafily 
1)ave  enlarged  his  work  by  admitting  particulars  of 
'doubtful  authority,  fometimes  imperfe£Uy  recolle&ed 
by  their  feveral  communicators,  and  fometimes  of- 
fered as  fportive  tmpofitions  on  an  author's  credulity. 
Of  this  weaknefs  every  one  poflfefles  fome  ;  but  per- 
haps no  man  more  than  he  who  ambitioufly  feeks  op- 
portunities to  improve  on  the  labours  of  another. 
J.  N.  is  fure,  however,  that  Mr.  Wcipohy  whom  none 
can  exceed  in  taite  and  judgment,  will  be  little  con- 
'  ccmed  about  the  merits  of  a  performance  that 
founds  its  claim  to  notice  only  on  the  humbler  pre- 
tences of  induftry  and  corrednefs. 


1720. 
I.  W.  Hogartb^  engraver,  with  two  figures  and  two 
Cupidr,  April  28,  1720. 

1721. 
I .  An  emblematic  print  on  the  S$uib  Sea.  W.  He- 
garth  inv.  &f  fc.  Sold  by  Mrs.  Cbttcol  in  Weftminfter- 
bally  and  B.  Caldwell^  PrintJeUsr  in  Nnvgaie-^Jreer . 
•*  Per/ons  riding  on  wooden^borfts.  He  Devil  cutting 
'^  Fortune  into  collops.  A  man  broken  en  tbe  wheels  isc. 
"  A  very  poor  perfcrmanee.**  Under  it  are  the  fol- 
lowing verfcs : 

See  here  the  caufes  why  in  Lend§n 
So  many  men  are  made  and  undone  % 

That 


i  ^*3  ii 

Tfeit  arts  and  honeft  trading  drop, 
To  fwarm  about  the  Dcvirs  Ihop  (A), 
Who  cuts  out  (B)  Fortune's  golden  haunches^ 
Trapping  their  fouls  with  lots  and  chances, 
Sharing  'cm  from  blue  garters  down 
To  all  blue  aprons  in  the  town. 
Here  all  religions  flock  together, 
Like  tatne  and  wild  fowl  of  a  feather, 
*'  •lica^ng  their  ftrife  religious  buftle. 

Kneel  down  to  play  at  pitch  and  huftle  (C)  : 
Thus'  when  the  fhepherds  are  at  play ; 
Their  flocks  muft  furely  go  aftray ; 
^e  wdeful  caufc  that  in  thefe  times 
(E)  Honour  and  Honefty  (D)  arc  crimes 
That  publickly  are  punifh'd  by 
(G)' Self-Intercft  and  (F)  Vilany  ; 
So  much  for  mony's  magic  power, 
Guefs  at  the  reft,  you  find  out  more. 

Price  One  Shilling  ». 
It  may  be  obferved,  that  London  always  affords  a  fet 
of  itinerant  poets,  whofe  office  it  is  to  furniih  in- 
fcriptions  for  fatirical  engravings.  I  lately  overheard 
one  of  thefe  unfortunate  fons  of  the  Mufe  making  a 
bargain  with  his  employer.  **  Your  print,"  fays  he, 
^Ms  a  taking  one,  and  why  won't  you  go  to  the  price 
*'  of  a  half-crown  Epigram  ?"  From  fuch  hireling 
bards,  I  fuppofe,  our  artift  purchafed  not  a  few  of 
the  wretched  rhimes  under  his  early  performances; 
unlefs  he  himfelf  be  confidered  as  the  author  of  them. 

*  For  fomc  further  account  of  this  defign,  fee  the  article 
J£r»  cfT^Jie^  under  the  year  173  a,  N**  7. 

5  Of 


1     A 


C   i«4  3 

Of  this  print  emblematic  of  the  S^tb  Ses^  t fa  ere 
are,  however,  two  imprefliont.  1  he  fecond,  printed 
for  Bowles,  has  been  retouched, 

*.  The  Lottery  *•  W.  Hogarth  inv.  ISftulf.  Sold 
iy  Cbileoi  and  Caldwell.  '*  Emblematic^  and  not  good.** 
This  plate  is  found  in  four  different  ftates.  In  one 
there  is  no  publifhcr's  name  under  the  title.  Ano- 
ther was  foU  by  Chtlcot^  i^c.  A  third  was  printed 
and  fold  by  S.  Sywf/on,  in  Maiden-Ume^  near  -Covent 
Garden.  A  fourth  was  printed  for  Jpbn  Bowles^  in 
whofe  pofleiEon  the  plate,  which  he  has  bad  re- 
touched, remsuns.  The  following  explanation  ac- 
companies this  plate  :  ^^  i.  Upon  the  pedeftal,  Na- 
*^  tioqal  Credit  leaning  on  a  pillar,  Supported  by 
'^  Juftice.  2.  Apollo  (hewing  Britannia  a  pidhire  re- 
*^  prefenting  the  Earth  receiving  enriching  fhoweri 
*^  drawn  from  herfcif  (an  emblem  of  ftatc  lotteries). 
^  3*  Fortune  drawing  the  blanks  and  prizes,  a* 
♦•  Wantonnefs  drawing  the  numbers.     5,  Before  the 

*  It  pppearSi  from  the  following  notice  in  the  Ceneral  Ad* 
vtrtifer^  Btc.  X2,  i/Ji,  that  this  and  the  foregoing  print  were 
re-pub! ifhed  by  J^cwies  during  tl^  life  of  Hogarth. 

*^  Lately  reprinced,  dcfigncd,  and  engraved  by  Mr.  Hlliiam 
•*  llngmrth. 

•*  Two  Print!  on  the  lottery.  One  of  rhem  (bowing  the 
*'  drawing  of  the  Lottery  by  Wantonnefs  and  Fortune  ;  and  by 
**  fuitable  eniblcms  repreicnts  the  fuipence  of  the  adventurers, 
^^  the  £tuauon  of  the  forrunare  and  unfortuate. 

••  The  oth'^r  print  is  a  burlefq:ie  reprefentation  of  the  folly 
**  and  madnefs  which  inlpires  all  ranks  of  people  after  lottery* 
**  gaming,  with  the  pernicious  confequences  thereof.  PrUt 
••  One  t:hi!UMg. 

*•  Sold  by  J.  Bowles^  at  the  Black-bcrfc,  10  C^Mhill.*' 

**  pedcflalj 


w"^ped#ftAl,  Sufpcncc  turned  to  iuid  ftohy  Flope  afld 
**  Fear.  6,  On  one  harfd,  Oobd  Luck  being  clcii- 
•*  vated  i^  fcized  by  l^leafurc  and  Folly  ;  Fame  per* 
^'  fuading  him  to  raife  finking  Virtue,  Arts,  &c« 
**  J.  On  the  other  hand.  Misfortune  opprcfled  hj 
«*  Grief,  Minerva  fupporting  birii  points  to  the 
*^  fweets  of  Induftry.  8.  Sloth  hiding  hts  head  in 
^^  the  curtain.  9.  On  the  other  fide,  AVarice  hug^ 
**  ging  his  money.  10.  Fraud  tempting  Defpair 
**  with  money  at  a  trap-door  in  the  pedeftal.**  Prkd 
One  Sbiiling.-^Hwi  not  Hogarth,  on  this  occafiort, 
condefceodect  to  explain  his  own  meaning,  it  mult 
have  remained  in  feveral  places  inexplicable; 

1723. 
*  I .  Fifteen  plates  to  Juiry  de  la  Motraje^s  '*  Travels 
•*  through  Europe,  AfiOy  and  Part  of  Africa.^*  W.  Hd- 
garth  Jcuip.  on  fourteen  of  them ;  viz.  plates  V.  IX.  X**, 
XI.  XV.  XVIL  b.  XVIII.  XXVI.  XXX  f.  XXXIK 
XXXIII.  I.  XXXIII.  2.  XXXV.  XXXVIII.  One 
of  thefe  (viz.  XXX.)  contains  a  portrait  of  Cbarks 
the  Xllth  of  Sweden.  Several  of  the  pictures,  from 
which  the  Seraglio,  &c.  were  engraved,  are  ftill  in 
being,  and  are  undoubtedly  authentic,  being  painted 
ifl  Turkey^  and  brought  home  by  De  la  Motraye,  at 
his  return  from  hi»  travels.     1  hey  were  fold  about 

*  At  the  bottom  of  this  plafte,  rn  one  copy  of  the  En^UJb 
'  edition,  the  name  of  Ilogartb,  though  eraied,  is  fuf&cienti/ 
legible. 

t  In  lattrt  of  the  RngUJb  copies  of  thii  work,  inllead  of 
Plate  XXX.  by  Hogarfh^  we  only  find  a  very  fmall  and  imper* 
k£t  copy  of  it  by  another  handr 

•    -  twenty- 


[    m6    ] 

twenty^five  years  ago  at  Hackney^  for  a  mere  trifle^ 
together  with  the  plates  to  the  prefent  work.  The 
latter,  in  all  probability,  are  defiroyed*  This  book 
was  originally  publifhed  in  Englijb  at  Lond^n^  il%il 
afterwards  in  French  at  Thi  Haguif  in  ijzy  ;  and 
again  in  Englijh  *  at  London^  revifed  by  the. author; 
with  the  addition  of  two  new  cuts,  in  1730.  In  the 
French  edition,  Plate  V.  Tom.  I.  is  engraved  by 
R.  Smithy  inftead  of  Hogarth,  fo  that  this  interme* 
diate  copy  contains  only  fourteen  plates  by  him.  Ic 
is  probable  alfo,  that  fome  other  anonymous  ones,  in 
all  the  editions,  were  by  the  fame  engraver.  His 
reputation,  indeed,  will  fave  more  than  it  iofes  by  the 
want  of  his  fignature  to  ellabliih  their  authenticity. 

2.  Five  Mufcovites.  This  (biall  print  appears  at 
the  corner  of  one  of  the  maps  to  the  fecond  volume 
of  the  foregoing  work.  It  has  no  intelligible  refer- 
ence ;  but,  in  the  Englijh  copy  now  before  me,  is 
the  lad  plate  but  one,  and  is  marked  C — T.  11.  In 
a  former  edition  of  the  prefent  catalogue,  it  was 
enumerated  as  a  feparate  article,  but  muft  now  be 
reckoned  as  one  of  the  fifteen  plates  to  Motraye's 
Travels. 

To  thefe  I  might  add  three  plates  more.  If  Ho^ 
garth  engraved  the  Mufcovitei  at  the  corner  of  the  map 
already  mentioned,  he  likewife  furniihed  the  figures 
in  the  corner  of  another,  marked  T.  L— B.    And 

*  This,  (ln6\ly  fpeaking,  was  not  a  re- publication  ;  it  is  the 
identical  edition  of  1723,  with  the  addition  of  m  Preface  and 
.an  Appendix.    New  title-pages  were  again  printed  to  it,  and 
a  thii'd  volume  added,  in  173^* 

Plate 


t  la?  3 

Plate  T.  I>-XVI.  and  T.  II.— XXXVII.  I  have  likei 
wife  reafon  to  fuppofe  were  the  works  of  our  artill  $ 
eighteen  plates  in  all ;  though  the  three  latter  being 
only  conje&ural^  I  have  not  ventured  to  fee  them 
down  as  indifputed  performances.  Of  the  Mt^c^ 
vUes  there  is  a  modern  copy  *• 
•  I, have  juil  been  aflured  by  a  gentleman  of  un« 
doubted  veracity^  that  he  was  once  poflefled  of  a  fee 
of  plates  engraved  by  Hogarth  for  fome  treatife  on 
mathematicks ;  butj  confidering  them  of  little  value, 
difpofed  of  them  at  the  price  of  the  copper.  As 
our  artift  could  have  difplayed  no  marks  of  genius 
in  reprefentations  of  cycloids^  diagramSi  and  equi* 
lateral  triangles^  the  lofs  of  thefc  plates  is  not  hea« 
yily  to  be  lamented. 

1724. 
I.  Seven  fmall  prints  to  **  The  New  Metamor« 
'^  phofis  of  Lucius  Apuleius  of  Medaura.  LondoH^ 
*^  printed  for  Sam.  Brifcoi^  1724.**  izmo.  2  voL 
L  Frontifpiece.  IL  Feftivals  of  Gallantry,  which 
the  noblemen  of  Ramt  make  in  the  churclies  for  the 

* 

entertainment  of  their  miftrefles.  III.  The  banditti's 
bringing  home  a  beautiful  virgin,  called  Camilla^ 
from  her  mother's  arms,  the  night  before  ihe  was  to 
have  been  married.  Vol.  L  p.  11 3.  No  name  tp 
this  plate.  IV.  Fantcfio^i  arrival  at  the  houfe  of  an 
old  witch,  who  is  afterwards  changed  into  a  beauti- 
ful young  lady.  V.  The  provincial  of  the  Jefuits* 
recovery  of  his  favourite  dog  from  the  cooper's  wife. 

^  Mr.  Walfek  enumcratot  ooly  n  plates. 


[      128     3 

VI.  Fffcb^s  admiffion  of  her  unknown  hufliand  in 
the  d^rk,  who  always  depaned  before  the  raurn  of 
light.  VIL  Cardinal  Oii^oni  and  his  niece's  viiic  td 
an  bcrrtiitage  in  the  holy  defart,  called  Ctfi;vtf/^/tf/^ « 
the  CardinaKs  difcourie  againft  folitude  to  the  her- 
mit, who  had  not  been  out  of  his  cell,  nor  fpoke  a 
nord,  for  forty  years  together.  Plate  IV.  is  the  only 
one  that  has  the  leaft  trait  of  character  in  it. 

4.  Mafqueradcs  and  ojieras^  Burlington  gate.  JV. 
Hogarth  inv.  f^  fcu'p.  Of  the  three  (mail  figures  irt 
the  center  of  this  plate,  the  middle  one  is  Lord 
Burlington^  a  man  of  confiderable  tafte  in  Painting 
^d  Archice&ure^  but  who  ranked  Mr.  Kent  (an  in- 
different artift)  above  his  merit.  On  one  fide  of  the 
peer  ii  Mr.  Campbell^  the  architect ;  on  the  other, 
his  lord(hip*s  poftilion.  On  a  (Iiow-cloth  in  this  plate 
ii  alfo  fuppofed  to  be  the  portrait  cf  King  George  IL 
who  gave  loco  /.  towards  the  mafquerade ;  together 
with  that  of  the  Eafl  of  reterborougk^  who  oflfers 
Cuzzoifl^ht  Italian  finger,  8coo  L  and  Ihe  fpurns  at 
him  *.  Mr.  HdJegger^  the  regulator  of  the  Mafque- 
rade, Is  alfo  exhibited,  looking  out  at  a  window, 
with  the  letter  //.  under  him.  The  fubftance  of  the 
foregoing  remarks  is  taken  from  a  eoIleAion  lately 
belonging  to  Captain  DaiHie  -f^,  where  it  is  laid  that 

*  She  is  rather  drawing  the  money  towards  her  with  a  rakc. 

f  This  col le^rnn,  conlitling  of  241  prints,  in  tiiree  port* 
ftu'.lle*,  was  fold  at  CbriftiPs^  April  ^^  '781,  for  5q  guineas,  to 
Mr.  Ingham  Fofirr^  a  wealthy  ironmonger,  fincc  dead.  A  let, 
ennraiQing  only  100  prints,  had  been  fold  ibnr.e  lime  hefortf^ 
at  the  Time  place,  for  47  guineas.  The  Hon.  Topham  Beau- 
€Url*s  let,  of  only  Q9  prints,  was  fold  in  1791  (while  this  note 
Ivlf  prmting  gff  lor  the  iirfl  edition)  for  34./.  lOi. 

the/ 


C  f«9  3 

tfa^  Wfci^  furnUhed  t>V  'ad  eminent  Cbhrioifleur  4. 
A  boMrd  is  Kkewifc  difplayed,  with  the  words— 
*'  Long  Rooiii.    Fawks^s  dexterity  of  hand.*^ '  It  ap- 
pears from  the   following  advertifement  in    MiJVs 
Weekly  Journal  for  Saturday^   Decen^er  25,  1725, 
that  this  artift  was  a  man  of  great  confequence  ixi 
his  pfofeifion.    ^'  Whereas  the  town  hath  lately  been 
^*  alarriied,  that  the  famous  Fawks  was  robbed  and 
*^  murdered,    returning    from    perfotming   at ,  the 
•*  Dutchefs  of  Buckingham's  houfe  at  Chelfea ;  whicK 
'*  report  belhg  raiftd  and  printed  by  a  perlon  to  gain 
**  mohey  to  himfelf,  and  prejudice  the  afcove  men* 
'  ^*  tidned  Mf.  FaibiS,  tvhoTe  unparalleled  pefforman* 
**  ces  have  gained  hiiii  fo  much  applaufe  from  the 
*•  greatcft  of  quality,  ind  mbft  curious  obfervcrs: 
<*  We  think,  both  in  juftice  to  the  iiyured  gcntle- 
^'  man,  and  for  the  fatisfad:i6n  of  his  admirers,  that 
*^  we  cannot  plcafe  oUt  teadefs  betfer  than  to  acquaint 
*'  them  he  is  alive,  aild  wifl  not  only  perform  his. 
^^  ufual  furprizing  dexterity  of  hand,  pofture-mafter, 
"  arid  mufical  clock ;  but  for  the  greater  diveriion 
**  of  the  quality  and  gentry,  has  agreed  with  the  fa- 
^*  mous  Powell  of  7 be  Btiih  for  the  feafon,  who  has 
^*  the  largeft,  richefi,  ind  nioft  natural  figures,  and 

*  It  is  not,  indeed,  inconvenient  for  the  reputatiod  of  this 
fsim6us  conhoifleur,  that  his  name  continues  to  be  a  fccret* 
Either  he  could  not  fpell,*  or  his  copier  wsis  unable  16  read 
what  he  undertook  to  tranfcribe.  PqfiiUon  mu(b  be  a  roiftake 
for  fome  other  word.  The  whole  note,  in  the  original,  ap« 
pears  to  ha?e  been  the  production  of  a  male  Slipjkp^  perhaps 
of  high  faihion.  His  petulant  invcAive  againft  Lord  fimriiagtom 
it  here  omitted. 

K  ^'  fineft 


C  130  1 

^^  fineft  machines  in  England,  and  whofe  former  per- 
«c  fbrmances  in  Covent  Garden  were  £>  engaging  to 
<*'  the  town^  as  to  gam  the  approbation  of  the  befl: 
'*  judges,  to  Ihow  his  puppet-plays  along  with  him, 
*'  beginning  in  the  Cbrijlmas  holidays  next,  at  the 
*'  old  Tennu'Court  in  Jama-Jlreet,  near  T!be  Haymar" 
^'  kit ;  where  any  incredulous  perfons  may  be  fatisfied 
^^  he  has  not  left  this  world,  if  they  pleafe  to  believe 
•*  their  hands,  though  they  can't  believe  their  eyes*" 
— ^*  May  25/'  indeed,  ^  1 73 if  died  Mr.  Fawhs, 
''  famous  for  his  dexterity  of  hand,  by  which  he 
^'  had  honefUy  acquired  a  fortune  of  above  1 0,000  /• 
^'  being  no  more  than  he  really  deferved  for  his  great 
^'  ingenuity,  by  which  he  had  furpafled  all  that  ever 
<<  pretended  to  that  art/'    Political  State,  yoL  XLL 

P-  543- 

This  fatirical  performance  of  Hogarth^  however^ 

was  thought  to  be  invented  and  drawn  at  the  in(tiga<» 

tion  of  Sir  James  Tbornhill,  out  of  revenge,  becaufe 

Lord  BurFpigton  had  preferred  Mr.  Kent  before  him 

to  paint  for  the  king  at  his  palace  at  Kenfington.  Dr. 

Fauftus   was  a   pantomime  performed    to  crowded 

houfes  throughout  two  fealons,  to  the  utter  neglect 

of  plays,  for  which  rcafon  they  are  cried  about  in  a 

wheel- barrow  *.    We  may  add  that  there  are  three 

prints 

♦  Dr,  Faujlusvfzs  firft  brought  out  at  Lincoln  s.Inn  Fields  ia 
1733,  and  the  fuccefs  of  it  reduced  the  rival  theatre  to  pro- 
duce a  like  entertainment  at  their  houfe  in  172$.  From  a 
ibarcc  pamphlet  in  oAavo,  without  date,  called  •*  Tragi- 
**  comical   Relie^ions,  of  a  moral  and  political  Tendency, 

**  occafioQcii 


t  lit  J 

pnois  6i  this  finall  mafquerade,  kc*  one  a  copy 
firom  tbe  firft.    The  brigiaals  ixave  Hagarib'^  name  . 

withm 

^*  occ^fioaed  by  th^  prefetit  ^taJtt  of  the  two  Rival-Theatret 
'^  in  Drury'Lane  and  Lincchfs^InH  Fields^  by  Gahriel  ReuMfl^ 
*^  £fq."  I  ihali  tninfcribe  an  illtlftratiori  of  thefe  plates  :  **  A 
'*  feie  years  ago.  by  the  help  of  HarUj^iu^j  and  Dn  Fdujlus^ 
*'  and  P/tr/tf  ana  Proferpiae^  and  other  iofenial  perfons,  the 
''  New-Houle  was  railed  to  as  high  a  pitch  6F  popularity  and 
^*  Tcoown  as  ever  it  had  been  known  to  arfive  at.  Tho''tfae 
^*  adors  there  coniifled  cYihtfkf  oi  Seatcby  zn^lrijh^  and  FrtMcif 
**  Strollers,  who  were  utterly  unacquainted  with  'the  Englijb 
**  Stflge,  and  were  remarkably  deficient  in  elDcutFon  and  gcf. 
'*  ture  :.  yet  fo  much  waa  the. art  of  juggliog  at  that  time  ifi 
<<  vogue,  and  fo  extreamly  was  the  nation  delighted  with 
**  Raree-Shows,  and  foreign  rtprefentationsy  •  that  all  people 
^*  flocked  to  the.  New-Houfe,  whilft  the  Old  one  was  alcogo- 
V  ther  deferted,  tho'  it  then  could  glory  in  a»  excellent  a  fet 
**  of  EngUJh  adors  as  ever  had  trod  upon  any  iikage.  In  the 
**  midfl  of  this  joyful  profperity  and  fuccefs,  the  Managers  of 
**  tbe  New-Houfe  were  not  without  fecret  uneafincfs  and  dif- 
**  content,  whenever  they  coniidered  how  ilippery  a  ground 
**  they  flood  upon,  and  how  much  a  jufter  title  their  rivals 
**  had  to  the  favour  and  affections  of  the  people.  They  were 
'*  therefore  always  intent  upon  forming deiigns  and  concerting 
*•  meafures  for  the  entire  fubverfion  of  the  Old-Houfe,  For 
**  this  purpofe,  they  conftancly  kept  in  pay  a  (landing  army 
*<  of  Scaramouches,  who  were  fent  about  the  town  to  polTcfs 
*^  it  with  averfion  and  refentment  againd  the  Old  Players^ 
**  wfaoie  virtues  had  rendered  them  formidable,  and  whoiie 
**  merit  W;as  (heir  greateft  crime.  Thefe  Scaramouches,  in  fo 
*<  corrupt  and  degenerate  a  time^  when  blindncl's  and  tbily, 
**  aad  a  falfe  taHe  every  where  reigned,  were  every  where 
*'  looked  on  as  men  of  a  fupcrior  ikill  to  all  other  actors,  and 
'^  oonfequently  had  a  greater  influence  than  the  re  A,  and 
<<  could  lead  after  them  a  larger  number  of  followers.  Ir  was 
"  by  means  of  the  inceflfant  clamour  and  o ncry  that  thefe 
*•  miicreants  railed,  and  of  the  lies  and  forgeries  which  iW-f 
^*  faattered  about  the  nation,  that  the  common  people  were 
*^  fpirited  up  to  commit  the  mod  extravagant  a6ts  of  iniolence 
,**aa4  outrage  on   the  Managers  of  the  Old-Houfc.      /hey 

K  a  **  wcrdi 


C  «3»  3 

within  the  frame  of  the  plate,  and  the  eight  verfes 
are  different  from  thofe  under  the  other.  It  is  fome- 
rimes  found  without  any  lines  at  all ;  thofe  in  the 
firft  inllance  having  been  engraved  on  a  feparate 
piece  of  copper,  fo  that  they  could  either  be  retained, 
difinifled,  or  exchanged,  at  pleafure.  In  the  firft 
copy  of  this  print,  inflead  of  Ben  Jfcn/on's  name  on 
a  label,  we  have  Pafquin^  N®  XL  This  was  a  pe- 
riodical paper  publilhed  in  1722-?,  and  the  number 
fpecified  is  particularly  fevere  on  operas,  &c.  T  he 
verfes  fo  the  firft  imprelCon  of  this  plate,  are, 

^*  vrere  made  the  fport  and  derifiAn  of  fools,  and  tvcre  dcli- 
''  vered  up  to  an  enraged  and  deluded  populace,  as  a  prey  to 
**  the  faiy  of  wild  beads.  Their  eoemies  were  continually 
*'  plotting  and  confpiring  their  deftmdion,  and  yet  were  con- 
'*  tinually  profecuttng  them  for  Sham-Plots  jand  pretended 
**  Confpiracief,  and  fuboming  wirnefles  to  prtfre  them  guilty 
**  of  attempts  to  undermine  and  blow  up  the  Xew-Houfe. 

<*  During  thecourfe  of  thofe  violent  and  illegal  proceeding.% 
**  tfie  New  A£lor8  were  not  wanting  in  any  pains  or  exper.cc 
**  to  gratify  and  incrcafe  the  then  popular  tafle  for  Rarec- 
**  Shows,  and  Hocus-Pocus  Tricks.  Scenes  and  iMachincs, 
**  and  Puppets,  and  Pollure- Mailers,  and  Adtors,  and  Singers, 
*'  with  a  new  fet  of  Heathen  Gods  and  Goddcflcs,  and  fevcral 
••  other  torcigi)  Decorntions  and  inventions,  were  fcnt  for 
•*  Uon\  F^an.etnd  Italy ^  sind  were  ready  to  be  imported  with 
*'  rhe  firft  fair  wind.  But  quarrels  lalling  out  anK)Dg  the 
**  Managers  ot  the  Houfe,  and  one  or  two  of  the  principal 
*'  Aftors  happening  to  quit  the  Stage,  and  the  people  grow* 
*<  ing  tired  with  fo  much  foul  play,  and  with  the  fame  decrfth 
**  Hfifms  fo  often  repeated,  the  fcene  changed  tt  once,  the  "jox 
**  fopttH  turned  againft  the  New-Houfe,  which  funk  under  a 
**  lujd  ('Mufiimy  and  contempt,  and  wis  deferred  not  only  by 
**  rhe  Spc^ators  but  even  by  its  A6lors,  who,  to  fare  them* 
"  frlvrs  from  the  .juftice  of  an  tbufed  and  enraged  people, 
**  were  fox  red  to  tly  out  of  the  nation,  and  to  beg  for  protec- 
'•  tion  and  fabfiftcnce  from  their  wicked  Confederates  and 
*•  1  cllov;- Jugglers  abroid." 

Coul 


.  L     »33    J 

Could  now  dumb  Frnt/hu^  to  refwm  the  age, 

Copjure  up  Sbakejpiar^s  or  Ben  Jobnfon^s  ghoft. 
They'd  bluih  for  fliaqnej  to  fee  the  Engtijb  fiage 

Debauched  by  foorrieSj  at  fo  great  a  cod* 
What  would  their  ^nanes  fay  ?  fliould  they  behold 

Monfters  and  mafquerades,  where  ufeful  plays 
Adorned  the  fruitfull  theatre  of  old»^ 

And  rival  wits  contended  for  the  bays. 
Price  ijbilling  1724. 

To  the  fecond  irapreffion  of  it : 

O  bow  refin'd,  how  elegant  we  're  grown  ! 
What  noble  Entertainments  charm  the  town  ! 
Whether  to  hear  the  Dragon's  roar  we  go, 
Or  gaze  furpriz'd  on  Fazvks*s  matchlcfs  ihow. 
Or  to  the  Operas^  or  to  the  Mafqucs, 
Tq  eat  up  drtelansi  and  t*  empty  flafques. 
And  rifle  pies  from  Sbakefpear^s  clinging  page, 

w 

Gfdod  gods  t  how  great 's  the  gufto  of  the  age* 

In  this  print  our  artift  ha;  imitated  the  engraving  of 

Calht. 

To  the  third  impreffion,  u  e.  the  copy : 

Long  has  the  (lage  produdive  becQ 

Of  offsprings  it  could  brag  op. 
But  never  till  this  age  was  feen 

A  Windmill  and  a  Dragon. 

O  C&ngreve,  lay  thy  pen  afide, 

Sbakefpear^  thy  works  difown, 

.  Since  monfters  grim,  and  nought  beiide. 

Can  pleafe  this  fenfelefs  town. 

K  2  I  Ihould 


[    »34    3 

I  (bould  have  obfervcd,  that  the  idea  of  the  fore- 
going  plate  was  fioren  from  an  anonymous  one  on 
the  fame  fubjed.  It  reprefent?  Herculei  chaining 
follies  and  deftroying  mopfters.  He  is  beating  Heiy 
dagger  J  till  the  money  ho  had  amafled  falb  out  of  his 
pocket.  The  fituation  of  the  buildingSi  &c.  on  the 
fides,  &c.  has  been  followed  by  our  artiA.  Mer- 
€ury  aloft  fuftains  a  fcroU^  on  which  is  written  ^'  The 
^'  Mafcarade  dcftroy'd.'*  The  infcription  under  this 
print  is  "  Hci  Degeror.  0 1  I  am  undone."  Price 
OneSbWing, 

1.  Five  fmall  prints  for  the  tranflation  oiCaJfandra^ 
in  five  volumes  duodecimo.  fV.  Hogarth  inv.i^  fculp. 

2.  Fifteen  head  jpi^ces  for  **  The  Roman  Military 
**  Puniihments,  by  John  Beaver j  Efq.  London^  From 
**  the  happy  JlcvoJqtiop,  Anno  ?xxvii/'  (i.  e.  1725. 
Small  quarto^  pp.  155.  From  the  preface  it  ihould 
fecm  that  the  author  bad  been  Judge  Advocate.  The 
book  is  divided  into  fcventeen  chapters,  each  of 
which,  except  the  fecond,  third,  feventh,  and  twelfth, 
have  fmall  head-pieces  prefixed,  of  ancient  military 
puniiliiiicnts,  in  the  mannelr  of  Callot^s  Small  Miferies 
of  War.  W.  Hogarth  inv.  &  fculp.  |n  >779»  were 
firil  fuld  by  a  printfellcr  ten  of  thefe  prints,  together 
with  two  others  not  iq  the  book,  being  fcenes  of 
modern  war ;  a  pair  of  drums  being  in  one,  and  a 
foldier  armed  with  a  muflcet  in  the  other.  Thus  are 
there  three  prints  in  the  book  not  in  this  fet;  viz. 
Chap.  9.    Soldiers  fold  for  ilaves.     10.  Degradation. 

16. 


C    ^3S    1 

i6.  Baniikifteiit;  There  is  alfo  in  tlie  title-page  % 
Iktte  figure  of  a  Roman  General  fitting ;  probably 
dohe'by  Hogarth^  though  his  name  is  not  under  it. 

In  the  year  1774,  thefe  plates  were  in  the  poflef- 
fion  of  a  Button-maqufa£turer  at  Birmingham*  There 
are  only  eleven,  one  of  them  being  engraved  on  both 
fides.  They  were  given  by  him,  however,  to  my 
informant,  who  parted  with  them  to  S.  Harding  an 
engraver,  who  fold  them  to  Humphry  the  printfeller 
near  Temfle-Bar^  their  prefent  proprietor.  How  they 
fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Birmingham  manufa^rer 
(who  took  off  a  few  impreflions  from  them)^  is  un* 
known. 

Querj^  Does  the  plate  engraved  on  both  fides 
contain  the  two  modern  defigns  ? 

In  a  Catalogue  of  Books  fojd  by  W.  Bdtboe^  was 
included  "  Part  of  the  Colledion  of  the  late  ingeni- 
**  ous  W.  Hogarth^  Efq.  Serjeant  Painter  to  his  Ma- 
**  jefty  ;'*  in  which  was  BeaverU  •*  Roman  Military 
^'  Punifliments/*  with  twelve  plates  by  Hogarth^ 

The  plate  to  Chap.  XVII.  viz.  "  Pay  ftopt  wholly, 
**  or  in  part,  by  way  of  punifliment*'—^' Barley  given 
*'  to  offenders  inftead  of  wheat,  &c.'*  differs  in  many 
inltances  from  that  fold  with  the  fet.  At  the  bottom 
of  the  former,  in  the  book,  we  read,  *^  W.  Hogarth^ 
'*  Inven^./culpt!"  The  latter  has  *^  W.  Hogarth^  in^ 
*^  vent,  iifec'^  The  former  hw  a  range  of  tents  be* 
hind  the  pay-table,  Thefe  are  omitted  in  the  latter  ; 
which  likewife  exhibits  an  additional  foldier  atten^ 
*dbnt  on  the  meafuring^  out  of  the  corn,  &c« 

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I  do  Dpt  neaa  to  Iky  that  the  plate  fold  wich  tiM 
let  ts  fpurioiis.  Had  ic  beeo  a  copy,  it  would  natur| 
rally  have  been  a  fervile  one.  Some  rcafon,  now  UO"' 
difcoverable,  muft  have  prevailed  on  our  artift  t»] 
re-cngrave  it  with  variations. 

N.  B.  The  two  "  fcenes  of  ipodern  war,"  mentioa- 
ed  alfo  in  p.  1 34.  were  dcfigned  for  a  continuation  of 
the  fame  work,  which  was  never  printed,  as  I  guefs 
from  the  coiiclufion  of  the  Author's  preface.  "  This 
"  regularly  divided  my  book  into  two  parts;  one 
**  treating  of  the  Roman,  the  other  of  the  Modern  Mi- 
"  litary  Pmifimients.  The  firft  I  now  fend  into  the 
"  world,  as  a  man  going  into  the  water  dips  his  foot 
*'  to  feel  what  reception  he  is  like  to  meet  with  \  by 
**  that  rule  refolving,  either  to  pubUfli  the  fecond 
*'  pirt,  or  fit  down  contented  with  the  private  (atis- 
•*  fadion  of  having,  by  my  ftudlcs,  rendered  myfelf 
*•  mote  able  worthily  10  difchaigc  the  duties  of  my 
"  office." 

I  have  (incfi  been  affurcd,  that  our  Author's  heir 
.  was  a  paftry-copk,  who  ufed  all  the  copies  of  this  ^ 
book  for  waftc-paper. 

3.  A  burlefque  on  Kent's  altar  piece  at  St,  Cltmtnfi 
with  notes.  "  //  rcprr/ents  at^tls  very  ill  drawtt, 
"  fhying  en  varmus  tnf.rumintt."  Speaking  of  this 
jpiint,  Mr-Ifrt/jpo/if  ill  one  place  calls  it  a^djaf/t';  ant} 
in  another,  i.  burl-fqiie  on  ICeni't  Ahar- piece.  But, 
it'  wc  mav  believe  Boiarlh  himiclf,  it  is  neither,  but 
a  very  fair  and  honc0  rcorefcnution  of  a  dcfpicabte 
pcilojmancc.  The  following  is  our  artift'$  inlcrip- 
tioD  to  it,  iranfcribed  verbatim  ij?  literjtm. 


lis 


C  w  3 

•*;  TMs  Print  is  cxadly  Engraiv'd  after  y«  cclc- 
•«  bratcd  Altar-Piccc  in  S/.  CUments  Church  which 
^  has  been  taken  down,  by  Order  of  y*  Lord  Biihop 
**  of  Loudon  (as  tls  thought)  to  prevent  Difputs  and 
<'  Laying  of  wagers  among  the  Parrihioners  about  y* 
^*  Artifts  meaning  in  it.  for  publick  Satisfadtion  here 
•<  is  a  particular  Explanation  of  it  humbly  Ofierd  to 
*^  be  writ  under  the  Original,  that  it  may  be  put  up 
^f  again  by  which  means  y'  Parifli^es  60  pounds 
.*'  which  thay  nifely  gave  for  it,  miay  not  be  Entirely 

"  Ipft. 

*«  xft.  Tis  not  the  Pretenders  Wife  and  Children 

f^  as  our  weak  brethren  imagin. 

*<  adly.  Nor  St.  CedUa  as  the  Connoifleurs  think 

'*  but  a  choir  of  Angells  playing  in  Confort, 

A  i  an  Organ 

B    an  Angel  playing  on  it 

t.     the  (hortcft  loint  of  the  Arm. 

D     the  longed  loint 

E     An  Angel  tuning  an  harp 

F    the  infide  of  his  Leg  but  whether  right  or  Left 

is  yet  undifcover'd 
G     a  hand  Playing  on  a  Lute 
H    the  other  leg  judicioufly    Omitted   to    make 

room  for  the  harp 
I&     2     Smaller    Angells     as    appears    by     their 
K  wingf 

This  pidkure  produced  a  trad,  Jntituled,  **  A  Letter 

"  from  a  Parifliioner  of  Si.  CUment  Danes  to  Edmund 

"  [Gihjon] 


"  [Gibfori]  Lord  Biibop  of  Lond^n^ .  occafiott'd  ty 
<<  his  lordihip's  cauiing  the  pidure  over  the  altar 
<^  tx>  be  taken  down :  with  fome  obfenrations  on  the 
'^  ufe  and  abufe  of  Church-paintings  in  general^  and 
^  of  that  piAure  in  particular,  1725.'*  8vo.  See  Ap- 
pendix IL  The  proofs  of  this  plate  are  commonly 
on  blue  i)aper,  though  I  have  uict  with  more  than 
one  on  white.  The  original,  after  it  was  removed 
from  the  church,  was  for  fome  years  one  of  the  or- 
naments of  the  mufic-room  at  ^e  Crown  and  Anchor 
in  the  Strand.  As  this  houfe  has  frequently  changed 
its  tenants,  &c.  I  am  unable  to  trace  the  pi^hire  in 
queftion  any  further*  There  is  a  good  copy  of  this 
print  by  IXvtJay. 

5.  A  fcenc  in  HandeVs  opera  of  Ptolomeo^  perform- 
ed in  1728,  wuh  Farinelli,  Cuzzoniy  and  Senefino,  in 
the  charadtcrs  of  Ptolemy y  Cleopatra^  and  Julius  Cafar. 
1  hofe  who  are  inclined  to  doubt  the  authenticity  of 
this  performance,  will  do  well  to  confult  the  rcpre- 
fcntation  on  a  painted  canvas  in  the  fmall  print  on 
malquer.^dcs  and  operas,  where  the  fame  figures  oc- 
cur in  almoft  the  fame  attitudes.  I  do  not,  how- 
ever. \ouch  for  the  gcnuinencfs  of  this  plate.  In 
South' ark'  fair,  our  artift  has  borrowed  the  fubjcft 
of  hi?  ihow-cloth  from  Laguerre;  and  might,  in  the 
prticnr  inftancc,  have  adopted  it  from  another  hand. 

l  he  a|>pcarance  Farinelii  makes  on  this  occafion 

may  be  jullifiecl  by  the  following  quotation  from  a 

Pamphlet,  intituled,  Rejlcdions  upon  Theatrical  Ex^ 

prcjfion  in  Tragedy^  i^c.  printed  for  W.  Johnjon,  &c. 

a  1755. 


t    »39    ] 

1755*  ''  I  ihaU  therefore,  io  my  further  remarks 
^*  upon  this  article,  go  back  to  the  Old  Italian 
'*  Theatric  when  Farineili  drew  every  body  to  the 
'^  Uaymarket.  What  a  pipe !  what  modulation  ! 
*^  what  extafy  to  the  ear !  But,  heavens !  what 
^'  clumfineis !  what  ftupidity  I  what  offence  to  the 
^^  eye  !  {leader,  if  of  the  city,  thou  may  eft  probably 
^'  have  feen  m  the  fields  of  Iflingion  or  MiU-^nd,  of 
^^  if  thou  art  m  the  environs  of  <9/.  'Jfames%  thou 
'^  muft  have  obferved  in  the  park,  with  what  ealie 
**  and  agility  a  G)w,  heavy  with  Calf,  has  rofe  up 
f*  at  the  conunand  of  the  Milk*woman's  foot.  Thus 
**  frpm  the  mofly  bank  fprung  up  the  Divine  Fari^ 
^^  nelU.  Then  with  long  ftrides  advancing  a  few 
^  paces,  his  left  hand  fettled  upon  his  hip,  in  a  beau* 
f'  tiful  bend  like  that  of  the  handle  of  an  old-faihioA- 
'^  ed  caudle-cup,  his  right  remained  immoveable 
^^  acrofs  his  manly  breaft,  till  numbnefs  called  its 
*•  partner  to  fupply  its  place ;  when  it  relieved  itfelf 
^*  in  the  pofition  of  the  other  handle  to  the  caudle* 
"  cup/*  p.63,  &c. 

Under  a  copy  of  the  print  abovementioned,  which 
muft  have  been  made  foon  after  its  publication,  appear 
the  following  infcription,  and  wretched  ungramma* 
deal  lines : 

The  three  moft  Celebrated  Singers  at  the  Opera. 

Scire  tuum  mbil  eft^  niji  tefcire  bocfciat  alter. 

Sigra  the  great,  harmonioufly  inclined. 

Who  charms  the  ear  and  captivates  the  mind/ 

Otzxom. 


[     140    ] 

*  

CUZXMU 

Thou  little  (lave  an  emblem  is  of  thofe 
Whofe  hearts  are  wholly  att  y«  worliis  difpofe. 

Great  Barrenjladt  ^  encomiums  great  and  true 
Is  very  ihort  of  whats  your  right  9nd  due, 

1  he  cbaraAers  in  the  print  under  coniideration, 
might  have  been  new-chrificn'd  by  the  copier  of  ir. 

Either  the  dignity  of  Senefmo  muft  have  been  won- 
derful, or  the  following  paflage  in  Dr.  Warburton^s 
•*  Enquiry  into  the  Caufe  of  Prodigies  and  Miracles,'' 
(printed  in  1727)  atfords  a  mod  notorious  example 
of  the  Bathos.  "  Obferve,"  fays  he,  p.  60.  "  Sir 
•*  Walter  RaUigh's  great  manner  of  ending  the  firjl 
*•  part  of  the  Hi/lory  of  the  World.     *  By  this  which 

*  we  have  already  fet  down  is  fcen  the  beginning 

*  and   end  of  the  Three   firft  Monarchies  of  the 

*  World;  whereof  the  founders  and  ercdtors  thought 

*  that  they  could  never  have  ended  :  that  of  Roiiief 

*  which  made  the  fourth,  was  alfo  at  this  time  al- 
'  moft  at  the  higheft.  \Vc  have  left  it  flourifbing 
^  in  the  middle  of  the  field  ;  have  rooted  up,  or  cut 

*  down,  all  that  kept  it  from  the  eves  and  adpiiration 

*  of  the  world  ;  but  after  fome  continuance,  it  (hall 

*  begin  to  lofe  the  beauty  it  had ;  the  ftorms  of  am- 

*  biticn  (hall  beat  her  great  boughs  and  branches 

*  one  againft  another ;  her  leaves  Ihall  fall  off;  her 

*  limbs  -.vithcr,  and  a  rabble  of  barbarous  nations 

*  enter  the  field  and  cut  her  down/  "  V\'hat  ftrcngth 

*   Bt^^eyfJ^ath  I  a  c::(*ra:o  cngngfd  by  ILt\J{!\v,  the  operas. 

"  of 


[     «4«     ] 

«*^  of  colouring !  What  grace,  what  noblenefs  of  cx- 

^*'  preffion  j  With  what  a  majefty  does  he  clofc  his  im- 

^^  mortal  labour!  It  puts  one  in  mind  of  the  fo  much 

<*  admired  exit  of  the  late  famed  Italian  Singeiu'* 

6.  A  juft  View  of  the  Briiijh  Stage,  or  three  heads 

better  than  one,  fcene  Newgate^  by  M  D.  V — io  ♦. 

This  print  reprefents  the  rehcarfing  a  new  farce,  that 

will  include  the  two  famous    entertainments   Dr. 

FaUjius  and  Harlequin  Shepherd  •\.    To  which  will 

be  added,  Sidramouchjaik  Hall  the  Chimney-fweeper's 

• 

Kfcape  from  Newgate  through  the  Privy,  with  the 
comical  Humours  of  Ben  Juhnfon^i  Gbojij  concluding 
with  the  Hay  Dance,  performed  in  the  air  by  the 
'  figures  A.  B.  C-  [WHr,  Dootby  and  Cibber'^^  affiftcd 
by  ropes  from  the  Mufes.  Note,  there  are  no  Con- 
jurors concerned  in  it,    as  the   Ignorant  imagine* 

i3»  The  Bricks,  Rubbifli,  &c.  will  be  real ;  but  the 

•  •  -I 

'  Excrements  upon  Jack  Hall  will  be  made  of  chewed 
'  Gingerbread,,  to  prevent  Offence,  Vivat  Rix.  Price 
Sixpence.  Such  js  the  infcription  on  the  plate;  but 
I  may  add,  that  the  rcpes  already  mentioned  are  no 
other  than  haliers,  fufpcnded  over  the  heads  of  the 
three  managers  J  ;  and  that  labels  iffuing  from  their 

*  Mr.De'vatowzi  fcenc-paintcr  to  Drury-Lane  or  LincohCs* 
Jtin  Fields^  and  alio  to  Gooilmani  Fields  Theatre.  There  is  a 
iKCZzotiiuo  of  him  with  the  following  title  :  '*  Johannes  De- 
•*  *tfoto  Uiiloricue  Scenicufiiue  Pidlor."  flncen/o  Damini  pinxit. 
y.  Fahr  fecit,   1736. 

f  Dr.  Fiiujfus  and  IIa*hiju:n  Shepherd  were  pantomimes  coti- 
trived  by  Thnrmond  the  danciDg-mafler,  and  a£ted  at  Drury^ 
Lane  in  172!;. 

X  — Hatters^  &.C.]  The  fame  idea  U  introduced  in  thr  9th 
plate  of  the  apprrtitiLrr-. 

refpeilivi 


I 


j-rfpe&jve  mouths  have  the  following  chu«derift!e'  ^ 
words.  The  airy  Wilkr,  who  dangles  ihc  effigy  of  [ 
Punchy  is  made  to  exclaim — "  Poor  R — cb\  faith  I 
"  pitty  him."  The  laureat  Cibbtr,  with  Harlequin  for 
his  playfellow,  invokes  the  Mufcs  painted  on  the  del- 
ing —  "  Affift,  ye  facred  Nine  ;*'  while  the  folemn 
B<K>lh,  letting  down  the  image  of  Jack  Hall  into  the  ■ 
forica,  is  moft  tragically  blafpheming  —  "  Ha  I 
"  this  will  do,  G — d  d— m  me."  On  a  table  before 
thefe  gentlemen  lies  a  pamphlet,  exhibiting  a  print 
of  Jack  Shepherd,  in  confinement ;  and  over  the  forica 
ll  fufpondcd  a  parcel  of  wade  paper,  confiding  of 
leaves  torn  from  The  tVay  ef  the  World —  Hamlet  — 
Maclelb,  and  Julius  Ccafcr.  Ben  Jonfon'i  Ghofl,  ia 
the  mean  while,  is  rifing  through  the  flage,  and 
p  ■  g  on  a  pantomimic  ftatue  tumbled  from  its 
bftfe.  A  fidler  is  alfo  reprefcnted  hanging  by  a  cord 
in  the  air,  and  performing,  with  a  fcroll  before  hin?, 
that  exhibits  —  Mujtc  for  the  H-'hat  —  (perhaps  the 
What  J"  ye  call  it]  entertainment.  The  countenances 
of  Tragedy  and  Comedy,  on  each  fide  of  the  ftage,  are 
hoodwinked  by  the  bills  for  Harlequin  Dr.  Faufiut 
tnd  Harlequin  Shepherd,  &c.  &c.  There  is  alfo  a 
dragon  preparing  to  fly;  a  dog  thrvifling  his  head 
out  of  his  kennel ;  a  flafk  put  in  morion  by  ma- 
«hinery,  &c.  Vivetur  In^enie  is  the  motto  over  the 
curtain.  In  Mr.  IFalpolei  catalogue  the  defcription 
of  this  plate  is,  "  Booth,  Wilkj,  and  Cii/hrr, 
*f  triving  a  pantomim*^       A  Jatire  on  Jarteu 


4 


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C    *43    3 

•  tV  Frontifpiecc  to  Terra-JiHus.  W.  Hcgartb  fet. 
This  work  was  printed  in  two  volumes  la®,  at  Oa> 
ford^  and  is  a  fatire  on  the  Tory  principles  of  that 
Univerfity.  It  was  written  by  Nicholas  Amherft^ 
author  of  The  Craftfman^  and  was  originally  pub* 
lifhed  in  one  volume. 

2.  Twelve  prints  for  Hudibras ;  the  lisirge  fet.    W. 
Hogarth  niv.finx.  etfculp^  Under  the  head  of  Butler  : 
^*  The  bafib  relievo  of  the  pedeftal  reprefents  the 
'^  general  defign  of  Mr.  Butler^  in  his  incomparable 
poem  of  Hudibras;  viz.  Buikr's  Genius  in  a  Car 
l^ihing  around  Mount  PamaJJuSj  in  the  perfons  of 
**  Hudthras)2Lnd  Ralphoy  Rebellion,  Hypqcrify,  and 
**  Ignorance^  the  reigning  vices  of  his  time."     This 
fct  of  prints  was  publiflied  by  fubfcription,  by  P* 
Overton  and  J.  Cooper..   Mr.  S.  Ireland  has  Xcyen  of 
the  origmal  drawings ;  three  others  are  kno>vn  to  be 
preferved  in  Holland;  and  two  more  were  lately  ex-ifl- 
ing  in  this  kingdom.     1  he  phtes,  as  has  been  Qicpi- 
tioiied  already  in  p.  xi,  are  now  the  property  of  Mr« 
Sayer^  whofe  name,  as  publifhcr,  is  fubjoincd.  The 
Rev.  Mr.  Bowie ^  F.  A.  S.  had  a  fet  with  the  lift  of 
the  fubfcribers,  which  he  purchafcd  at  the  Duke  of 
Beavforfs  fale  in  IVdtJbiru     The  printed  title   to 
them  is,   **,  Twelve   excellent  and   moft  diverting 
"  Prints  ;*  taken  from  the  celebrated  Poem  of  Uudi-^ 
•^  bras^  wrote  by  Mr.  Samuel  Butler.     Expofing  the 
"  Villany  and  Hypocrify  of  the  Times.     Invented 
"  and  Engraved  on  Twelve  Copper-plates,  by  William 

'*  Hogartk^ 


[     "44    ] 

"  Hogarth,  and  are  humbly  dedicated  to  WiUiam^ 
'*  IVarJ,  £.(q.  of  Great  Hou^bton  in  Nn-lbantptonJJ^re; 
**  and  Mr  Allan  Ranifay,  of  Edittbur^h. 

"  What  excellence  can  Brafs  or  Marble  claim  I 
*'  Thefe  Papers  better  do  fecure  thy  Fame : 
**  Thy  Verfe  all  Monuments  does  far  furpafs, 
"  No  Maufoleum's  like  thy  Hudihrai. 

"  Printed  and  fold  by  PhiUp  Overton^  Print  and  1 
"  Map-fcllcr,  nt  the  GdJen  Duek  near  St.  Dunflai 
*'  Church  in  FUet-Jircet ;  and  John  Cooper,  in  jame^  • 
"  Jireet^  Caneat  Garden,  1716." 

Allan  Reitsfay  fubfctibcd  for  30  fcts.  The  number.  ] 
of  fubfcribcrs  in  all  amounts  to  192.     On  the  print  1 
of  Hudihras  and  the  Lazcjer  is  IV.  Hogart  dtUn.  et  \ 
fcttlp,  a  proof  that  our  artift  had  not  yet  difufed  the 
origintl  mode  in  which  he  fpelt  his  name.     In  the 
fcenc  of  the  Committee,  one  of  the  members  has  his 
gloves  on  his  head.     I  am  told  this  whimfical  cuftom 
once  prevailed  among  our  fanctificd  fraternity;  but  it 
13  in  vain,  I  fuppofe,  to  aflt  the  reafon  why.    In  piato  , 
XI.  (earlieft  inipreffiona)  the  words  *'  Down  with 
"  the  Rump5"  arc  wanting  on  the  fcroll. — Memo- 
randum.    At  the  top  of  the  propofals  for  this  fet  of 
Prints,  is  a  fmall  one  reprcfenting  Hadibrat  and 
Ralph,  engraved  by  Pine.     The  original  drawing  J 
for  it  by  Ho^^artb  is  in  the  poflcffion  of  Mr.  BeieiOf  ' 
Silverfmith,  in  Campton-firect,  S'^bo. 

3.  Seventeen  fmall  prints  for  Hudibras,  with  But- 

ter'i  head.    There  certainly  mull  have  been  feme 

miftake 


4 
I 


C    *45    3 

tnlftake  coflcerhing^  this  portrait.  It  Hevei:  could 
have  been  defigncd  for  the  author  of  Hudibras  5  buf 
niorc  ftrongly  refetnbles  John  Bapti/i  Monnoyer^  thii 
flower-painter,  There  is  a  print  of  him  by  Whiter 
from  a  picture  of  Sir  Godfrey  Knelleu  This  I  fup* 
pofe  to  have  been  the  original  of  Hogarih^s  fmall 
Butler. 

The  fame  defigns  engraVed  on  a  larger  fcdle,  and 
with  fome  flight  variations,  by  J.  Mynde,  for  Grty't 
edition  oi  HudibraSi  publiflied  in  i744» 

l^revious,  however,  to  both,  appeared  another  fet  of 
plates,  eighteen  in  number,  for  an  edition  in  eightcens  ' 
of  thisi celebrated  poem*  To  thefc  it  is  manifcft  that 
Hogarth  was  indebted  for  his  ideas  of  fcvcral  of  the 
fccnes  and  perifonages  both  in  his  larger  and  fnialler 
performances  on  the  fame  fubjedV.  That  the  col- 
\t&ox  tnay  know  the  book  when  he  meets  with  it^ 
the  following  is  atranfcript  of  the  title-page.  **  HiC" 
**  dibras.  In  three  Parts.  Written  in  the  time  of 
*^  the  late  Wars.  Corredcd  and  amended,  with  ■ 
**  Additions.  To  which  is  added,  Annotations  to 
"  the  third  Parr,  with  an  exact  Index  to  the  whole; 
**  never  before  printed.  Adorned  with  cuts.  Lon* 
**  don.  Printed  for  R.  Cbijzuel,  J.  Tonfon^  ST.  Uorne^ 
^*  and/?.  Wtllingicn^  1710." 

Copies  from  the  fmaller  plates  are  likewife  infcrtej 
in  Ti/ivnly's  tranflatioii  of  Hudihras  into  French^  with 
the  Evghjh  on  the  oppofite  page.  He  was,  I  believe, 
an  officer  in  the  IrlJJj  brigade.  The  following  is  the 
title-'page  to  his  work.     '^  Hudibrds,  Poemc  ccrit 

L  **  dans 


C    146  ] 

**  dans  les  terns  dcs  troubles  d*  AngUterre ;  ct  tfaduie 
•*  en  vers  Francois ^  avec  des  remarques  ct  dcs  figures. 
••  3  torn.  i2mo.  A  Londres^  ^TST*'*  ^^  fcems  ra- 
ther to  have  been  printed  at  Paris.  The  plates  have 
DO  name  fubfcribed  to  them. 

4*  '  unkulariiy  or  the  Wife  Men  of  Godliman  in 
Confultation. 

•*  They  held  their  talents  mod  adroit 

**  For  any  myftical  exploit."        Hud  IB. 

This  print  was  publifhed  in  the  year  1726,  i.  c,  about 
the  fame  time  that  Lord  Onjlow  wrote  the  following 
letter : 

"  To  the  Hon*^^.  Sir  Hans  Shane.  To  be  left 
'*  at  the  Grecian  Coife  Houfe,  in  Devereux 
"  Couji  near  Temple  Car  London. 

"  Sir,  1  he  report  of  a  woman's  breeding  of  rab- 
bits has  almoft  alarmed  England,  and  in  a  manner 
perfuaded  feveral  people  of  found  judg^  of  that 
**  truth.  1  hare  been  at  fome  pains  to  difcovcr  the 
**  affair,  and  think  I  have  conquerd  my  poynt,  as 
**  you  will  fe  by  the  Dcpotition  taken  before  me, 
**  which  Ihall  be  publifhed  in  a  day  or  two,     I  am 

"  Y'  humble  Servant, 
*'  CInndon,  Dec.  4//^,  1726.  Onslow." 

Soon  aficr,  Mr.  6V,  Andre  alfo  addreffed  this  note 
to  Sir  Hans  Sic  arte : 

**  Sir,  I  have  brought  the  woman  from  Guilford 
*'  to  y*  Bagr.io  in  Leicejhr  fields^  where  you  may  if 

««  you 


4C 


C   HI  3 

■**  you  plcafe  have  the  opportunity  of   f?eing  hef 
*•  delivcrM.        I  am  S'  Your  Hum  Serv^ 

*«  S*  Andre  *4 
^^  To  Sir  Ham  Shane  in 
**  Bloornjbury  Square**^ 

In  the  plate  already  mentioned,  figure  A  teprefents 
S/*  Andri.  [He  has  a  kitt  under  bis  arm,  having 
teen  at  firft  defigncd  by  his  family  for  a  fencing  and 
dancing-mafter,  though  he  afterwards  attached  him* 
fclf  to  mufic  of  a  higher  order  than  that  neceflary 
for  one  of  the  profeffions  already  mentioned.]  B  is 
Sir  Richard  Manningham^  C  Mr.  Saint  hill  a  cele- 
brated furgeon  here  in  London,  D  is  Howard  the  fur«» 
geon  2Lt  Guildford,  who  was  fuppofed  to  have  had  a 
chief  hand  in  the  impofture.  The  reft  of  the  cha- 
rafters  explain  themfelves. 

Perhaps  my  readers  may  excufe  me,  if  I  add  a 
ihort  account  of  another  defign  for  a  print  on  the 
fame  fubjeit;  efpecially  as  fome  collcdtors  have 
been  willing  to  receive  it  as  a  work  of  Hogarth^ 

-In  Mijl*s  Weekly  Journal^  Saturday,  Jan.  lith, 
17^.6*7,  was  the  following  advertifement : 

^'  The  Rabbit  affair  made  clear  in  a  full  account 
*'  of  the  whole  matter ;  with  the  picftures  engraved 
**  of  the  pretended  Rabbit- breeder  herfclf,  Mary 
**  ^oftSj  and  of  the  Rabbits,  and  of  the  pcrfons  who 
*'  attended  her  during  hef  pretended  deliveries, 
•'  Ihewing  who  were  and  who  were  not  impofed  on 

*  Both  tbcfe  letters  arc  in  The  Brltljh  Mufeum.  See  MS. 
61oan..33i2.  XXVL  G,  and  MS.  Sloan.  3316.'  XXVI.  G. 

L  2  •*  by 


C     h8    ] 

"  by  her.  Tis  given  gratis  no  where,  but  only  up 
^'  one  pair  of  llairs  at  the  fign  of  the  celebrated 
'*  Anodyne  Necklace  recommended  by  Doctor  Cham" 
^'  berlen  for  Children's  teeth,  &c." 

The  original  drawing  from  which  the  plate  pro- 
mifed  in  Miji^s  Journal  was  taken,  remained  in  the 
poffeflion  of  Mr.  James  Virtue,  and  was  probably  de- 
figned  by  his  brother  George.  It  was  fold  in  17S1 
in  the  coUeftion  of  George  Scott,  Efcj.  of  Cbij^zvell  in 
Effex^  together  with  eight  tracts  relative  to  the  fame 
impofture,  for  three  guineas,  and  is  now  in  the  col- 
ledtion  of  Mr.  Gougb. 

St.  Andre's  Mifcarriage^  a  ballad,  published  ia 
1727,  has  the  following  ftanza  on  this  fubjcdt : 

'^  He  difledtcd,  compar'd,  and  dilVinguilh'd  likewifc 
*^  The  make  of  thcl'c  rabbits,  their  growth  and  their 

*«  fize. 
"  He  preferv'd  them  in  fpirits,  and — a  little  too  late 
**  Preferv'd  (Vtrtuefculpfit)  a  neat  copper  plate," 

There  is  alfo  a  copper-plutc,  confiding  of  twelve 
compartments,  on  the  fame  (lory.  It  exhibits  every 
ilagc  throughout  this  celebrated  fruid.  St.  Andre 
aj)pears  in  the  habit  of  a  Merry- Andrew.  The  gene- 
ral title  of  it  is,  '*  'I  he  Doclors  in  Labour  ;  or  a 
*•  ne^v  Whim-wham  fro:n  Guilford.  Evirg  a  rcpre- 
*•  fentation  of  the  fi.uds  by  which  the  Cc^/i;?;.:;?  wo- 
•*  man  cjnied  on  htr  prc^'enJrd  Rabbi:  breeding ; 
'*  alfo  of  the  fimp*ic^y  ot  our  Doctois,  by  which 
•*  they  aflilled  tocaiiy  on  ihat  mjpollure,  dilco\crod 

"  their 


C    149    ] 

*^  their  Itill,  and  contributed  to  the  mirth  of  his 
•*  Majefty's  liege  fubjeds." 

In  A///?'/ Journal  for  Saturday^  Dec.  17,  1726,  is 
alfo  the  following  paragraph,  which  Ihews  that  the 
playhoufe  joined  in  the  general  ridicule  of  S/.  Andre. 
**  Laft  week  the  entertainment  called  7be  Necro^ 
^^  mancer  was  performed  at  the  Theatre  in  Uncoln^s* 
'*  If:n  Fields y  wherein  a  new  Rabbit -fcenc  was  intro* 
'^  diiced  by  way  of  cpifode  ;  by  which  the  Public 
**  may  underfland  as  much  of  that  affair,  as  by  the 
'*  prefent  controverfy  among  the  Gentlemen  of  the 
"  faculty,  who  are  flinging  their  bitter  pills  at  one 
^*  another,  to  convince  the  world  that  none  of  them 
*^  undcrftand  any  thing  of  the  matter/'  I  am  told 
by  one  of  the  fpcdtators  ftill  alive,  that  in  this  new 
fcene,  Harlequin^  being  converted  into  a  woman, 
pretended  to  be  in  labour,  and  was  firft  delivered  of 
a  large  pig,  then  of  a  footcrkin,  &c.  &c. 

From  the  fame  paper  of  Saturday,  Jan.  21,  1727, 
we  learn,  that  **  The  pretended  Rabbit-breeder,  in 
"  order  to  perpetuate  her  fame,  has  had  her  pifture 
**  done  in  a  curious  mezzotinto  print  by  an  able 
^^  hand."  It  was  painted  by  Lap^uerre^  and  fcraped 
by  Faber.  She  has  a  rabbit  on  her  lap,  and  difplays 
a  countenance  expreffive  of  the  utmoft  vulgarity. 
In  Hogartb^s  comic  rcprcfcntarion,  the  remarkable 
turn-up  of  tho  nofe  is  prefcrved.  This,  perhaps, 
was  the  only  feature  in  her  face  that  could  not  be 
altered  by  the  convulfions  of  her  pretended  agony, 

I-  5  or 


I  150  ] 

or  our  aftift  would  have  given  her  refeinblance  with 
greater  exa&ncfs. 

Mr.  Dtliingbam^  an  apothecary^  in  Red-IJon-Square^ 
laid  a  wager  of  ten  guineas  with  St.  Andii^  that  in  a 
limited  time  the  cheat  would  be  detcfted.  The 
money  was  paid  him,  and  he  expended  it  on  a  piece 
of  plate,  with  three  rabbits  engraved  by  way  of 
arms. 

I  learn  from  7be  Weekly  Mifcellany^  for  April  19, 
1740,  that  a  few  days  before,  *^  The  celebrated 
*'  Rabbit-woman  oiGodalmin  in  Surry  was  committed 
•'  to  Guildford  Gaol,  for  receiving  ftolen  goods." 

In  The  Gazetteer ,  cr  Daily  London  Advertifer^  Jan. 
%\,  1763,  was  this  paragraph,  which  clofcs  the  ftory 
of  our  heroine :  **  Laft  week  died  at  Godalming  in 
•f  Surry,  Alary  Tofts,  formerly  noted  for  an  impofition 
••  of  breeding  Rabbits/* 

1727. 

1.  Mufic  introduced  io  Apollo  by  Minerva.  Ho* 
garth  fecit.  ^*  FrGntifprece  to  fome  book  of  mufiCy  or 
^^  ticket  for  a  concert.'^  I  can  venture  to  affirm,  on 
Vinqucftionablc  authority,  that  this  print  is  a  mere 
copy  from  the  frontifpicce  to  a  more  ancient  book  of 
inufic.  The  com])ofer's  name  has  efcaped  my 
memory. 

2.  Mafqueradc  Ticket.  A.  a  facrifice  to  Priapus. 
B.  a  pair  of  Lccheromcters  fl^cwing  the  companys 
inclinations  as  they  approach  em.  Invenrcd  for  the  ufc 

of  ladies  and  gentlemen,  by  the  ingenious  Mr.  H r 

[ticiJiggery   Pripe  One  Shilling,    **  7bere  is  much  zvit 


a 


*  ;n 


C  «5«  3 

^^  in  ibis  print. ^  The  attentive  obferver  will  find,  that 
Hogarth  has  tranfplanted  feyeral  circumftances  from 
hence  into  the  firft  plate  to  the  Analyfts  of  Beauty^  as 
well  as  into  his  Satire  on  the  Methodifts  See  the  or- 
naments of  an  altar  compofed  of  a  concatenation  of 
different  periwigs,  and  the  barometers  exprcfling  the 
different  degrees  of  animal  hear.  At  the  corners  of 
the  dial  on  the  top  of  this  print  is  the  date  of  the 
year  (1727),  and  the  face  of  HeiJtgger  appears  under 
the  figure  XU.  In  the  earlieft  imprefiions,  the  word 
"  Provocati^•es  has,  inftead  of  V  -the  open  vowel  U. 
This  incorreSncfs  in  fpelling  was  afterwards  amended, 
though  in  a  bungling  manner,  the  round  bottoms  of 
the  original  letters  being  ftill  viiible  "f^. 

Concerning  John  James  Heidegger j  whofe  face  has 
been  more  than  once  introduced  by  our  artift,  the 
reader  may  cxprefs  fome  curiofity.  The  following 
account  of  him  is  therefore  appended  to  the  fore- 
going article. 

"  This  extraordinary  man,  the  fon  of  a  clergyman, 
*^  was  a  native  of  Zurich  in  Switzerland^  where  he 
"  married,  but  left  his  country  in  confequence  of  an 
*'  intrigue.  Having  had  an  opportunity  of  vificing 
**  the  principal  cities  of  Europe^  he  acquired  a  talle 
^'  for  elegant  arid  refined  pleafures,  which,  united  to 
**  a  ftrong  inclination  for  voluptuoufnels,  by  degrees 

qualified    him   for  the  management    of     public 

amufements.   In  1 708,  when  he  was  near  50  years 


*  In  this  print  our  artifl  has  likewife  imitated  the  manner 
of  Callotm 

L  4        .  « old. 


C   >5*   3 

^*  olil,  he  came  to  England  on  a  ncgotiaticn  from  the 
•*  Swifs  at  Zurich ;    but,  failing  in  his  cmbafly,  he 
'*  entered  as  a  private  loldier  in  the  guards  lor  pro- 
•*  recVion  *.    By  his  fprightly,  engaging  converfation, 
*•  and  infinuiiting  addrcl's,  he  loon  worked  himfclf 
*•  into  the  good  graces  of  our  young  people  of  fiifhion  ; 
"  from  whom  he  obtained  the  appellation  of  *'  the 
"  6*:^  fs  Count -{•.*     Mc  had  the  iiddrcfs  to  procure  a 
**  fubicription,  with  which  in  1709  he  was  enabled 
•*  to  furniih  out  the  opera  of  *  Thomyris  J,'  which 
•*  was  written  in  fui^liJh^zmX  performed  at  the  Queen's 
^*  theatre  in  the  tijymarkei.     The  mufic,  however, 
**  was  Itali^iti ;  that  is  to  fay,  airs  felcdtcd  from  fun- 
**  dry  of  the  foreign  operas  by  Lojomini^  Scariatti, 
**  Stejfanl^  Giiffxirini,  and  Aibinoni.    Mod  of  the  foiigs 
**  in  •  Hbomyru   were  excellent,     thofc  by  Lonoiuini 
"  efpeciiiUy  :    VaUnihii^  hLrgarita^  and   Mrs.  Thefts 
*'  fung   in   it;    and   Ueide?7cr  by  this  performance 
^*  a!<Hie  was  a  gainer  of  3CC  j;,jineas  §.     The  judici- 
**  ous   remaiV.s   he   iu:u1j  on   kveral   dcfcdts  in  the 
*'  con.iiiC'c  of  our  optr:is  in   gcii'.ral,   and   ihe  hints 
"  he  threw  out  for  itnprovip.g  the  eiUL-rt-ilnmcnts  of 

'    Si'f  N"  4.^.  .Tri»'T^'  tlie  i^r'irs  ot   iir:*er*  in  <!'»'c. 

\  ^tl•  Sir  >.''■»  /',;■"•.'..  Iir:i.ry  ot  \ii;f^i.,  \  --I.  V.  p.  i^;. 
He  i:«  :\':te  ti-l:cril  i.!.lt.r  :l,-s  \\\\c  in  th**  *"'i'.i*'c:/'  \>.".  :  ;. 
r,n.l  iS.  :  .i:i-l  in  >ir.  y>/ .'•...■■/.  »'.  '*  Cf^ircri  :n  vif  Ixi-Lcrs  i  r' 
•'  U\cra!  I  inini'i:  IViluiis  «!ct-L.i:V(l/'  1?  n  Ir-nKiiin-^o  dcd.c  ■- 
\\uw    ot    Mr.   ih,^'i*\    '*  Viiion  ot  Cv::utet^^'  lo    '*  tr.c  i:i.'« 

I   '1  \\r'\*  \vM   nnc:li».r  ojkt.i    cf  the  i"\iiie  mnic^  by  I\  .' 

^  '•  y ••.•.•-.>'■♦*'  :\rK\  **  i\.  ..•  .  j'*  '.^crc  boih  icvivcd   in  i;:'*; 


C     »53    3 

•*  the  royal  theatre,  foon  eftabliflied  his  chara&cr  as 
•**  a  good  critic.  Appeals  were  made  to  his  judgc- 
"  ment ;  and  fottie  very  magnificent  and  elegant  dc- 
*^  corations,  introduced  upon  the  ftage  in  confc- 
"  quence  of  his  advice,  gave  fuch  fatisfadion  to 
"  George  II.  who  was  fond  of  operas,  that,  upon  be- 
*'  ing  informed  to  whofe  genius  he  was  indebted  for 
**  thefe  improvements,  his  majefty  was  pleafcd  frocri 
*f  that  time  to  countenance  him,  and  he  foon  obtained 

■ 

"  the  chief  management  of  the  Opera-houfe  in  Tbe 
"  Haymarket.  He  then  fet  about  improving  anotVier 
"  fpecies  of  diverfion,  not  lefs  agreeable  to  the  king, 
"  which. was  the  mafquerades,  and  over  thefe  he  al- 
^'  ways  prefided  at  the  king's  theatre.  He  was  !ike- 
^'  wife  appointed  mailer  of  the  revels.  The  nobility 
*'  now  carcflcd  him  fo  much,  and  had  fuch  an  opi- 
*^  nion  of  his  tafte,  that  all  fplendid  and  elegant  en- 
^^  tertainmcnts  given  by  them  upon  particular  occa- 
*^  fions,  and  all  private  aflemblics  by  fubfcription, 
*^  were  fubmitted  to  his  dircftion  *. 

From  the  emoluments  of  thefe  feveral  employ- 
ments, he  gained  a  regular  confidcrable  income, 
^'  amounting,  it  is  faid,  in  fome  years,  to  5000/. 
"  which  he  fpent  with  much  liberality;  particularly 
•*  in  the  maintenance  of  perhaps  a  fomewhat  too  lux- 

*  J,  K.  has  been  favoured  with  the  fight  of  an  amethyft 
fnnfF-box  fet  in  gold,  prcfented  to //f/V^^^cr  in  1731,  by  the 
diikc  of  Lorrain^  afterwards  ctnperor  oi  Grmany^  which  Hci- 
dcgger  very  highly  valued,  and  bcqueatlicd  to  his  cxecuror 
LtvAi  IP'ay^  cfq.  of  Richmond^  and  which  i$  now  (I/85)  m  ihe 
poiTcifioa  of  his  fon  Btnjamtn  ^"^'j  efq, 

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^^  vnom  table ;  fo  that  it  may  be  lajd,  be  raifed  an 
«<  iocomey  but  never  a  fortune.  His  fcribles,  how- 
^  ever,  if  they  dcfcrve  fo  harfh  a  name,  were  com- 
«  pletely  *  covered'  by  his  *  charity/  which  was 
^  b -undlefs  ♦. 

^*  That  he  was  a  good  judge  of  mufic,  appears 
^*  from  his  opera :  but  this  is  all  that  is  known  of 
f ^  his  mental  abilities  *f- ;   unlefs  we  add,  what  we 

«  have 

♦  After  a  fucce&ful  mafqucrflde,  lie  hat  been  known  to 
give  «way  itvcml  hundred  pounds  at  a  time.  **  You  know 
**  poor  objedf  of  diilrefs  better  than  1  do,"  be  would  fre- 
quently obierve  to  Mr.  f^a^y  *^  Be  fo  kind  as  to  give  away 
**  thii  iDOoey  lor  me/*  This  well-known  li'^crality.  perhaps, 
contributed  much  to  hw  carrying  oo  that  diver^on  with  fo 
little  oppolitioo  at  he  met  with. 

t  Fo^  (Dunctad,  1. 189.)  calls  the  bird  which  attended  on 
Chegoddeft 

**  »     •     ■  a  monfter  of  a  fowl, 
•*  Something  betwixt  a  Hridrgger  and  owl.'' 
and  explains  Heitie^er  to  mean  ^^  a  Grange  bird  from  Switzer^ 
**  land^  and  not  (as  fome  have  fuppofedj  the  name  of  an  emi> 
**  nenc  perfon,  hiio  was  a  man  of  parts,  and,  as  was  faid*of 
•*  Pftrutiius^  Arbiter  LlcgHnridrum/* 

1  he  author  ol  Jhe  tkaMdaiiz^tU  has  alio  put  the  following 
defcription  of  our  hero  into  the  mouth  of  Handel: 

**  'I'hou  perfection,  as  far  as  e*er  nature  could  run, 
•*  Of  the  ugly,  quoth  H — <^— /,  in  th*  uglied  baboon, 
**  Human  nature's,  and  even  thy  Maker's  difgrace, 
•*  So  trightful  thy  looks,  lo  grotcfquc  is  ihy  face  I 
••  With  a  hundred  deep  wrinkles  imprefs'd  on  thy  front, 
*^  Like  a  map  with  a  great  many  rivers  upon't ; 
'^  Thy  lafcivious  ridottos,  obiccne  mafquerades, 
**  llave  unmaidcd  whole  fcores  ev'ry  feafon  of  maids.** 
Fielding  alfo  has  introduced  him  in  the  Puppet -fliow,  with 
which  \\iti  Author* s  Farct  (aded  at  the  Ha^market  1729),  con- 
cludes, under  the  title  of  CoMMi  Ugfy, 

^  Nonfenfc. 


"  havfe  good  authority  for  fityiffg  in  lionotir  to  hii 
^*  memory,  that  he  walked  from  Charing^Crofs  to  7V»*- 
*^  pie^bar,  and  back  again ;  and  when  he  came  home, 
^*  wrote  down  every  fign  on  each  fide  the  Strands 

**  As  to  his  perfon,  though  he  was  tall  and  well 
*^  made,  it  was  not  very  pleafing,  from  an  unufual 
**  hardnefs  of  features  *•     But  he  was  the  firft  to 

•^  joke 

♦•  Nonftnfe.  Too  late,  O  mighty  Count,  you  came. 
•*  CMfitm      I  alk  not  for  inyfelf,  for  I  dildain 

•*  0*er  the  pl6ot  ragged  trib«  6f  bards  to  reigH. 
**  Me  did  nay  ftars  to  happier  fates  prefer, 
•♦  9ur-intendant  dcs  plaifirs  ^AngUteru* 
•^  If  maftquerades  you  have,  let  thofc  be  mine, 
"  But  on  the  Signor  let  the  laurel  fhine. 
*«  Tragedy.  What  is  thy  plea  ?     Haft  written  ? 
^*  Count*     No  nor  read. 

•*  But  if  from  duloefs  any  may  fucceedy 
^^  To  that  and  nonfenfe  1  good  title  plead, 
"  Nought  clfe  was  ever  in  my  mafquerade.*' 
*  In  a  Dedication  to  **  The  Mafqucrade,  a  Poem,  infcribea 
•*  to  Count  Heidegger^**  (which  is  the  produdion  of  Mr.  FleliU 
tMgy  though  foifted  into  the  works  of  Dr.  Arbuthnot^)  the  fa^ 
tctious  writer  fays,  **  1  cannot  help  congratulating  you  on 
*^  that  gift  of  Nature,  by  which  you  feem  fo  adapted  to  the 
^^  poft  you  enjoy.  I  mean  that  natural  mafque,  which  is  tod 
**  vifible  a  perfcAion  to  be  here  infiftcd  on — —and,  I  am 
**  fufe,  never  foils  6f  making  an  impreffion  on  the  mod  indif- 
•*  ferent  beholder.  Another  gift  of  Nature,  which  you  fecitt 
**  to  enjoy  in  no  ijnall  degree,  is  that  modeft  confidence  fup^ 
♦•  porting  yOu  in  every  aft  of  your  life.  Certainly,  a  great 
♦•  bletiing !  For  I  always  have  obftrvcd,  that  brafs  in  the 
**  forchegd  draws  gold  into  the  pocket.  As  for  what  man- 
*'  kind  palls  virtues,  I  (hall  not  compliment  you  on  them  : 
^*  fmce  you  are  fo  wills  as  to  keep  them  fccret  from  the  world^ 
>*  far  be  it  from  me  to  publilh  them ;  efpccially  fince  they  irre 
^*  thmgs  which  lie  out  of  the  way  of  your  calling.  Smile  theti 
^*  (i^  y^u  ^^n  fmilc)  on  my  endeavours^  and  this  little  poem, 

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**  joke  upon  hU  own  uglinefs ;  and  he  once  laid  a 
•*  wager  with  the  earl  of  Chejlcrfidd^  that,  within  a 
•*  certain  given  time,  his  lordlhip  would  not  be  able 
••  to  produce  fo  hideous  a  face  in  all  London.  After 
*'  ftrict  fearch,  a  woman  was  found,  whofc  features 
•*  were  at  firft  fight  thought  ftronger  than  Heidegger's ; 
**  but,  upon  clapping  her  head-drefs  upon  himfdf, 
^*  he  was  univcrlally  allof^vfed  to  have  won  the  wager. 
Jolly  J  a  well-known  taylor,  carrying  his  bill  to  a 
noble  duke,  his  grace,  for  cvafion  faid,  *  Damn 
yojur  ugly  face,  I  never  will  pay  you  till  you  bring 
me  an  uglier  fellow  than  yourfelf  !*  Jolly  bowed 
'*  and  retired,  wrote  a  letter,  and  fent  it  by  a  fcrvant 
•'  to  Heidegger ;  faying,  *  his  grace  wiihed  to  fee  him 
•*  the  next  morning  on  particular  bufinefs.'  ffc/- 
^^  ^^S^r  attended,  and  Jolly  was  there  to  meet  him  ; 
*^  and  in  confcquence,  as  foon  as  Heidegger'^s  wlCit  v/2iS 
*^  over,  Jolly  received  the  calh. 

"  The  late  facetious  duke  of  Afontagu  (the  mcmo- 
•*  rablc  author  of  the  bottle- conjuror  at  the  theatre 
*'  in  77?e  Haymarket)  gave  an  entertainment  at  T'he 
•*  Devil'tavirn,  Tewple-bar^  to  feveral  of  the  nobility 
**  and  gentry,  leledling  the  mod  convivial,  and  a 
*^  few  hard-drinkers,  who  were  all  in  the  plor. 
•*  Heidegger  was  invited,    and  in  a  few  hours  after 

••  with  candour for  which  the  author  defiret   no  more 

**  gratuity  than  a  ticket  for  your  next  ball."  There  is  a 
mezzotinto  cf  Heidegger  by  J,  Faber^  '74»>  (other  copies  dattd 
174.9)  from  a  pointing  by  f^anloo,  a  llriking  likenefs,  no^v 
(178^)  in  the  poifcflion  of  Peter  Crawford^  clq.  of  Cold  Bath 
Fields^ 

"  dinner 


C    157    3 

'^  dinner  was  made  fo   dead  drunk  that  he  wtt 
*^  carried  out  of  the  room,  and  laid  infenfible  upon 
**  a  bed.     A  profound  fleep  enfued ;  when  the  late 
**  Mrs.  Salmon^s  daughter  was  introduced,  who  took 
"  a  mould  from  his  face  in  plafte^  of  Paris.    From 
*^  this  a  maik  was  made,  and  a  few  days  before  the 
"  next  mafquerade  (at  which  the  king  promifed  to 
"  be  prefent,  with  the  countcfs  of  TarmouthJ^  the 
**  duke  made  application  to  Heidegger^s  valet   dc 
"  chambre,  to  know  what  fuit  of  cloaths  he  was 
"  likely  to  wear ;    and   then   procuring   a  fimilar 
"  drcfs,  and  a  perfon  of  the  fame  ftature,  he  gave 
^'  him  his  inftrudtions.      On   the  evening  of  the 
*'  mafquerade,    as  foon   as   his  majefty  was  fcated 
*'  (who  was  always  known  by  the  conductor  of  the 
**  entertainment  and  the  officers  of  the  court,  though 
**  concealed  by  his  drefs  from  the  company),  Hei^ 
degger^'  as  ufual,  ordered  the  mufic  to  play  *  God 
fave  the  King ;'  but  his  back  was  no  fooner  turned^ 
than  the  falfe  Heidegger  ordered  them  to  (Irikc  up 
^  Charly  over  the  Water.*      The  whole  company 
were  inllantly  thunderftruck,  and  all  the  courtiers, 
not  in  the  plot,  were  thrown  into  a  ftupid  confter- 
**  nation.     Heidegger  flew  to  the  mufic-gallery,  fwore, 
**  ftamped,    and    raved,  accufed   the  muficians   of 
*^  drunkennefs,  or  of   being  fet  on  by  fome  fecret 
^'  enemy  to  ruin  him.     The  king  and  the  countefs 
**  laughed  fo  immoderately,   that  they  hazarded  a 
*'  difcovery.     While  Heidegger  flayed  in  the  gallery, 
*'  *  God  lave  the  King'  was  the  tune ;   but  when, 

"  after 


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^  after  fetttng  matters  to  rights^  he  retired  to  on«  of 
''  the  dancing-rooms^  to  obferve  if  decorum  was 
-**  kept  by  the  company,  the  counterfeit  ftepping 
"  forward,  and  placing  himfclf  upon  the  floor  of  the 
•*  theatre,  juft  in  front  of  the  mufic-gallery,  called 
''  out  in  a  mod  audible  voice,  imitating  Heidegger^ 
**  damned  them  for  blockheads,  had  he  not  jufl: 
^^  told  them  to  play  *  Cbarly  over  the  Water.'  A 
'^  paufe  enfued ;  the  muficians,  who  knew  his  cha- 
'^  radtcr,  in  their  turn  thought  him  either  drunk  or 
''mad;  but,  as  he  continued  his  vociferation, 
"  *  Charly*  was  pkycd  again.  At  this  repetition  of 
'*  the  fuppofcd  affront,  fome  of  the  officers  of  the 
'^  guards,  who  always  attended  upon  thcfe  occafions, 
-**  were  for  afccnding  the  gallery,  and  kicking  the 
'^  muficians  out ;  but  the  late  duke  of  Cumberland, 
'^  who  could  hardly  contain  himfelf,  interpofcc!. 
'•  The  company  were  thrown  into  great  confufion. 
"  *  Shame  !  Shame !'  refoundcd  from  all  parts,  and 
'*  Heidegger  once  more  flew  in  a  violent  rage  to  that 
"  part  of  the  theatre  facing  the  gallery.  Here  the 
**  duke  of  Montagu^  artfully  addreffing  himfclf  to 
'^  him,  told  him,  '  the  king  was  in  a  violent  paffion  ; 
'*  that  his  beft  way  was  to  go  inftantly  and  make  an 
**  apology,  for  certainly  the  mufic  were  mad,  and 
"  afterwards  to  difcharge  them.'  Almoft  at  the 
**  fame  inftant,  he  ordered  the  falfe  Heidegger  to  do 
**  the  fame.  The  fcene  now  became  truly  comic  in 
**  the  circle  before  the  king.  Heidegger  had  no 
'*  iboner  made  a  genteel  apology  for  the  infolence  of 

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C    «59    } 

<»  his  muficians,  but  the  iklfe  Heidegger  advanced^ 
'*  and,  in  a  plaintive  tone^  cried  out»  ^  Indeed,  Sire, 
**  it  was  not  my  fault,  but  that  devil's  in  my  likecefs/ 
**  Poor  Heidegger  turned  round,  flared^  ftaggered^ 
'<  grew  pale,  and  could  not  utter  a  word.  Thp  duke 
'^  then  humanely  whifpered  in  his  ear  the  fum  of  his 
plot,  and  the  counterfeit  was  ordered  to  take  off 
his  mafl:.  Here  ended  the  frolick ;  but  Heidegger 
*'  fwore  he  would  never  attend  any  public  amufe* 
^*  ment,  if  that  witch  the  wax- work  woman  did  not 
'^  break  the  mould,  and  melt  down  the  maik  before 
**  his  face  •.  ^ 

'*  Being  once  at  fopper  with  a  large  company^ 
<^  when  a  queftion  was  debated,  which  nationalift  of 
**  Europe  had  the  greateft  ingenuity ;  to  the  furprifc 
^*  of  all  prefent,  he  claimed  that  cbarader  for  the 
^^  Swi/Sf  and  appealed  to  himfelf  for  the  truth  of  it. 

♦  To  this  occurrence  the  following  imperfeft  fbnzas, 
tninfcribed  from  the  hand-writing  of  Pope^  are  fuppofed  to 
relate.  Thej^  were  found  on  the  back  of  a  page  containing 
focne  part  of  his  tranflation,  either  of  the  **  Utad'*  or 
•*  Odyffey,"  in  the  Britijb  Mujeum. 

XII  r. 

Then  he  went  to  the  (ide-board,  and  call'd  for  much  liquor^ 
And  glafs  after  glafs  he  drank  quicker  and  quicker;. 

So  that  Heidegger  quoth. 

Nay,  faith  on  his  oath. 
Of  two  hogQieads  of  Burgundy,  Satan  drank  both,  j 

Then  all  Hkc  a       ■     the  Devil  appeared, 
And  Arait  the  whole  tables  of  diftief  he  clearM  ; 

Then  a  friar,  then  a  nun. 

And  then  he  put  on 
A  face  all  the  company  took  for  hit  owr» 
Even  thine,  O  falfe  He'idtggcr  !  who  were  fo  wicked 
To  let  in  the  Devil 


C   '60  ] 

w  « I  was  born  a  Sivifi^*  faid  he,  *  and  came  to  Eng^ 
*^  Ai;?^  without  a  farthing,  where  I  have  found  means 
^'  to  gain  5000  /.  a  year,  and  to  fpend  it.  Now  I 
*'  defy  the  moft  able  EngUjhman  to  go  to  Switzerland^ 
*'  and  cither  to  gain  that  income,  or  to  fpend  it  there/ 
'^  He  died  Sept.  4,  1749*  ^^  ^^^  advanced  age  of  90 
**  years,  at  his  houfc  at  Richmond  in  Surrey^  where  he 
"  was  buried.  He  left  behind  him  .one  natural 
"  daughter,  Mifs  Pappet^  who  was  married  Sept.  2, 
*^  lyS^j  to  Captain  (afterwards  Sir  Peter  J  Denis  *. 
**  Part  of  this"  lady's  fortune  was  a  houfe  at  the  north 
**  weft  corner  of  Siucen-Jjuarc^  Ormond-fireet^  which 
**  Sir  Peter  afterwards  fold  to  the  late  Dr.  Campbell^ 
*'  and  purchafcd  a  feat  in  Kmt^  pleafantly  fituated 
**  near  IVeJIram,  then  called  Valence^  but  now  (by  its 
*'  prcfcnt  proprietor,  the  earl  of  Hilljhorough)  HiU 
•*  Park:' 

3.  "  Frontirpicce  to  a  Collcdtionof  Songs,  with  the 
Mufic  by  Mr.  LezeridgCy  in  two  vols.  8vo.  LondoUy 
engraved  and  printed  for  the  author,  in  T'dviflock^ 
Jirect^  Ccvent 'Garden^  ^7^7-  This  dcfign  confills  of 
a  Bacchus  and  a  Vckus  in  the  Clouds,  and  a  figure 
with  niufical  inftrumcnts,  &c.  on  the  earth,  foliciting 
ihcir  attcnrion,  See.  The  ornaments  round  the  eii- 
gvavcd  title-page  fcciii  likcwile  to  be  Hogarth^s. 

17:8. 

1.  Head  of  liefsody  from  the  buft  at  mitcn.  The 
fronrifpicco  to  Cook's  tranflation  ot  Hcftody  in  2  vols. 
4to.  printed  by  iV.  Blandford  for  T.  Green. 

*  Who  died  June  12,  1778,  being  then  vice  •admiral  of  the 
red.     Sec  M.ii.oirsot  him  in  Gent,  M..^.  1780,  p.  268. 

2.  Rich's 


[    i6i    3 

4.  lUtb^s  Glory,  or  his  Triumphant  Entry  into 
C&veni  Garden.    IV.  H.  I.  P.  SULF.     ?r}ke  Sixpence. 

The  date  of  the  print  befote  us  has  been  con- 
jectured from  its  reference  to  the  Bc^ar*f  Opera, 
and  Per/tus  and  jindromeda^y  both  of  which  were 
adted  in  the  ye^r  already  mentioned. 

This  plate  reprefents  the  removal  of  Rich  and 
his  fcenery,  .authors,  adors^  &c.  {xotti  Lincoln" s^lnn 
Fields  to  the  JVirw  Houfe ;  and  might  therefore  be 
as  probably  referred  to  the  year  1733,  when  that 
event  happened*  The  fcene  is  the  area  of  Covent 
Garden,  acrofs  which,  leading  toward  the  door  of  the 
Theatre,  is  a  long  proceflion,  conflfting  of  a  cart 
loaded  with  thunder  and  lightning ;  performers,  &c* 
and  at  the  head  of  them  Mr.  Rich  (invefted  with  the 
ikin  of  the  famous  dog  in  Perfeus  and  Andromeda) 
tiding  with  his  miftrcfs  in  a  chariot  driven  by  Har* 
tequin,  and  drawn  by  Sat)'rs.  But  let  the  verfes  at 
bottom  explain  our  artifl's  meaning : 

Not  with  more  glory  through  the  ftreets  of  Rome, 
Return'd  great  conquerors  in  triumph  home. 
Than,  proudly  drawn  with  Beauty  by  his  fide, 

We  fee  gay  R j-  in  gilded  chariot  ride. 

He  comes,  attended  by  a  numVous  throng. 
Who,  with  loud  ihouts,  huzza  the  Chief  along. 

*  The  Perffus  and  Andromedn^  for  which  Hogarth  engraved 
the  plates  mentioned  in  p.  170,  was  not  publiflied  till  1730  ; 
bi:t  there  was  ode  under  the  fame  title  at  Drury-Lane  in  i7iS. 
As  both  hoiifes  took  each  other's  plans  at  that  time,  perhaps 
the  hincolns^lnn  FielJi  Ftr/tus  might  have  been  adcd  before  it 
was  printed, 

t  Rich. 

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r  '6*  ] 

behold  two  bards,  obfcquious,  at  his  wheels^ 
Confefs  the  joy  each  rapturM  bofom  feels  ; 
Confcious  that  wit  by  him  will  be  received, 
And  on  his  ftngc  true  humour  be  retriev'd, 
"So/en/tifle  and  f^rctty  play  will  fall  ^ 
Condemn^  by  him  as  not  theatrical. 
The  players  follo-.v,  as  they  here  are  nam'd, 
DrefsM  in  each  charadcr  for  which  thev'rc  fam*J. 
^in  th'  Old  Dacb^loitr^  a  Ucro  Ryan  ihows, 
V\^\iO  flares  and  ll  ilks  Tr»a;cftTck  as  he  goes* 
Wuiker  'f^,  in  his  lov'd  chanitlcr  we  fee 
A  Trince,  rho'  once  a  fifhcrman  was  he, 
And  Maffdnch  nam'd  ;  in  this  he  pridis, 
Tho'  fam*d  for  many  other  parts  bdi.ics. 
Then  HiiUX^  ^^ho  ttUs  the  bubbled  countrymen 
'I  hat  Carclus  is  Larin  tor  J^ecn  Anne. 

m 

•  '^o  j'cttfihh  and  f''^fy  pl\v,  &c.]  This  rcfi  rs  to  CMer*i  de» 
cifion  on  the  rr.criis  «:t  I^mm*  pic- c  •»ffL-refl  for  rtpiclcnration, 
HT'd,  we  ii..iy  f;jpj)r»l"c,  rcjcflod.  In  ».  ropy  nf  verics  adcirefU-d 
to  i?/€^-  en  rhc  l:niliim«;  ot  Ciyvrnt  Cttva*H  riicr»:rc,  are  the  J»jI- 
l«.Air'f»  lii.'jr,  '.;:!i^•Il  iceni  to  aliudc  to  the  lejc^iyii  already 
iucn:i>.iKd : 

*•  Potts  no  !  ■p::t  f:.*!*  fi'-in    rlirir  jt*i\B 
**  To  iLurr.^ii  (..■;•■.'•■•".'  j^iMcil  ■.'.  irhvTuI  hii-s  ; 
•*  'IV  \.,:\\  ■\  j  :i'i^«:  ih^-  1  :i".i.r"d  Icliic  jifctnt, 
**  Vhurr-  /.*♦.•:'       .IT..!  iv/'v  u-  -n't  <.iiit:iM  : 
**  iMil  10  lirv  liic.irrc  v.iih  pic  li'ifL  bcir 
**  T:.'.*  t.  ■:   L  I. ".■•til id'  s::d  il.v.'  ii.;i-ic  icr." 
•*   Ti:'  o":  :»i:  .'/.'*'•./;:.      W-  jictt,  ho'.cvcr,  to  peifornr 
t!  c  h^i'  ;r.  I    i-i. ..'   il»  <**.^.;-w* -.     i  r{*;n  wvA-:  lines  it  appears 
ti..:t  Ji*. -V.*  .1  :  •.    ■  :^"5    :   ;.-.i.i.;i:<.   p.irt  v.  i:-j   i.j.n.     Fn»m  C^rr- 
.*:'.vf*/'j  liJi  '  ly  li  :!.  •  .  :..tL',   p    :^t.    I    Ic.;:i:  •iiai   //tf/ivr  h::d 
lip.TiCU*!  ii'C  t.. i»  I  .:  -  ^  ;  y  .. -^  ;'    ?J'.r-"j':if:-  ipLo  unc  piece, 
V  ;:i   ••.  w..:  aT  .'1  ■.::.!  :^-:-:     .  /.•  .     .  .-i    ■   /.c-..<. 

1    "J":.i:  «•:  li".i   il  /,■      •'.   '•■ .»     ■■    ♦*  ...:-.  .^.l^l'i  iicd  I.  '  li»s  r>cr- 


•  i  ■  ■  • 


ft>^44ij.««»**      "     *      ^^^ 


I  ^Lii'jiirii  A  .V. 


;,  Di*f 


Dicl  ever  mortal  know  (b  ct^an  a  bite  > 
Who  elfe,  like  him,  Can  Copy  Serjeant  Kite  I 
To  the  Piazza  let  us  turn  our  eyes, 
Sec  Johnny  Gay  on  porters  iho'ulders  rifci 
\Vhi!(t  a  bright  Man  of  Ta(t  his  woYks.dcfpifc 
Another  author  wheels  his  works  with  care, 
.  •  In  ho[>.es  to  get  a  market  at  this  fair ; 
For  fuch  a  day  he  fees  ncJt  cv'ry  year. 

By  the  Mnn  of  Tajic,  Mr.  Pope  wasf  apparently 
dcfigncd.  He  is  feprelentcd,  in  his  tyc-wig,  at  one 
Corner  of  the  Piazza^  wiping  his  poftefiofs  with  the 
Beggar^s  Operai  The  letter  P  is  over  his  head.  His 
little  fword  is  figniffcantly  placed,  and  the  peculia- 
rity of  his  figure  well  preferved. 
•  The  reafon  why  our  artift  has  affigned  fuch  an 
tmplcJyment  to  him,  we  can  only  guefs.  It  fcems,* 
Indeed,  from  Dr.  Johnjons  Life  of  Gay^  that  Pope  did 
ftot  think  the  Beggar* s  Opera  would  fucceed.  Szvifii 
however^  was  of  the  fame  opinion  ;  and  yet  the 
former  fupported  the  piece  oh  the  firfl.  night  of  ex- 
hibition, and  the  latter  defended  it  in  his  Inielligemer 
Ggainft  the  attacks  of  Dr*  Heiring  -j-,  then  preacher  to 
the  Society  of  Lincoln' s-Inn^  afterwards  archbiftiop 
of  Cantcrburyi  Hogarth  might  be  wanton  in  his  fa- 
tire  ;    might  have  founded   it   on  idle  report  •,    or 

*"  The  grammaf  and  fpeliing  of   this  line  are   trul/  Ho* 
^arthian. 

^  t  **  A  noted  preacher  near  L/V7tW/*'i-/^/f 'pla>houfe  has 
**  taken  notice  of  x\iK,  Beggar* s  Opera  in  the  pulpit,  and  in- 
'*  vcighed  againil  ic  as  a  tiling  of  very  evil  tenJcacv/'  Mi/Vs 
tyiekiy  Jouraal^  March  30,  1720. 

M  2  might 


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might  have  facrificed  truth  to  the  prejudices  of  Sif 
Jamei  Tb^nhill^  whofe  quarrel^  on  another  occafion, 
he  b  fuppofed  to  have  taken  up,  when  he  ridiculed 
The  Tranjlator  of  H^mer  in  a  view  of  "  The  Gate 
•*  of  BurUngton-bmifeJ* 

There  are  beGdcs  (bme  allufions  in  the  verfes  al« 
ready  quoted  ^  as  well  as  in  the  piece  they  refer  to, 
which  I  confefs  my  inability  to  illuflrate.  Thofe 
who  are  bcft  acquainted  with  the  theatric  and  poeti* 
cal  biflory  of  the  years  1728,  &c.  would  prove  the 
moft  fuccefsfiil  commentators  on  the  prefent  occa- 
iion ;  but  not  many  can  p jfiibly  be  now  alive  who 
were  at  that  period  competent  judges  of  fuch 
matters. 

This  prints  however,  was  not  only  unpublifhcd, 
but  in  feveral  places  is  uniiniihed.  It  was  probably 
fupprefled  by  the  influence  of  fomc  of  the  charadters 
reprefcnted  in  it.  The  ftyle  of  compoiition,  and 
manner  of  engraving,  &c.  Sec.  would  have  fufiicicntly 
proved  it  to  be  the  work  of  Hogartby  it*  the  initials 
ot  his  name  had  been  wanting  at  the  bottom  of  the 
plate. 

3.  The  Beggar's  Opera.  The  title  over  it  is  in 
capitals  uncommonly  large. 

Brit  tons  attend — view  this  harmonious  ftnge, 
And  lirten  to  thole  notes  which  charm  the  age. 
Thus  (hall  your  taftes  m  founds  ^wAfcnfe  be  Ihown, 
And  Beggar^ J  Op*ms  ever  be  your  own. 

Xo  pointer  or  engraver's  name.     The  plate  fcems 

at 


C   165  ] 

At  once  to  reprefent  the  exhibition  of  The  Beggar^s 
Opera,  and  the  rehearfai  of  an  Italian  one.  In  the 
forvier,  all  the  charadters  are  drawn  with  the' heads 
of  different  animals ;  as  Polfyy  with  a  Cat's ;  Lucyf 
with  a  Sow's;  Macheaibj  with  an  Afs's;  Lockii^  and 
Mr*  and  Mrs.  Peachufjiy  with  thofe  of  an  Ox,  a  Dog, 
and  an  Owl.  In  the  latter ^  feveral  noblemen  appear 
i;ondu£ting  the  chief  female  finger  forward  on  the 
flagCy  and  perhaps  are  offering  her  money,  or  pro- 
tection from  a  figure  that  is  rufhing  towards  her  with 
a  drawn  fword.  Harmony,  flying  in  the  air,  turns 
her  back  on  the  Englijh  playhoufe,  and  haftens  to^ 
ward  the  rival  theatre.  Muiicians  (land  in  front  of 
ihe  former,  playing  on  the  Jew's-harp,  the  falt-box, 
the  bladder  and  ffring,  bagpipes,  &c.  On  one  fide 
are  people  of  diftindtion,  fome  of  whom  kneel  as  if 
making  an  offer  to  Pollys  or  paying  their  adorations  to 
her.  To  thefe  are  oppofed  a  butcher,  &c.  exprefiing 
fimilar  applaufe.  Apollo^  and  one  of  the  Mufes,  are 
faff  afleep  beneath  the  (lage,  A  man  is  eafing  nature 
under  a  wall  hung  with  ballads,  and  ihewing  his 
contempt  of  fuch  compofitions,  by  the  ufe  he  makes 
of  one  of  them,  A  fign  of  the  ftar,  a  gibbet,  and 
fome  other  circumftances  lefs  intelligible,  appear  in 
tne  back  ground. 

4.  The  fame.  The  lines  under  it  are  engraved 
in  a  different  manner  from  thofe  on  the  preceding 
plate.  Sold  at  the  Print-Sbop  in  The  Strand^  near 
Cat bcrint  Streets 

M  3  5t  A 


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5.  A  copy  of  the  fame,  under  the  following  title. 

The  Opera  Houfe,  or  the  Italian  Eunuch-s  Glory. 
Humbly  infcribed  to  thofc  Generous  EncQuragcrs  of 
Foreigners,  and  Ruiners  of  England. 

From  France  J  from  Ronie  we  come. 
To  help  Old  England  to  to  b'  undone. 

Under  the  divifion  of  the*prinr  that  rcprefcnts  the 
JtalianOperaj  the  words  — Stage  Mutinj- — are  pcrhap? 
improperly  added. 

On  the  two  fides  of  this  print  arc  fcrolls,  conrain^ 
ing  a  lift  of  the  prcfents'  made  to  Funnelli.  The 
words  are  copied  from  the  fame  enumeration  in  the 
fecond  plate  of  ihe  Rake's  Progrefs  *. 

■  ■    •     ■  •     ■ 

At  the  bottom  are  the  following  lines  : 

Britiains  artend — view  this  harmonious,  ftage. 
And  lillen  to  thofe  nores  which  charm  the  ag(4 
How  fwcet  I  he  found  where  cats  and  bear 5 
W  ith  brurifh  noife  ofTcnd  pur  cars  ! 
Juil  fo  the  foreign  fingers  move 
Kather  contempt  than  gain  our  love. 
Were  K;ch  difcourag'd,  we  Ihould  find 
Mufick  at  home  to  charm  the  mind  ! 

*  The  follov  ip.^  paragraph  nppcnred  in  the  C.^uh-I^^'fn 
ycu^nal  for  ylpr  I  ;c,  I7;^  ;  and  ro  r!i»s  perhaps  Hoya^'b  .il- 
Judc^  in  jI.c  l.K  *:r  d.n.TTiuns  iltcady  iiu-n'ii.n' d  :  *'  H15  Roy^l 
••  Hii;■lnc1^  rlu*  I';  inco  harli  !>«:cn  pealed  to  iri'^kc  a  prvferr  of 
•*  a  fine  wrou^h*  gold  fnnff-S'^x,  richly  fet  wlrh  biilii^^nrs  and 
•'  mSies,  in  uhich  was  incU>icd  a  pair  ot  brrli.iut  diainni'id 
f*  knee  hiivklc-.  n^  nlO*  \  puifc  of  100  guineas,  to  the  fa:in.>us 

Our 


C    »^7   3 

Our  horaefpun  authors  mufi:  forfake  the  field. 
And  Sbakejpear  to  the  kalian  Eunucks  yield  *. 

Perhaps  the  original  print  was  tbQ  Work  of  Gra^* 
veloty  Vand^r^ucbty  or  fome  j>erfon  unknown  -{-.  The 
idea  of  it  is  borrowed  from  a  French  book,  called 
Les  Chats  J  printed  at  Amjlcrdaht  in  1728.  In  this 
work,  facing  p.  117,  is  reprcfented  an  opera  per- 
formed by  cats,  fuperbly  habited.  The  defign  is  by 
Coypeii  the  engraving  by  T.  Otten.  At  the  end  of  • 
^hc  rreatirc,  the  opera  itfelf  is  publiflitd.  It  is  im- 
probable that  Hbgarth  fhould  have  met  with  this^^w 
d'e/pri/ ;  and,  if  he  did,  he  could  not  have  read  the 
explanation  to  it. 

1729. 

I.    King  Henry    the    Eighth,     and  Anna  Bullen. 

**  Very  indfferem.**     This  plare  has  very  idly  been 

imagined  to  contain  the  poi  traits  of  Frederick  Prince 

of  Wales  and  Mifs  Vane  %  ;  but  the  ftature  and  faces, 

both 

*  Thcfe  two  Inft  lines  make  pirt  of  AtUlifrn^i  Prologue  to 
Ph^dra  and  Hippolyfus^  rending  only  *'  the  I'oh  iicarlattiy  in- 
ilcad  of  It  alt  an  EunncLs, 

+  At  the  hack  of  an  old  iuiprcirion  of  it,  in  the  collection  of 
the  late  lAv.  Rogerf,  1  u»cct  with  the  name  of  Kchcrlany  but  am 
unacquainted  with  any  fuih  dcligucr  or  engraver; — I  have 
lincc  been  told  he  can^c  over  to  K.j^/anl  to  diipole  of  a  num- 
ber of  foreign  prints,  and  uas  hiM;lc!f  no  me.tn  caricaturiil. 
Having  drawn  an  ai  gravared  likcntfs  of  nn  EngUlh  nobleman, 
vihoic  figure  was  peculiarly  unhappy,  tic  was  forced  to  tty  in 
confequence  of  a  rcleniment  which  threatened  little  ftiort  of 
ad'alfination. 

I  To  the  fate  of  th  s  lady  Dr.  John/on  has  a  beautiful  allu- 
fion  in  his  Vanity  of  Human  IVtJhes: 

M  4        .  *'  Yet 


both  of  the  lady  and  Percy^  are  totalljr  unlike  theli' 
fuppofed  originals.  Underneath  are  the  following 
verfes  by  Allan  Ram/ay : 

Here  ftruis  old  pious  Harry ^  once  the  great 
Jlcfprmcr  of  the  Englijb  church  and  ftate :  * 
'Twas  thus  he  flood,  when  Anna  BulUn^s  charms 
^llur'd  the  amorous  monarch  to  her  arms; 
With  his  right  hand  he  leads  her  as  his  own. 
To  place  this  matchlefe  beauty  on  his  throne ; 
Whilft  Kafe  and  Piercy  mourn  their  wretched  fatCi 
And  view  the  royal  pair  with  equal  hate, 
Kcfle<fting  on  the  pomp  of  glittering  crowns. 
And  arbitrary  power  that  knows  no  bounds. 
V^\i\\{iWolfey^  leaning  on  his  throne  of  ftate. 
Through  this. unhappy  change  forcfces  his  fate. 
Contemplates  wifely  upon  worldly  things. 
The  cheat  of  grandeur,  and  the  faith  of  kings. 

"Mr.  Charlton^  of  Canterbury^  has  a  copy  of  this 
print,  with  the  following  title  and  verfes :  "  King 
^*  Ucnry  VIll.  bringing  to  court  Anne  Bu/len,  who 
**  was  afterwards  his  royal  CQnfqrt/'  Hogarth  dejign. 
^  Jculp. 

*'  Yet  Vanf  could  tell  vrhat  ills  from  beauty  fpring, 
•*  And  Sedliy  curs*d  the  form  \\i2X  pUni^ d  a  king,** 

Pcrhiips  the  thought,  that  fuggcftcd  this  couplet,  is  found  i;^ 
lj9vtli?tg*s  Poems,  a  work  already  quoted  : 

I  I    '■  ncc  G^iKynnam  vale  bat 
Angliaco  placutjft  rr^i\ 

Mcrfa  eft  acerbo  funcrc  fangulnis 
f^tftiella  cUri :  ncc  grave  fpiculum 
Averterct  fati  yiachaon^ 
Ncc  madido  Frcdtricui  ore. 

Sec 


C   i«9  3 

Sec  here  the  great,  the  daring  Harry  ftandt. 
Peace,  Plenty,  Freedom,  Ihining  in  his  face. 

With  lovely  Anna  Bullen  joining  hands, 
Her  looks  befpeaking  ev'ry  heavenly  grace* 

See  Wolfey  frowning,  difcontent  and  four, 
Feeling  the  fuperftitious  ^nr^vrf  ihake : 

While  Henry's  driving  off  the  Roman  whore. 
For  Britain^ s  weal,  and  his  Lutberian^s  fake, 

Like  Britain's  Genius  our  brave  King  appears, 
Pefpjfing  Prieftcraft,  Avarice,  and  pride  i 

Nor  the  loud  roar  of  BabeFs  bulls  he  fears. 
The  DagQU  faljs  before  his  beauteous  bride. 

Like  England's  Church,  all  fweetnefs  and  refignM, 
The  comely  queen  her  lord  with  calmnefs  eyes| 

/Vs  if  Ihe  faid.  If  goodnefs  guard  your  mind. 
You  ghoflly  tricks  and  trump Vy  may  defpifc. 

2,  The  fame  plate  without  any  verfes,  but  with  an 
infcription  added  in  their  room«  Ramfay  feems  to 
have  been  particularly  attached  to  Hogarth.  He 
fubfcribed,  as  I  have  already  obferved,  for  thirty 
copies  of  the  large  Hudibras. 

The  original  pidlure  was  at  Vauxball,  in  the  por- 
tico of  the  old  great  room  on  the  right-hand  of  the 
entry  into  the  garden.    Sec  p.  29. 

3.  Frontifpiecc  to  the  '*  Humours  of  Oxford,*'  a 
comedy  by  Jfames  Miller  |  a^ed  at  Drury^Lane,  and 
publilhed  in  8vo,  1729  *•     Pr.  Hogarth  inv.  G.  Van^ 

*  It  met  with  but  moderate  fuccefs  in  the  theatre ;  but  dretr 
on  Mr.  Mtlle^  the  refentment  of  fomc  of  the  heads  of  the 
^Ucgcs'mOx/or^fWho  looked  on  themfclves  as  {atirized  in  it, 

dergucbt 


C   no  3 

ierprbt  jc.  The  yjce-clianccllor,  attended  by  his 
bcadic,  lur[>rI::ing:^syo  Fellows  of 'a  College,  one 
ol  ilum  much  iaroxric^cdy  at  a  ta^vcr.i. 

.,    .    17:0. 

1.  Terfuy  and  \fe*ufii  dead,  and  Pegi:fiis»  Fron- 
tifpiccc  ro  Pennn  and  A/.r}yomeda.     IV.  ft*  fee. 

2.  Anorlivi"  jirifxt  to  rhc  laoic  piece,  of  To  feus 
cicfcrr}* -IcLC.     ?^'r-  ^Va^rol:  mentions  ornv  or.c. 

5.  A  half-ilirvcd  boy.  (The  fame  as  is  reprc. 
f:r.-:ed  i?)- th^-  pfJnt"  of /liV;;//?^.^  W.H.pmx.  F* 
S^^csfr.  SyhfS  WftS  a  pupil  of  TkornhiU  or  Hzgarib. 
Tbisprint  bciirs  ihe  date  of  1730  ;  but  I  fufpect  the 
o^aS  dcfigncH  for  2ri  8,  and  that  the  upper  part  of  it  is 
wanting,  been ufe  the  aqua  fortis  failed;  or,  that  the 
pnpil  copied  the  figure  from  a  fkctch  of  his  mailer, 
fvhich  at  th..t  time  was  ui^nppropriated.  No  one  will 
cafily  fufpcft  Hogarth  of  fuch  plagiarifm  as  he  might 
joftly  be  charged  with,  could  he  afterwards  have 
adopted  this  complete  dcfign  as  his  own  ;  neither  is 
it  probable  tliat  any  youth  could  have  produced  a 
figure  fo  charaOcriQic  as  this ;  or,  if  he  could,  that 
he  ihould  have  publifhed  it  without  any  co^.comitant 
circumftaiices  to  explain  its  meaning.  The  above 
title,  which  fomc-  collector  has  bellowed  on  this 
etching,  is  not  of  a  difcriminativc  kind.  Who  can 
tell  from  it  whether  he  is  to  look  for  a  boy  emaciated 
by  hun;rcr,  or  fiiivcring  v\ith  cold  ?  It  is  mentioned 
here,  o:^.!y  that  it  may  be  reprobated.  If  every 
youn;.»;  j)r.idicioner's  !ii:itation  of  a  fingle  figure  by 
Ibgo.ril  were  ro  be  admitted  among  lis  works,  they 
wouaI  r.'jvcr  be  complete. 

4.  Gulliver 


4«  Gulliver  prefented  to  the  Queen  of  Babila  y. 
W^  Ha^arth  tnv*  Ger.  Vandergucht  fc.      •*  //  is  the 

^^  frontifpiece  to  the  Traz^els  of  Mr.  John  Gulliver," 
fon  of  Capt.  Lemuel  Gulliver,  a  tranflation  from  the 
French  by, Mr*  Loekman.  T  here  is  as  much  merit  in 
this  print.  ?s  in  the  work  to  which  it  belongs. 

!•  Two  frontifpieces  to  a  tranflation  of  two  of 
Moliere^s  Iplays,  viz.  L'Avare  *  and  Le  Cocu  imaf^i- 
tiaire.  Thefe,  are  part  of  a  fclc(ft  coUeftioa  of  Alo- 
Here's  Comedies  in  French  and  Englijb.  They  were 
advertifed  in  7he  Gruh^ftreet  Journal^  with  dcfigns.by 
*'  Monfieur  Coy  pel ^  Nlr.  Hogarth^  Mr.  Dandridge^ 
•*  "Mt.  Hamilton,*'  &c.  in  eight  pocket  Volumes. 

2.  Frontifpiece  to  *.*  The  Tragedy  of  Tragedies, 
"  or  the  Life  and  Death  of  Tom  Thumh^*  in  three 
adts-f;  by  Henry  Fielding.  W.  Hogarth  inv.Ger. 
Yandergiicht  fc.    **.  There  is  feme  humour  in  this  print  *^ 

3.  Frontifpiece  to  the  Opera  of  T'be  Highland  Fair^ 
or  the  Union  of  the  Clans,  by  Jofcph  Mitchell.  VV. 
fJcgarth  inv.  Ger  Vandergucht  frulp. 

"  Forfan  ct  haec  olim  meminiflc  juvabit."  Virg. 

The  date  of  this  piece  is  confirmed  by  the  follow- 
ing paragraph  in  The  Grub  jlreet  Journal,  March  4^ 
1731  :  '*  We  hear  from  the  Theatre-Royal  in  Drury- 
**  lane,  that  there  is  now  in  rehcarfal,  and  to  be  pcr- 
*'  formed  on  Tuefday^  March  16,  a  new  ^cots  Opcva, 

*  Of  this  one,  Mr.  .S  h  eland  has  the  origin  \1  draw  in;;, 
f  This  piece  had  before  made  iiS  ap^)cn:  aiiCv  in  1730  in  one 
a£l  only. 

"  called 


[       172      ] 

^  called  Tic  Highland  Fair^  «r  Union  rf-  the  Cldns^ 
•*  &c."  The  fubjeft  being  too  local  for  the  EngUJh 
ttaigCj  it  met  with  little  or  no  fuccefs. 

1732- 
l.  Sarah  Makalm  *,  executed  March  7, 1732,  for 

murdering 

*   On  Sunday  morning,  the  4th  of  FelrMary^   Mn.  L^dia 
J)wncomhf^  aged  80,  EVzahftb  Harrifon^  her  companion ,  aged 
Ao«  were  found  llrangled,  zndAnn  Pricc^  her  maid,  aged  17, 
vrith  her  throat  exit,  in  their  beds,  at  the  faid  Mrs*  Duncomhc^s 
apiartniients  in  TaufeU-CoMtt  in  The  Temple^     Sarah  Malcolm^  a 
chare -womnn,  was  apprehended  the  fame  evening  on  the  infor- 
mation of  Mr.  KcrroU  who  had  chambers  on  the  fame  flair- 
enie,  and  had  found  fome  bloody  linen  under  his  bed,  and  a 
fiver  tankard  in  his  clofe-dool,  which  (he  had  hid  there.     She 
made  a  pretended  confeiTion,    and  gave  information  againfl 
^b§mas  AUxando'^  Jamn  Alexander^  and  Mary  Tracty^  that  they 
committed  the  murder  and  robber}*,  and  die  only  flood  on  the 
Ibirs  at  a  watch  ;    that  thfv  took  away  three  hundred  pounds 
and  fome  valuable  goods,  of  which  (be  had  not  more  than  her 
ihare  ;  but  the  coroner's  inqueft  gave  their  verdift  HV/nlMur* 
/^  againft  (t^/r^/Mr  only.-*-On  the  23d  her  trial  came  on  at 
7hf  Old  Bailry :  when  it  appeared  that  Mrs.  Buneomhe  had  but 
^4  /.  in  her  box,  and  53  /.  1 1  j.  6  ^.  of  it  were  fourd  u|K)n  MaU 
colm  betwixt  her  cap  and  hair.     She  owned  her  being  con- 
cerned in  the  robbery,  but  denied  (he  knew  any  thing  oi  the 
murder  till  (lie  went  in  with  other  company  to  fee  the  dc- 
ceafed.     The  jury  found  her  guilty  of  both.     She  was  irrongly 
fufpcc^cd  to  have  been  concerned  in  the  mr.rder  of  Mr.  Ncjbit 
jn  1/^9,   near  Drury  Ukc,   tor  which  one  KcUy,  alias   Chven^ 
was  hanged ;     the  grounds   for    his  conviction  being  only  a 
Moody  razor  found  under  the  munlcred  man's  head  that  was 
known  to  be  his.     Hut  he  denied  to  the  laft  his  being  concerned 
in  the  murder  ;    and  laid,  in  his  defence,  he  lent  the  razor  to 
a  woman  he  did  not  know. — On  U'ednfjtfay^  Manh  7,  (lie  was 
executed  on   a  gibbet  oppofite  Mifre-ccrtrt^  Flcet-Jittct^  where 
flic  crowd  was  fo  great,  that  a  Mrs.  Sfrangivays^  who  lived  in 
J^.i'fi'firtet^  near  ^cr'Ctini^^'LtK^    crolTcd    the   llrccf,    from  her 
gwp  hoi^l'w  to  Mrs»  Ci.kl:iurft\  on  ihc  oppotite  dde  of  the  way, 

i^Yc;* 


t:  m  1 

i^urderingMrs.Ljri/j  Dunconibe  her  miOixtCs^Elizabeih 
Harrtfon^  and  Anne  Price ;  drawn  in  Newgate.  W. 
Hogarth  (ad  vivum)  pinxit  ii  fculpfit  *.  Some  copies 
are  dated  1733,  and  have  only  Hogarth  finx.  She 
was  about  twenty-five  years  of  agef.  «*  This  woman 
*'  put  on  red  to  fit  to  him  for  her  pi&ure  two  days  before  ' 
"  her  execution  J."  Mr.  Walpole  paid  Hogarth  five 
guineas  for  the  original.  Profeflbr  Martyn  difle^bcd 
this  notorious  murderefs^  and  afterwards  prefented 

over  the  heads  and  (boulders  of  the  mob.  She  went  to  exc* 
cution  neatly  drelTed  in  a  crape  mouroing  go^f  n,  holding  up 
her  head  in  the  cart  with  an  air,  and  looking  as  if  flic  was 
painted,  which  fomc  did  not  fcruple  to  affirm.  Her  corpfe 
was  carried  to  an  undertaker's  upon  Sno^M-hllly  where  multi« 
tudes  of  people  reforted,  and  gave  money  to  (ec  it ;  among 
the  reft  a  gentleman  in  deep  mourning,  who  kilTed  her,  and 
gave  the  people  half  a  crown.  She  was  attended  by  the  Rev. 
Ur.  Fedlngton^  lecturer  of  ^/.  Bartholomew  the  Great,  leenoed 
penitent,  and  defired  to  fee  her  mailer  Kerroli  but,  as  (lie  did 
not,  protefted  all  acculatioos  againd  him  were  falle.  During 
her  imprifonment  flie  received  a  letter  from  her  father  at 
Dublin^  who  was  in  too  bad  circum (lances  to  fend  her  fuch  a 
fum  as  17/.  which  flie  pretended  he  did.  The  night  before  , 
hex  execution,  flie  delivered  a  paper  to  Mr.  Pedlngton  (the  copy 
of  which  he  fold  for  20/.),  of  which  the  fubftance  is  printed  in 
The  Gentleman* s  Mai^azine^  '7S3>  ?•  '37*  She  had  given  muck 
the  fame  account  before,  at  her  trial,  in  a  long  and  fluent 
fpecch. 

*  The  words  "  ts^  fculpjit**  are  wanting  in  the  copies,  lix 
the  three  lafl  of  them  the  figure  nllb  is  rcvcrfed. 

f  **  This  woman,"  faid  Hogarth,  after  he  had  drawn  Sara^ 
MaUolm^  '*  by  her  features,  is  capable  of  any  wickedncfs." 

X  **  Monday  Sarah  Malcolm  fat  for  her  pidure  in  Newjnte^ 
•*  which  was  taken  by  the  ingenious  Mr.  Hcgarth:  Sir  James 
**  Thornhid  was  likcwife  prefcnt."  Craft/man^  SaturJaj^  Mufih 
xo,  1732-3. 

her 


C     i74    ] 

her  fkeleton,  in  a  glafs  cafe,  to  the  Botanic  Garden 
at  Cambridge^  where  it  dill  remains. 

2.  An  engraved  copy  of  ditto. 

3.  Ditto,  mezzotinro. 

4.  Ditto,  part  graven,  part  mezzotinto. 

1  he  knife  with  which  Ihe  committed  the  murder 
is  lying  by  her. 

5.  Another  copy  of  this  portrait  *  (of  which  only 
the  firft  was  engraved  by  Ho^^nrtb),  with  the  addi- 
tion of  a  clergyman  holding  a  ring  in  his  hand,  and 
a  motto,  **  No  rccompcncc  but  Love  +.'* 

In  'The  Grub-ftrtet  Journal  of  "-[burfdaxy  March  8, 
1732,  appeared  the  following  epigram  : 

**  To  Malcolm  Guthrie'^  erics,  confcfs  the  murther ; 

The  truth  dilcl'jfk*,  and  trouble  me  no  further. 

Think  on  both  worlds ;  the  pain  that  thou  muft  bear 

In  tliat,  and  whur  a  load  of  Icandal  here. 

ConU'fs,  confefs,  and  you'll  avoid  it  all : 

Your  boilv  Iha'n't  be  hack'd  at  Surzfons  ILdl : 

Ko  i>ftr>'/i)r  t  liack  fliall  dare  to  ufe  your  ghoft  ill,- 

y/i'-M'  fl^all  read  uj>on  your  pofl  a  poflilc; 

II  y\:}fh  your  chauns  tranfmlt  to  future  limc^, 

Aik!  t  .7  //  ricord  ymir  lii'e  iii  profe  and  rliimcs. 

Sjf.i/'  ir'dles,  thefe  ariniments  mi"ht  do 
From  ILgiinh^  ( iir//,  and  Ihnlyy  drawn  by  you, 

•>    A  r o pv  < ^ f  i t  in  w f >o (!  \ij 5  i n (c r t cd  in  71c  C entice:., ;;'j  3-i*Ir • 

•f  Thi«  I'liiK  vv.i>  (IdiKHcJ.  as  a  frontifp:crc  to  rbr  paxphlct 
ad^i-tMUil  III  //«'  //"fii/v  M  .."./'..viv.     I>cc  J.c  jic.\:  pj^-- 

Were 


Vftti  I  condemned  at  Padingfon  to  ride  i 

But  now  from  FleeUfireet  Ptdington\  my  guide** 

The  office  of  this  Pedington  *  may  be  known  from 
the  following  advertifemcnt  in  The  Weekly  Mifcellaxy^ 

N^37-  ^Hfi  ^5*  1733-  "  This  day  is  publifhcd^ 
**  Price  Six-pence,  (on  occafion  of  the  Re-commit* 
**  ment  of  the  two  Alexanders^  with  a  very  neat 
***' effigies  of  Sarah  Malcolm  and  her  Revere^/d  Con- 
^^fejfor,  both  taken  from  the  l.ife)  The  Friendly 
•*  Apparition  :  Being  an  account  of  the  mod  fur- 
**  prlling  appearance  of  Safaf:^  Makolm^s  Ghoft  to  a 
*^  great  aflembly  of  her  acquaintance  at  a  noted  *6ir.- 
'**  ftiop ;  together  with  the  remarkable  fpeech  flic 
*^  then  made  to  the  whole  companv." 

7.  The  Man  of  Taste.  The  Gate  of  Btnli:vtoH^ 
boufe.  Pope  whitc-vvafning  ir,  and  berpattcring  ihc 
Duke  of  Cha?idoi*s  coach^  **  A  futirj  on  Vo^yc's 
**  Epijlle  on  Ta[le.  No  name.*'  It  has  been  already 
obferved  that  the  plate  was  fupprcflcd  ;  and  if  thifr 
be  true,  the  fuppreflion  may  be  accounted  for  from 
the  following  inlcription,  lately  met  with  at  the  back- 
of  one  of  the  copies^ 

^'  Bo*  this  book  of  Mr.  Waytc^  at  The  Founicin 
**  Tdvcrtiy  in  The  Straiid^  in  the  prefcncc  ot  Wiu 
**  Draper^  who  told  me  he  had  ic  of  the  Printer, 
*^  Ux.  W.  Rayner^.  J.  Ctfins^' 

6a 

♦  Ml".  Vidlfi^ton  died  September  18,  i734«  He  is  fuppoi'ed 
fo  have  made  lome  amorous  oxcrtiircs  to  ^arah 

t  /?<7y;/^r  was  at  that  time  already  under  profecution   fcr 
^  f  ul^iiAija^  a  pamphlet   called,  '*  Rohini  Gaii^e,  or  S":;ven\ 


C    »76    ] 

On  this  attefted  memorandum  a  profecution  (cctni 
meant  to  have  been  founded.  Cofins  was  an  attorney^ 
and  Pof^  was  defirous  on  all  oceafions  to  make  the 
law  the  engine  of  his  revenge. 
.  ^.  The  fame,  in  a  (mailer  iize  ;  prefixed  to  a 
(iamphlet^  intituled,  "  A  Mifcellany  of  Tafte,  by 
•*  Mr.  Popt^^  &c.  containing  his  Epiftlcs,  with 
Notes  and  other  poems.  In  the  former  of  thefe  Mr. 
Pope  has  a  tie*wig  on^  in  the  latter  a  cap. 

8.  Tlie  fame,  in  a  fize  ftill  fmaller  •,  very  coarfely 
engraved.  Only  one  of  them  is  noted  by  Mr.  WalpoU. 
A  reader  of  thefe  Anecdotes  obferves,  "  That  the 
•'  total  filcnce  of  Pope  concerning  fo  great  an  artift^ 
'*  encourages  a  fufpicion  that  his  attacks  were  felt 
•*  though  not  refented.  The  thunders  of  the  poet 
•*  were  ufually  pointed  at  inglorious  advcrfaries  j 
*'  but  he  might  be  confclous  of  a  more  equal  match 
*•  in  our  formidable  caricaturift.  All  ranks  of  peo- 
*^  pie  have  eyes  for  pencil'd  ridicule,  but  6f  writtcir 
•*  fatire  we  have  fewer  judges.  It  may  be  fufpcftcd, 
that  the  *  pidtured  fliapc'  would  never  have 
been  complained  of,  had  it  been  produced  only 
by  a  bungler  in  his  art.  But  from  the  powers  6( 
Hogartby  Pope  fecms  to  have  apprehended  more 
lafling  inconvenience ;  and  the  event  has  juflificd 
his  fear.  The  froiitifpiecc  to  Smedlcy^s  GulU- 
«<  vcriana  has  been  long  forgotten  ;  but  the  Gate  of 

«•  the  Main.**  Negle^uking  tofuncndcr  himfclF,  he  was  rakcu 
bv  a  writ  of  execution  from  the  crv)un.  and  confined  to  the 
A'iV^'i  BfHt^h ;  where  he  became  cooncvtcd  with  Lady  DUih^ 
whole  charadcr  was  of  eqwd  iafamy  with  his  owo. 

X  •♦  BurUt!gtM 


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[   177  3 

"  Turlington  houfe  is  an  objeft  coveted  by  all  who 
"  aflcmbic  prints  of  humour.-^It  may  be  added, 
**  that  our  painter's  reputation  was  at  the  height 
"  ten  years  before  the  death  of  Popiy  who  could 
**  not  therefore  have  overlooked  his  merit,  though, 
**  for  fome  reafon  or  other,  he  has  forborne  to  intro- 
**  duce  the  llighteft  allufioa  to  him  or  his  perfor- 
*'  mances.  Yet  thefe,  or  copies  from  them,  were 
"  to  be  met  with  in  almofl  every  public  and  private 
*^  houfe  throughout  the  kingdom ;  nor  was  it  eafy 
"  for  the  bard  of  Twickenham  to  have  mixed  in 
**  the  converfation  of  the  times,  without  being  ob- 
*^  liged  to  hear  repeated  praifes  of  the  author  of 
"  The  Harlot's  Progrefs:' 

The  flieet  containing  this  page  having  been  ihewn 
to  a  friend,  produced  from  him  the  following  re- 
mark :  **  That  Pope  was  filent  on  the  merits  of 
•^  Hogarib  (as  ohe  of  your  readers  has  obferved) 
**  fliould  excite  little  aftonilhment,  as  our  artift's 
print  on  the  South  S^/?  exhibits  the  tranflator  of 
Homer  in  no  very  flattering  point  of  view.  He  is 
reprefented  with  one  of  his  hands  in  the  pocket,  of 
a  fat  perfonage,  who  wears  a  hornbook  at  his  gir- 
**  die.  For  whom  this  figure  was  defigned,  is  doubt- 
''  ful.  Perhaps  it  was  meant  for  Gay,  who  was  a  fat 
•*  man,  and  a  lofcr  in  the  fame  fcheme/' — "  Gay,* 
fays  Dr.  Johnfoiij-  "  in  that  difaftrous  year  had  a 
**  prefent  from  young  Craggs  of  fome  South-fea  ftock, 
"  and  once  fuppofcd  himfelf  to  be  mafter  of  twenty- 
*^  thoufand  pounds.     His  friends  perfuaded  him  to 

N  "  fell 


C    "78    1 

<'  fell  bis  ihare ;  but  he  dreamed  of  digmty  and 
^  fpleodour^  and  could  not  bear  to  obfiruA  bis  owi> 
^*  fortune*  He  was  then  impomioed  to  fell  as  much 
^  as  would  purchafe  an  hundred  a  year  for  life, 
^^  which,  (ays  Fenian,  will  make  you  fure  of  a  clean 
^*  ihirt  and  a  Ihoulder  of  mutton  every  day.  This 
*^  counfel  was  reje&ed  ;  the  profit'  and  principal 
^'  were  loft,  and  Gay  funk  under  the  calamity  fo  low 
*'  that  his  life  became  in  danger. — The  Hornbook 
^'  appended  to  his  girdle,  perhaps^ refers  to  the  Fables 
^^  he  wrote  for  the  Duke  of  Cumberland.  Some  of 
**  your  ingenious  correfpcxidents,  or  Mr.  Walpole^ 
*'  who  is  infiar  cmnium,  may  be  able  to  give  a  fur* 
*^  ther  illuftration.  The  conclufion  to  the  infcription 
**  under  this  plate— Gi/0  ai  the  rtfi^  ym*Ufind  out 
^f  more — feems  alfo  to  imply  a  confcioufneis  of  fuch 
*^  perfonal  fatire  as  it  was  not  prudent  to  explain*  I 
^*  may  add,  that  the  print  before  us  exhibits  more 
•*  than  one  figure  copied  from  C allot.  Among  the 
*^  people  going  along  the  gallery  to  raffle  for  hufbands, 
the  cujious  obferver  will  recognize  the  Old  Maid 
with  lappets  flying,  &c»  afterwards  introduced  into 
**  the  fccne  of  Morning.  Dr.  John/on^  however,  bears 
**  witnefs  to  the  propriety  of  our  great  poet's  intro- 
•*  dudion  into  a  fatirQ.on  the  *  difaflrous,year  of  na- 
**  tional  infatuation,  whf  n  more  riches  than  Peru 
*^  can  boaft  were  expeded  from  the  So^itb  Sea ;  when 
•*  the  contagion  of  avarice  tainted  every  mind ;  and 
**  Pope,  being  feized  with  the  univerfal  paffion,  ven- 
^*  tured  fome  of  his  money.    The  flock  rofc  m  its 

"  pricey 


4€ 


€€ 

€€ 


[  m  ] 

*'  price ;  afld  lie  for  a  white  thought  himfelf  Tl5^  L(?r^ 
ofTBo&fands.^  But  this  dtCam  of  happinefs  did  not 
laft  long;  and  he  feems  to  have  waked  foo'n  enough 
to  get  clear  with  the  Idfs  only  of  what  he  once 
*^  thought  himfelf  to  have  won,  arid  peifhaps  ndt 
•^  wholly  that/' 

It  appears  from  Pope's  corfefponderice  with  Atter^ 
iury^  that  the  (lock  he  had  was  at  ohe  time  valued  at 
between  twenty  and  thirty  thoufand  pounds;  and  that 
he  was  one  of  the  lucky  few  who  had  **  the  good: 
"  fortune  to  remain  with  half  of  what  they  imagined 
"  they  had.'* — ^*  Had  you  got  all  you  have  loft  be^ 
"  yond  what  you  ventured/'  faid  the  good  Bilhop 
in  reply,  ^'  confider  that  your  fuperfluous  gains 
^*  would  have  fprung  from  the  ruin  of  feveral  fami* 
"  lies  that  now  want  neceflaries  *♦" 

^753- 
I.  The   Laughing  Audience.       *^    I733»  Rec*** 

**'  DecK  1 8  of  the  Right  Honn^<  Lord  Bh on  Half  a 

f^  Guinea  being  the  firft  Payment  for  nine  Prints  8 

**  of  which  RepVcfent  a  Rakes  Progrcfs  and  the  9*^ 

"  a  Fair,   Which  I  promife  to  Deliver  at  Michael- 

•*  maft  Next  on  Receiving  one  Guinea  more.     Note 

**  the  Fair  will  be  Delivered  next  Chri^mafs  at  Sight 

•*  of  this  receip*.  the  Prints  of  the  Rake*.  Progrefs 

•*  alone  will  be  2  Guineas  each  fet  after  the  Sub* 

*'  fcription  is  over/' 

The  words  printed  in  Italicks  are  in  the  hand** 

writing  of  Hogarih* 

*  Letters  to  and  from  pifliop  Attirlmfy^  i?^^)  vol.  I.  p.  71* 

N  a  2.  Th€ 


C    i8o    ] 

a..  The  Fair  *  [at  Soutbwarky  Invented^ painted  . 
Md  engraved  by  W.  Htigartb.  The  fhow-cloth^  rcprc- 
fenting  the  Stage  Mutiny,  is  taken  from  a  large  etch- 
ing by  John  Laguerre  (fon  of  Louis  Laguerre,  the 
hifiorical  painter),  who  fung  at  LincoMs-Inn  Fields 
and  Covent^arden  Theatres,  painted  fome  of  their 
fcenes,  and  died  in  1748.  The  St  age- Mutineers^  or  A 
Playhoufe  to  bt  let^  a  tragi-comi  farcical-ballad-opera» 
vrhich  was  publifhed  in  17331  will  throw  fdme 
light  on  the  figures  here  reprcfented  by  Hcgartb.  See 
alfo  the  Supplement  to  Dodfiefs  Preface  to  his  Co!- 
leAion  of  Old  Plays,  and  the  **  Biographia  Drama- 
•*  tica,  178J." 

It  is  remarkable  that,  in  our  artifl^s  copy  of  this 
etchings  he  has  added  a  paint-pot  and  bruflies  at 
the  feet  of  the  athletic  figure  witb  a  cudgel  in  bis 
handy  who  appears  on  the  fide  of  Higbmore  -j-.  From 

thefc 

*  In  the  Craftfroan,  1733,  wat  thit  advertifment ;  •*  Mr. 
•*  Hogsnh  being  now  engraving  nine  copper-plates  from  pic- 
•*  turc*  of  his  own  painting,  one  of  which  rcprefcnts  the  Hu- 
•*  mourt  of  a  Fair,  the  other  eight  the  Progrcfs  of  a  Rake, 
•*  intends  to  publifh  the  prints  by  fublcription,  on  the  follo'w- 
**  ing  terms :  each  fubfcription  to  be  one  guinea  and  a  half : 
••  half-a-gninca  to  be  paid  at  the  time  of  fubfcribing,  for 
•*  which  a  receipt  will  be  given  on  a  ncw-etched  print,  and 
**  the  other  payment  of  one  guinea  on  delivery  of  all  the  prints 
•*  when  finilhed,  which  will  be  with  all  convenient  fpecd,  and 
•*  the  time  publicly  advertifed.  The  Fair,  being  already  fi- 
««  niihed,  will  be  delivered  at  the  lime  of  fnhrcribing.  Sub- 
*«  fcriptions  will  be  taken  in  at  Mr.  Hi^garth^s,  the  CMen 
««  Hrad^  in  JMceficr  Fields,  where  the  pictures  arc  to  be  fccn.'* 

f  H'^l'mort  was  originally  a  man  of  fortune ;  but  injitc's 
j;aming  houfe,  and  the  patent  of  Drury-Lane  theatre,  com- 
pletely exhauftedhls  finances.     Having  proved  himfelf  an  ur* 

luccefsful 


C   i8i   3 

thefe  circumftances  it  is  evident  that  yabn  Ellis  the 
painter  (a  pupil  of  Sir  James  Tbornbill,  a  great  fre- 
cjuenter  of  Brougblon^s  gymnafium,  the  ftages  of 
other  prize-fighters,  &c.)  was  the  perfon  defigned. 
Ellis  was  deputy. manager  for  Mrs.  Wilks^  and  took  up 
the  cudgels  alfo  for  the  new  patentee.    Mr.  fPalpole 
obfervcs    that  Ryjbrackj    when  he  produced  that 
exquifite  fummary  of  his  fkill,  knowledge,  and 
judgment,**  the  Hercules  now  in  Mr.  Hearers  Tem- 
ple at  Stourbeady  modelled  the  legs  of  the  God  from 
thofe  of  Ellis.    This  (latue  was  compiled  from  the 
various  limbs  and  parts  of  feven  or  eight  of  the 
ftrongeft  and  beft-made  men  in  London^  chiefly  the 
bruifers/&c.  of  the  then  famous  amphitheatre  in 
Tottenham  Court  road. 

In  Banks* s  Works,  vol.  I.  p.  97.  is  a  Poetical 
Epiftle  on  this  print,  which  alludes  to  the  difputes 
between  the  managers  of  Drury-Lane^  and  fuch  of 
the  adtors  as  were  fpirited  up  to  rebellion  by  7^^- 
pbilus  Cibbery  and  feqeded  to  The  Haymarket  in  1733. 
Giber  is  reprefented  under  the  character  of  Pijlol  *  ; 

Harper 

fucccfsful  a^tor  as  well  as  manager,  in  1743  he  piiblifhcd 
Dettifigefty  a  poem  which  would  have  difgraccd  a  Bell-inan. 
In  1744  he  appeared  again  in  the  character  of  J^thario^  for 
the  benefit  of  Mrs.  i/^r/tf«.  From  this  period  his  hiilory  is 
unknown,  \i  Hogartljs  rcprcfentation  of  him,  in  the  print  en- 
titled The  Difconfery^  was  a  juft  one,  he  had  no  external  requi- 
iites  for  the  llage. 

*  In  a  two-fhilling  pamphlet,  printed  for  J.  Mcchell  at  The 
Kin£i  Arms  in  Fleet'Jlreetj  1740,  entitled  "  An  Apology  for  the 
**  life  of  Mr.  T  C—*-,  comedian ;  bein;;a  proper  fequel 

^  10  the  apology  for  the  life  of  Mr.  Colkj  Cibber^  comedian  ; 

N  3  M  with 


[     »8»    ] 

Harper  under  that  of  Faljicff.  The  figure  in  thf 
corner  was  dcfigncd  for  Collty  Cibbir  the  Laurcat, 
who  had  jufl  fold  h\%  fhare  in  the  phy-houfe  to  Mr. 
Htghmorcj  who  is  rcprcfented  holding  a  fcroll,  on 
which  is  written  '*  it  coft  j^.6ocp.*'    A  monkey  is 

••  with  a  hiftoric.il  view  of  the  ft»^e  to  the  prf fent  year  ;  fup- 
*^  pofed   to  be  written  by  himlclf  in  the  llile  and  maciner  of 
*'  the  Poet  Laurcat/'  but  in  icdiry  the  work  o\  Hmrry  Fltld^ 
ing ;   the  following  pniTigef,  ilhiftrative  of  our  iubjetl,  occnr. 
**  In  that  year  when  the  (bge  fell  into  ^reax  comnaotions, 
•'  and  the  Drury  ham  coo^pany,  afk-rtingthe  glorious  caufc  of 
*•  liberty  and  property,  made  a  ftand  againfl  the  opprtfTionj 
•'  in  the  patentees — in  that  mennorahle  year  when  ihc  Thca- 
'/*  trie  Doniiabns  fell  in  labour  of  a  ret'oUitioo  under  the  con? 
**  dud  of  fryfclf,  that  revolt  g^ve  occafion  to  feveral  pieces  of 
*'  Mit  and  latiricsl  flirts  nt  theconduftorof  the  cnterprize.     I 
**  was  attacked  y  as  roy  father  had  been   be  lore  nic,  in  the 
*'  public  papers  and  journals  ;  and  the  burlefque  charader  of 
z*'  rijiel  was  attributed  to  nne  as  a  real  one.    Out  came  a 
•*  Print  of  Jmck  I^gnerrt^i^  reprefenting,  in  mod  viic  defign- 
^^  ingy  this  expedition  of  our*,  under  the  name  of  ^ht  S/age 
«•   Mutiny  ;  in  which,  gentle  reader,  your  humhltfemfant^  in  the 
•*  P/^/»/ rharadter,  was  the  principal  figure.     This  1  laighed 
•*  at,  knowing  it  only  a  proper  embeHifhnicnt  for  one  of 
*'   ih^ifc  ncctfl«*r)'  lliLclurc^  lovvhith  perlcns  o-jt   of  nccellity 
•*   rcpnir."  p.  i6,&:c  — Aj;.T:r.,  p.  88. — **  At  rlic  Fair  oi  Bar* 
••  thc^mf^K\  we  gained  lome  recruits ;  but,  beQdes  thole  ad- 
•*  vanr^'^es  ovtr  the  ciicnry,  1  lu) lei f  went   there   in  perion, 
*'  and  p\ibiitV!y /-^/'vr// niy^lf.     This   ^ms  dene   to  fling  dc- 
•*  fiance  in    tlie  rmcnttc's  teeth  ;  for,  on  the  booth  where  I 
*•  exhibited,  1  hurg  oat  7Zy  Etoge  Mtithj^  wi'h  Pfiol^x  the 
♦*  head  of  hi*  lioop,  our  Aandard   bearing   ibis   n"io:«o, — M't 
«•  rtf/.** — Whether  this  account   which  dt^^fr  is  made  to  give 
of  his   own  conduct   is  entirely  jixruhr,  or  conLiins  a  mix- 
ture of   ti;:ih    in   ir^  cannot    now  be   afcertained.      Hfgarth 
jnight  hive  irinipl-Miit  d    a  (.ircini.llancc  tTom  Barthahmrzo  to 
Sfikt/.Kvajk  F-'ir  ;   or  F.fhru^^  by  defi^n,  n.ny  have   ir.iircprc* 
fen  ted  the  matier^  alii.ding  at  the   irrue  time   to   ih^ard^t 
print. 

exhibited 


t    i83    D 

I 

czhibked  fitting  aftride  the  iron  that  fupports  thtf 
fign  of  T^be  Rofty  a  well-known  tavern.  A  label 
ifluing  from  his  mouth  contains  the  words  :  *'  I  am 
**  a  gentleman  */*  Tbe  Siege  of  ^roy^  upon  another 
fliow-cloth,  was  a  celebrated  droll,  compofed  by 
^Elkanah  Settle ,  and  printed  in  1707  ;  it  was  a  great 
favourite  at  fairs.  A  booth  was  built  in  Smit/jfie/d 
this  year  for  the  ufe  of  T.  Cibbery  Griffirty  Bullock^  and 
H.  HaUam;  at  v/hich  the  Tragedy  of  Tamerlane^  with 
^be  Fall  of  Bajazet,  intermixed  with  the  Comedy  of 
The  Mifiry  was  aftually  reprcfented.  The  figure 
vaulting  on  the  rope  was  deiighed  for  Signor  Vitn 
lante^  who  fignalized  himfelf  in  the  reign  of  Gif^.  I. ; 
and  the  tall  man  exhibited  on  a  Ihow-cloth,  was 
Maximilian,  a  giant  from  Upper  Saxcny.  The  man 
flying  froip  the  fteeple  was  one  Cddman,  who,  within 
the  recolleftion  of  fome  perfons  now  living,  defcend- 
ed  in  the  manner  here  defcribed  from  the  fteeple  of 
5/.  Martinis  into  The  Mews.  He  broke  his  neck  foon 
after,  in  an  experiment  of  the  like  kind,  at  Sbrewjbury, 
and  lies  buried  there  in  the  churchyard  of  St.  Mary 
Friars,  with  the  following  infcription  on  a  little  tablet 
inferted  in  the  church-wall  juft  over  his  grave  -f*. 

The 

*  Mr.  Viflor^  fpcaking  of  this  tranfac^ion,  obfcrvcs,  that 
•'  the  general  obfcn'ation  was,  what  bufincfs  had  a  gejitlernan 
**  to  make  the  purchafe  ?" 

+  In  ^je  Gentleman's  Magazine  iov  1740,  p.  89,  is  no  baj 
copy  of  verfes  **  On  the  death  of  the  famous  Flyer  on  the  Rope 
^t  Shrc^Jimry,    It  is  therefore  here  inferted. 

Magnis  tamen  excidit  aujis. 
Fond  Icarus  of  old,  with  ra(h  eflay, 
In  air  attempted  a  forbidden  way ; 

N  4  Too 


C    184   ] 

The  lines  are  contemptible,  but  yet  fcrvc  to  particu-» 
larize  the  accident  that  occafioncd  his  death. 

Let 

Too  thin  the  medium  for  fo  cumbVous  freight, 

'I'oo  weak  the  plumngc  to  fuppoit  the- weight. 

Yet  Icfa  he  dar'd  who  fonr'd  on  waxen  ^^»^gt 

Than  he  who  mounts  to  aether  on  a  iliing. 

Juft  as  A-itchjie^  when  tiic  buzzing  prey 

Entangled  flutter,  and  would  wing  away. 

From  watchful  ambulcade  infidious  fpring^, 

And  to  a  (lender  twine,  afccnding,  clings. 

So  on  nis  rope,  th'  adventVcr  ciin.bs  on  high. 

Bounds  oVr  cathednl  heights,  and  feeks  the  Iky  : 

Fix  but  his  cable,  and  he'll  fell  you  foon, 

What  fort  of  natives  cultivate  the  moon. 

An  army  of  fuch  wighrs  to  crofs  the  main. 

Sooner  than  Haddock* t  fleet,  flu>u*d  humble  Spain. 

As  warring  cranes  on  pigmies  thnndVing  fall. 

And,  without  foiling  ladders,  mount  the  wall, 

The  proudeO  fpire  in  Saiop^s  lofty  town 

Safely  he  gains,  and  glides  as  fat'cly  down  ; 

Then  foars  again  aloft,  and  downward  fprings, 

Sv.*ift  as  an  eagle,  without  aid  of  wings  ; 

Shews  anii^ks,  hangs  fnfpcndcd  by  his  toe ; 

l^ndizzled,  vietn  th'  inverted  ch^ifm  below, 

jnvitcs  wiih  I'cat  of  drum  brave  volunticrs,  '\ 

Defies  Jack  Spaniard^  nor  invafion  fcirs,  ^ 

J^nd  when  tl.ry  will,  they  ne'er  cou'd  hurt  his  cars.      ^ 

Methink  I  fee  as  yet  his  tiowlng  hair 

And  body,  darting  like  a  falling  liar  : 

Sv.if:cr  ihvin  what  "  wiih  fins  or  feathers  fly 

Tliio*  the  aerial  or  the  watVy  iky. 

Once  more  he  dares  to  brave  the  pathlcfs  way, 

Fare  now  p\irfuing,  like  a  bird  of  prey  ; 

And,  conict-likc,  he  makes  his  (atell  tour, 

In  air  exccntnc  (oU  !   ill-omcn'd  hour  !) 

Bar'd  in  his  fliirt  to  plcafe  the  gizinj;  crowd. 

He  little  dreamt,  poor  foul !   ot  winding  fluoud  ! 

ICothint;  could  aught  avail  but  hmbs  ot  biats. 

When  ground  was  iron,  and  the  Hen^trn  glafs. 


Ai 


■  ♦ 

C  185   3 

Let  this  fmall  monument  record  the  name 
Of  Cadman^  and  to  future  times  proclaim 
How,  by  an  attempt  to  fly  from  this  high  fpirc 
Acrofs  the  Sabrine  ftream,  he  did  acquire 
His  fatal  end.     *T\vas  not  for  want  of  fkill. 
Or  courage,  to  perform  the  taik,  he  fell : 
No,  no, — a  faulty  cord,  being  drawn  too  tight, 
Hurry'd  his  foul  on  high  to  take  her  flight, 
Which  bid  the  body  here  beneath,  good  night. 

A  prelate  being  aiked  permiffion  for  a  line  to  be 
fixed  to  the  fteeple  of  a  cathedral  church,- for  this 
daring  adventurer,  replied,  the  man  might  fly  to  the 
church  whenever  he  plcafed,  but  he  fliou Id  never 
give  his  confent  to  any  one's  flying  from  lU    It  feems 

As  quick  as  lightning  down  his  line  he  ikimo. 

Secure  in  equal  poize  of  agile  limbs. 

But  fee  the  trufted  cordage  faithlcfs  prove !. 

Headlong  he  falls,  and  leaves  his  foul  above : 

The  gazing  town  was  Ihock'd  at  the  rebound 

Of  fhatter*d  bones,  that  rattled  on  the  ground ; 

The  broken  cord  rolls  on  in  various  turns. 

Smokes  in  the  whirl,  and  as  it  runs  it  burns. 

So  when  the  wriggling  fnake  is  fnatch'd  on  high 

3n  eaglets  claws,  and  hides  in  the  iky, 

Around  the  foe  his  twirling  tail  he  flings, 

And  twifts  her  legs,  and  writhes  about  her  wings. 

Cadman  laid  low,  ye  rafli,  behold  and  fear, 

Man  is  a  reptile,  and  the  ground  his  fphcre. 

Unhappy  man  !  thy  end  lamented  bc; 

Nought  but  thy  own  ill  fate  fo  fwift  :.s  thee. 

Were  metamorphofes  permitted  now, 

And  tuneful  Ov/V/liv*d  to  tell  us  how  ; 

His  apter  Mufc  (hou'd  turn  thee  to  a  daw. 

Nigh  to  the  fatal  fleeple  ftill  to  kaw  ; 

Perch  on  the  cock,  and  neille  on  the  ball, 

In  ropes  no  more  confide^  and  never  fall.    /•  A* 

that 


4€ 
4f 


tbat  fomt  exhibitor  of  tbc  ^lidc  kind  met  wr.h 
a  fimilar  inbibitioo  here  in  Lsmchn.  I  learn  from 
M^'i  Journal  for  July  8,  1727,  that  a  fixpcnnr 
pamphlet,  intituled,  **  Tbc  Devil  to  pay  at  St. 
**  jaf^s'i.  &c  *."  was  publifhed  00  thb  occafion. 
Again 9  in  Tcf  Wcfkiy  Mjcflloiff  for  Jtril  17,  1736. 
•'  iTrcnuJs  iiidmanj  the  famous  Flrer,  who  has  flo-vii 
-  **  from  fcveral  of  the  higheft  precipices  in  England^ 
'*  and  was  the  pcrfon  that  flew  oflf  Brombam  fteeple 
^*  in  IViUfikre  when  it  fell  down,  flew,  00  Monday 
lafly  from  the  higheft  of  the  rocks  near  The  Hot- 
Weil  at  Drift al^  with  fire-works  and  piftols ;  after 
^'  which  he  went  up  the  rope,  and  performed  feveral 
^^  furprifing  dexterities  on  it,  in  fi^t  of  thoufands  of 

*  5uppoicd  to  have  been  written  by  Dr.  Arhrthncu  acd  as 
fuch  prelierved  in  the  Colle&ion  of  hb  Works.  The  full  tide 
IS,  **  The  Devil  to  pay  ^tSi.  Jame^t:  or,  a  full  and  true  Ac- 
**  count  of  .1  ritcft  liorrid  aod  bloody  Battle  between  Madam 
**  Fuujllna  at;'!  .Xfadam  Ctrszoni.  Alfo  of  a  hot  Skirmiih  be* 
•*  f.vccr-  rsignor  Ji(fchi  arti  Signor  Palmfrini^  Moreo\'cr,  how 
**  ^ffufino  has  t^kcn  Snuif,  is  going  to  leave  the  Opera,  and 
♦•  iln'^s  Pfalms  at  H^nU/s  Omtcry.  Alfo  about  the  Flying 
•*  Man,  and  how  the  Doctor  of  5/.  Martinis  has  very  un- 
'*  kindly  taken  dir.vn  the  Scaffold,  and  diiappointed  a  World 
*'  of  good  Company.  As  alfo  bow  a  certain  Great  Lady  is 
**  grne  mad  for  the  Love  of  fflUi&m  Cihfon^  the  Quaker.  And 
•*  hrw  tl'e  h  T:d  Jlry  is  coxne  to  Life  again,  and  has  got  a  Dairy 
*♦  Maid  with  Child.  AKo  about  the  great  Mourning,  and 
**  the  Fafliion<4,  ?nd  the  Alterations,  and  what  not.  With 
••  other  marc  rial  Occurrences,  too  many  to  infert." 

In  this  pamphlet  our  artift  is  incidentally  mentioned,  but 
in  fuch  a  manner  as  (hews  that  he  had  attained  ibme  celebrity 
fo  early  as  1727*  Speaking  of  fomc  Ui/ifM/ian  fwiae,  fuppofed 
to  bz  in  the  poffclF.on  of  Dean  5uv//,  Dr.  Arhitthn^t  adds, 
*^  But  Hff^arti  the  b'ngraver  is  making  a  print  after  them, 
**  which  will  give  a  julter  idea  of  them  than  1  can." 

3  "  fpcdators. 


C    «87    3 

*•  fpedatorE,  both  from  Somerfetfiire  and  Gloncejhr^ 
^^  JhireJ^  In  this  print  alfo  is  a  portrait  which  has  been 
taken  for  that  of  Dr.  Rock^  but  was  nK>re  probabl)r 
meant  for  another  Quack^  whoufed  to  draw  a  crowd 
round  him  by  fceming  to  eat  fire,  which,  having  his 
checks  puffed  up  with  tow,  he  blew  out  of  his 
mouth  *.  Som^  other  particulars  are  explained  in 
the  notes  to  the  poetical  epiftle  already  n^ntioned. 

3,  Judith  and  Holof ernes.  •*  Per  vulnera  fervor, 
**  moitc  tua  vivens/'  W.  Hfigarth  inv.  Ger.  VanMr-^ 
guel>tji:  A  frontifpiecc  to  the  Oratorio  (^  Juditb.^^ 
Our  heroinfi^  ii^ftead  of  holding  the  fword  by  ks 
handle,  ^rafps  it  by  its  edge,  in  fuch  a  manner 
ds  ihould  feem  to  have  endangered  her  fingers. 
(Judith  was  an  Oratorio  by  William  Hug^inSj  Efq.  fct 
to  mufick  by  William  Dt  Fefch  +,  late  Chapel-mafter 
of  the  cathedral  church  of  Antwerp.  This  piece  was 
performed  with  fcenes  and  other  decorations,  but 
met  with  no  fuccefs.  It  was  publiflicd  in  8vo,  1733.) 

f  Perhaps  he  was  only  a  iirc-catcr. 

f  Wiluam  Defifch^  a  German^  and  fome  time  chapel-mafter  at 
Jlniwerp^  was  in  kit  tiiue  a  rei'pedable  profeiTor  on  the  vioHn^ 
and  leader  of  the  band  for  feveral  feafons  at  Maryhone-g^Jtns. 
His  head  was  engraved  as  a  frontiipiece  to  fome  mufical  coni« 
pofitions  publifhed  bj  him ;  and  his  name  is  to  be  found  on 
many  foogt  and  ballads  to  which  he  fet  the  ti:nes  for  f^attxhall 
and  MaryhMe»gard$ms.  He  died,  foon  after  the  year  1750, 
at  the  age  of  70. 

The  following  lines  were  written  under  a  pidurc  oi  Defcfch^ 
pain  ted  by  Soldi^  1791. 

Thou  honor^il  verfe,  and  verfe  mnfl  lend  her  wing. 

To  honor  .thee,  the  pricft  of  Phoebus'  quire, 

'That  tw^Jt  her  bappieft  lines  in  hymn  or  fong.      MitToK* 

Defefch  was  the  patriotic  Mr.  llollis^s  mutic«ma{ter. 

— The 


•- The  origital  ptet  of  tir  froniifpscce  h  In  the 
mfiEffioG  otf  Dr.  -MfHTiimvi  TKs  drfirn  lias  Hrur 
ciHj^c^ri  yrz  if  hi*  fumilbed  oiirr  mgixTrrs  w5ib 
foA  i%":^*  UQdrnTclr>t:d  ftrtcbe*  £f  be  iin:ft-f  is 

wandrr  ::'  rr  nirrv  cccsfiocs.  kif  ufb*]  •cliErant-nfJ?:-* 
ftiCR3i3  riipr  our  ootocc,  Wbc<:Tcr  iJiidi-niirf  :? 
]^»rn>3  fi-rmJ  of  iis  tapDMiflwd  dri 'wirjgjiy  -wiij  bt 
frd^ccf  io*i«-  Tkrcfffirv  of  xnTtasik^  idotc  lii::  r*:- 
ims  itfclf  for  :Tnha!30cu 

^  Scj?  ppc^'mg  at  Narnrf,     •*   7hr  hr'r'TTTTrz- 

i-Si,  £Dd  2s  w  tc  ijid  It  its.  Hizsnsj  bi 


ii"  i':r:«f:-:    •.»    mi.-:.  »trz   m'.j   %   Zin'-zC   cue"  cc  iJ/y-xrv/ . 


C   189  ] 

**  de  vicllard  (fays  Rouquei)  eft  d'apres  nature ;  cVfi- 
**  le  portrait  d'un  officier  tres  riche,  fameux  clans  ce 
*^  tems-ljk  pour  de  pareilles  expeditions,  grand  fe- 
^*  dufteur  de  campagnardes,  et  qui  avoit  toujours  a 
**  fes  gages  des  femmes  de  la  profeflion  de  celle 
^*  qui  cajole  ici  la  nouvelle  debarquee/'  Behind  him 
is  John  Gourlqy  a  Pimp,  \yhom  he  always  kept  about 
his  perfon.  The  ucxt  figure  that  attradts  our  notice, 
is  that  of  Mother  Needham.  To  prove  this  woman 
was  fufficiently  notorious  to  have  deferved  the  fatire 
of  Hogarthj  the  following  paragraphs  in  T^be  Grub^ 
Jireet  Journal  are  fufficient. 

March  z^f  I73i«  "  The  noted  Mother  AV^</i6/7;;i 
"  was  yefterday  committed  to  "The  Gatehoufe  by 
"  Jufticc  Railton:' 

Ibid,  "  Yefterday,  at  the  quarter-feflions  for  the 
*'  city  and  liberties  of  fVeJiminJler^  the  infamous  Mo- 
"  ther  Needham,  who  has  been  reported  to  have  been 

"  figns,)  The  I.ftrc  of  Fenus ;  or  a  Harlot's  Progrcfs.     An 
**  heroi^comical  Poem,  in  fix  Cantos,  by  Mr.  Jofefh  Gay. 

•*  To  Mr.  Jofeph  Gay. 
"  Sir, 

**  It  has  heen  well  obferved,  that  a  great  and  juft  objection 
**  to  the  Genius  of  Painters  is  their  want  of  invention  ;  from 
**  whence  proceeds  fo  many  different  deligns  6r  draughts  on 
**  the  fame  hiftoryor  fable.  Few  have  ventured  to  touch  upon 
**  a  new  ftory  ;  but  ftili  fewer  have  invented  both  the  f^ury 
*'  and  the  execution,  as  the  ingenious  Mr.  Hojrarth  has  done, 
••  in  his  fix  prints  of  a  Harlot*s  Progrcfi\  and,  without  a  com- 
•'  pliment,  Sir,  your  admirable  Cantos  are  a  true  key  and 
*'  lively  explanation  of  the  painter's  hieroglyphicks. 

•*  I  am,  Sir,  yours,  &c.  A.  Phillips.'* 

This  letter,  afcribed  to  Amhrofc  Phillips^  was  in  all  prubabi- 
Iity  a  forgery,  like  the  name  of  Jcfcph  dty, 

"  dead 


I  «fo  3 

^  dad  for  fine  time,  fo  icreen  Im*  from  fereni 
«  prafiecuciom,  tvai  brought  from  fTi^e  GmieBenfe^  and 
^  pleidcd  not  guilty  to  an  lodiAmfnt  found  agiinil 
^  her  for  kcepiog  a  Irwd  and  <fiibrderly  boufe ;  bur, 
**  for  want  of  furcties,  was  remanded  back  to 
*•  pnion* 

Ibid.  JfriJ  t%  17;!.  "  On  Saimr^  aitdcd  tht 
*^  quaner-feffioQS  for  ff^^mmirr^  &c.  The  xxyted 
<*  ^lother  Nndham^  coovided  for  keeping  a  diibr- 
*«  derly  houf?  in  Pjri  Pi^yr/-,  5/.  Jeme^\  was  finfd 
"  One  ShiiJing,  to  ftand  t ;vicc  :n  the  pii!onr,  atid  find 
*•  furcties  for  her  good  behaviour  for  thrp^  years,'* 

Ibid.  Af«7  6,  1731.  "  Tcflcrday  the  noted  Mo- 
^  tbcr  Kmdtmm  flood  in  the  pUory  in  Park  Phct^ 
•*  near  5/.  jj^iii-Jirti:^  and  was  roogh!y  handled 
*  by  the  popuixe.  She  was  fo  very  ill  that  ihe  lay 
^  along,  oocwitbitanding  which  Ihe  was  fo  ferertiy 
^  fcc  that  it  is  thoue^it  Ibe  will  die  in  a  ^x^  cr 
"  twoi** — Acoicrr  accc-cr  iiys-^"  ihc  lay  along  on 
"  her  face  rz  the  p^iiory,  aod  fo  evaded  the  kv* 
•*  wb*;ca  requires  :rit  rer  face  iboi:2d  be  cxpoKd/' 
— "  Yederday  njwnisg  d'ec  ^{ocbe^  AVrii^js.  Sie 
«*  drclirrf  in  ber  laii  words  *,  tbat  what  moft  a£edrd 
•*  brr  Wis  :i:e  terror  of  Carsiirs  in  the  piijorT  ro- 
**  a&;>rrrw  5z  .Vftr  f£ls.:^^jsri^  iivriv*  been  fo  ur- 
"  rri:  i:\u2v  uiei  br  the  populace  oc  JTr^ijrr.'' 

Trc  rr.^-r.or*  of  :bas  wocaUi  is  thus  peqiccuated 


C     *9i     ] 

*^  To[Nefdjbam^s  quick  the  voice  triumphal  rode, 
*^  But  pious  Ncedham  dropt  the  name  of  God." 
The  note  on  this  paflage  fays^  ibe  was  '^  a  matron 
**  of  great  fame,   and  very  religious  in  her  way ; 
**  whofe  conftanjt  prayer  it  was,  that  fhe  might  *  get 
**  enough  by  her  profeffion  to  leave  i$  off  in  tinie^ 
"  ajid.make  her  peace  with  God  *.*  But  her  fate  wa« 
"  not  fo.  happy ;  for  being  convidted,  and  fet  in.  the 
*^  pillory^  ihe  was  (to  the  lading  ihame  of  all  her 
"  great  Friends  and  Votaries)  fo  ill  ufcd  by  the  po*  • 
*^  pulace,  that  it  put  an  end  to  her  days.'* 

Rouquet  has  a  whimfical  remark,  relative  to  xhm 
clergyman  juft  arrived  in  Lonim,  "  Cet  ccclefiaftiquc 
**  monte  fur  un  cheval  blanc,  comme  ils  afferent  id 
"  de  Vetu^ — The  variations  in  this  plate  are ;  (hade 
thrown  by  one  houfe  upon  another ;  London  added  os 
the  letter  the  parfoti  is  reading;  change  in  one  cor- 
ner of  the  fore^ground  ;  the  face  of  the  Bawd  much 
altered  for  the  worfc,  and  her  foot  introduced. 
.  Plate  IL  ^in  compared  Garrick  in  Othello  to  the 
black  boy  with  the  tearkcttle  ty  ^  circumftance  that 

by 

*  Itfecmsagreed  on  by  our  comic-writers,  not  tofinifh  rhe 
chara^rofa  Bawd  without  giving  her  louic  pretence  to  Reli- 
gion. In  Drytlcns  Wild  Gallant,  Mother  du  Lake^  being  about 
to  drink  a  dram^  is  made  to  excJaim,  ''  'Tis  a  great  way  to 
*•  the  bottom  ;  but  heaven  is  all-fufficient  to  give  me  llrcngth 
•*  for  it  '*  The  fccnc  in  whick  this  ipcech  occurs,  was  of  ufe 
to  Ricfmrdfin  ia  his  Clarljfit^  and  peihaps  to  Foate^  or  Footi's 
originil  of  the  character  c^f  Motl>cr  Cole. 

t  So  in  HUP 5  JiHor,  pp.  69.  70.  **  If  there  be  any  thing 
•*  that  comes  in  competition  wirh  the  unluckinefs  of  this  ex- 
"  cellcnt  player's  figuic  in  this  charidtcr,  it  is  the  appearance 

♦'  he 


C   '9*   3 

by  M  nieans  encouraged  our  Rofdtu  to  continue  aft-^ 
ing  the  part.  Indeed,  when  his  face  was  obfcured, 
his  chict'  power  of  cxprcflion  was  loft;  rind  then,  and 
not  till  then,  was  he  reduced  lo  a  level  with  fcveral 
other  performers.  In  a  copy  of  this  fet  of  plates, 
one  of  the  two  fmall  portraits  hanging  up  in  the 
Jew's  bedchamber,  is  fupcrfcribcd,  Clarke  i  but 
without  authority  from  Hogarth.  H'ooljion  would 
likcwifc  have  been  out  of  his  place,  as  he  had  written 
againft  the  ]ieivijb  tenets.  Of  this  circumftance,  Us- 
garth  was  probably  told  by  fome  friend,  and  there- 
fore effaced  a  name  he  had  once  ignorantly  inferred. 

'  In  Plate  III.*  (as  already  obfervcd)  is  the  portrait 
of  Sir  John  Goyijhu  That  Sir  Joh.i  Gonfon  was  the 
pcrfon  intended  in  this  print,  is  evident  from  a  cir- 
cumftance in  the  next,  where,  on  a  door  in  BriJs" 
Will^  a  figure  hanging  is  drawn  in  chalk,  with  an 
infcription  over  ir,  •*  Sir  /•  G.'*  as  well  as  from  the 
following  cxplannrion  by  K:.uouet :  **  1^  fig-'r^j  oui 
**  paroit  entrcr  fans  bruit  avec  une  partie  de  guei, 
**  ift  i;n  c;'>:iv.r.itlairc  qui  fe  dilVmguoit  extrememenr 

••  par  Ton  ::i.lc  pour  ia  pcrlccution  des  filles  de  joye." 

•*  h.^  :v.odf  i^  iiif  new  hiS::  *.^r  Ot'ni'-c,     \Vc  arc  ufed  to  icc 
«'     'n-  i^wT-r  t;  !Mr.;;"*;   i -:  'i^lr^-ri!?  cxprcfTcd   throp.f^hout  rh>: 

\K     •     *•  ■ '  V    »i»"*  M  ■  ■  ■■*^/«    •  1 1    '  '  **    •^'  'f^  '     k      II  »■    IT*  ■    :*    HiT  1.  "^  ■■••■   •'*r  i*f      T  **-n* 

■  i» 

**  '   -  r:  -^^     .-:v'f  ■■'*  ::.  :    :    v,i»:.:.  nc  ^vx:.>  n'.adc  ;if  r:.:ncr  ex- 
,    m   .        :  -.-..>   :^:\u•::  ja:o   :hat   c!;».!n/:t;, 

.;■.  :  **.i*'  j-''..:c,  f»"ir  a  circurrfrr.rrr  ■:•* 

.   ^       :..•.-  ..K ..   Ti  o:   no  vcrbii  ;r.:r*Trr- 

*  • 


'  Hcfpccnn^  anomcr  circumBance,  however,  in  the 
third  plate,  RoUqUet  appear*  to  have  met  with  foinc 
particular  irtformatioA  that  has  efcaped  me.  **  L'au« 
^  teur  a  faifl  roecifidfi  d'drt  m6rceau  de  beurre  qui 
•*  fait  partie  du  d^jeune,  pour  Penveloper  plaifam- 
*^  ment  dans  le  tltrc  de  la  lettre  paltorale  qu'un  grand 
^^  prelat^  addrefla  dans  ce  tfims-R  k  fon  diocefe,  & 
*^  dont  plufieurs  exemplaires  eurent  le  malheur  d^£« 
**  tre  rehvoyfis  ^  yepicier.** — ^The  llceve  of  the  maid* 
ferv^nt's  gowh  in  this  plate  Is  enlarged,  and  the  neck 
of  a  bottfe  oh  the  table  ib  lengthened. 

FV)r  varlatiofis  in  Plate  IV.  fee  the  roof  of  the 
rbom.  Shadow  on  the  principal  woman's  petticoat^ 
ahd  from  Ihe  hoop*petticOat  hanging  up  in  the  back 
ground.  The  dog  made  darker.  The  woman  next 
thfe  ovcrfeer  has  a  high  cap,  which  in  the  modem 
impreffioAs  is  lowered. 

In  Plate  V.  Roof  of  the  room.  Back  of  the  chair. 
Table.  Dr.  MifdubitCs  waiftcoat.  Name  of  D^- 
Rock  on  the  paper  lying  on  the  clofe-ftooL  Difli 
iat  the  fire. 

In  a  derpicable  poem  publiflied  in  1732,  under 
thefiftitious  name  ofjofeph  Gay^  and  intituled  **  Tbi 
"  Harlot's  Progrefs^  Which  is  a  key  to  the  fix  prints 
^^  lately  publifhed  by  Mr.  Hogarth^^*  the  two  quacks 
in  attendance  on  the  dying  woman  are  called  3l7»— ^r 
and  G— ffi.  It  is  evident  from  feveral  circumftances, 
that  this  Mr.  J.  Gay  became  acquainted  with  our 
author*s  work  through  the  medium  of  a  copy. 

*  BiQiop  Gib/on. 

O  In 


C    "94    3 

Id  Pittc  VI.  the  urazcan  (bated  next  die  deigj* 
tran  was  defigsed  for  EUzskttb  Jdsm^  who^  at  the 
age  of  30,  was  afterwards  ciccuted  for  a  iot>berj, 
Seficmter  10,  1 737.  The  caaawaa  priat  of  her  will 
jvdRify  this  aflertioii. 

If  we  maj  truft  the  wietched  metrical  perfonx^Soce 
joft  quoted^  the  Bawd  in  this  &Eth  plate  was  dtfigaod 
io€  Mother  Betalej. 

The  portrait  hangiBg  vp  in  die  J^zci  apsztsest 
was  originallT  fjbferibcd  «  Mr.  irapjfo."  There 
was  a  fcriptural  Bootto  to  one  of  the  other  p^jrcs  ; 
and  on  the  cielicg  of  the  room  in  uhich  ti^e  girl  :s 
dying,  a  certain  obfccce  word  was  more  Ti£b!e  tria 
it  is  at  prefent.  The  former  inficripdon  oc  the  piper 
BOW  infcribcd  Dr.  R0ci,  was  al^  a  grofs  one.  I  fliould 
injufiice  add,  that  before  theie  plates  w^re  delircrtd 
ID  the  fubfcribrrs,  the  ofiarfire  paiticidsrs  here  sxc- 
tioced  were  oauttcd* 

The  foUowizig  parigrxph  in  TheGr^S^iter:  y.-tsrsul 
for  S^^!im^r  24,  173-,  will  fjSdiczrlj  ;\if::rx  :'r* 
fp!erc:i  ippcinnce  tie  Hirloc  n:i5.rt  in  ^ritrnrf-V, 
See  Plitc  IV.    Such  weli-^irciTcd  fcTiies  ire  nrtl r 

m 

mr:  iri:h  12  ctr  rreftnt  hocfts  of  correoicc:. 

•*  OicT  SLiry  M-Jiftf^:,  2  V03LI3  of  gr«t  !»C?  :": 
•*  die  hiEidre-is  of  Dr^L-^^  120,  aboct  x  f::r:V-i 
**  ages  was  CDCEiciicred  10  kird  ubccr  :::  TrthS^^tLii 
«  BridtTzeiij  bj  cioe  jCibces,  brought  his  Jrli-^srty'i 
"  «ri:  oc  Hdt^as  Carpts^  irid  wis  carrkd  cefoce  :r  r 
•*  righ:  horrot^ible  tzt  lofs!  c'-ief  j::(LrLCi  RjynLmj\ 
^  exp'r^:2g  w  h*vr-  been  sioirr  bailed  oc  diiciiarg-i-i ; 


^butlfft  bdMrnitmcNM  itppaaring  to  t>e  legal,  hii 
^^  latdAip  thought  fie  M^  remmd  her  back  again  to 
^  her  fdrnwf  plaoe  of  coilfinetncnt,  where  ^^  is  nom 
^  hiding  bemp  in  a  goum  very  richly  laced  with  Jilver.** 
Routpiet  cotichide^  his  illuffFation  of  the  fifth  plate 
iby  obfer? iiig^  tliat  the  (tery  might  have  been  con- 
duced heire.  *•  L*aHtew  femble  avoir  rempli  fon 
*•  de^iit«  11  a  f^livi-  fofr  herbioe  jufijue*  au  derniet 
^  fbufite.  R  I'a  condfuite  de  rinfamic  I,  la  paiivret6, 
^^  pal*  left  i^i^i)  fedutfantes  du  libettidage.  Son  in* 
**  tenti<^  d^  tocher  de  retcnir,  bu  de  corriger  celles 
^^  qui  kur  foibltffe^  (ki  Itut  tgnorance  expofent  tous 
**  kft  j<im%l<le  fen^blabhss  infortunes,  eft  fuffiramcnt 
^  cxccutfe;  on  pcut  done  dire  que  la  tragcdie  finit 
^•i  eette  ptenche,  et  cjue  la  fuivante  eft  comme  le 
*^  p^tte  piec^.  G  eft  une  farce  dont  la  defunte  eft 
*'  pluftot  TcKrcafion  que  le  fujet/' — Such  is  the  cri- 
ticiftn  of  R&u^uet ;  but  t  cannot  abfolutely  concur 
ki  the  juftn^fs  of  it*  Hogarth  found  an  opportunity 
to  convey  admonition^  ahd  enforce  his  moral^  even 
in  \)xA  iaft  plate.  It  is  true  that  the  exploits  of  our 
heroine  are  concluded,  and  that  (he  i^  no  longer  an 
agent  in  her  own  ftory.  Yet  as  a  wifh  prevails,  even 
among  thofe  who  are  moft  humbled  by  their  own 
indifcretions,  that  fome  refpedt  fliould  be  paid  to 
their  remains,  that  they  Ihould  be  conduded  by  de- 
cent friends  to  the  grave,  and  interred  by  a  prieft 
who  feels  for  the  dead  that  hope  expreffcd  m  our 
Liturgy,  let  us  alk  whether  the  memory  of  our  Har- 
lot m^ts  wick  any  fUch  marks^  of  focial  attention^  dr 

O  2  pious 


i    I9«    1 

piims  beoevoleiiee.   Are  not  the  prqiaration  for  her 
funeral  licentjous,  like  the  courfe  of  her  life,  as  if 
the  oontagioa  of  her  example  had  reached  all  the 
companv  m  the  room  ?  Her  fillers  in  iniquicy  akme 
furround  her  coffin.    One  of  them  is  engaged  in  the 
double  trade  of  fedu&ion  and  thievery.    A  lecood 
is  admiring  herlelf  in  a  mirror.    A  third  gazes  mth 
tmconcem  on  the  corpfe.    If  any  of  the  number  ap» 
pear  mournful,  diey  exprefi  at  beft  but  a  maudlin 
fotro:^',  having  glafles  <rf'firong  liquor  in  their  hands. 
The  very  miniiler,  forgetful  of  his  office  and  cha- 
ncer, is  ihamefully  employed;  nor  does  a  fingle 
circumftance  occur,  throughout  the  whole  fccne,  that 
a  reflcdting  female  would  not  wifh  (hould  be  alienated 
from  her  own  interment. — Such  is  the  plate  which 
our  illuftrator,  with  too  much  levity,  has  ftyled  a 
farce  appended  to  a  tragic  reprefentation. 

He  might,  however,  have  exercifed  his  critical 
abilities  with  more  fuccefs  on  HegariVs  negled  of 
propriety,  though  it  affords  him  occafion  to  difplay 
his  wit.  At  the  burial  of  a  wanton,  who  expired 
in  a  garret,  no  cfcutcbcons  were  ever  hung  up,  or 
lings  given  away ;  and  I  much  queflion  if  any  bawd 
ever  cbofc  to  avow  that  charadcr  before  a  clergy<» 
man,  or  any  infant  was  ever  habi^^ed  as  chief  mourner 
to  attend  a  parent  to  the  grave. — I  may  add,  that 
when  thefe  pidurcs  were  painted  (a  time,  if  news- 
papers are  to  be  credited,  when,  having  no  eftablifhed 
police,  every  adt  of  violence  and  licentioul'nefs  W2S 
pra&ifed  with  impunity  in  our  ftreets,  an  J  women 

of 


•^ 


i    »97    3 

of  plcafurA  were  brutally  perfecuted  in  €very  qtiarter 
of  the  town)^  a  funeral  attended  by  fuch  a  fifterbood 
would  fcarcdy  have  been  permitted  to  reach  the  place 
of  interment.  Much  however  muft  be  forgiven  to 
the  morality  of  Hogartb^s  defign,  ajid  the  powers 
with  which  it  is  executed.  It  may  alfo»  on  the  pre* 
fent  occafion,  be  obferved,  that  in  no  other  icene^ 
out  of  the  many  he  has  painted,  has  he  fo  widely  de« 
.  viated  from  vraifemblance. 

The  ipUowing  verfes,  however  wretched,  being 
explanatory  of  the  fet  of  plates  already  fpoken  of, 
are  here  re-printed.  Tjiey  made  their  appearance 
under  the  earlieft  aiiid  heft  of  the  pirated  copies  pub- 
liihed  by  Bowles p  Hogarth ^  finding  that  fuch  a  me- 
trical dei<:riptioj;i  had  its  effed,  refolved  that  his 
pext  feries  of  prints  ihould  receive  th(^  fam^  jady^]> 
tage  from  an  abler  hand* 

Plate    I. 
Sec  tbtre,  but  juft  arriv'd  in  town. 
The  Country  Girl  in  hon>e-fpun  gown,    ^ , 
Tho'  plain  her  drefs  appears,  how  neat  1 
Her  looks  how  innocent  and  fweet ! 
Poes  not  your  indignation  rife, 
When  on  the  bawd  you  qaft  your  eyes  } 
Fraught  with  devices  to  betray  ; 
She's  hitjber  comp  >n  queft  of  prey ; 
pcreens  her  defigns  with  godly  airs, 
And  tall^s  of  homilies  and  pray'rs, 
Till,  by  her  arts,  the  wretched  Maid 
Tp  vilp  Francifco  is  betray'd, 

O  3  And 


f   -K3    3 

And  fee,  die  lewd  old  rogue  ^{ifcgrv 
How  at  the  fidh  young  tbii^  thing  ht  lecrf  ! 
In  lines  too  firong,  too  well  txpred 
The  lufiful  fat) T  ilands  coofefL 

On  batrer'd  jade,  in  thread-bare  gpmn. 
The  Rural  Priefi  is  come  to  town — 
Think  U'hat  his  humble  thought  engages  i 
Why — Iciler  work  and  greater  wages. 

P    L   A   T    I      IL 

Debauch*d^  and  then  kickM  out  of  doors^ 
The  fate  of  all  Frandfcffs  whores^ 
Poor  ¥oUf%  forced  to  walk  the  ftreets. 
Till  with  a  wealthy  Jno  flic  meets. 
Quickly  the  man  of  drcumcifion 
For  her  reception  makes  piovifion. 
You  fee  her  now  In  all  her  fplendour, 
A  Monkev  and  a  B!ack  t*  attend  her. 
How  great  a  fot's  a  k«rep*:ng  cully, 
\\\:o  thinks  t'  cnjc"  a  -^cnvan  I'oltlv  ! 

The'  he  fupport  her  grandeur.  Mils 
\ViiI  by  the  bye  with  others  kifs. 

Thus  /*c..V  p'ay'd  her  part ;  flie  had 

A  Beau  ailrr.ittcd  to  her  bed ; 

But  th'  Hfircw  cc.T.ir.g  uncxpefleJ, 

Puts  he:  in  iciv  to  bw  cctccted. 

This  to  j^rcYcnr,  fr.c  at  breukfali  picks 

A  i]iir.rrcl,  aTiC  i".u:l::r.g  kicks 

Thv  table  dowTi :  while  by  her  MmJ 

1  hj  Hi^u  Is  10  cue  uvAir  coavcv'd. 

PlATC 


i  199  J 

• 

Plata    III. 

JMblfy  difcarded  once  again. 
Takes  lodging  next  in  Drury-lane  j 
Sets  up  the  bufinefs  on  her  own 
Accovint,  and  deals  with  all  the  town* 
At  breakfaft  here  in  defliabille^ 
While  Margery  does  the  tea-pot  fill, 
Mi&  holds  a  watch  up,  which,  by  .flight 
Of  hand,  was  made  a  prize  laft  night. 
From  chandler's  ihop  a  c(ab  of  butter. 
Brought  on  his  lordihijp's  Pafigral  Letter ^ 
A  cup,  a  faucer,  knife,  and  roll;^ 
Are  plac'd  before  her  on  a  ftooK- 
A  chair  behind  her  holds  a  cloak, 
A  candle  io  a  bottle  $.uc.k. 
And  by  't  a  bafon-^but  indecent 
T'would  be  in  me  to  fay  what  is  in't. 
At  yonder  door,  fee  there  Sir  Jobn^s 
Juft  entering  with  his  A^rmidonSy 
To  Bridewell  to  convey  Mifs  Molfy^ 
And  Margery  with  her  to  Mill  Polly  ♦• 

Plate    IV. 

See  Polly  now  in  Bridewell  ilands, 
A  galling  mallet  in  her  hands. 
Hemp  beating  with  a  heavy  heart. 
And  not  a  foul  to  take  her  part. 
The  Keeper,  with  a  look  that's  fourer 
Jban  TurA  or  Devil,  Hanging  o'er  her ; 

^  Beat  hemp. 

O4  And 


And  if  her  time  {he  idles,  thwack 

Comes  his  rattan  acrof;  her  back# 

A  dirty,  ragged,  faucy  Jade, 

Who  fees  her  here  in  rich  brocade 

And  Mechlin  lace,  thumping  a  punny. 

Lolls  out  her  tongue,  and  winks  with  one  ey^ 

That  other  Maux  with  halt  a  noi'e, 

yrho*s  holding  up  her  tatter  d  clpaths, 

J^ughs  too  at  Madam's  wprking-drefs. 

And  her  grim  Tyrant's  threatening  face. 

A  Gamejier  hard  by  PoU  you  fee, 

In  coat  be-lac'd  and  fmart  toupee. 

Kate  vermin  kills— chalkM  out  upon 

A  window-lhutter,  hangs  Sir  JohtU 

Plate    V. 

Released  from  Bridewell^  PoU  again 

Drives  on  her  fornner  trade  amain ; 

But  who  tzx  heard  of  trading  wenches 

That  long  efcapM  difcale  thit  French  is  ? 

Our  Polly  did  not— Ills  on  ills. 

Elixirs,  bolufes  and  pills, 

Catharricks  and  emeticks  dreary, 

llac^  made  her  of  her  life  quite  weary; 

At  lad  thrown  into  falivation 
She  finks  beneath  the  operation. 
A  fnufRing  whore  in  waiting  by  her 
Screams  out  to  fee  the  wretch  expire. 
The  DoSors  blame  each  other  ;  Meagre, 
With  wrath  tranfported,  hot  and  eager. 

Starts 


^Starts  up,  thfQw$  down  the  cbair  and  fyxAp 
^nd  calls  her  brother  SquaA  sl  fool, 
your  p  lis,  fluoth  Sjuab^  with  cooldifdjUfff 
Not  my  elixir,  proved  her  banc, 
^^''hile  they  pntei^d,  a  muffled  Punl); 
Is  rummafi^ing  poo^  Pcll/s  trunk. 

Plats    VL 

The  fiftcrhood  of  Drury-lane 
Are  met  to  form  the  funeral  train* 
Pri/s  turns  aiide  the  coffin  lid. 
To  take  her  farewell  of  the  dead. 
Kat&  ddnks  dejeded ;  Peggy  ftands 
With  difmal  look,  and  wrings  her  hands, 
Bick  wipes  her  eyes  ;  and  at  the  glafs 
In  order  jfenry  fets  her  face. 
The  ruin'd  Bawd  roars  out  her  grief  | 
JicT  bottle  fcarcely  gives  relief. 
J^ladge  QUs  the  wine ;  his  caftle-top 
With  unconcern  the  Bey  winds  up* 
The  Undertaker  rolls  his  eyes 
On  Sukty^  as  her  glove  he  tries : 

His  leering  flie  ohferves,  and  while  he  . 

3tands  thus,  flie  picks  his  pocket  flily. 

!!jrhe  Par/on  fit§  with  look  demure 

By  Fannfs  fide,  but  leaning  to  her. 

His  left  hand  fpills  the  wine ;  his  right-* 

I  blulh  to  add— is  out  of  fight, 

Over  the  figure  qf  the  Parjon  is  the  letter  A^ 
^hich  conducts  to  the  following  explanation  under- 

neatli 


[      20*      3 

neaA  the  plate.  **  A.  The  famous  Cm^>Beggar 
••  in  The  Fleet,  a  wretch  who  there  fcrccns  himfelf 
^«  from  the  juftice  due  to  his  villaimes,  and  daily 
*'  rcpcatg  them." 

All  but  the  firft  imprelHons  of  this  fet  of  plates 
are  marked  thus  -f.  None  were  originally  printed 
off  except  for  the  i?oo  fubfcribcrs.  Immediately 
after  they  were  ferved,  the  plates  were  retouched^ 
and  fome  of  the  variations  introduced. 

2.  Rehearfal  of  the  Oratorio  of  Juditbf  Singing 
men  and  boys.  Ticket  for  ^*  A  Modem  Midnight 
**  Converfatiofl.**  This  Oratorio  of  Juditbf  which 
was  performed  in  chacader,  was  written  by  Mr. 
Huggmsy  as  has  been  already  obfervcd  in  p.  187  ;  and 
the  line  taken  from  it, 

<'  The  world  iball  bow  to  the  Jfyriam  throne/' 

infcribed  on  the  book,  is  a  fatire  on  its  want  of  fuc« 
ccfs. — The  corner  figure  looking  over  the  notes,  was 
dcfiii-ned  f6r  Mr.  Toibjll 

3.  A  Midnight  Modern  Convcrfation.  W.  Hcgartb 
inv.  pirfx*  i^  jculp.  Hogartb  foon  difcovered  that  this 
engraving  was  too  faintly  executed ;  and  therefore, 
after  taking  off  a  few  impreflions  in  red  as  well  as 
black,  he  retouched  and  ftrengthened  the  plate. 
Under  this  prmt  are  the  following  vcrfes  : 

Think  not  to  find  one  meant  refcmblance  here^ 
We  ialh  the  Vices,  but  the  Pcrfons  fpare. 
Prints  Ihould  be  prized,  as  Authors  Ibould  be  read^ 
Who  Iharply  fmilc  prevailing  Folly  dead. 

So 


C  ♦^  1 

dBp  £4lf Af^i  laugbt,  and  fo  CerpanUs  thoi^tj 
^  Natttfc  didated  what  Art  has  taught. 

Moft  erf"  the  figures,  howler,  are  fuppofcij  to  le 
•real  portraits.  The  Divine  and  the  Lawyer*,  in 
particular,  are  well  known  to  be  fo. 

A 

♦ 

^  Thefe,  in  mj  firfi  tditiqn,  I  h^d  ventured*  od  populftr 
report,  to  fay  were  pAtfon  For J^  and  the  firAhord  Northingt^^ 
:ivhen  young*  But  1  am  now  cnabltd  to  identify  their  perfons^ 
on  the  authority  of  Sir^i!^*  HanfAuu:  '*  When  thei^Udni|^t 
V  Modern  Convcrfatipn  came  out,  the  general  ppuuon  wa0» 
«*  th|Kt  the-DtTinewas  iElie  portrait  of  Orator  Henley  i  and  the 
f'  Lawyer  of  jKf$ikHy^  a  VQci&rous  bar  or^t^,  reoiarkabic, 
*'  xhot^h  an  .utter  barrifter,  for  wearing  ^  fulUbottooi'd  wig, 
•*  which  he  is  here  drawn  with,  as  alfo  for  a  horrible  fquiut.** 
In  tha(  QQce  popular  iatire,  Vh  Camfidkade^  are  the  follow** 
^ng  lines  on  this  lawyer : 

«*  Up  Kettkhy  ftarts  with  a  borrihk Jl^re ! 
**  *  Behold,  my  good  Lord,  yourx>ld  friend  at  the  bar^ 
f  *  Or  rather  jqU  foe^  for  foes  we  have  beea, 
'*  As  treafon  fell  out,  and  poor  traitors  fell  in, 
**  Strong  oppofites.e*er,  and  not  once  of  a  iide, 
*^  Attonues  wiU  «lway;S  .gr^L  CDuofel  divi(l^» 
•*  iLoMfor  perfecutions,  I  always  againft^ 
*'  How.oft  with  a  joke  ';gainibyour  law  have  I  fencM  ? 
**  How  oft  in  your  pleadijigs  Tyc  pic]k'd  out  a  hole, 
f*  Thro*  which,  from  your  pounces  my  culprit  IVe  ftole  ; 
V  I've  pu^^Ud  ^gainft  you  now  ejght  years  or  nine, 
•*  You,  my  Lord,  for  your  King,  I  a  1  for -mine.', 

<*  But  what  is  ail  this  ?     Now  your  Lordihip.w til  fay, 
**  To  ^t  at  (he  office  this  is  not  the  way. 
**  I  owp  it  is  not,  fo  I  make  no  requeft 
**  For  royfclf,  fiiil  firm  to  my  party  and  tcft : 
•*  6ut  if  'tis  your  pleafure  to  give  it  my  fon, 
•*  He  fliall  take  off  his  coif  t'accept  of  the  boon ; 
«*  That  coif  I,  rcfufing,  transfcrr'd  upon  him, 
•*  For  wbo*d,be  a  feijeant  where  F     ■       r  was  Prime  ? 
•'  That  my  fon  is  a  lawyer  no  one  can  gainfay, 
i*  As  witnefs  his  getting  off  W^ tt  t'other  day.* 


A  pamphlet  was  publilhed  about  the  Tame  time, 
voder  the  fame  title  as  this  plate.  In  Bankt's  Poems* 
ToL  I.  p.  87.  the  print  is  copied  as  a  head-piece  to 
sn  Fpifl-lc  to  M-.  Hcgarib,  on  this  performance.  In 
a  note,  it  is  faid  to  have  appeared  after  73?f  Harlot't 
prt^rtfs;  and  that  in  the  original,  and  all  the  larger 
copies,  on  the  papers  that  hang  out  of  the  politician's 
pocket  at  the  end  of  the  tabic,  was  written  The 
Crafifmatit  and  The  London  Juumal. 

Of  this  print  a  good,  but  contrafted  copy,  W3j 
publifhcd  (perhaps  with  Hagarlb's  permiiTion),  and 
the  following  copy  of  verfcs  engraved  undet  it, 

**  i  he  Bacchanalians ;  or  a  Midnight  Modern 
.Convcrfatipn.  A  }*oem  addrelTed  to  the  Ingenious 
Mrs.  Hogarth. 

pacred  to  ihee,  permit  this  lajr 
Thy  labour,  Hegarthf  to  difplay  I 
Patron  and  theme  in  one  to  be  ! 
Tis  great,  but  not  too  great  for  thee ; 


•'  Q»o'  my  Lord,  '  My  friend  jfirl,  I  needs  muft  atlov 
**  You  hiive  pitzzled  mc  oft,  a>  indeed  you  do  nijw ; 
"  Nay,  have  pnxzled  yourlcir,  the  court  and  ibc  lair, 
•'  And  chuckled  moft  winily  over  a  flaw  : 
"  For  your  noflrumi,  enigma),  tonundrumi,  and  ptini, 
•*  Are  above  comprehcnfior,  favc  that  of  your  foii'». 
•'  To  fling  off  the  coif !  Oh  fye,  my  friend  ji&tl, 
••  'Twould  be  afting  ihe  pan  of  the  Cock  ia  the  Fable  I 
*•  'Til  a  badge  uf  diftinclion  !  and  fome  people  buy  it ; 
•*  Can  you  doubl  on'l,  when  SiUarr  and  H^jiard fo]oy  ni 
*f  Tho'  1  own  you  have  fpoil'd  (but  1  will  not  eolatgeon'i) 
**  A  good  Chanctry  dralifroan  to  make  a  bad  Seijeant."* 

l^ord  lf»riliiMgit»  did  not  come  into  notice  till  many  ytart  ^ce 

the  put)ltC3lioii  of  (bit  piint. 


i 


*    • 


fbr  tliM,  the  Poet's  cbhthoit  friend^ 
Whofe  vein  of  humour  knows  no  end^ 
This  verfe  which^  honeft  to  thy  fame. 
Has  added  to  thy  praife  thy  name ! 
Who  can  be  dull  when  to  his  eyes       •     > 
Such  various  fcenes  of  humour  fife  ^  * 
Now  we  behold  in  what  unite 
The  Prieft^  the  Beau,  the  Ctt,  the  Bite*; 
Where  Law  and  Phyfick  join  the  SwoM, 
And  Juftice  deigns  to  crown  the  boards '^ 
How  Midnight  Modern  CsH^dUam    ' 
Mingle  all  faculties  and  ftations ! 

FuU  to  the  fight,  and-nett*  die  bowl» 
Sits  4iie  phyiician  of  the  foul ; 
No  loftier  themeis  his  thought  purfues 
Than  Punch,  good  Company,  and  Dues : 
Eafy  and  carelefs  what  may  fall. 
He  hears,  confents,  and  fills  t6  all ; 
Proving  it  plamly  by  his  face 
That  caflbcks  are  no  figns  of  grace* 

Near  him  a  fon  of  heUal  fee ; 
(That  Heaven  and  Satan  (hould  agree  !) 
Warm'd  and  wound  up  to  proper  height 
He  vows  to  dill  maintain  the  fight. 
The  brave  furviving  Pried  aflails. 
And  fairly  damns  the  firft  that  fails ; 
Fills  up  a  bumper  to  the  Beft 
In  Chriftendom,  for  that's  his  tafte : 
1  he  parfon  (impers  at  the  jeft. 
And  puts  it  forward  to  the  reft* 

What 


FUxbfirhirts  Lktbim^  mid  (Uki^ 

Ate  ill  imtced  in  his  look. 

Hit  fpacfoiii  vfrig  Mooeoii  Ui  e*^ 

Yet  tte  4t«ill  pfaxkfing  beoft  appeam 

His  mufclcs  feem  cxiift  Id  fit 

Mvck  Dotff^  muck  pikle^  and  noc.tfiDch  wit* 

Who  then  it  b<  irkk  fdlema  plis^ 
Updn  bU  elbows  poitM  wkh  eafel. 
Freely  to  fpeak  the  Mofe  is  loch^^ 
Juftice  or  IcMve-^he  nuiy  be  bolh^-*^ 
Jitlioe  or  kntvo^^'iif  much  the  fiitiie : 
To  boaft  of  crimoi^Pf  tell  the  ihame. 
Of  iddng  tatk  or  refomuMaob^ 
Tis  all  good  Mdd9rm  Ommfothn. 

What  mighty  Uaibiavil  ait  thdu, . 
With  patrioi  cares  upon  thy  brow  ? 
Alas,  that  punch  ibould  have  the  fate 
To  dcown  the  pilot  of  the  fiate  ! 
That  while  both  fides  thy  pocket  holds, 
Nor  IfAnven  grieves,  dor  Oflwrne  fcolds^ 
Thou  (ink'ft  the  bufineft  of  the  nation 
In  MUnif^bt  Modern  C§nverfaiionl 

The  Tradefman  cells  with  wat'ry  eyes 
How  Credit  finks,  how  Taxes  rife ; 
At  P^Arliametits  and  Great  Men  pets. 
Counts  all  his  lofles  and  his  debts. 

The  puoy  Fop,  mankind's  di%race. 
The  ladica'  jeft  and  looking-glais ; 

Thia 


.  71us  he-lhe  thing  the  mode  purfues. 
And  drinks  in  order — till  he  fp — ^s. 
See  where  the  Relift  of  the  Wars^ 
Deep  marked  with  honorary  fears, 
A  mightier  foe  has  causM  to  yield 
'f'han  ever  MarlbvQ*  met  in*  field  I 
Seeprofbrate  on  tl\e  earth. he  lies; 
And  leai^n^  ye  ibldier»>  to  be  wife.. 

Flulh'd  with  the  fqmcs  of  gcn'rous  wiac    t 
The  Doftor's  face  begins  to  fhinc : 
With  eyes  half  clos'd,  in  Aanim'ring  ftrain^ 
He  (peeks  the  praifc  of  ikh  chan$ipaigQ« 
Tis  dull  ID  verfe,  what  from  thy  hand 
^ight  even  a  Caio's  fmile  command. 
Th*' expiring  fnuffs,  the  bottles  broke. 
And  the  full  bowl  at  four  o'clock. 

March  2%,  i742»  w^  adted  at  Cdvent-Gdrden^  a 
new  fcene,  called  A  Modern  Midnight  Converfuiim^ 
taken  from  Hogarth* s  celebrated^ print ;  in  which  was 
introduced,  Hippijley*s  Drunken  Man,  with  a  comic 
tale  of  what  feally  pafled  between  himfelf  and  his 
old  aunt,  at  her  houfe  on  Mendip-Hillsy  in  Somerfit^ 
Jhire.    For  Mr.  Hippi/ley^s  benefit. 


T  ^  A    ^ 


I.  The  Rake's  Progrcfs,  in  eight  plates. 
Extraft  from  ihc  London  Daily  Pojiy  May  14,  1735  : 
The  nine  prints  from  the  paintings  of  Mr.  Hc^ 
gartb,  one  reprefenting  a  Fair,  and  the  others  a 
*^  Rake's  Progrefs,  are  now^  printing  off,  and  will  be 
ready  to  be  delivered  on  the  25th  of  jfune  next. 

"  Subfcriptions 


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[    io8    ] 

•*  Subfcnptions  will  be  taken  at  Mr.  ffagarti^j,  tfid 
•'  Golden-Hiad.  in  Lcirc/ier-Jic/eis,  tUl  the  2:d  of  j  .net. 
"  and  no  longer,  at  half  a  guinea  to  be  paid  on  fuW 
"  fcribing,  and  half  a  gcTnea  more  ort  delivery 
"  the  prints  at  the    price    abofe-mentioncd, 
"  which  the  price  will  be  two  guineas. 

"  N.B.  Mr.  Ho^iirth  was,  and  is,  obliged  to  defer 
**  the  publication  and  delivery  of  the  abovcfaid  prints 
"  till  the  25th  of  June  next,  in  order  to  fecure  his 
"  property,  purfiiant  to  an  aft  lately  pafled  both 
•'  houfes  of  parliament,  now  waiting  for  the  royal 
•'  aflent,  to  fecure  all  new  invented  prints  that  fliall 
**  be  publiflicd  after  the  24th  of  June  next,  from 
**  being  copied  without  confent  of  the  proprietor, 
*'  and  thereby  preventing  a  fcandalous  and  unjuft 
•'  cuftom  (hitherto  praftifcd  with  impunity)  of  mak- 
'  *'  ing  and  vending  bafe  copies  of  original  prints,  to 
**  the  manifcft  injury  of  the  author,  and  the  great 
**  difcouragement  of  the  arts  of  painring  and  eii- 
"  graving." 

In  The  Crafifman,  foon  afterwards,  appeared  ll 
following  advcrtifcmtnt: 

•'  Purfuant  to  an  agreement  with  the  fubfcrib«r» 
"  to  the  Rake's  Progrcfs,  not  to  fell  ihem  for  Icfs 
*'  than  two  guineas  each  fet  after  publication  thereof, 
"  the  faid  original  prints  arc  to  be  had  at  Mr.  Ht»- 
"  garth's,  the  Gtlden'Head,  in  heicefitrjieldi  \  and  at 
*'  Tho.  Buicweirs,  ptint-fcllcr,  next  John/tm's  Ccartt 
"  in  fleeS-Jircet,  where  all  other  print-fellers  may  be 
**  liippUcd, 


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■        •        •         • 

-^'  lA  fout-  days  will  be  j)ubUlhed,  copies  frotn  the 
**  laid  prints,  with  the  confent  of  Mr.  Hogartb,  ac- 
*•  cording  to  the  aft  bf  parliameiSt,  which  will  be 
**  fold  at  i  X.  6  d.  each  fet.  With  the  ufUal  allowance 
**  to  all  dealers  in  town  and  country  ;  and,  that?  the 
«'  publick  itiay  not  be  impofed  on^  at  the  bottom  of 
each  print  will  be  inferted  thefe  words^  viz.  *  Pub- 
•*  lilhed  with  the  confent  of  Mr.  William  Hogarth^  by 
Tbo.  Bakewell^  accotding  to  aft  of  parliament/ 

N.B.  Any  perfon  that  Ihall  fell  any  Other  co- 
pies, or  imitations  of  the  faid  prints,  wilV  incur 
the  penalties  in  the  late  aft  of  parliament,  and  be 
"  profccutcd  for  the  fame.'* 

This  ferles  of  plates,  however,  aS  Mr.  WalpoU  ob- 
fervcs,  was  pirated  by  BoUard  on  one  very  large  fheet 
of  paper,  containing  the  feveral  fcenes  reprefented 
by  Hogarth.  It  came  out  a  foi'tnight  before  the  ge- 
nuine fet,  but  was  foon  forgotten.  The  principal 
variations  in  thefe  prints  are  the  following  : 

Plate  I.  The  girl's  face  who  holds  the  ring  is 
erafed,  and  a  worfe  is  put  in  **  The  mother's  head, 
&c.  is  leflenedi  The  fhoefoh,  cut  from  the  cover 
of  an  ancient  family  Bible,  together  with  a  cheft,  is 
added  ;  the  memorandum-book  removed  into  ano- 
ther  place ;  the  woollen-draper's  fhop  bill  j,  appended 


* 


The  face  of  this  female  has  likewife  been  changed  on 
.  the  lail  plate.     In  tlic  intermediate  ones  it  icmaiiia  as  ori§^- 
nally  defigiK-d.     To  give  the  fame  character  two  different  cafls 
of  countenance,  was  fiircly  an  incongruity  without  excufe. 

•j-  The  infcription  on  this  bill  is — "  I.ondou^  bjught  of 
**  irdllam  Tothall^  Woollen -draper  in  Coviut'GayJn!,*'*  Sec  the 
cornet  figure  looking  over  the  mnfic  in  the  Rchearfji  of  the 
Oratorio  of  yuJ:th  ;   and  note,  p.  1 16. 

P  to 


C  «'o  ] 
to  a  roll  of  black  cloth,  omitted ; 
clofct  thrown  more  into  Ihadc. 

In  '.Plate  II,  are   portraits  of   i^^,     the  prize- 
fighter*; £ri(/^f7«i3n,  a  noted  gardener ;  and  Duiwj, 


*  Of  whom  a  feparate  porCrait,  by  Ellii,  had  been  publiflicd 
by  Overton.  F-gg  died  in  ihc  year  1734.  As  the  tafle  of  the 
publtck  is  much  changed  about  the  importance  of  the  auhle 
Science  of  Defence,  as  it  was  called,  and  as  probably  i:  wiH 
4iever  again  revive,  it  may  afford  fomc  i-iitcrtainoiciit  to  my 
readers,  to  fee  the  terms  in  v.hich  Ihii  celebrated  piize-fighier 
tt  fpokea  of  by  a  profcffor  of  the  art.  "  Figg  was  the  jitlai 
*' of  the  Sword  ;  and  may  he  remain  the  gUdiating  flame! 
*'  la  him  llrength,  refolotion,  and  unparalleled  judgement, 
••  ronfpircd  to  form  a  matchlefi  mailer.  There  was  a  ma- 
"  jelly  Ihcne  in  his  countenance,  and  blazed  in  all  his  afiiooi, 
"  beyood  all  I  ever  faw.  Hie  right  leg  bold  and  firm  ;  and 
•'  hit  left,  which  could- hardly  ever  be  dillurbcd,  gave  him  the 
*'  furprifing  advantage  already  proved,  and  firiick  bit  adver- 
*■  fary  with  dcipair  and  panic.  He  had  tbit  peculiar  way  of 
•'  ftepping  iu  1  fpolte  of,  in  a  parry ;  he  knew  his  arm,  and 
"  its  juft  time  of  tnoving  ;  put  a  firm  faith  in  that,  and  never 
•*  lei  his  adverfary  cfcape  his  p;itTy.  He  was  juft  at  much  a 
"  greater  maftcr  than  any  other  I  ever  faw,  as  he  was  a 
"  greater  judge  of  time  and  intafure.'*  C,ifiuim  Jebn  Gadfrty't 
Snatife  ipeii  Oh  V/eful  ScUiac  ef  tiiftiitt,  410,  1 747,  p.  41* 
*'  Mr.  Figg,"  lays  Cleivico.^,  Hiflory  of  the  Stage,  p.  bo, 
**  informed  me  once,  that  he  had  not  boirghi  a  (hirt  for  more 
**  than  twenty  year?,  bin  had  fold  fome  dozens.  It  wai  h'ls 
"  method,  when  he  fought  in  his  amphiihearre  (his  ftagc 
•'  bearing  that  fuperb  title),  to  fend  round  to  a  feteft  number 
■'  of  his  fcholars,  to  borrow  a  fliirt  for  the  cnfuing  combat, 
*>  and  feldom  failed  of  hilf  a  dozen  of  fupcrfine  Holland 
•'  from  his  prime  pupils  (moft  of  the  young  nobility  and 
■'  gentry  made  it  a  pan  of  iheir  education  to  march  under  hit 
•*  warlike  banner).  This  champion  was  generally  conqueror, 
"  though  his  fhirt  feldom  failed  of  gaining  a  cut  from  hia 
"  enemy,  and  fomctimes  hh  fkHi,  though  I  think  he  never 
"  received  any  dangcroui  wound.  Mufi  of  liis  fcholan  were 
**  at  every  batUe,  aad  were  furc  to  exult  at  ibeir  great  oiaHcr'a 
"  MAories, 


t    "1     J 

ft  mafter  of  defence/who  was  killed  in  a  duel  by 
bne  of  the  fame  name^  as  the  following  paragraphs 
In  The  Grub^/lreet  Journal  fox  May  i6,  1734,  &c.  will 
teftify  :  "  Yeflerday  (May  1 1)  between  two  and  three 
^'  in  the  afternoon^  a  duel  was  fought  in  Marj^le-bone 
'^  Fields y  between  Mr.  Dubois  a  Frenchman^  and  Mir* 
'^  Dubois  an  Irtjhman^  both  fencing-mafter39  the  for* 

mer  of  whom  was  run  through  the  body^  but 

walked  a  coniiderable  Way  from  the  place,  and  is 
^^  now  under  the  hands  of  an  able  furgeon^  who  has 
'*  great  hopes  of  his  recovery." 

May  23,  1734,  •*  Yefterday  morning  died  Mr. 
^*  Dubois y  of  a  wound  he  received  in  a  duel.** 

The  portrait  of  Hansel  has  been  fuppofcd  to  be 
reprefented  in  the  plate  before  us;  but  **  this/'  as 
Sir  John  Hawkins  obferves  to  me,  '*  is  too  much  to  fay. 
•*  Mr.  Handel  had  a  higher  fcnfe  of  his  own  merit  than 
**  ever  to  put  himfelf  in  fu.ch  a  fituation  ;  and,  if  fo, 
"  the  painter  would  hardly  have  thought  of  doing  jit. 
*'  The  mufician  muft  mean  in  general  any  compofer 
**  of  operas.^  On  the  floor  lies  a  pifture  reprefenting 
Farinelllj  feated  on  a  pedeftal,  with  an  altar  before 
him,  on  which  are  fevcral  flaming  hearts,  near 
which  ftand  a  number  of  people  with  their  arms  ex«» 

*'  vidlories,  every  peiTon  fuppofing  he  faw  the  wounds  his  fhirt 
•*  received.  Mr,  Frgg  took  his  opportunity  to  inform  kit 
*^  lenders  of  linen  of  the  chafing  their  fliirts  received,  widk  a 
^^  promiie  to  fend  them  home.  £ut,  faid  the  ingenious  cou* 
*'  rageous  Figgy  I  feldom  received  any  other  anfwer  than 
•*  D— mn  you,  keep  it  I**  A  Poem  by  Dr.  Bjrom^  on  a  battla 
between  Figg  and  Sutton^  another  pri2e-fighter|  is  in  the  6tli 
Volftme  of  Bodjlefs  Collcftion  of  Poems. 

P  2  tcndedj 


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tended,  ofTeriDg  him  prefents :    at  the  foot  of  the 
altar  is  one  female  kneeling,  tendering  her  heart. 

.From   her   mouth  a  label  ifliics,  infcribed,  **  One 
**  God,  one  FarinelU  f   alluding  to  a  lady  of  dif- 

^  tindion,  who,  being  charmed  with  a  particular  paf- 
fage  in  one  of  his  fongs,  uttered  aloud  from  the 
boxes  that  impious  exclamation.  On  the  figure  of 
the  captain,  Kouquet  has  the  following  remark  :  **  Ce 
•*  caraftere  me  paroit  plus  Italien  qu*  AnghisJ*  I  am 
not  fufficiently  vcrfed  in  Alfatian  annals  to  decide  on 
the  queftion  ;  but  believe  that  the  bully  by  profef- 
fion  (not  affaffin,  as  Rouquei  feenis  to  interpret  the 
charafter)  was  to  be  found  during  the  youth  of  our 
artift.  More  have  heard  and  been  afraid  of  thcfe 
vulgar  heroes,  than  ever  met  with  them.  This  fet 
of  prints  was  engraved  by  Scotin  chiefly  ;  but  feveral 
of  the  faces  were  touched  upon  by  Hogarth.  In 
the  fecond  plate  the  countenance  of  the  man  with 
the  quarter- (laves  was  wholly  engraved  by  Hogarth. 
In  fomc  early  proofs  of  the  print,  there  is  not  a  (in- 
gle feature  on  this  man's  face ;  there  is  no  writing 
either  in  the  mufician's  book,  or  on  the  label ;  nor  is 
there  the  horfc-race  cup,  the  letter,  or  the  poem 
that  lies  at  the  end  of  the  label,  that  being  entirely 

.  blank.  I  mention  thefe  circum (lances  to  (hew  that 
our  artid  would  not  entrud  particular  parts  of  his 
work  to  any  hand  but  his  own  ;  or  perhaps  he  had 
neither  determined  on  the  countenarice  or  the  in- 
fcription  he  meant  to  introduce,  till  the  plutc  was 
far  advanced.      With   unfinifhed   proofs,   on   any 

other 


1    "3    3 

other  account^  this  catalogue  has  nothing  to  do. 
As  the  rudiments  of  plates,  they  may  afford  inftruc* 
tion  to  young  engravers ;  or  add  a  fancied  value  to 
the  collcdtions  of  connoifleurs. 

In  the  third  plate  is  I^atb^-coaf  ^  j  a  noted  porter 
belonging  to  Tbe  Rofe  Tavern,  with  a  large  pewter 
dilK^in  his  hand,  which  for  many  years  ferved  as  a 
fign  to  the  (hop  of  a  pewterer  on  Snow- Hill.  In  this: 
utenfil  the  pofture- woman,  who  is  undreffing,  ufcd 
to  whirl  herfelf  round,  and  difplay  other  feats  of 
indecent  adtivity :  "  II  fufEt*'  (I  tranfcribe  from 
Rouqtietf  who  is  more  circumftantial)  *^  dc  vous 
**  laiiTer  a  deviner  la  deftination  de  la  chandellc.  Cc 
**  grand  plat  va  fervir  a  cctte  femme  comnie  a  unci 
**  poularde.  II  fera  mis  au  milieu  de  la  table  ;  elle 
<^  s'y  placera  fur  le  dos  ;  et  I'ivreffe  ct  Tefprit  dc 
^*  debauche  feront  trouver  plaifant  un  jeu,  qui  dc 
"  fang-froid  ne  le  paroit  guercs/'  Rouquel^  in  his 
defcription  of  an  Englijh  tavern,  fuch  as  that  if? 
which  our  fcene  lies,  mentions  the  following  as  ex- 
traordinary conveniencies  and  articles  of  niagnifi- 
cence  :  **  Du  linge  toujours  blanc  f^ — de  tables  de  bois 

*'  qu'on 

*  FieUing  has  introduced  this  porter,  under  the  name  of 
jLeatherJides^  into  The  Covent-Garden  Tragedy^  aded  in  1732. 
Leath.  Two  whores,  greatMadam,  mufl  be  flraight  prepar*<f, 

A  fat  one  for  the  Squire,  and  for  my  Lord  a  lean.    . 
Mother.  Tho\i,  Ltathcrfides^  beft  know 'ft  fuch   nymphs   to 
find, 
To  thee  their  lodgings  they  communicate.  „  ,, 

Go  thou  procure  the  girh 
+  The  cleanlincfs  of  the  EngUJb  feems  to  have  niade  a  fimir 
Ur  imprefTion  on   the  mind  of  M.  Be  CrcJIcy^  who,  in  his 

P  3  **  Tour 


E  »H  3 

pellc  ici  m^hpganl— grand  feu  et  gra^tis/^ 
;  Pomaces  head  is  added  in  the  room  of  st 
mutilated  Cafar.  Principal  wonun  has  a  man's  hat 
on*  Rake's  h^ad  altered.  Updreft  woman's  head 
fllteredi  Woman  who  fpirts  the  wine,  apd  ihe  who 
threatens  her  with  a  drawn  knifei  have  lower  caps,  &c« 

So  entirely  do  our  manners  differ  from  thofe  qf 
£fty  years  ago,  that  1  much  queftion  if  at  prefent,  in 
all  the  taverns  of  London^  any  thing  refembling  the 
fpene  here  exhibited  by  Hogarth  could  be  found. 
That  we  are  lefs  fenfual  than  our  predeceflbrs,  I  do 
not  affirm ;  but  may  with  truth  obferve,  we  are  more 
delicate  in  purfuit  of  our  gratifications.— -No  youn^ 
man,  of  our  hero's  fortune  and  education,  would  now 
ihink  of  entertaining  half  a  fcore  of  prqfiitutes  at  a 
tavern,  gfter  having  routed  a  fet  qf  fipeble  wretches^ 
who  are  idly  called  our  Quardians  qf  the  N  ight. 

Plate  (V.  Rakewill  is  going  to  couit  op  the  firft 
pf  Marcb^  which  was  Queen  Carolines  birth-day,  as 

'•'  Tour  to  J>jiA»,"obfer7cs,  that  f*  The  plate,  hearth-ftoncs^ 
**  moveables,  apartments,  doors^  flairs,  the  very  flreet«docrs^ 
**  their  locks,  and  the  large  brafs  knockers,  are  every  day 
**  waihed,  fcowered,  or  rubbed  Even  in  lodging-houfes,  the 
•*  middle  of  the  flairs  is  often  coycrefl  u  ith  carpeting^  to  pre* 
^  vent  them  from  being  foiled.  All  the  apartments  in  the 
**  houfe  have  mats  or  carpets  ;  and  the  ufe  of  them  has  beeq 
*•  adopted  fornc  years  fince  by  the  Frcucb  ;'*  and  that  **  The 
**  tovrns  and  villages  upon  the  fCad  have  excellent  inns,  but 
f*  fomei'^'bat  dear ;  at  thefe  an  Enghjh  lord  is  as  well  ferved  at 
V  it  his  own  houfe,  and  with  a  tleanlinefs  much  to  be  wiihed 
f*  for  in  moft  of  the^beft  houfes  of  France.  The  innkeeper 
^  makes  his  appearance  only  to  do  the  honours  of  his  table  to 
f*  the  greatefl  perfonages^  who  often  invite  him  to  dine  yrith 
?•  them.-  ,      .      -    . . 

WcU 


[    "5    3 

wcH  as  the  annivcrfary  of  St.  DavltL    In  the  early 
knpreilions  a  ihoe-black  fteals  the  Rake's  cane.     In 
the  modern  ones,  a  large  group  of  blackguards*  [the 
cbimncy-fweepcr  peeping  over  the  poll  boy's  cards^ 
and  difcovering  that  he  has  two  honours,  by  holding 
up  two  fingers,  is  among  the  luckieft  6f  Hogarth* s 
traits]  are  introduced  gambling  on  the  pavement ; 
near  them  a  done  infcribed  Black's,  a  contraft  to 
Whites  gaming- houfe,  ogainft  which  a  flafli  of  light- 
ning is  pointed.     The  curtain  in  the  window  of  the 
jfedan  chair  is  thrown  back.    This  plate  is  likewife 
found  in  an  mtermediate  date  f ;  the  iky  being  made 
unnaturally  obfctire,  iR^th  an  attempt  to  introduc6^^^ 
fliower  of  rain,  and  lightning  very  aukwardly  repri- 
fented.     It  is  fuppofed  to  be  a  firft  proof  after  the 
(ni^rtion  of  the  group  of  black-guard  gamefters ; 
the  window  of' the  chair  being  only  marked  for  an 
alteration  that  was  afterwards  made  in  it.    Hogarth 
appears  to  have  fo  far  fpoiled  the  flcy,  that  he  wis 
obliged  to  obliterate  it,  and  caufe  it  to.  be  engraved 
over  again  by  another  hand  %-    ^o^  forefeeing,  hoW- 
ever,  the  immenfe  demand  for  his  prints,  many  of 

*  The  chief  of  thefe,  who  wears  fomethiog  that  ieeois  to 
have  been  a  tie-wig,  was  painted  from  a  French  boy,  whp 
(leaned  ihoet  at  the  comer  of  Hog-Lam. 

t  In  the  colltdlion  of  Mr.^UiWMs  only. 

i  He  had  meditated,  however,  forne  additional  improva- 
raents  in  the  fame  plate.  V^hen  he  had  inferted  the  &orm, 
be  began  to  conEder  the  impropriety  of  turning  the  gid  otit 
in  the  midfi  of  it  with  her  Ikead  uncovered ;  and  checefefv, 
op  a  proof  of  this  print,  from  which  he  defigned  to .  have 
worked,  he  iketched  her  hat  in  with  IftJiaft  ink. 

P  4  them 


i  «6  3 

'them  were  fi>  ilightly  executed,  as  very  early  to  flimd 
in  need  of  retouching.  The  fevcnth  in  particular 
was  (b  much  more  (lightly  executed  than  the  reft, 
that  it  fooner  wanted  renovation,  and  is  therefore  to 
be  found  in  three  diflfercnt  ftatest  The  reft  appear 
Only  in  two. 

In  Plate  V,  is  his  favourite  dog  Trump.  In  this 
alfo  the  head  of  the  maid-fervant  is  greatly  alteredj 
and  the  leg  and  foot  of  the  bridegroom  omitted. 

From  the  anticjuatcd  bride,  and  the  young  female 
adjufting  the  folds  of  her  gown^  in  this  plate,  is  taken 
ft  French  print  of  a  wrinkled  harridan  of  faftiion  at 
her  toileti  attended  by  a  blooming  coeffeufe.  It  was 
engraved  by  L,  Surugue  in  1 745,  from  a  pii^ure  in 
crayons  by  Ctypel,  and  is  entitled.  La  Folic  pare  la  De-* 
erepilude  des  ajufiemenf  d^  la  Jeunejfe.  From  the  French^ 
matiy  however^  the  Devonjhire-fquare  dowager  of  our 
artift  h^s  received  fo  high  a  polifti,  that  ihe  might 
be  miftakcn  for  a  queen  mother  of  France^ 

Mr.  Gilpin,  in  his  remarks  on  this  plate,  appears 
not  to  have  fully  gomprchendcd  the  extent  of  the 
fatire  defigpcd  in  \t.  Speaking  of  the  church,  he 
obfcrves,  that  "  the  wooden  poft,  which  fcems  to  have 
**  no  ufc,  divides  the  pidure  difagreeably/'  Hogarth^ 
however,  meant  to  expofe  the  infufficiency  of  fuel) 
eccleiiaftical  repairs  as  are  confided  to  the  fuperin- 
tendance  of  parifli-officcrs.  We  learn,  from  an  in- 
fcription  on  the  front  of  a  pew,  that  **  This  church 
*^  was  beautified  iq  thp  Year  1725.    Tho.  Sice,  Tho. 


^  iforw.  Churchwardens  V  The  print  before  us 
came  out  in  1735  (i.e.  only  ten  years  afterwards)^ 
and  by  that  time  the  building  might  have  been  found 
in  the  condition  here  exhibited^  and  have  required  a 
prop  to  prevent  part  of  its  roof  from  falling  in, — As 
a  proof  that  this  edifice  was  really  in  a  ruinous  (late^ 
it  was  pulled  down  and  rebuilt  in  the  year  1741% 

Fifty  years  ago^  Marybone  church  was  confidered 
at  fuch  a  diftance  from  London^  as  to  become  the 
ufual  refoit  of  thofe.who^  like  our  hero,  wUhed  to 
be  privately  married.    ^ 

In  Plate  VI.  die  fire  breaking^  out,  alludes^  to  the 
fame  accident  which  happened  at  Wbit^s^  May  3^ 
1733.  I  learn  fiom  a  very  indifferent  poem  defcrip* 
tive  of  this  fet  of  plates  (the  title  is  unfortunately 

*  It  appeari,  on  examination  of  the  Regiflen,  &c«  that 
Tho*  Sice  and  Tbf.  Horm  are  not  fictitious  names.  Such  people 
were  really  chnrchwardens  when  the  repairs  in  1725  were 
made.  Tht  following  in&ription  on  the  pew,  denoting  a 
vanlt  beneath,  it  alio  genuine,  and,  as  far  as  can  be  known  at 
prefent,  was  f jtithfully  copied  in  regard  to  its  obfolete  fpelling, 

THESE  PBWES  VMSCEVD  AVD  TAKE  IN  SVKDBR 
•      IN  STONE  THEIS  OEAVIN.WHAT  IS  VNDEE 
TO  WIT  A  VALT  FOR  BURIAL  THERE  IS 
WHICH  tDWARD  F0R8ET  MADE  FOR   HIM  AND  HIS* 

Part  of  thefe  words,  in  raifed  letters,  at  prefent  form  a  panned 
in  the  wainfcot  at  the  end  of  the  right-hand  gallery,  as  the 
church  is  entered  from  the  ilreet.*— No  heir  of  the  FT/et  fa- 
mily appearing,  their  vault  has  been  claimed  and  ufed  by  his 
(jrace  the  Duke  of  F9rtUmd^  as  lord  of  the  manor.  The 
mural  monument  of  the  Ta^Urs^  compofed  of  lead  gilt  over, 
is  likewffe  preferved.  It  is  feen,  in  Hogarth^s  print,  juft  under 
the  window.  The  bifhop  of  the  diocefe,  when  the  new  church 
was  bui{ty  gave  orders  that  all  the  ancient  tablets  (hould  bef 
^Uced^  as  nearly  as  poffiblci  in  their  former  iituations. 

wanting). 


r  "«  ] 

wanting),  that  Tome  of  the  cbzraden  in  the  foe 
^fore  ut  were  real  ones  : 

**  But  fee  the  careful  plain  old  man, 

"  M- *,  well  known  youth  to  trepan, 

**  To  C — ~~~/h  +  lend  the  dear  bought  pence^^ 

•*  C Jh,  quite  void  of  common  fcnfe, 

**  Whofe  face,  unto  his  foul  a  fign, 
"  Looks  ftupid,  as  docs  that  within. 
"  A  quarrel  from  behind  cnfucs, 
"  Tho  furc  retreat  of  thofe  that  lofc. 
"  An  honeft  'Squire  fmells  the  cheat, 
"  And  fwears  the  villain  ftiall  be  beat : 

"  But  G Jd  wifely  interferes, 

*'  And  diffipates  the  wretch's  fears." 
The  original  Ikctch  in  oil  for  this  fccne  is  at  Mr*.  J 
Hagarth's  houfe   in  Leicejler-fields.      The    principal* 
charafter  was  then  fitting,  and  not,  as  he  is  at  prefent,  i 
thrown  upon  his  knees  in  the  aift  of  execration. 

The  tiiought  of  the  lofing  gamcftcr  pulling  his  hat 
over  his  brows  is  adopted  from  a  Gmilar  charafter 
to  be  found  among  the  ^gures  of  the  principal  pcr- 
fonagcs  in  the  court  of  Louii  XIV.  folio.  This  work 
has  no  engraver's  name,  but  was  probably  executed 
about  the  year  1700. 

Plate  VII.  The  celebrated  Brccaria,  in  his  '*  Effay 
*'  on  Public  Happinefs,"  vol.  H.  p.  172,  obferves, 

•  Old  Manacn,  hrotbcr  to  the  htc  Duit  af  SuilaniL 
i  The  oid  Duke  of  Dcvenfiiin  loll  the  great  cflule  of  Lri. 
ajiir  abbtjf  to  him  at  the  garni  tig-tablc,    Mattatn  was  the  only 
peifon  of  bis  time  who  had  amalTed  a  confiderablc  funuue  by 
the  profcllioa  of  «  gatncftcr. 


I^Xmei  fenfible  there  are  pierfofjs  whom  it  will  bf 
f'  difficult  for  me  to  perfuade ;  I  qnean  tbpfe  pin)^ 
^f  found  contemplator^j  wbp»  (including  themfelve^ 
f^  from  (heir  fell^w-crea^ures,  are  a^duQuily  em- 
f^  ploye4  \n  fram^c^g  Igws  fpr  theqt),  and  who  fre* 
<<  quently  Qegled  th^  fare  of  their  dcuQefttc  and 
^^  private  coocer^^  t^  preferihe  to  empbet  that  fom 
f^  of  government,  ip  whiph  tViey  imagine  that  dief 
^'  ought  to  fubmit.  The  .celebrated  Hogarth  hatk 
^^  reprefentedy  \x\  one  of  his  moral  engravings,  z 
^^  young  n^an  whp^  after  baying  fquandered  away  hii 
^*  fortuinSy  is,  by  his  creditors^  lodged  in  a  gaol.» 
f  ^  There  he  fits,  melancholy  and  difconcerted,  near  a 
'<  table,  whilil  a  fcroll  lies  under  his  feet,  and  bears 
^f  the  following  title :  *  being  a  new  fcheme .  fbr 
f  ^  paying  the  debt  of  the  nation.  By  T.  L.  now  a 
^  prifoner  in  The  Fleet  J'^ 

The  Author  of  the  poem  already  quoted^  intimates 
that  the  perfonage  in  the  night-gown  was  meant  for 
fome  real  character  :         * 

•*  {iis  wig  was  full  as  old  as  he, 

**  In  which  one  curl  you  could  not  fee, 

*'  His  nepkcloth  loofe,  his  beard  full  grown, 

^'  An  old  torn  night-gown  not  his  own. 

^^  L ,  great  fchemift,  that  can  pay, 

**  The  nation's  debt  an  eafy  way.'' 

In  Plate  VIII.  (which  appears  in  three  different 
ilatcs)  is  a  half-penny  reverfed  (ftruck  in  the  year 
1763)  and  fixed  againft  the  wall,  intimating,  that 
Britannia  hcrfelf  was  fit  pnly  ,fo«  a  tnad-baufe.    This 

waa 


I 


I 
I 


He  ^^B8^I 

was  a  circiimftancc  inferted  by  our  arrift  (as  he  arU"  ^ 
vcrtilea)  about  a  year  before  his  death.     I  may  add, 
that  the  man  drawing  lines  againll  the  wall  juft  ov«r    : 
the  half-penny,  alludes  to  Whijion's  propofcd  methotl 
of  difcovering  the  Longitude  by  the  firing  of  bombs, 
as  here  reprefented.     The  idea  of  ihe  two  figures- at    . 
each  comer  of  the  print  appears  to  have  been  taken 
from  Cibbcr's  llatues  at  Bedlam,   The  faces  of  the  two    i 
femaicB  arc  alfo  changed.     That  of  the  woman  with    ; 
a  fan,  is  entirely  alreri;d  ;    fhc  has  now  a  cap  on,  in- 
ftead  of  a  hood^  and  is  turned,  as  if  fpeaicing  to  the 
other. 

Mr.  Gilpin's  opinion  concerning  this  fet  of  prints 
is  too  valuable  to  be  omitted,  and  is  therefore  tran- 
fcribcd  Ilclow  *".  The  plates  were  thus  admirabl/ 
Uluftrated  by  Dr.  jchn  Hoadly. 

PLATE 

•  "  The  firA  print  of  ihis  capital  work  ii  an  excellent  re- 
'*  prefcntaiion  of  a  young  h<;ir,  taking  pofTeilion  of  a  mifer'i 
"  effect.  Tlie  paiTion  of  avarifc,  which  hnardj  every  thtnj;, 
•*  without  diliiniition,  what  is  aiid  what  is  not  valuable,  w  ad- 
*'  mirably  drfcribcd. — The  cemfojiiiim,  though  not  excellent^ 
••  ii  not  unplealing.  The  principal  group,  confining  of  the 
"  yming  gcnileman,  the  taylor,  the  appraifer,  the  papcrt, 
"  tad  cteft,  i»  well  duped  :  but  the  eye  is  hurt  by  the  dif- 
**  agreeable  regularity  of  three  heads  nearly  in  a  line,  and  »t 
•'  equal  diftances. — The  light  is  not  ill  difpofed.  It  falls  on 
•*  the  principal  figures  :  but  the  effcft  might  have  been  im- 
**  proved.  If  (he  exircmc  parta  of  ihe  maft  (ihe  white  apron 
"  on  one  fide,  and  the  mcnurandum-book  on  tljc  other)  had 
"  been  in  fliade,  the  rrpa/t  had  been  Icfs  injured.  The  de- 
"  lached  parts  of  a  group  ihould  rarely  catch  a  Urong  body  of 
*'  light. — Wc  hare  no  rtrikiiig  inftanccs  of  ixfrrj^n  in  thi^ 
'*  print.  The  principal  figure  it  unmcming.  The  only  one, 
"  wbieh  difplays  the  iiat  i/U  ctmUa  ai  Hnjarih,\t  the  nppraifer 
*'  fingering 


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PLATEL 

O  Vanity  of  Age^  untoward. 
Ever  fpleeny,  ever  froward  ! 

Why 

^^  fingering  the  gold.  You  enter  at  once  into  bis  charaAcx« 
'*  — ^The  young  woman  might  have  funiiflied  the  arcift  with 
'*  an  oppoitunity  of  pre&nting  a -graceful  figure ;  whicK  woi^d 
^*  have  been  more  pleafing*  The  figure  he  has  introduced,  is 
^^  by  no  means  an  objedi  of  allurement.-^The  perJpeHhH  is 
'*  accurate,  but  ^affe^ed.  So  many  windows,  and  open  doprs, 
**  may  (hew  the  author's  learning ;  but  they  break  the  back 
^^  ground,  and  injure  the  fimplicity  of  it. 

'*  The  decoad  print  introduces  our  hero  into  all  the  difli-* 
^'  pation  of  modifli  life.  We  became  firft  acquainted  with 
**  him,  when  a  boy  of  eighteen.  He  is  now  of  age ;  has 
••  entirely  thrown  off  the  clownifh  fchooUboy ;  and  afiumes 
^*  the  man  of  fafliion.  Inftcad  of  the  country  taylor,  who 
**  took  roeafure  of  hira  for  his  father's  mourning,  he  is  now 
**  attended  by  French  barbers,  French  taylors,  poets,  milUncrs, 
'*  jockies,  bullies,  and  the  whole  retinue  of  a  fiae  gentleman. 
**  —The  exfrejfion^  in  this  print,  is  wonderfully  great.  The 
**  dauntiefs  front  of  the  bully  ;  the  keen  eye,  and  elafticity  of 
**  the  fencing- mafter;  and  the  fimpering  importance  of  the 
••  dancing-mailer,  are  admirably  exprclTcd.  The  laft  is  per- 
**  haps  a  little  tfJK/r/.  The  architect  *  is  a  ftrong  copy  from  na- 
•*  ture. — ^Thc  compofuion  Iccras  to  be  entirely  fubfervient  to  th« 
**  expreffion.  It  appears,  as  \i  Hogarth  had  fiwetched^  in  his 
••  memorandum -book,  all  the  characlcrs  which  he  has  here 
•*  introduced ;  but  was  at  a  lofs  how  to  group  them;  and 
^*  chofe  rather  to  introduce  them  in  detached  figures,  as  he 
•'  had  fltetched  them,  than  to  lolc  any  part  of  the  exprellion 
•'  by  combining  them. — The  light  is  ill  diilributed.  It  is 
^' fpread  indifcriminarely  over  the  print;  and  deftroys  the 
•*  KMhole  — ^We  have  no  indance  of  grace  in  any  of  the  fvgiires. 
•*  The  principal  figure  is  very  deficient.  There  is  no  contra  (I 
^  in  the  limbs ;  which  is  always  attended  with  a  degree  of 
•*  ungracefulnefs. — Tlie  execution  is  very  good.  It  is  elabo- 
**  rate,  and  yet  free. — The  fatire  on  operas,  though  it  may  be 
**  well  directed,  is  forced  and  unnatural. 

**  The  third  plate  carries  us  llill  deeper  into  the  hiilory, 

♦  T\\<i  arcbite^l  Mr.  C/7//>rTncaiis^-<hc  ^ar^/^Trr. 

"We 


Ifrhy  tliefe  Bblts,  and  mafly  chains^ 
Squint  fufpicions,  jcalcAis  Pains  ? 


Why, 


**  We  meet  0ur  hero  efigstged  in  one  of  h?!  e^eftxag  amufe- 
**  meots.  This  print,  on  the  whole^  is  no  very  extraordbary 
^  effort  of  genius. — The  difign  is  good ;  and  niay  be  a  very 
*^  exad  defeription  of  the  huffioun  of  a  brotheU— The  ccm^- 
**  pafiUn  too  is  not  amifs.  But  we  bare  few  of  cKofe  mafterly 
**  llrokes  which  difiinguifli  the  works  of  Hogarth.  The  whole 
*^  IS  plain  hiftory.  The  lady  iettmg  the  world  on  fire  is  the 
*'  beil  thought :  and  there  ii  fome  humour  in  fumi(hing  the 
**  room  with  a  iet  oiCsefars  \  and  not  placing  theili  in  order. — 
**  The  light  is  ill  managed.  By  a  few  alterations,  which  are 
••  obvioufy  particularly  by  throwing  the  lady  drcfling  into 
'*  the  fhade,  the  difpofition  of  it  might  have  been  tolerable. 
**  But  dill  we  fliould  have  bad  aaf  dbfurdrty  to  anfwer^  whence 
'*  comei  it  ?  Here  is  light  in  abundante ;  but  no  viiible 
*•  fource. — KxprcJJion  we  have  a  little  through  the  whole 
<*  print.  That  of  the  principal  figure  is  the  belt.  The  ladiet 
**  have  all  the  nir  of  their  profeflion ;  but  no  variety  of  cha* 
•*  rafter.  HogartV s  ^^orntn  are,  in  general,  very  inferior  to 
••  his  men.  For  which  rcafon  I  prefer  the  Rakers  Prcgrefs  to 
**  the  Harlot*!.  The  female  face  indeed  has  feldom  ftrcngth 
.'*  of  feature  enough  to  admit  the  ftrong  markings  of  cx^ 
*•  predion. 

**  Very  difagrccable  accidents  often  befall  gentlemen  of 
"  pleafure.  An  event  of  this  kind  is  recorded  in  the  fourth 
*•  print ;  v.hich  is  now  before  us.  Otir  hero  going,  in  full 
'*  drefs,  to  piy  his  compliments  at  court  on  St.  DaviJ's  day, 
*'  was  accoftcd  in  the  rude  manner  which  is  here  reprefentcd* 
*•  -—The  compojiiion  is  good.  The  form  of  the  group,  made 
"  up  of  the  figures  in  aftion,  the  chair,  and  the  lamp-lighter, 
•*  is  pltaling.  Only,  here  we  have  an  opportunity  of  re- 
*•  marking,  that  a  group  is  difgulVmg  when  the  cxiremitica 
•*  of  it  arc  heavy,  A  group  in  fome  rcfpc<5l  fliould  refemble 
•*  a  tree.  The  heavier  part  of  the  foliage  (the  cap  as  the 
'*  landfcape  painter  calls  it)  is  always  near  the  middle;  the 
••  outfide  branches,  which  arc  relieved  by  the  fky,  arc  light 
**  and  airy.  An  inattention  to  this  nile  has  given  a  hcavincfs 
•*  to  the  group  before  us.  The  two  bailiffs,  the  woman,  and 
^  the  cbairmaoi  aix  all  huddkd  together  in  that  pirt  of  the 

"  group 


C    «3    1 

Why^  thy  toiUbme  Journey  <f er^ 
X^y'ft  thou  in  an  uTelefft  ftore  ? 

Hafe 

<<  group  which  flionld  have  been  tile  lif hteft ;  while  the  mid« 
^'  die  part,  where  the  hand  boldi  the  door,  wants  ftrength 
**  and  con&fleoce.    It  may  be  added  too,  that  the  fotir  beads, 
*^  in  the  form  of  a  diamond,  make  an  unpleafing  (hape«     All 
**  regular  figures  fliould  be  ftudioufly  avoided««^The  light  had 
^*  been  well  diftributed,  if  the  bailiff  holding  the  arreft,  and 
'*the  chairman,   had  been  a  little  lighter,  and  the  woman 
'  *  darker*     Th^  glare  of  the  white  apron  is  difagreeaUe*— * 
'*  We  have,  in  this  print,  fome  beautiful  infiances  of  exfrif* 
*•/»«.     The  furpriie  and  terror  of  the  poor  gentleman  is  ap- 
**  parent  in  every  limb,  at  far  as  is  confident  with  the  fear  of 
'*  difcompofing  his  dreft.    The  infolence  of  power  in  one  of 
*<  the  baillSt,  and  the  unfeeling  heart,  which  can  jeft  with 
<*  mifery,  in  the  other^  are  ftrongly  marked.     The  felf-impor* 
^'  tance  too  of  the  honeft  Caminam  is  not  ill  portrayed  ;  who 
^*  is  chiefly  introduced  to  fettle  the  chronology  of  the  ftory.— 
''  In  point  of  gracc^  we  have  nothing  flriking.     Hogarth  might 
**  have  introduced  a  degree  of  it  in  the  female  figure :  at  leaft 
^*  he  might  have  contrived  to  vary  the  heavy  and  unpleafing 
**  form  of  her  drapeiy.^— The  perJpeBi*ve  is  good,  and  makes 
**  an  agreeable  (hape. — ^I  cannot   leave   this  print  without 
*'  remarking  the  fsUing  hand'hox.     Such  reprefentations  of ' 
*^  quick  motion  are  abfurd  ;  and  every  moment  the  abfurdity 
^*  grows  flronger.     You  cannot  deceive  the  eye*     The  falling 
<*  body  muft  appear  noi  to  falU     Objeds  of  that  kind  are  be- 
*'  yond  the  power  of  reprefentation. 

<(  Difficulties  crowd  fo  fall  upon  our  hero,  that  at  the  age 
^*  of  twenty-five,  which  he  fccms  to  have  attained  in  the  fifth 
**  plate,  we  find  him  driven  to  the  necefEty  of  marrying  a 
^*  woman,  whom  he  detefls,  for  her  fortune*  The  compofition 
-*'  here  is  very  good ;  and  yet  we  have  a  difagreeable  regu- 
**  lariry  in  the  climax  of  the  three  figures,  the  maid,  the 
*'  bride,  and  the  bride- groom* — ^The  light  is  not  ill  diftributed. 
*'  The  principal  figure  too  is  graceful;  and  there  is  ftrong 
-**  expreffion  in  the  feeming  tranquillity  of  his  features^  Ue 
^*  hides  his  contempt  of  the  object  before  him  as  well  as  he 
'*  can ;  and  yet  he  cannot  do  it*  She  too  has  ns  much  mcan-> 
'*  ing  as  can  appear  thro'  the  deformity  of  her  features...  -l^e 

'*  clergyman's 


tiopi  aldliglrith  Ttmi  is  flown^ 

Nor  omit  thou  reap  tht  field  chou^ft  ibwii. 

Haft 

.  *'  clcrgyilS9iiS  ficce.U'c  are  all  well  aequjihitdl  with,  and  a}fo  his 
'*  wig;  thp  wt  cannot  pretend  to  fayi  where  we  have  feen 
*^  either*  The  clerk  toa  is  an  admirable  fellow .-^The  pet* 
^^jpe^wt  is  well  underAeod  ;  but  the  church  is  too  fmall  *  ; 
'*  and  the  wooden  po(i^  which  faeros  to  have  no  ufe,  divides 
•*  the  pii^urc  very  dilagreeably. — The  creed  loft,  the  com- 
**  mandiiicnts  broken,  and  the  poor^s-box  obftru^ted  by  a 
*'  cobweb,  are  ail  excellent  flrokes  of  fattrical  hunionr. 

**  The  fortune,  which  our  adventurer  has  juft  received, 
^'  enables  him  to  make  one  puflT  more  at  ti>e  garning-table. 
**  He  is  exhibited,  in  the  fixth  print,  venting  cniics  on  his 
**  folly  for  having  loft  his  lull  ftakc  .-^-This  is  upon  the  vvhole^ 
*'  perhnps,  the  bed  print  of  the  fct.  The  horrid  fccne  it 
*^  dcfcrihes  was  ncv«r  more  inimitably  drawn«  The  compo* 
^^fitioH  is.  artful,  and  natural*  \i  the  fliape  of  the  whole  be 
**  not  quite  pleating,  the  figures  are  fo  well  grouped,  and 
**  with  fo  much  eaie  and  variety,  that  you  cannot  take 
•*  offence. — In  point  of  light,  it  is  more  culpable.  There  is 
**  not  (hade  enough  among  the  iigures  to  balance  the  glare, 
**  If  the  neck-cloth  and  uecpers  of  the  gentleman  in  mourn - 
*'  ing  had  been  removed,  and  his  hands  thrown  into  fliadc, 
j  even  that  alone  would  have  improved  the  cffccl. — The  rA- 
**  /''C^^">  *n  almoli  every  figure,  is  admirable  ;  and  the  whole 
*'  is  a  firong  reprefcnfation  of  the  human  mind  in  a  frontu 
"**  Three  ftages  of  that  fpccic>  of  madnefs,  which  attends 
**  gaming,  are  here  dcU  rihcd.  On  the  \\v\i  (liock,  all  is  in- 
**  ward  difmay.  The  ruined  garacftcr  is  rcprelenting  Icai.in^ 
**  againft  a  wall,  with  his  arms  acrofs,  loil  in  an  agony  ot 
*'  horror.  Perhaps  never  palfiun  was  dcfcribcd  with  fo  much 
♦*  force.  In  a  fliort  time  this  horrible  gloom  burfts  into  n 
•*  (iDrm  of  fury  :  he  tears  in  pieccb  what  coTnc*^  next  him  ; 
>♦  and,  kneeling  down,  invokes  curfes  uj>on  himfclf.  He  nex: 
•'attacks  others;  every  one  in  his  turn  whom  he  imagines 
•**  to  have  been  inilrumtntal  in  iiis  ruin. — The  eager  ]oy  ur 

•  I  am  authorized  to  ohfcrvc,  that  thi^  is  no  fault  in  our  ta'.i^.  TI  r 
old  ohurch  at  MarjSom  w»)>  fo  iiitic,  that  \i  \voui«i  have  '*:o«hI  u'-riiin 
the  walU  of  the  picfent  uae,  leaving  at  the  fame  :imc  lut):.''Ar.t  locin  U.i 
4  walk  round  It, 

**  the 


C  "5  ] 

Haft  thou  t  ibfi  ?  In  time  be  wlfc^ 
tie  riews  thy  tml  with  othet.  eyes. 

Needl 

'<  the  wincitflg  fpAktltmi  tUe  itieHtibi  of  flie  dfuKr,  die 
*'  vehemence  of  the  wttchmtn^  and:  the  profound  rdveri^  of 
^'  the  highwayman^  are  all  admirably  marked.  There  U 
'*  great  coolnefi  t6o  ex^r^ed  in  the  liillt  we  fee  of  the  ht 
**  g^leman  at  the  end  of  the  Mblle,  The  figure  oppofing 
**  the  mad-man  is  bad  i  it  hat  a  dfnnk^  J|^>eafaa^ ;  and 
*'  dninkennefii  is  not  the  vice  of  a  gaming-table. — The  prin- 
*'  cipai  figure  ii  iB'Jrawfk.  Th6  peffikal'oe  is  formal ;  and 
'*  the  execution  but  indiiFerent  t  id  hei^tening  bit  expreflion^ 
^*  HogMTtk  has  loft  his  fpirit. 

*<  The  ieventh  plate,  which  gives  us  the  view  of  a  jail,  hat 

^*  very  little  in  it» .  Marty  6f  the  efarcumftancet^  whkh  may 

^  weU  be  (uppoied  to  bcreafe  the  mifery  of  a  codfinf  d  debtor^ 

<^  are  well  contrived  ;   but  the  fruitful  genius  of  Hogarth^  I 

«<  (hould  thlnt,'  might  have  trestted  the  ftibje'd  in  a  niore  cO'- 

^'  pious  manner.     The  epifode  of  the  fainting  woman  might 

**  have  given  way  td  ftiarty  cifcumftandes  mofe  proper  to  tfie 

«<  occaflon.     This  it  the  fame  woman,  whom  the  rnke  difcardt 

^*  in  the  flrft  print ;    by  whom  he  is  refcued  in  the  fourth  j 

^*  who  it  ptefent  at  his  marriage ;  who  follows  him  into  jail ; 

^*  and^  laftly^  to  Bedlam,     The  thought  is  rather  unnatural^ 

'*  and  the  moral  certainly  culpable.— The  cohtpojiihd  is  bad. 

^*  The  group  of  the  woman  faihting  id  a  round  heavy  mafs  s 

<<  and  the  other  gfoup  is  very  ill-(haped.     The  light  could  not 

*^  be  worfe  managed  .  and^  as  the  grouf^s  are  contrived,  can 

*'  hardly  be  improved. — In  the  pHncipal  figure  there  is  great 

^^  exfreffioHi    and  the  fainting  fcene  is  well    defcribed.  —  A 

**  fcheme  to  pay  off  the  national  debt,  by  a  id  in  who  cannot 

*^  pay  his  own  \    and  the  attempt  of  a  lilly  r^kc,  to  retrieve 

^  his  affairs  by  a  work  of  genius ;  are  admirable  ftrokes  of 

'*  humour. 

*^  The  eighth  plate  bringi  the  fortune  of  our  hero  t?  a 
^*  conclufion.  It  is  a  tery  expreffive  reprefentitton  of  the 
^^  moft  horrid  fcene  which  human  nature  can  exliiuit.— ^Ths 
'*  eempefitioH  is  not  bad.  The  group,  in  which  the  lunatic  is 
*'  chained,  is  well  managed;  and  if  ft  had  been  cartied  a 
^Mittle  further  towards  the  middle  of  the  -pi^^nre,  .md  th: 
'*  two  wdmea  (who  (eem  very  oddly  introduced)   had  been 

Q^  **  removed| 


Needs  muft  thjr  Idady  pettfrnal  ctre^  . 
LockM  jn  thy  chefts  be  buried  .there? 
Whence  then  fhall  flow  that  friendly  eafe. 
That  fecial  couverfe,  home-fidt  peace. 
Familiar  duty  mxhoatt  drcad^ 
Inftrudion  from  example  bred. 
Which  youthful  minds  with  freedom  mend. 
And  with  the  fatber  mix  the  friend  f 
UncircumfcribM  by  prudent  rules^ 
Or  precepts  of  expenfive  fchools  \ 
Abus'd  at  home,  abroad  defpisM, 
Unbred,  unlettered,  unadvised ; 
The  headftrong  courfe  of  youth  begun. 
What  comfort  from  this  darling  fon  ? 

**  removed,  both  the  compofition^  and  the  diftribution  of 
**  light,  had  been  good.— The  drawing  of  the  principal  figure 
**  is  a  more  accurate  piece  of  anatomy-  than  we  commonly 
<'  find  in  the  works  of  this  mafler»  The  fMprtJjUn  of  the 
**  figure  is  rather  unmeaning ;  and  very  inferior  to  the  flrong 
**  characters  of  all  the  other  lunatics.  The  fertile  genius  of 
*'  the  arril>  has  introduced  as  many  of  the  caufes  of  madnefs, 
**  ns  he  could  well  have  collcdlcd  ;  but  there  is  lome  tauto- 
**  logy.  There  are  two  religionifis,  and  two  ailronomers. 
**  Yet  there  is  variety  in  each  ;  and  flrong  exprejion  in  all  the 
**  charndters.  The  felf-fatisfa^iiooi  und  coBvidion,  of  him 
'*  who  has  difcovered  the  longitude  ;  the  mock  majcfty  of  the 
**  monarch  \  .  the  moody  melancholy  of  the  lover ;  and  the 
*'  fuperditious  horror  of  the  popifli  devotee;  arc  all  admirable. 
**  —The  perJpeBlve  is  fimplc  and  proper. 

"  i  fliould  add,  that  thefe  remarks  are  made  upon  the  firft 
**  edition  of  this  work.  When  the  plates  were  much  worn, 
**  they  were  altered  in  many  parts.  They  have  gained  by  the 
**  alterations,  in  point  of  difign\   but  have  loft  in  point  of 

P  LAT  E 


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<  •FVJi.«ft."'II;     •-  • 

Prp^eriiy  fwith  hatlot^s  finlfes^ 
Moft  plctfing  wiien  fte  moft  begu3e$) 
How  fooD^  fwtetfoef  can  all  thy  thda 
Of  fal/e^  gay,  frantic^  loud,  nnd'yfJSh^'^ 
Enter  the  improvid<id  mind^ 
And  Memory  in  fttters  bind ;»  *        , 

Load  Faiib  and  Xove  with  golden  chain^ 
And  fprinkle  Leibe  o'er  the  brain  ! 

Pleajiire,  b  her  i^ver  throne^ 
Smiling  coo^es^  npX  comes  alone  j;  vi 

Vemu  comd  with  Her  along. 
And  fmooth  Lyaus  ever  young ; 
And  in  their  train^  to  fill  the  prefs^ 
Come  apifli  Dance,  and  fwofn  Escce/f^ 
Mechanic  Honour,  vicious  Tafte, 
And  Fafflnon  in  her  changbg  vcft« 

Plate    III. 

O  vanity  of  youthful  bloody 
So  by  mifufe  to  poifon  good  ! 
fToman,  fram'd  for  focial  love, 
Faireft  gift  of  powers  above  ; 
Source  of  every  houlhold  bleffing. 
All  charms  in  innocence  pofleifing--** 
But  tum'd  to  Vice,  all  plagues  above, 
FocL  to  thy  Being,  foe  to  Love ! 
Gueft  divine  to  outward  viewine,  c 

Ablefi  Minifter  of  Ruin  1 

Q^a  And 


Affd  ittonip  no  left  of  gift  ^vine^ 
^  Sweet  poifoQ  of  mifufed  wine  V^ 
l^th  freedom  led  to  every  part^ 
And  fecTcc  chamber  of  the  heart ; 
Doft  thou  thy  friendly  boft  betray. 
And  ikow  thy  rbtous  gang  the  way 
To  enter  in  with  covert  treafon. 
Overthrow  the  drowfy  guard  of  realbn^ 
To  ranlkck  tke  abandoned  place^ 
Attd  revel  there  in  wild  excels  ^ 

P  L  A  T  X      IV. 

O  vanity  of  youttiful  blood. 
So  by  mifufe  to  poifon  good  I 
Reafon  awakes,  and  views  unbarred 
The  facred  gates  he  watch'd  to  guard  ; 
App1^6aching  fees  the  harpy,  Law^ 
And  Poverty,  with  icy  paw, 
Ready  to  feize  the  poor  remains 
That  Vice  has  left  of  all  his  gains. 
Cold  PenUcnce,  lame  Afier-tbought, 
With  fears,  defpair,  and  horrors  fraught. 
Call  back  his  guilcy  pleafures  dead. 
Whom  he  hath  wrong'd,  and  whom  betrly'd. 

Plate    V. 

New  to  the  School  of  hard  Mijhap, 
Driven  from  the  eafc  of  Fortune's  lap. 
What  fchemes  will  Nature  not  embracd 
T*  avoid  Icfs  fliamc  of  drear  diftrefs ! 


Gold 


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[    a*9    ^ 

C^ili  can  the  cbarms  of  youth  beftowi 
And  mafk  defbnmty  with  ihow : 
Gold  can  avert  the  ftmg  of  Sbame, 
In  winter^s  anns  create  a  flaqie  ^ 
Can  couple  ^ouili  with  hoary  aee^ 
And  make  anfipathies  en^ge. . 

PlrATZ       VI. 

QoU,  thou  bright  fon  of  FbahUf  jfouret 

m 

Of  univerfal  iotercourfe ; 
Of  weeping  Virtue  foft  redrefs^ 
And  bluffing  thofe  who  live  to  blefs ! 
Yet  oft  behold  this  lacred  truft^ 
The  topi  of  avaricious  Luft : 
No  longer  bond  of  human  kind, 
But  bane  of  every  virtuous  mind. 

What  chaos  fuch  mifufe  attends ! 
Friendihip  (loops  to  prey  on  friends ; 
Health,  that  gives  relilh  to  delight. 
Is  wafted  with  the  wafting  night ; 
Doubt  and  miftruft  is  thfown  on  Heaven^ 
And  all  its  power  to  Chanfe  is  given* 
Sad  purchafe  of  repentant  tears, 
Of  needlefs  quarrels,  endlefs  fea|i. 
Of  hopes  of  moments,  pangs  of  yeifrs  | 

Sad  purchafe  of  a  tortured  ndnd 

At  .... 

Xo  an  im^iforfd  ffody  ]o\iCA  \ 

Plate    VIL 
Happy  the  man,  whofe  conftant  thought 
(Though  in  the  fchool  of  hardihip  taught) 


Caa  fend  IZ^mfmJr/jjvr^  back  to  fi^tcli  . 
Treafufes  from  life's  earlteft  ftretdi  s^ 
\(rho,  fclf-approvihg,  can  review 
Scenes  bf  paft  virtues,  which  fhine  through 
The  gloom  of  age,  aod'cafl:  a  ray 
To  gild  the- evening  of  hb  day  ! 

Not  fo  the  guilty  wretch  confin'd  : 
Ko  pleafures  meet  hit  confcious  mind ; 
No  bleffings  brought  iroctt  learly  youth. 
But  broken  faith  and  wrefled  truth. 
Talents  idle  and  unus'd. 
And  every  truft  of  Heaven  abus'd* 

In  feas  pf  fad  reflexion  loft. 
From  horrors  fiiU  to  hoirrors  tofs'd, 
Reafon  the  vellel  leaves  to  fteer, 
And  gives  the  helm  to  mad  de/fair^ 

Plate    VIII. 

Madnefs  !  thou  chaos  of  the  brain ; 
What  art,  that  pleafure  giv'ft  and  pain  ? 
Tyranny  of  Fancy's  reign ! 
Mechanic  Fancy !  that  can  build 
Yaft  labyrinths  and  mazes  wild. 
With  rule  disjointed,  ihapelefs  meafure, 
Fill'd  with  horror y  fiird  with  pleafure  ! 
Shapes  of  horror^  that  would  even 
Caft  doubt  of  mercy  upon  Heaven  I 
Shapes  oi pleafure j  that  but  feen 
Would  fpl^t  the  ihaking  fides  oifpleen. 

O  vanity  of  age  !  here  fee 
The  ftaoip  pf  Heaven  eSac'd  by  thee ! 

4  "  '  The 


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Q^teattznC  oocirfe  of  footk  thus  nm. 
What  cocifort  £rom  tkii  darling  fixi  ^ 
Hb  rtctliDg  chaiu  nidi  tenor  hear ; 
Behold  Death  grappling  with  defpair  ; 
See  him  by  thee  to  ran  fidd. 
And  curie  Tbj^^  and  oirfe  thy  GML 


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On  this  occafioa  alfo  appeared  an  Svo  pao^hlet, 
intituled^  '^  The  Rake*s  I^rogrefs,  or  the  Humoun  of 
^  Dnuj-Lsm,  a  poem  in  eight  canto*s»  in  lbJh> 
^  br^f^ck  verfe,  being  the  ramble  of  a  modem  Ox^ 
miM^  which  is  a  complcar  key  to  the  eight  prints 
lately  publiflied  by  the  celebrated  Mr.  Hogartk.^^ 
The  fecond  edition  with  additions^  particularly  an 
epiftle  to  Mr*  Hcgarib,*^  vczs  "  printed  for  J.  Cba^ 
^«  wood  J  and  (old  at  In^c  Jonej^^s-Hcad  agoinft  Extier 
^'  Change  in  T7)e  Strand^  ^735*"  1^^^^  >$  a  moft 
contemptible  and  indecent  performance.  Eight  prints 
are  inferred  in  fome  copies  of  it ;  but  they  arc  only 
the  defigns  of  ffcj^JT/ib  murdered,  and  perhaps  were 
not  originally  intended  for  the  decoration  of  the  work 
already  defcribed. 

The  original  paintings,  both  of  the  Rake's  and 
Harlot's  Progrefs,  were  at  Fontbill^  in  Wilijbire^  the 
feat  of  Mr.  Beckford*^  where  the  latter  were  dclv* 
troyed  by  a  fire,  in  the  year  1755  ;  the  former  fc|t 
was  happily  preferved.  Mr.  Baidts^  of  Rippon^  io 
Torhjhirty  has  the  Harlot's  Progrcfs  in  oil.  It 
muH,  however,  be  a  copy,    Mr.  Beckfurd  has  alfo 

*  Aftcrwardi  twice  )or<t  mayor  ofZ^nd^n.    See  p.  44%     • 

(^4  twenty- 


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twenty-five  heads  from  the  Cartoons  by  Hogarih,  fbf 
u'btch  he  paid  twcncy-five  guineas. 

There  is  reafon  to  believe  that  Hagarth  OQCe,de- 

•  figned  to  have  introduced  the  ceremony  of  a  Mar*  jH 
riagf  Contrail  Into  the  Rake's  Progtefs,  inftead  of  the  JH| 
Ltvte.  An  unfiniflicd  painting  of  this  fcene  isftill  ••^ 
prefcrvcd.  Wc  have  here  the  Rake's  apartment  as 
now  exhibited  in  Plate  II.  In  the  anti-room,  among 
other  figures,  wc  recognize  that  of  the  poet  who  at 
prefent  congratulates  our  hero  on  his  acceffion  to 
Wealth  and  picafurc.  The  bard  is  here  waitmg  with 
an  cpilhalamiiini  in  his  hand.  The  Rake  has  added 
connoilTcurlhtp  to  the  refl  of  his  expen6ve  follies. 
One  of  his  purchafes  is  s  canvas  containing  only  the 
rcprefcntation  of  a  human  foot.  [Perhaps  this  cir- 
cumflancc  might  allude  to  the  dilTeftion  of  Arlaud's 
LtJa.  Sec  Mr.  Walpole't  Anecdotes,  &c.  vol.  IV. 
p.  39.3.  A  fecond  is  lo  obfcure,  that  no  objeAs  in 
it  are  difccmible.  (A  performance  of  (he  fame 
defcription  is  introduced  in  our  artift's  Piquet,  or  ViV" 
t:ie  in  Danger.^  A  third  prefents  us  with  a  Madona 
looking  down  with  fondnefs  on  the  infant  (he  holds 
in  her  arms  [This  feems  intended  as  a  contraft 
to  the  grey- headed  bride  who  fits  under  it,  and 
is  apparently  paft  child-bearing.]  The  fourth  is 
emblematical,  and  difplays  perhaps  too  licentious  s 
fatire  on  tranfubflantiation.  The  Blcflcd  Virgin  is 
ihrufting  her  bon  down  the  hopper  of  a  mill,  in 
which  he  is  ground  by  priefts  till  he  iffucs  out  in  the 
ftupc  of  the  coofccrated  wafer,  fuppoTed  by  Catho- 

licks 


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ficla  ib  eontidn  the  real  frefitue.  At  a  table  <ti  % 
coothlefs  decrepit  father,  guardian,  or  match^maker, 
Joining  the  hand  of  the  rake  with  that  of  the  anti« 
quated  female^  whofe  face  is  highly  expreffive  of 

m 

eagernefB,  while  that  of  her  intended  huiband  is  dU 
reded  a  contrary  way^  toward  a  groom  who  is  bring- 
ing in  a  piectf  of  plate  won  at  a  horfe-race  *•  On  tho 
floor  in  front  lie  a  heap  of  mutilated  bufts^  Uc. 
which  our  -fpendthrift  is  fuppofed  to  have  recent!/ 
purchafed  at  an  audion.  The  black  boy,  who  is 
afterwards  met  with  in  Plate  IV.  of  Maniage  Ala- 
mode,  WflV  tranfpla&ted  from  this  canvas.  He  is 
here  intfbdUced  fupporting  fuch  a  pidure  of  Gany* 
tnede  as  hangs  againft  the  wall  of  the  lady's  dref* 
(ing-room  in  the  fame  plate  of  the  (ame  work. 

1736. 

X.  Two  prints  of  Before  and  After.    The  two 

pi£bures,  from  which  thefe  prints  are  taken,  were 

painted  at  the  particular  requeft  of  a  certain  vicious 

nobleman,  whofe  name  deferves  no  commemoration. 

The  hero  of  them  is  faid  to  have  been  deiigned  for 

Chief  Jufiice  tViUes.    Hogarth  repented  of  having 

engraved  them ;  and  almoll  every  poflefibr  of  his 

works  will  wiih  they  had  been  with-held  from  the 

public,  as  often  as  he  is  obliged  to  ihew  the  volume 

that  contains  them  to  ladies.    To  omit  them,  is  to 

mutilate  the  colleAion ;  tp  pin  the  leaves^  on  which 

they  are  pafted,  together,  is  a  circumflance  that  tends 

only  to  provoke  curiofity  ;   and  to  difplay  them, 

wpuld  be  tp  fet  decency  at  defiance.    The  painter 

*  The  isiv^  at  tlut  iatroduced  in  Plate  IL 

who 


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C  'i*  3 

mfelf,  or  his  employtm^-i 
piefeotationB,  will  forfeit  the  general  praift;  he  t 
have  gained  by  a  choice  of  lefs  offenfive  fub 
W«  have  aa  artiA  of  no  common  merit,  who  hM 
irequendy  difgraccd  his  ikilt  by  fcenrs  too  tuxuria 
to  appear  in  any  fituation  but  a  brothel ;  and  yet  odc 
of  ihe  moft  meretricious  of  his  performances,  but  a  fe«r 
years  zgp,  was  exhibited  by  the  Royal  Academy. 
Thcfc  prints,  however,  difplay  almoft  the  only  inftance 
in  which  Hogarth  condelcended  to  execute  a  fubje£t 
propofcd  to  him  ;  for  I  am  afTurcd  by  one  who  knew 
him  Weil,  that  his  obUiiiacy  on  thefe  occa^ons  has 
often  proved  iavioctble.     Like  Sbakffteare't  JuUy, 

*'  he  would  iKver  follow  any  thing 

'•  That  other  men  began." 

In  the  later  imprefHons  from  thefe  plates,  the 
fcroU-work  on  the  head-cloth,  Sec.  of  the  bed,  is 
rendered  IndiflinA,  by  an  injudicious  attempt  Co 
ftrengthcn  the  engraving.  Mr.  S.  Ireland  has  the 
firft  iketch  in  oil  of  "  Before  *." 

2.  The  Sleeping  Corgregation.  The  preacher 
was  defigned  as  the  rcprefcntativc  of  Dr.  De/aguHtru 
Thispiint  was  firft  publHhed  in  1736.  It  was  after- 
wards retouched  and  impn^'ed-y  by  the  author  in 
1762,  and  is  found  in  three  different  dates.  In  the 
firft,  DiiU  4s*  Men  Droit  is  wanting  under  the  King's 
Arms ;  the  angel  with  one  wing  and  two  pair  of 

■  The  originiltof  both  ire  Kt  the  cirl  of  ^i^ru^^i  feat 
ai  RatfmmpUK, 

f  1  «ifii,  for  ibt  fake  of  fotnc  future  edition  of  the  prefent 
woffc,  thcfc  «>7^''Mv.TJM/J  coDltl  be  afcertnincd.  To  me  they 
>ie  invilible,  like  ihoSe  in  the  ic- published  March  /■  Fiscbkyi.  ' 

ihighs. 


duglii»  tiiat  fupports  this  oiotto,  it  fmoking  a  pipt^ 
and  the  lion  has  not  his  prefent  magnificent  genitalia 
In  the  feconcU  the  words  already    mentioned  are 
added ;  the  angel's  pipe  is  obliterated ;  the  infignia 
of  the  lion^s  fex  rende/ed  oftentatioully  confpicuow  s 
and  the  lines  of  the  triangle  under  the  angel  aie 
doubled  The  other  diftinAions  are  chiefly  fudi  as  ft 
reiteration  of  engraving  would  naturally  produce^  hf 
adding  flrength  to  the  fainter  parts  of  the  compofi* 
tion.    Changes  of  this  flender  kind  are  numberleb 
ID  all  the  repaired  prints  of  our  artift.    There  k 
aUb  a  pirated  copy  of  this  plate.    It  is  not  ill  exe- 
cuted, but  in  fize  is  fomewhat  ihorter  than  its  pte* 
deceflWf  and  has  no  price  annexed.    In  the  original 
picture,  in  the  coUe&ion  of  Sir  Edward  fValpole^ 
the  clerk's  head  is  admirably  well  painted,  and  widi 
great  force ;  but  he  is  dozing,  and  not  leering  at 
the  young  woman  near  him,  as  in  the  print. 

3*  The  Diftrefled  Poet  *•    In  a  back  ground,  a 
pi&ure  of  Pope  threihing  (krll.    Over  the  head  of 

Pope 

•  In  Thi  Craftfman^  March  il,  1736-7,  occur),  "  This 
•*  day  is  publiQied,  price  38.  a  print  reprefcnting  a  DiflrtUkd 
•*  Poet*  Alfo,  five  etchings,  of  different  charadlers  of  heads 
*'  in  groups,  yiz.  a  Chorus  of  Singers  ;  a  pleafed  Audience  at 
*^  a  Play;  Scholars  at  a  Led^ure  ;  and  Quacks  in  Confukatioa  ; 
^*  price  6d*  each.  To  be  had  either  bound  together  with  all 
**  Mr,  Hogarth* s  late  engraved  works  (except  the  Harlot'f 
•*  Progrefs),  or  fingly,  at  the  Golden  Head^  in  Lekffier  FieUh ; 
**  and  at  Mr  BakeweWs^  printfeller,  next  the  Horn  Tavern^ 
^^  Fket'ftrtet**  And  Jfiril  1  and  9,  1737,  **  Juft  publiflitd, 
•*  price  38.  A  print  reprefcnting  ^  Dtfirejed  Poet,  Defigned 
^*  and  engraved  by  Mr.  Hogarth^  Alfo  four  etchings,  viz,  A 
*'  pleafed  Audience ;  a  Choms  of  Singers  ;  Scholars  at  a  Lec« 
^*  turc ;  and  a  Confultation  of  Quacks^  price  6d.  each    To  be 

«'  bad 


t    i5«    1 

•  * 

Tcpe\  ^  -md^  P^^j '  Ijttters  i  out  of  his  mouth 
comes  Teni^  w£^  vict ;  and  under-  Curll  lies  a  letter 
direfbed — /^  Curll.  The  diftrefled  bard  is  compofing 
Poverty^  a  poem.  At  the  bottom  of  the  plate  are 
die  following  lines  from  Tbe  Dunciad^  I.  1 1 1  • 

Studious  hp  fate^  with  all  his  books  around. 
Sinking  from  thought  to  thought,  a  vaft  profund  I 
Plung'd  for  his  fenfe^  but  found  no  bottom  there ; 
Then  writ^  and  flpunder'd  on  in  mere  defpsdr. 

.In  the  fubfequent  impreffions,  dated  December  15 
1 740»  the  triumphs  of  Pope  are  changed  to  a  view 
of  the  gold  mines  of  Peru;  and  our  hero  of  the 
garret  is  employed  in  celebrating  the  praife  of  Riches^ 
The  lines  already  quoted  are  effaced.  The  original 
painting  is  at  lor^  Grofvenor^s  houie  at  Milbank^  Wejl^ 
fiUnJier. 

i}.  Right  Hon.    Frances    Lady    Byron.    Whole 
length,  mezzotipto.     W.  Hogarib  pinxit.    J.  Faber 
fecit.    The  moft  beautiful  impreffions  of  thb  plafe 
were  commonly  taken  off  in  a  brown  colour. 

5.  The  fame,    fhortcned   into    a  three-quarters 
length. 

6.  Confultation  of  Phyficians.    Arms  of  the  Un- 
dertakers.    In  this  plate,  amongft  other  portraits,  is 

'*  had  at  the  GoUcn  Head^  in  I^icefter  Fiel(is'^  and  at  Mr.  Bake- 
*^  wcll\  jMint-fcIler,  next  the  Horn  Iqvcrt;^  in  Fket-firtet. 
'*  Where  may  be  had,  bound  or  oihcruiie,  all  Mr.  Hogarth's 
•*  latcener.ivcd  works,  viz.  A  Mlduij^hi  Converfation  ;  Sauthm 
♦*  ivark  Fair ;  the  Rai€*i  Froj^rcfs^  in  eight  prints ;  a  flecpy 
**  Congregation  in  a  Country  Church;  Before  and  After,  two 
♦*  prints.'* 

%  the 


I    H7    3 

-l)ie    well-known   one   of  Dr«  Ward*   (who  was 
mlled  Sj^t  Ward^  from  the  left  fide  of  his  face 

being 

*  J^Jlma  Ward  WAS  one  of  the  younger  fons  of  an  ancient 
and  refpe^tabie  family  fettled  at  Guijhorougb  in  21»rit^irr»  where 
he  was  born  ibroe  time  in  the  laft  century.    He  feeobt,  from 
every  defcription  of  him,  to  have  had  fmall  advantages  from 
education,  though  he  indifputably  poflefled  no  mean  natural 
parts.     The  iirft  account  we  have  of  him  is,  that  he  was  aflb* 
ciated  in  partnerfhip  with  a  brother  named  WiiUam^  as  a  diy- 
lalter,  in  Jhamts-fireet*    After  they  had  carried  on  this  bull* 
nefs  fome  time,  a  fire  broke  out  in  an  adjoining  houfe,  which 
communicated  itfeif  to  their  warehoufes,  and  entirely  deftroyed 
ail  their  property.     On  this  occafion  Mr.  iVitri^  with  a  goi- 
.  tleman  from  the  country  who  was  on  a  vifit  to  htm,  efcaped 
over  the  tops  of  the  houfes  in  their  ihirts.     In  the  year  1717 
he  was  returned  member  for  Marlborough  \  but,  by  a  vote  of  the 
Houfe  of  Commons,  dated  May  13,  was  declared  not   duly 
eleded.    It  is  imagined  that  he  was  in  fome  meafure  conneded 
with  his  brother  Joijn  Ward  (who  is  ftigmatizcd  by  Mr.  Fafe^ 
Dunciad  III.  34,)  in  fecrcting  and  protecting  illegally  the  pro* 
perty  of  fome  of  the  South  &ea  dired^ors.    Be  this  as  it  may,  he 
fpon  after  fled  from  England^  relidcd  fome  years  abroad,  and 
has  been  frequently  luppofed  to  have  turned  Roman  Catholic. 
While  he  remained  in  cxilo,  he  acquired  that  knowledge  of 
medicine  and  chemiilry,  which  afterwards  was  the  means  of 
railing  him  to  a  (late  of  affluence.     About  the  year   1733  he 
began  to  pradile  phyfic,  and  combated,  for  fome  time,  the 
united  efforts  of  Wit,  Learning,  Argument,  Ridicule,  Malice, 
andjealoufy,  by  all  of  which  he  was  oppofed  in  every  (hape 
that  can  be  fiiggcrted.  At  length,  by  fome  lucky  cures,  and  par- 
ticularly one  on  a  relation  of  Sir  Jofepb  Jekyl  Mafter  of  the 
Rolls,  he  got  the  better  of  his  opponents,  and  was  fuffered  to 
praCtife  undidurbed.     From  this  time  his  reputation  was  eda* 
blilhed  :  he  was  exempted,  by  a  vote  of  the  Houfe  of  Com* 
mons,  from  being  vifited  by  the  ccnfors  of  the  college  of  phy- 
iicians,  and  was  even  called  in  to  the  affidance  of  King  George 
the  Second,  whofe  hand  he  cured,  and  received,  as  a  reward, 
a  commiffion  for  his  nephew  the  late  General  GanfeL     It  was 
his  cuflom  to  diflribute  his  medicines  and   advice,  and  even 
pecuniary  afliftancc,  to  the  poor,  at  his  houfe,  j^a//i;  and  thus 

he 


C    *38    J 

hoDg  tnarked  of  z  claret  odour);  and  diat  6t 
the  elder  Tojfbr  ^,  a  noted  oculift,  with  an  eye  on 
die  head  of  his  cane ;  Dr.  Pierce  Dod  ^^  Dr.  Bam* 

beri 

ht  tcqtiired  confiderable  popularity.  Indeed,  in  tbefe  parti* 
talari  hit  condu^  was  entitled  to  eveiy  degree  of  praife.  With 
a  ftero  oatfide,  and  rough  deportment,  he  was  not  wanting  m 
benevolence.  After  a  continued  feries  of  fuccefs,  he  died  DeCm 
2ty  1761,  at  a  very  advanced  age,  and  left  the  fecrrt  of  his 
medicines  to  Mr.  Page^  member  for  Chichefter^  who  beftowed 
them  on  two  charitable  inAitutions,  which  have  derired  coo* 
fiderable  advantages  from  them  His  will  is  printed  in  Hm 
GtfUkmm^s  Mtgaxine^   17^2,  p.  208. 

*  I  was  aflured  by  the  late  Dr.  Johnfon^  that  Wkri  was  the 
weakeft,  and  Taylor  the  moft  ignorant,  of  the  whole  empiric 
tribe.  The  latter  once  alTerted,  th-Jt  when  he  was  at  &.  P«« 
urjhurg^  he  travelled  as  far  as  Archangel  to  meet  Prince  Ibrtm^ 
iamtm*  Now  Archangel  being  the  extreme  point  from  jBstp* 
feoM  Afia^  had  the  tale  been  true,  theorulift  muft  have  march* 
cd  fo  far  backwards  out  of  the  route  of  Prince  HeracUms^  whofe 
name  he  had  blundered  into  Herculaneum. 

The  prefent  likenefs  of  our  ocuIiA,  however,  we  may  fup« 
pofe  to  have  been  a  ilrong  one,  as  it  much  refembies  a  meue* 
tinto  by  Faber^  from  a  pi£turc  painted  at  Rome  by  the  Che« 
valier  Riche.  Under  it  is  the  following  infcription :  *'  Jomaaa 
**  Te^lor^  Medicus  in  Optica  expert iiTiinus  multifque  in  Aca* 
*'  demiis  celeberrimis  Socius."  Eight  Latin  verfet  folioWy 
which  are  not  worth  tranfcription.  Taylor  made  prefentt  o£ 
this  print  to  his  friends.     It  is  now  become  fcarce. 

f  One  of  the  phyficians  to  St.  Bartholomew's  Hofpital.  H^ 
died  Auguft  6,  1754.  His  merits  were  thus  celebrated  by 
Dr.  Theobald^  a  contemporary  phyfician  : 

**  O  raro  merito  quern  jundla  fcientta  dudum 
**  lUuflrem  facris  medico  fiellam  addidit  orbi 
**  Aufpiciis,  pura  nunquam  non  luce  corufcc  ! 
•*  Utcunque  incolumem  virtutum  averfa  tueri 
**  Genu  humana  folet,  non  ni  poft  fata  corona 
'^  Donandam  merita,  potitus  melioribus  aftrisy 
♦«  Inridia  major,  tu  prxfens  alter  haberis 
^'  Hi^ooratesy  pleno  jam  nunc  cumulatus  honore* 


t    *39    1 

tkf  *;  und   odier  phyficians  of  that  dme.    The 

cfigun  with  a  bone  in  its  hand^  between  the  tw^ 
d«mi-do&ors  (u  e.  ?^i!^  and  Ward),  is  faid   to 

'have  been  defigned  for  Mrs.  Mdpp,  a  . fsuiious  maf- 
GUliflc  woman^  who  was  called  the  bone*fetter,  or 

-ftape-miflrefs.  ;  I  am  told^  that  many  of  her  ad- 
vnri&mentf  may  be  found  in  Mi^s>  Jaumaly  and 
fiill  more  accounts  of  her  cures  in  the  periodical 

ipiiblications  of  her  time.  Her  maiden  name  was 
fyaUm.  Her  father  was  alfo  a  bone-fetter  at  Hindon^ 
Wiks  i  but  quarrelling  with  him^  flie  wandered  about 
die  'country,  calling  herfelf  crazy  Sally.  On  her 
Ibocefs  in  her  profeffion  ihe  married,  Auguft  ii^ 
1736  f,  one  Wll  Mapp,  a  fervant  to  Mr.  Ibbitfm^ 
inercer  on  Ludgate-HilL  In  moft  cafes  her  fuccefs 
Wit  rather  owing  to  the  flrength  of  her  arms,  and 
the  boldnefs  of  her  undertakings,  than  to  any  know* 
ledge  of  anatomy  or  (kill  in  chirurgical  operations. 
The  following  particulars  relative  to  her  are  collet* 

**  Te  fen,  corporea  tandem  compage  foluta^ 

'*  Accipiet,  do6tis  clarctceatem  artibus,  alta 

^  (Ui  fphaera  fenis ;  Icu  tu  venerabilis  aureo 

**  Romani  Celfi  rite  effulgebis  in  orbe  ; 

^*  O  fit  adhuc  tarda  ilia  dies,  fit  tarda,  precamur^l 

*'  Ilia  dies,  noflriset  multum  ferior  annis, 

'*  Cum  tiia  mens,  membris  fedudta  fluentibus,  almas 

'*  Advolct,  angelicis  imtnixta  cohortibus,  arces  ! 

**  Hie  potius  Mufas,  thematis  dulcedine  captas, 

^  Deledia,  atquc  ai^di  laudes  vel  ApoiUne  dignas,*^ 

*  A  celebrated  anatomifl,  phydciany  and  man-midwifir,  X9 
^holie  eftate  the  prefent  Gafcoyne  ^imily  fucceeded,  and  whofe 
.  Aimame  has  been  given  as  a  Chriftian  name  to  two  of  them. 

\  Some  indifferent  veri'es  on  this  event  were  printed  in  The 

ed 


I 


I 


I  «40  3 
tfhe Grub'jirett  Jounutly  &e.  tad  ftrvel 
Jcafl  to  fhew,  that  fhe  was  a  character  confidcrable 
enough  to  dcrerve  the  fatire  of  Hcgartb. 

Jt^uji  19.  1736,  "  We  hear  that  the  Iiulband  dt  y 
"  Mri,  Mapp^  the  famous  bonc-fctter  at  Efi/tm,  T2a^  ' 
**  awa)'  from  her  laft  week»  taking  with  htm  up- 
**  wards  of  100  guineas,  and  fuch  other  portable 
"  things  as  lay  next  hand*" 

"  Several  letters  from  Efifem  mention,  that  the 
"  footman,  whom  the  female  bone-fetter  marri^ 
**  the  week  before,  had  taken  a  fudden  journey  frorti 
"  thence  with  what  money  his  wife  had  earned ;  and 
**  that  her  concern  at  firft  was  very  great :  but  foon 
•*  as  the  furprize  was  over,  Ihe  grew  gay,  aiwl 
"  fcemed  to  think  the  money  well  difpofed  of,  as  ic 
<*  was  like  to  rid  her  of  a  bufband.  He  took  juft 
**  lOZ  guineas." 

The  following  verfes   were  addrcffcd  to  h*r  m^ 

**  Of  late,  without  the  leaft  pretence  to  Ikill, 
'*  Ward's  grown  a  fam'd  phyfician  by  a  pili  •  j 

•  GeDcrjl  Chnrehill  wa)  "  the  primsry  puffer  of  IFkr^t 
pill  at  court  t"  "id  l-oii  Chief  Baron  ReyneUi  foon  after  pub- 
liQied  *'  itt  miraculoiii  cffedi  on  a  maid  letvant,"  it  I  learn 
by  fome  doggrel  verfct  of  Sir  WiUi*m  Brtvmt,  addreflcd  to 
*' Dt.  fTarJ,  aQ^ack,  of  merry  memory-,"  under  the  title  of 
•*  ThePill-Plot  ;  On  TJe  Daily  Cnrait'i  miratnlousDifcovery, 
•'  Upoo  tbe  evcr*meniorable  i8ih  dsy  of  Ifo-vtmitr  17J4,  from 
•'  the  Doflor  hinifclf  being  a  Papift,  and  difiribming  hi*  Tilll 
"  to  the  poor  ^aiii,  by  the  handi  of  the  Lady  Gagt  alfo  a  Pa- 
"  pid,  (hat  [he  Pill  mud  be  beyond  all  duubc  a  deep-laid  Plot,  - 
"  10  introduce  popcry."  J~ 


[    HI    3 

# 

'^  Yet  he  can  but.  a  doubtful  honpur  claim/ 
*'  While  envious  Death  oft  blafts  his  rifing  fame* 
*'  Next  traveird  Taylor^  fiU'd  us  with  furprize, 
'^  Who  pours  new  light*  upon  the  blindeft  eyes ; 
^^  Eachi  journal  tells  his  circuit  thro'  the  land  i 
**'  Each  journal  tells  ttie  bleffings  of  his  hand  : 
"  And  left  fome  hireling  fcribbler  of  the  town 
^'  Injures  his  hiftory,  h^  writes  his  own. 
•*  We  read  the  long  accounts  wifh  wonder  o*er ; 
'*  Had  he  wrote  lefs,  we  had  believ'd  him  more. . 
'•  Letthefe,  OMappl  thou  wonder  of  the  age ! 
'*  With  dubious  arts  endeavour  to  engage  : 
*^  While  you,  irregularly  ftridl  to  rules, 
**  Teach  dull  collegiate  pedants  they  are  fools  : 
**  By  merit,  the  fure  path  to  fame  purfue  ; 
**  For  all  who  fee  thy  art,  muft  own  it  true/' 
September  2,  1736,  '*  On  Friday  feveral  pcrlbns, 
*'  who  had  the  misfortune  of  lamenefs,  crowded  to 
*'  The  White^hart  Inn^    in  White-chapel^  on  hearing 
*'  Mrs,    Mapp   the    famous  bone-fetter   was   there* 
"  Some  of  them  were  admitted  to  her,  and  were 
*•  relieved  as  they  apprehended.*    But  a  gentleman, 
*'  who  happened  to  come  by,  declared  Mrs.  Mapp 
"  was  at  Epfonii  on  which  the  woman  thought  pro- 
**  per  to  move  off.'* 

September  ^^  1736*    **  Advertifement. 

"  Whereas   it    has  .been  induftrioully  (I  wifti  I 

•«  could  fay  truly)  reported,  that  I  had  found  great 

**  benefit  from  a  certain   female  bone-fetter's  per* 

f ^  formaDCCji  and  that  it  was  to  a  want  of  refolution 

R  ^'  to 


1 


ti^o  the  operation,  that  I  did  not  meef- 
'*  with  a  pcrfcft  cure :  this  is  therefore  to  ^ve  no- 
•*  rice,  that  any  pcrfons  affliflcd  with  lameucfs  (wh<r 
"  are  willing  to  know  what  good  or  harm  others 
*'  may  receive,  before  they  venture  on  dcfpcrjte 
'*  mcafurcs  thcmfelves)  will  be  welcome . any  morn- 
**  ing  to  fee  the  dreffing  of  ray  leg, -which  was 
"  found  before  the  operation,  and  they  will  then  be 
*•■  able  to  judge  of  the  performance,  and  to  whom  I 
*'  owe  my  prefent  unhajipy  confinement  to  my  bed 
"  and  chair. 

••  Themaj  Barber^  Talloiw-chancllcr,  Ba^ren-kiii.** 
Seftember  i6,  i'ji6f"0aT&ur/djy,  Jlfin.  Ma/^'t 
"  plate  of  ten  guineas  wa*  run  for  at  F.pfom.  A 
"  mars,  called  '  Mrs.  Mupp*  won  the  firft  heat ; 
'*  when  Mrs.  M.if>f  gave  the  rider  a  guinea,  and  fworc 
"'if  he  won  the  plate  (he  would  give  him  loo;  but 
**  the  fecond  and  third  heat  was  won  by  a  chcllnut 
"  marc." 

"  We  hear  that  the    hiifband  of  Mrs.  Mapp  i| 
**  returned,  and  has  been  kindly  received.'' 

Sepitnibtr  23,  17^6,  "  Mrs.  Mapp  continues  mi 
•*  ing  extraordinary  cures:  flic  has  now  fet  up 
''  equipage,  and  on  SuriJay  waited  on  her  Majel!y." 
Saluniay,  OSiobcr  i6^  .7.36,  *'  Mrs.  Mapp,  (he 
"  bonc-fclter,  wjth  Dc.  Taylor^  the  oculift,  was  at 
**  the  pliy-houTc  in  Uhcolni-lnn  FieUt,  to  fee  x 
"  comedy  called  '  The  Hufband's  Relief,  witi 
"  ihft  Female  Bonc-fctter  and  Worm  Dodor;'  which 
"  occa(iont4 


1 


'*  gram:,  ••    :  - 

7  Wbtl«  Md^  to'dk"  adori'ihewM  a  leibd.  f»gat*d/ 
*•  On  one  fide  TayUr  fat;  oh'  th«ft  other  W»4i 
^*  When  Acir  mock  perfohs  of  the  Dfatttt'  ikmti 
*  Both  fTarrf  arid  "Fttylor  thought  it  hurt  their yJi^  % 
**  Wondcr'd  how  Mapp  coifd  in  good  humour  bc-^' 
"  Zoons!  cries' the  manly  dame,  it  hurts  not  m$; 
^  QuaclTs  without  art' riiay  either  blind  of  kill  j^ 
**  Buf  •  ddmonjlrafion  AewV  that  mine  xsjkltV^ 

■♦''*••'.«■  .      ■ 

^^  And;  the  following  was  fung'UpOn  th$  ftage  r^ 

•*  You  furgeons  of  London^  who  puz2;lc  your  pates^ 
**  To  ride  in  your  cteibhes,  dftd  potchafe  etlates/ 
**  Grive  over,  for  Ihame^'  for  yo\ir  pride  ha^  a  fall,' 
'^  Aad  the  do£trefs  of  Effim  has  outdone  yo\i  all; 

*^  Detry  U^rii  hcQi 

^  Whaf  (ignifTes  learftin^,  of  ^omg  to  fthodl/ 
^^  When  a"  woman  caii  db^  wlthdtrt  reafoli  or  f\x\ii 
"  VV6fit  polta'you^W  nonplus,  arid  bliflles  yoiir  art/ 
^*  For  petticoit-pfadtide  hiitoW  gcftthd  ftart'.- 

^^  In  phyfics,  a*s  wefl  as  in  fafhions,  we  find,^ 
**'The  licweft  ha4  alwayrthe  riin'with  mankind ; 


^  ♦  c«  Thij^^aHud^  to  fojpc  furpfiztng  pprcs'^lhi  pccform^rt^ 

before 

(iame 

tjz 

yean,  and  (luck  out  cwq  ihcbes  {  a  ntecejof  Sir //iw  ^jit^^  in' 

tTic^iricc  co'ncfiVion  i'^'arfd  a*  gtnfle'man'wKo  wcjic  witB  one  (hoj^^ 

Keel  fix  inches  high/  having  been  lafn5  twenty  y^rtbf^'hfi  hip 

and  knee,  whom,  (lie  fet  Hruit,  an!l  brought  ^ii  leg*doWo  even' 

4n\Xi  thr  other;'*    Gtnt.  Mnf*  i7}<5;  pr.  617^^ 


C    ^44    ] 

^  Forgot  is  the  bultle  'bbiit  iayhr  and  Ward% 
[y  Horn  iUd^'s  all  the  cry^  and  her  fame's  ott  record. 

**  Dame  Nature  has  given  her  a  dodtor's  degree, 
f^  She  get^  all  the  patients^  andipocjcto  the  fee  ; 
^<  So  if  yoU'^on't  inftantly  prove  it  a  cheat, 
^^  She^l^U  in  her  chariot,  whilft  yon  walk  the  ftreet. 

"  Derry  dmvn,  fee."' 


•     ■  •   •    •  • 


Oifoher  19,  1736,  Lofidon  Daily  Po/i.  "  Mrs. 
'*'A&/^/,  being  prefcnt  at  the  ading'of  The  WifeU 
'^  Relief y  concurred  in  the  univerfal  applaufe  of  a 
*'  crowded  audience.     This  play  was  advertifed  by 

the  defire*  of  Mrs*  Mapp^  the  famous  bone-fetter 

Qdober  %lr  I73^>  **  On  Ssiurdaj  evening  there 
^Vwas  fuch  a  coacourfe  .of  people  at .  the  Theatre^* 
**  royal  in  UncobCs'hn  Fields^  to  fee:  the  famous 
"  Mrs,  Mapp,  that  fcveral  gentlemen  and  ladies  were 
'^  obliged  to.  return  for  want  of  room.  The  confu- 
**  fion  at  going  out  was  fo  great,  that  fcveral  gen- 
**  tlcmen  and  laciics  i^.ad  their  pockets  picked,  and 
"  many  of  the  latter  loil  their  tans,  &c.  Ycfterday 
**  fhc  was  elegantly  entertained  by  Dr.  Ward,  at  his 
*' houic  in  ra:!-Mal/:' 

*^  On  Satinday  and  ycfterday  Mrs.  Mjpp  per- 
"  formed  fevcral  operations  at  The  Grecian  Qrffee- 
"  boufcj  particularly  one  upon  a  niece  of  Sir  Hans 
**  Sloancy  to  his  great  fatisfadion  and  her  credit. 
**  The  patient  had  her  flioulderbone  out  for  about 
"  nine  years." 

♦'  On 


■  1  »•«       *.  *■ 


*' On  Mstiday  Mrs.  ^JWSj^  performed  two 'extra*' 

^*  ordinary  cures ;  i>nc  on  a  young  laiy,  oi;^be  Tern* 
*^plei  who  had*  feverdl  bones  out  from  *  t&Ci  knees  to' 
^^  h^n  toes,  which  flie  J)uti^ia  tKeir  proper  places': 
"  and  the  other  on  -a  •' butcfier,  whofe^  iciied^patts' 
*^  were*  ib  mifplaced  that  he  walked  with  his'-kn^i^g*' 
*f  knocking  one^sigainft*  a'nmben  YefterAy  fhe- 
**  performed  feveral  otlfti*'  fift-prizing  ouref^  ;  -and • 
^*  about  ont  fet  out  for  £^>»,  and  carried  with  her' 
^'  feveral  crutches^  which  fhe  calls  trophies*  of  ho« 
"nour."  '•  r     - 

November  i8,  1736,  •*  Mrs;  A&/(^,  the  famous 
**  bone- fetter,  has  taken- lodgings  in  Pali-Mall^  near 
**  Mr.  Jo/hua  Ward's,  &c/*     ' 

November ,2^,  ly^f^^ 

**  In  thisjbright  age  three  wonder*wodters  rife, 
*^  Whofe  operations  puzzle  all  the  wife* 
To  lame  and  blind,  by  dint  of  manual  flight, 
Mafp  gives  the  ufe  pf  limbs,  and  Taylor  fight*   . 
But,  grej^tci:  Ward^  &c,'' 


it 


r  • 

December  16, 1736,  "  On  Thurfday,  Polly  Peitchum 
**  (Mifs  Warretij  that  was  filler  to  the  famous  Mrs, 
•*  Mapp)  was  tried  at  The  Old  Bailey  for  marrying 
**  Mr.  Nicholas  I  her  former  hufband,  Mr.  Somers, 
*'  being  living,  &c/* 

December  22,  1737,  *^-  Died  laft  week,  at  her 
"  lodgings  near  The  Seven  Dials,  the  much-talked- 
**  of  Mrs.  Mapp,  the  bone-fetter,  fo  miferably  poor, 
*^  that  the  pariih  was  obliged  to  bury  her.*' 

R  3  '      The. 


I  ^  ! 

Tht  plate  is  thus  -lUiltrated  by  the  engraver: 
K  «3ipt  (jimiylmf  of  Undertakers  bearcth  Sable,  tn 
Ujriftti  ffipptSTt  between  twelve  Quack  Heads  of  the 
fqfipod^  .aod  twelve  Cane  Heads,  Or»  CoAfultaat* 
Oo  9>  Chief  *,  Kebul^^  <f ,  ^mine,  one  compkic 
D^&or .];  iflUant^  cbectie,  fuflaiaing  in  his  lighc 
hiHid  a  baton  of  the  feocnxL  On  his.dcacter  and 
l^ptfter  iidcs  ^wo  ^^^odor;  UTuant  p(  ^  iecoodt 
and  two  C^pc  Heads  ifiiiaot  of  the  third;  die  firft 
halving  Qpe  eye  couohanty  tow^rdf  the  dexicr  fide  of 
th;  efcutgheon;  thp  fecf^^d  faped  per  pale  proper 
^d  gules,  guardant^  with  this  TOoao^Es  fJwima 

I.  The  LcAure.  "  Datm  vacmiai^*'  Xbe  pcribii 
reading  is  well  known  to  be  the  bte  Mr.  Fi/her^  of 
Jefus  CcUe%ey  Oxford^  and  Regiftrar  of  that  Univer- 
fity-  This  portrait  was  taken  whK  the  free  confcmt 
of  Mr.  Fijheri  who  died  March  i8,  1761.  There 
arc  feme  imprefRons'in  which  "  Darur  vacuum"  is 
not  piinred,  that  k-af  being  entirely  blank;  publifli- 
ed  January  20,  1736-7;  the  oriicr  Ahrcb  3,  1736. 

^  A  ciiicf  berol^jiexh  a  /en9i6r«  o(  honoucabl;  pf.rfonnge 
borrowed  trcHP  tnt  Crreks^  and  is  a  word  fignih'inj;  a  head  ; 
«ild  as  the  Iie«(!  is  rh^chief  part  of  a  maii,  fofhcchietin  i\.z 
«icmcl«f:o/)  (Luuia  be  a  rcrward  of  iucii  o|)iy  wh^-hii^b  inrri^s 
fiavcpiocurcfi  thci^i  cliicf  place,  ell«:cin,  or  love  aiuougll  men. 

t  The  bf^trin^  of  clouds  ia  armci  (fatlh  £,{»/««)  4oth  ^tn- 
l^t  fo;ve  e4,rLik'nciCjr 

t  Ori^iiiatiy  piintcd /^<.4rr,  but  afterwardg  altered  in  this 
ptiflt. 


t    H?    1 

^ofartk  at,  firft  piarked  thcfc  wor4s  in  wjth  t,  pen 
and  ink. 

2.  JEneas  ip  a  Storm,  The. following  advcrtifemcnt 
appeared  in  T^feLqudonpaify  Poji^  January  1711736-7. 
"  *•  This  day  i§  pubti0ied,  price  fixpencc,  a  hiero- 
**  glyphical  print  called  ^neasjn  a  Storm* 

'*  Tanta  haec  'mulier  potuit  fuad^e  tq^loruoi. 
'^  Sold  by  the  bookiellers  and  printfellers  in  towqi 
^^  and  country*   Of  whom  may  be  had^  a  print  called 
•**  Tariuff^s  Banquet ^  or  Codex* s  Entertainment.     Pria 
■^'  one  ihilling. 

— **popvilv8  me  fibitat,  at  mihi  plaudo 
^Mpfedpmi.'' 

The  fame  paper  mentions  the  King's  arrival  at 
Loejltffon  the  i6th  of  January y  and  afterwards  at 
5/.  Jameses  on  the  17th. 

The  author  of  tUs  print,  whoever  he  was,  did 
not  venture  to  put  his  name  to  fo  ludicrous  a  re- 
prefentatiop  pfthetempeft  which  happened  on  King 
George  tlie  Second'§  retyrQ  from  Hanover.  His  Ma- 
jefty  is  fuppofed  to  have  kicked  his  hafc  overboard. 
This,  it  feems^  was  an  adtion  cuftomary  to  him  when 
he  was  in  a  paflion.  To  the  fame  circumltance 
Leveling  jias  alluded  in  his  Sapphic  Ode  ad  Carolurjt 
J3  .  .  .  ^  *• 

Concinet  ipajore  poeta  pledtro 
Georgium  -f,  quandoque  calens  furore 
XJeftict  circa  thalamum  ferire 

Calce  galerum« 

*  Bunhmy. 

t  The  author  had  here  left  a  blank|  which  I  have  ventured 
to  fill  up  with  the  rojal  name. 

R  4  I  have 


I  have  been  told,  that  Mr*  Garrickf  when  he  firft 
appeared  in  the  charader  of  Bayes,  taking  the  fame 
libercr,  received  inftantly  fuch  a  meflage  firom  one 
oftheflnge  boxes,  as  prevented  him  from  pra&ifing 
fo  infolcnt  a  ftroke  of  mimickry  a  fecond  time. 

In  fpite  of  the  confidence  with  which  this  p^ate  has 
been  attributed  to  Hogarth,  I  by  no  means  beliey^ 
it  was  bi«  performance.  It  more  refemblcs  the 
manner  of  Vandergucht^  who  was  equally  inclined 
to  perfonal  fatire,  however  his  talents  might  be  in- 
adequate to  his  purpofes.  Witnefs  feVcral  Scattered 
defigns  of  his  in  the  very  fame  ftvle  of  engraving. 
I  may  add,  thar  he  always  exerted  his  ta'ents  in  the 
fervicc  of  the  Tory  fa&ion.  Befides,  there  is  no- 
thing in  the  plate  before  us  which  might  not  have 
been  exp^-fted  from  the  hand  of  any  common  artift. 
The  conceit  of  the  blafts  ifluing  from  the  pofteriors 
of  the  JEcV'!tn  tribe,  is  borrowed  from  one  of  the 
prims  to  Scarr  n\  'Travefiy  cf  Vi'git ;  and  the  figure 
of  Br::an>iij  is  altogether  ir.fipid  and  unworthy  of 
Thga^ih.  Our  artift  alio  w:i5  too  nuich  accuftomed 
to  failing  parties,  and  too  riccurute  an  obferver  of  ob- 
jofts  on  The  Thames^  not  to  have  known  that  our 
Ro\  al  Vrxhts  arc  vciTcls  without  three  niails,  &c. 

I.  The  Four  Parts  of  the  Day- •  h.^ieKl^ii^paiaicdy 

N:s;..\  .-rMl  n  t'.\:  ?v;y  r:'  ^rrL..-:^  A."t;c:Vc5  ii;c:t-.r.::  in  a 
V  .  !\  I'o'  r  .  ...>.j,  i...  I  :o  ;  _■  ::■...:  .  :  tiic  ::::-.fcf  ii:blc::hirg, 
h  I't  i.M  :\^c  I't'.^cr. .  Afrcr  :h.  liihi'cripti^:?,  to  tc  raifcc  to 
!:vr  .1'..  'i:^-5  .1  nl-iCc,  •    •  ■ 


C    «49   J 

^fgroMd^  :and  publijbed  hy  W»  Eogarlh.  Mr.  Wslf$k 
obfervcs  that  thefe  plates^  *^  except  the  lafl^are  infe* 
rior  to  few  of  his  works/',  Wc  have  been  told  that 
HogartVs  inclination  to  fatire  once  co$  hin^  a  legaqr* 
It  feems  that  thejfigure  of  the  Old  Maidj  in  the  print 
of  Mornings  was  taken  either  from  an  acquaiatanoe 
or  relation  of  bis* '  At  firft  ihe  was  well  enough  Xattf* 
fied  with  her  refemblance;  butfome  defigning  pei> 
pie  teaching  her  to  be  angry>  Ihe  ftruck  the  painter 
out  of  her  will,  which  had  been  made  confiderably  in 
his  favour.  This  ftory  we  have  heard  often  related 
by  thofe  whom^  on  other  occafions^  we  could*  readily 
believe.  In  the  fame  print  is  a  portrait  of  Dr.  Rock^ 
who  fornierly  attended  Coveni-Garden  market  every 
morning. 

To  the  propriety  of  Hogarth^s  having  intra* 
duced  a  fcene  of  riot  within  Kin^s  Coffee-bcufe^ 
the  following  quotation  from  ^be  Weekly  Mifcellany 
for  jfuflegy  1739,  bears  fufBcient  teftimony  :  **  Mok- 
,day  Mrs.  Mary  Kinz  of  Covent^Garden  was  brought 
up  to  the  King's  Bench  Bar  at  Weftminjler^  and 
received  the  following  fentence,  for  keeping  a  dif- 
orderly  houfe ;  viz.  to  pay  a  fine  of  £.  200,  ta^fuf- 
fer  three  months  imprifonment,  to  find  fecurity  for 
.her  good  behaviour  for  three  years,  and  to  remain  in 
prilon  till  the  fine  be  pavd.*^  As  it  was  impoffible 
Ihe  could  carry  on  her  former  bufinels,  as  foon  as  the 
time  of  her  imprifonment  was  ended,  ihe  retired 
with  her  (avings,  built  three  houfcs  on  Huverjiock 
hill,  near  Hampjiead^  and  died  in  one  of  them,  5^- 

tembef 


C  «5*  3 

Mr.  Walp^U  MtiVft%  that  this  piece,  ^«  £or  wit  and 
imagiiviticiny  without  any  other  end,''  is  the  beft  of 
all  our  artift's.  works.  ^Mx.Woi>d  ai  IJttcItan  has  the 
originalp  for  which,  he  paid  only  26  Guineas. 

•Dr.  Trujlery  in  his  explanation  of  this  plate,  is  of 
opinion,  that  fome  inceftuous  commerce  among  the* 
performers  is  intimated  by  the  names  of  CEdipus  and 
Jocdfta  appearing  above  the  heads  of  two  figures 
among  the  theatrical,  lumber  at  the  top  of  the  bam.- 
j^Wt-furely  there  is  no  caufe  for  fo  grofs  a  fup|K)iition» 
l^ffiQBcd  prodigies  of  this  defcription  were  neceiTary* 
y^<l^i  performance  of  Lee*s  CEdtpuu  See  Adt  II. 
wl^erg.tUc'  following  ftage  direction  joccurs ;  ^'  The 
T  ^Ipud  draws,  that  veiled  the  heads  of  the  figures 
1*  in .  the.  ^Ly,  and  ihews  them  crowned,  with  the 
^^  VMOitt  of  CEdipuf  and  Jocajia  written  above,  in 
V  great  charadlqrs  of  gold,'*  The  magazine  of  dra- 
ins, clouds,  fcencs,  flags,  &c.  or  the  woman  half 
naked,  was  fufHcient  to  attradt  the  notice  of  the  ruf* 
tick  peeping  through  the  thatch  he  might  be  employ- 
ed to  repair.  Neither  is  the  pofition  of  the  figures 
at  all  favQurable  to  the  Doctor's  conceit.  Incefl 
w^s  alfo  too  ihocking  an  idea  to  have  intruded  itfclf 
among  the  comic  circumftances  that  form  the  prefent 
reprefcntaupn.  When  this  plate  was  retouched  a 
fecond  time,  a  variety  of  little  changes  were  made  in 
it.  In  the  two  earlieft  imprcffions  the  aftrcls  who 
J  erfonates  Flora^  is  grcafmg  her  hair  with  a  tallow 
candle,  and  preparing  to  powder  hcrfelf,  after  her 
cap,  tenthcrs,  &c.  were  put  on.  This  iblccilm  in  the 
ij  regular 


C  «S3  3 

• 

r^ular  courfe  of  drefs  is  removed  in  the  third  oopf, 
the  tip  ttiid  ornaments  being  there  omitted.  Tke 
•.coiffure  of  che  female  who;, holds  the  cat,  is  alfo 
lowered;  and  whereas  at  firft-  we  couki  read  in  the 
play-biii  depending  from  tiie  truckle«>bed,  that  tlie 
part  of  Jupken  was  to  be  performed  by  Mt.  Bilk^vit- 
lage,  an  additional  Ihade  in  the  modem  copy  rendeDs 
.this  part  lof'.tbjc  infcription  zHergible.  -  Seveml  Boies 
•likewife  in  the  thatch  of  the  Barn  are  filled  up )  and 
the  whole  plate  has  loft  fomewhat  of  its  clearaeft. 
The  fame.cenfure  is  due  tb'tfhe  reparations*  of  xbt 
Harlot's  and  Raters  fro^iffei.'  Had  Hogarth  livi^ 
he  would  alfo  have  gradually  deflroyed  much  of 
.that  hiftory  of  drefs,  &c,  fc*  which  his  defies  have 
been  juftly  praifed  by  ^x.WdpoU.  In  the  firft  and 
laft  fcenes  of  the  Rak^s  Progrefs^^  he  began  to  adom 
the  heads>of  bis  females  in  the^faihion*  prevalent  aft 
the  time  he  retraced  the  plates.  In  ihort,  the  collet 
tor,  who  contents  himfelf  with  the  later  imprcfiionk 
of  his  work,  will  not  confultour  artift^'sxeputatioif« 
Thofe.  who  wiih  to*  be  acquainted  with  the  wholfc 
extent  of  hifsp^wers,  fhould  aflcmble  the  firft  copies; 
together  with  all  the  varieties  of  his  capital  works. 

1739. 
It  Several  children  oi  1  be  Foundling  Ho//>itali  the 
boys  with  mathematical  inftruments ;  the.  girls  with 
/pinning .wheels.  Over  the  door  of  the  houfe  they 
•come  out  af,  are  the  KiogVarms.  A  porter  is  bring- 
.ing  in.a.fchild,  followed  by  Capt.  Coram^  whofe  be- 
Mvolent  countenance  *  is  directed  towards  a  kneeling 

*  Sec  p.  m6u^ 

... .  .  woman. 


t    «5»    3 

Qb  dr  1%^  land  sa  varv  tf  «  dnrt^t 

wt  a  &!3§f  diftauct  i!Audbu  mfmi  cKpmed  nest  aTtrrr. 
Is  lite  htek  tr  tb?  pidarcy  i  ^tiljirni  of  ibri« 
fifiio|Ep    W.  liifMrti  X9SU  K.  MurtL^  Jt  Caztt  jati^ 

ffi»rn  f  ht  %s\A.m  of  Tfo  /«mi^[^  HtjfBisi^  to  d>o1b 
grBtkrn>rD 'W'b^  wtre  appcKsrcd  to  irocnre  fubkrijW 

fhrr  »  ^ictcd  €«  a  half  ibcet; 

n  Tilt  Erih^d  Sfo6cuil9  Di^pad,' engr^irieJ^ 
mid  fttbliflnd  by  HC  /ii^^p^^.  ''  Mr  JiJbm  Fipn  ; 
^  the  firft  hautboy  ao&i  Germm  flute  of  his  time,  had 
^  nutnerom  fcbolars .  to  each  (tf  «'hocD  be  deroced 
^  ai?  hour  every  day#^  At  nine  inr  the",  mcrniiig'.  he 
•*  attrmlrd  Mf#  SpmAr/ ffMdf^b^  to  the  earl  af 
^'  that  name.  K  he  h3p{>cned  to  be  out  of  tovn  on 
'•  any  day,  he- devoted  that  hour  to  anorher.  One 
•*  morning  at  that  hoor  he  waited  on  Mr.  r-^-#,-af- 
**  n^vM'jvk  IxnA  r-i-i/f.  He  was-^nor  tf p:  Mn^Fejfft 
'^  1^'cnt  into  hi$  chamber,  and  opening  the  (butter  of 
'^ ji  windo-iv,  fat  down  wit-  The  figtire  with  the 
^'  hautl^y  was  playing  Onderthe  wiodcfw.  A  marf, 
^*  with  a  barrow  fxAl  of  onioD^,  came  up  to  thie 
•*  player,  and  fat  on  the  edge  of  his  barrow/ and 
•*  faid  to  the  man,  *  rf  you  will  j4ay  the  Black  J^if 
^^'  I  will  give  you  this  onion/  ^  The  man  pbjFed  if. 

•  Mr.  Ftjlin  has  not  bc«*  dead  ten  yean.    He  waf1>rothcr 
AfllU  H^'tH  VI ho  led  ibe  baad  zxRrnitlagb^^ 

*'  When 


A  When  he  had  (o  done,  the  fnaa  again  de(ircd 
<*  to  play  fomc  other  tune,  an4  jhw  be  would  giv« 
•*  him  another  onion*  f  Tjbis/  feid  F€ftm  to  iiic^ 
••*  highly  angered  me ;:  I  cried  out,  Zp-^j.,iiri 
**  flop  here.  Ihis  fellpvv  is' riijicirting  my  proitefljoni 
**  he  is  playing  on  the  hautboy  for  onions.'  cBdng 
^'  intimate  with  Mr,  Hogariby^c  mencioned  tho  cir^ 
'^  cumflance  to  him;  which,  as-  he  faid;  vf»  tbi^ 
'*  origin  of  *  The-enragi^dMufician*'  Thef^Amay 
**.  be  depjended  upon.    MriFefiin  ^  was  himfelf  cbf 

^Enraged 

^  IR  tKc  lecond  edition  of  thefc  anecdotes,  I  had  Taid  "  thi 
**,  mufician  was  undoubtedly  CVT^rvcr/ ;'  though  one  gentle^ 
man  alTured  me  it  was  Feraiini.  The  error  is  here  ackncwjcdgc^^ 
to  fl)ew  the  danger  of  receiving  information  upon  truil.    la 
the  firll  edition,  -J  had  fallen  inro  a  iefs'  pardonable  ir.iifakC, 
by  fuppoting  it  \\9ii^Cuf;vrtto^  vvhc^i   I  d^ribcd  to  her  thel 
laterydeacf.     But  •'  Ho^aiWs  niufician,"  as   a  friend  on  thnt 
occaiion  fuggeiled   to    nie,  '*  ^*  rcprefcntcd   wrt"h'  a    violuj*; 
***wKcfcas  C<r-i.Y//<;*j  inllrunicnt  was  the  yiolopcidlo;  but,  how* 
*•  ever  that  may  b'*','  he'ts  now  certainly  Iwin'g.  *  lie  lodges  s3l 
•*  Fribttrg's  fnuff'fliop,  in  nr  Haymarht^  and  may  be*feen  e%eiy 
^*  day  at  Tifif  Orange CoJfviUup^  atthotf]^hV*Comptbti:dhiS  lOtft 
♦•'  yctnr  in  N^^tikher  tySi."     This  extraordmarjr  clfafa^er  i& 
th<;  Yn«ilicaK  World  came  to  En^lmtJ  in  the  h\\T^  fi*6\l,  and  wA 
fhetfan  old  man*.     He*  fomr  attc^r  was  engaged  to  play  the  bait ' 
at  /)/«r)-iW/>r-iln;atTe,  and  corttinutd  in  thnt  enip1o)*mcnt  till* 
a  fealbo  or  two  |>fcv'idus  to  Mr,  Varrick^s  riftiring  ifrom  th^ 
ftage^    Hc*dicd /»//«'  14,-  ^783,  iii  his  iO^d^^ar;*  One'even- 
ing  ivhcn  Nh.  C/arrUk  was  pcrfornnng   the  chafa?iir  of  Sfr 
yohm  BruHi  during  the  diunkafd*s  m\itt^fing   and  ddfiif^  tii\ 
he*falW  ttiH  aflcep  in  the  chair  (the  audience  bcir\g  moft'  pfo« 
foundiy  fil^nc  and  attentive  to  thisadmiraMe  performer),  Cr/- 
<rrir/tf  (in  the  orehieAra)-  uttered  a  very  loud  and  immoderaiely- 
kngthened  yawn  I  The  moment  Garricic  was  off  the  Ibtjfc;  rwc 
lent   for-^he  nniilciun,  and  with  confiderable  wavmth  repri- 
oianded  hiai  U^t  lo  ill-timed  a  fym^ttom  of  fomrfolcncy,  (ih<>u 

tbc 


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C  ^s6  1 

«  Enraged  Performer,'"  The  ftory  is  here  told  juft 
8S  he  rdttcd  it  to  a  ckrgymaD,  in  Vihok  words 
the  reader  now  receives  it. 

Of  this  print  *  it  has  been  quaintly  faid^  that 
it  deafens  one  to  look  at  it.  Mr.  ff^Jpok  *  is  oiF 
opinion  that  it  *^  tends  to  farce/'  **  Rouquet 
^^  fays  of  it^  Le  Muficien  eft  un  halien  que  les 
^  cris  de  Ijmdres  font  -  enrager/*  The  wretched 
figure  playing  on  a  hautbcns,  was  at  that  time 
well  known  about  the  ftreets.  For  variations^  fee 
the  horfe's  head^  originally  white,  but  now  black. 
-—Sleeve  of  the  child  with  a  rattle,  ar  firft  fmaller, 
as  well  as  of  a  lighter  hue — the  milk-woman's  face, 
cloak^  &c.  boy's  dragg,  cutler's  hatchet,  dog,  &d 
Crc  more  darkened  than  in  the  firft  impreflions. 
Thefe,  however,  can  fcarcely  be  termed  varieties,  as 
they  were  occafioned  only  by  retouching  the  plate, 
and  adding  a  few  ihadows. 

the  modern  Nafi^  with  great  addrefs,  reconciled  GarrJci  to 
bim  in  a  trice,  by  faying,  with  a  flirug,  ''  I  beg  ten  toufsnd 
**  pardon  !  but  I  alvays  do  fo  ven  I  am  ver  mufiflea/e  V*  Mr. 
Cfrvttto  was  diilinguilbed  among  his  iVicnds  in  the  galleries  by 
the  name  of  Nofy,     See  Gentleman^ s  Magazine^  I7^3»  P*  9S* 

♦  London  Daily  Ppft^  Uorremhcr  24,  1740.  "  Shortly  will  be 
publiflied,  a  new  print  called  Tbt  Provoked  M%ficiam^  detign* 
cd  and  engraved  by  Mr.  HllUam  Hogarth  ;  bcin  j  a  companion 
to  a  print  reprefenting  a  DifireJfcd'Poetj  publi^ed  fome  time 
fince.  To  which  will  be  added,  a  Third  on  Paintings  which 
Ivill  complcat  the  fet;  but  as  this  fubjed  may  turn  upon  an 
affiir  depending  between  the  right  honourable  the  L — d  M^^r 
and  the  author,  it  may  be  retarded  for  fome  time." 

Query  to  what  affair  docs  Ilcgartb  allude?  Humphrey  Parfont 
was  ihcQ  Lord  Mayor. 

Hogarth^ 


.  .Ufig^fb'  4l9^^efer;  giade  feveral  alterations  and 
additions  in  this  plate  when  it4ippeared  to  be  fiaiflied. 
He  changed  in  fooie  tneafure  all  |the  countenances^ 
and  indeed  the  entire  head  and  limbs  of  thechimney- 
fweeper,  who  had  originally  a  grenadier's  cap  on. 
Mtfs  had  alfo  a  D^i/,  (ignificantly  placed  under  the 
trap  compofed  of  bricks,  near  which  fome  fprigs 
from  a  tree  are  fet  in  the  ground,  the  whole  contri^ 
vance  being  defigned  by  fome  boy  for  the  purpofe  of 
taking  birds;  but  when  occupied  by  Mifs's  Play- 
thing, became  emblematic  of  the  art  of  catching 
men.    What  relates,  however,  to  this  young  lady 
from  a  boarding-fcbool,  was.  grofs  enough  without 
fuch  an  amplification.     The  play-bill,  fow-gelder, 
cats,  dragg,  &c.  were  not  introduced,  nor  the  pew- 
terer's  advertifement,  nor  the  fteeple  in  which  .the 
ringers   are  fuppofed.     It  is  remarkable  that  the 
duftman  was  without  a  nofe.     The  proofs  of  the 
plite  in  this  condition  are  fcarce.     I  have  feen  only 
one  of  them  *•      Mr.  S.  Ireland  has    the  original 

ikctch. 

1742. 

1.  Martin  Folics,  Efq.  half  length.  W.  Hogarth 
pinxit  &  fculfjit^  An  engraving.  To  fome  impref- 
fions  of  this  print,  which  are  not  proofs,  the  name 
of  Hogarth  is  wanting. 

2.  The  fame,  half  length  mezzotinto.  W.  Ho- 
garth pinx.  1741;  J.  Faber  fecit.  1742.  The  ori- 
ginal of  both  is  now  in  the  meeting- room  of  the 
Royal  Society,  in  Somerfet  Place. 

♦  In  the  colle^ion  of  Mr.  Cn.htt. 

S  3.  Charmers 


i:  Ml  1 

3«  OMtrntri  of  the  Age  K  ^  AfltttA.  Noname.'' 
It  was  ifitcBded  to  rklicale  Monf,  Difiwyer^  and 
SgDora  Barterhi,  the  two  beft  dancers  that  ever  ap- 
peared in  London.  This  plate  exhibits  the  internal 
profped:  of  a  theatre.  The  openings  between  the 
fide  fcenes  are  crowded  with  applauding  fpeftators. 
The  two  performers  are  capering  very  high,  A  fun 
over-head  (I  fuppofe  the  emblem  of  public  favour) 
is  darting  down  its  rays  upon  them.  The  reprefen- 
tadves  of  Tragedy  and  Comedy  are  candle-holders 
on  the  occafion.  Underneath  is  the  following  in« 
fcripiion :  ^*  The  prick'd  lines  fhow  the  rifing  height." 
There  are  alfo  a  few  letters  of  dire&ion,  fo  fituated 
as  to  convey  no  very  decent  innuendo.  The  whole  b 
but  a'hafty  outline,  executed,  however,  with  fpirit^ 
and  bitten  uncommonly  deep  by  the  aqua-fortis.  I 
afcribe  it  to  Ik^tb  without  hefitation.  Of  this  print 
there  is  a  copy  by  Livtfijtf. 

All  the  three  pieces  of  our  artift  that  fatirize  the 
fiage,  &c.  are  peculiarly  fcarce.    We  may  fuppofe 

*  Hcgmrth  defigned  to  have  publiHicd  this  print,  with  foine 
explanation  at  the  bottom  of  it,  in  i74i-2.*^See  the  infcriptioa 
aimed  effaced,  a  circumftance  to  which  the  copter  did  not  ai^ 
tend. 

+  I  learn  firom  Hh  Grn^firett  J§urnal  for  OBoha-  17, 
1734,  that  Monfieur  DefMayfr  wai  jull  arrived  from  Poknil^  to* 
gether  with  Mademoifelle  Roland  from  Pin-it  (this  lad/  is  ftill 
alive).  Again,  from  the  fame  paper,  ^4r^ar/?  19,  1756,  that 
*^  Monlicur  Defnoyer^  the  famous  dancer  at  ^nrr^-i!<nif,  is  gone 
^*  to  FmrU^  hy  order  of  Mr.  FiettmHiod^  to  engage  Madcmoifellc 
•*.  SmVee  for  the  enfuing  winter.**  In  fume  future  expedition, 
we  may  fuppofe,  he  prev^ailed  on  Signora  Harherini  to  come 
over  *or  ilic  fame  purpofct 

4  tbrr*:, 


C  m  1 

diem/  tberefbre;  to  have  bete  fupptefled  by  the  m« 
fluence  of  the  mtnagers  for  the  time  being,  who 
were  not^  like  our  prefent  ooes^  become  callous 
through  the  inceflaat  attacks  of  diurnal  criticks  in 
the  news-papers. 

4«  Tafte  in  High  Life.  A  beau^  a  fafluonftble  old 
lady^  a  young  lady,  a  black  boy^  and  a  monkey* 
Painted  by  Mr.  Ihgartb.  It  was  ibid  by  Mr.  Jandti^ 
in  Bidford^mi^  Covent-Garden.  FuhRJhid  May  %^th^ 
\noyiar\  The  origmal  pidure  is  in  the  po^ffioi^ 
of  Mr4  Biribj  furgeon,  Effex-firut^  in  ^The  Strand. 

It  difplays  (as  we  leam  frohi  an  infcription  on  the 
pedeftal.tmder  a  Femu  drefled  in  a  hoop-petticoat) 
the  rcigniiijg  modes  of  the  year  1 742.  It  was  painted 
for  the  opulent  Mifs  Edwards,  who  paid  our  artift 
fixty  guineas  for  it.  Her  reaibn  for  choofing  fuch  a 
fubgeft  was  rather  whimfical.  By  her  own  fingula-* 
rities  having  incurred  fome  ridicule;  Ihe  was  defirous^ 
by  the  affiltance  of  Hogariby  to  recriminate  on  the 
publtck.  As  he  defigned  after  her  ideas^  he  had 
little  kindneis  for. his  performance^  and  never  would 
permit  a  print  to  be  taken  from  it.  The  prefent  one 
was  from  a  drawing  made  by  connivance  of  her  fer« 
vants.  The  original  was  purchafed  by  the  father  of 
its  prefent  owner,  at  her  fale  at  Kenfington. 

The  figure  of  the  beau  holding  the  china-faucer 
is  faid  to  have  been  that  of  Lord  Tortmorey  dreiled 
as  he  firfl  appeared  at  court  after  his  return  from 
France.  The  young  female  was  defigned  for  a  cele- 
brated courtezan,  who  was  the  Kattj  Fijher  of  her* 

S  2  time. 


tiflie*  n^  fintiiliarhy  with  the  black  boy  alludes  to 
H  dihilar  weaknefs  in  a  noble  duchefi,  who  educated 
two  brats  of  the  fame  colour*  One  of  them  after* 
wards  robbed  her,  akd  the  other  was  guilty  of  fome 
offence  equally  unpardonable.  The  pi&ures  with 
which  the  room  is  adorned,  contain  many  ftrokes  of 
temporary  fatire.  See  the  Venus  with  fiays,  a  hoop, 
and  high-heerd  ihoes  r  Cupid  burning  all  thefe  parts 
9f  drefsi  together  with*a  modilh  wig,  &c. ;  a  fecond 
Cupid  paring  down  a  plump  lady  to  the  faihionable 
(landard ;  and  [in  a  framed  pidure  dafled  with  a 
fiumber  of  infe^]  the  figure  of  Defnojer  the  dancing- 
matter  in  a  grand  ballet.  The  ridicule  oo  the  folly 
of  coUeding-  old  china,  &c  fcc*  are  alike  circum- 
fiances  happily  introduced,  and  explanatory  of  the 
falluons  then  in  vogue.  The  colouring  is  better  than 
that  in  mod  of  Hogarth's  pictures.  The  plate  is  now 
the  property  of  Mr,  Sayer. 

1,  Benjamin  Hoadly,  biihop  of  Ulncbefierm  W. 
Hogartb  pinx.  B.  Baron  fculp.  The  plate  belongs 
to  Mrs.  Hoadly.   • 

2.  Captain  Thomas  Coram^  who  obtained  the  char^^ 
tcr  *  for  The  Foundling  Hofpital.  Mczzotinto;  a  three- 
quarters.  The  firft  print  publiflicd  by  HHArdell. 
The  original  is  a  whole  length.  The  captain  has 
the  fcal  of  the  charter  in  his  hand.  Before  him  is  a 
globe ;  at  a  diflance  a  profpcA  of  the  fea.     This  is 

*  In  which  the  name  of  William  Hogarth  (lands  enrolled  ai 
one  of  the  earlicft  governors  of  the  charity. 

perhaps 


r  ^^  I 

perhaptidic  Ibeft  of  all  HagartUs  poibraits^  ;ind'.is  th u$ 
dcTcribcdintlic&^siila/rziu^a  fioi^  publiihcd  about 

1749- 

•*  Lo }  old  Captain  Coram  *,•  lid  rouod  in  the  ft<a, . . 

<^  And  a  pair  of  good  chaps  plumped  up  in  godd  cafe, 

•  ■ 

*  Mr.  CvTtfM  was  bred  to  the  fea,  and  fpent  the  firfl:  part  or 
his  life  as  mafter  of  a  veflcl  tradihg  to  our  colonies.  While 
he  refided  in  that|>art  of  the  metropolis  which, is  the  comnaoQ 
refidence  of  feaforing  people,  bufinefs  often  obliging  hin)  to 
come  early  into  the  city  and  return  late  ;  ht  had  frequent 
occafions  of  feeing  young  children  ezpofed,  through  the  io^ 
digence  or  cmelty  of  their  parents*  This  excited  his  com. 
paflion  fo  far,  th^t  he  proje^ed  The  F^umiUng  Hojpital ;  in 
which  humane  defign  he  laboured  17  years,  and  at  laft,  by 
his  fole  application,  obtained  the  r(^al  charter  for  itf.  Hei 
died  at  his  lodgings  near  Leicefier'Sptaref  March  29,  lyjr,  ia 
his  84th  year  :\'*  and  was^  interred  under  the  chapel  of  the 
Foundling  HoJ^rtal^  v/htie,  the  foltowfog  infcriptioo  perpetuates 
his  memory :        .         ♦ :  - 

**  Captain  TfloMAS  Co«am, 

whofe  Name  wiff  nevei*  ifrant  a  Monument 

fo  long  as  this  Hofpital  (hall  fubfift,  was  born  about 

the  year  1668;  *  Man 'emment  m  that  moft  eminent 

Virtue,  tlje  liove  of  Matikind  ; 

little  attMtiyer  to  his  (Private  t^<H-tune,  and  refiifing 

many  Opportunities  of  encreafmg  it,  hfs  Tiitle  Bnd  Thoughts 

were  continually  employed  in  endeavours  to  promote  the 

public  Happineis, ' 

both  in  this  Kingdoi|i  £^nd  eirewhere,'partiQubrIy 

in  the  Colonies  of  North  America  ;  and  his  Endeavours 

were  many  Times  crowned  with  the  defired  Succefs.    His 

\mwearied  Solicicatton,  for  above  Seventeen  Years  together, 

(which  would  have  baffled  the  Patience  and  Indudry  of  any 

Man  lefs  zealous  in  doing  Good) 

t  For  his  other  charitable  proje£^f,  fee  Biog.  Di£t.  1784,  vol.  IV. 

p.  120. 

S  i  and 


C  »6i  ] 

^' l&4UBid>le  locb  haapDg  giej  on  cadi  fide 
^^  To  bis  double-brcaft  coat  o*er  his  ihoiilders  fa 
«  wide/'  &c. 

$.,  The  fame  eagraTiDg,  for  the  Lmimi  Magawm. 

4»  Charaders  and  Caricaturas^  ^^  /^  jCvw:  /Ao/ 
«  Leonardo  da  Vinci  exaggerated  the  latter  **  The 
fubfcription-ticket  to  Marriage  ^  la  Mode. 

1745- 
I.  Marriage  a  la  Mode*.    Six  plates.     In  1746 

and  his  Application  to  Pcrfont  of  Di(liii£lioD  of  both  Sexes, 
obtained  at  Length  the  Charter  of  the  Incorporation 
(bearing  Date  the  S7th  ofOftobtr^  1739} 

Foa  THE  MaIVTSMAJVCE  AMD  J&DUCATIOM 

OF  Exposed  and  Desexteo  TdtjiiG  Childrsit, 

bjf which  many  ThQufanda  of  Livca  may  be  pretenred  to  the 

Public,  and  cosploye4 10  a  fn^gal  and  honefl  Courfe  of 

Induftry.    He  died  the  J9th  of  Msni^  1751,  in  the 

84th  Year  of  liis  Age,  poor  fai  worldly  Eflitte,  rich  in  good 

Works ;  vras  buried,  at  bis  Dwn{>efire,  in  the  Vault 

uodenieath  ibis  Chapel  1 
(the  firft  here  depofitcd) 
'         at  rhe  Eaft  End  thereof  |  fiiany  of  the  Governors 
and  other  Gentlemeo  attending  the  Fnnera),  to  do 

HoQOur  to  his  Memory. 

Reader,  thy  Anions  will  fliew  whether  thoo  art  finoere 

in  the  Praifiis  thoo  ma/ft  befiow  on  l^m ;  and  if  thou  hail 

Virtue  enough  to  commefKi  his  Virtues,  forget  not  to 

add  alfo  the  Imiution  of  them." 

^  LmJ^Pml^PoJI^AfriJpi1\l.  '«  Mr. //i^or/A  intends 
<^  to  publifli  by  fubfcriptkin  Sis  Prints  from  copper  plates,  en* 
**  graved  by  the  beft  mafters  in  Pamj,  after  his  own  paintings 
«^  (:he  heads,  for  the  better  prcfcrvation  of  the  charaders  and 
**  crprefHons,  to  be  done  by  the  author),  rc'prefenttng  a  vah- 
«^  ety  of  inodprn  occurrences  in  high  life,  and  Cktlcd  Msrriag§ 

«*  Particular  care  is  taken  that  the  \vho!e  work  fhall  not  be 
<'  lijble  to  exception  on  account  of  any  imtecftuy  or  iacirgawc;^ 
<''  and  that  none  of  tlie  char>^tci'i  reprefenied  ihall  hzfcrjlfmaU 
««  The  fubfcripiion  will  be  one  guinea  ;  hall,  &;:•" 

was 


wtti^taUHhedt*^'  Marriagp  a  la  Mode,:  as  ^momr- 
^ous.  Tale,  ia  Six  C9Mo\  ia  Hudibraftic  Verfe; 
'^  betxig  an  Explanation  of  the  Six  Prints  lately  pub- 
«( liihed  by  the  ingenious  Mr.  H§g(Uib..  London : 
*^  prmted  for  Weav€r  BukertM^  in  Temple^xcbange 
*^  Paffage,  in  Fieet^tre^t,  1746.  Price  One  Shilling.'* 
Of  this  patnj^t  it  will  be  fufficient  to  extraft  the 
Preface  and  the  arguments  of  the  feveral  Canto's  $ 
the  poem  itfelf  (if  fuch  it  may  be  called)  being  cxf 
tended  to  the  length  of  59  pages.  \ 

**  The  prints  of  Marriage  i  la  Mode^  being  the 
^^  lateft  prodiiftkm  of  that  celebrated  Artift  who  had 
<^  before  oblige^^the  town  with  feveral  entertaining 
^  pieces^  have,  ever  iSnce  their  publication,  been 
^^  very  jufily  admired ;  the  particular  vein  of  hu'- 
^^  mour,  that  runs  through  the  whole  of  his  works, 
^^  is  more  efpecialiy  preferved  in  this.  '' 

^^  If  the  Comii  Poet  who  draws  the  charaders  of 
^^  the  age  he  livds  in,  by  keeping  fiiiAly  up  to  their 
'^  manners  in  their  fpeeches  and  expreifions ;  if  fa^ 
^'  tirizing  .,vlte  and  eiK:ouraging  virtue  in  dialogue, 
'^  to  render  it  familiar,  is  always  reckoned  anuMigft 
'^  the  liberal  arts ;  and  the  liuthprs,  when  dead,  dig« 
^^  nified  with  bufts  and  monuments  fa9red  to  theii: 
^'  memory  {  fure  the  matter  of  the  pencil,  whofe 
'*  traits  carry,  not  only  a  lively  image  of  the  petfons 
^<  and  mannerSi  but  whpfe  happy  genius  has  found 
"  the  fecret  of  fo  difpofing  the  feveral  parts,  as  to 
'^  convey  a  pleafing  and  inllrudive  moral  through 
^^  the  biilory  he  reprefents,  may  claim  a  rank  in  tlie 

S  4  "  foremoft 


C  »64  3 

''  foreiTMkl  daftt  ^i^l  icquiir»  if  dieterai  iialbw- 
''  «ble,  the  tppclUtio»  of  the  I>aailtio^ Painter.* 

^  The  Modifb  Htilband,  incapable  of  rcHflitDg  tUc 
<'  pleafurcs  ofcrue  happinef»,  U.il«re-drpide(Lia  his 
*'  full  fwfai^  of.vicr,  'tiU*1ii$  mtilaken  C4iiuluftdrivf:s- 
^'  bis  wife  to  be  falfc  to  his  bed,  and  brings  biin  to- 
"  a  wretdted  end  ;  killed  in  revenging  the  lofs  of/ 
"  that  virfiic  which "  he  would  never  dhciiih.  '  Thd 
**  l.ady  is  equally  rcprefented  as  a  true  copy  of  all 
'*  the  fine  ladies  of  the  age,  who,  by  indulging  their 
^  paflions,  run  into  all  thofe  extravagances,  that  ac 
'*  lall  occafion  a  ihamefui  exit,  if  the  gentlemen  of 
•'  the  long  robe,  whd  (6ught  to  'know  the  confe- 
**  quencn,  are  guilty  df  ^Itbmmitting  fuch  a  breach 
••  of  hofpttality  as  is  h*c  dcfirribcd,  they  arc  pro* 
"  jYcrly  reprimanded  :  '  the  penurious  Alderman, 
"  and  the  prdfligatooldNoblemany  are  a  fine  contrail; 
"  the  Quack  Doftor,  the  Ifa'ian  Singer,  &c  arc 
•*  proofs  of  the  Inventor'i  judgement  and  dift 
**  iinClum,  l>orh  in  high  and  low  lii'e. 

*♦  Though  thck-  images  are  pleafing  to  the  eye, 
**  yet  many  hnvc  complamed  that  ihev  wanted 
*•  a  [M'opcr  explanation,  which  we  hope  will  plead 
••  an  exv^nk-  tor  publication  of  the  following;  Canro'?, 
**  as  I  he  dcrtrc  to  render  thefe  pieces  more  cxrenf  ve 
**  may  atone  tor  the  manv  faults  conrainc*!  in  this 
•*  poem,  lor  which  the  Hud:brajiic  ftvle  was  thought 
•*  molt  pro(\T." 

The 


it 


The    ARGUM-ENTS. 

C  ANT  O    i. 

*'  The  joys  and  plagues  that  wedlock  brings^ 

"  The  Liiriner  paints,  the  Poet  fings ; 

•*^How  the 'old  dads  weigh  either  fcale, 

"  And  fet  theit  children  tip  to  Tale  ; 

Ho\V,  i^fd'o'f  thought,  the  Vifcount  weds 
The  nymph,  who 'iflich  a  marriage  dreads; 

"  And,  wnilft  himfelf  the  Fop  admires, 

"  M — ~y  with  love  her  foul  infpircs." 

CAN  t  d;  11. 

««  The  weddln^'d>r,fh'eiir- matched  pair 
"  Are  left  at  large,  their  fate  to  fhare  \ 
**  All  public  places  he  frequents, 
'*  Whilft  fhe"  her  own  delight  invents  ; 
**  And^  full  of  love,  bewails  her  doom, 
**  When  drunk  i'th*  ftiorning  he  comes  home; 
"  The  pious  ftew'rd,  in  great  furprize, 
"  Runs  from  them  with  uplifted  eyes," 

CANTO    III. 
**  My  Lord  now  keeps  a  common  Mifs, 
**  Th'  effedts  defcrib'd  of  amorous  blifs  j 
**  Venereal  taints  infedt  their  veins, 
*\  Aiid  fill  them  full  of  aches  and  pains ; 
•*  Which  to  an  old  French  Dotlor  drives  'em, 
'*  Who  with  his  pill,  a  grand  p — x  gives  *cm ; 
**  A  fcene  of  vengeance  next  enfues, 
*•  With  which  the  Mufe  her  tale  purfues.'* 

CANTO 


t    a66    ] 

CANTO    IV. 
^  Frdh  honours  ^Mi  ciie^Lady  wiie, 
^'  A  Countefs  now  flie  fhioes  m  Aatt  % 
''  The  toilette  is  at^  large  difplay'd, 
'*  Where  whilft  the  morning  concert's  pUy^d^ 
'^  She  lUlens  to  her  lover's  call, 
^  Who  courts  her  to  the  midnigfat-balU'* 

CANTO    V. 

'^  The  diiiBal  confequence  behold^ 

^  Of  wedding  girls  of  L^ndtm  mould  ; 

«*  The  Huiband  is  deprived  of  life, 

'^  In  ftrivmg  to  deteft  Us  Wife ; 
The  Lawyer  naked,  in  furprize. 
Out  ci  the  Bagnio  wmdow  ffies : 
Whilft Madam^  leaping  from  the  bed, 

^^  Doth  on  her  knee  for  pardon  plead.*' 

CANTO    VI. 
*'  The  Lawyer  meets  his  juft  rewardy 
•*  Nor  from  the  triple  tree  is  fpar'd ; 
"  The  Father  takes  my  Lady  home, 
**  Where,  when  (he  hears  her  Lover's  doom. 
To  defperate  attempts  Ihe  ffies, 
And  with  a  dofe  of  poifon  dies." 

In  thefc  plates  only  a  fingle  variation  is  deteded. 
In  the  very  firft  impreffions  of  the  fccond  of  them 
(perhaps  a  few  only  were  taken  off)  a  lock  of  hair 
on  the  forehead  of  the  lady  is  wanting.  It  was 
added  by  our  artift,  after  Baron  had  finilhed  the 
plate.     In  the  early  copies  he  inferted  it  with  hdian 

ink. 


itkkt  A  psAge  in  the  Ana^  ^  will  perhaps  ac- 
count fori  this  fopplemcntal  ornament :  <^  A  lock 
^^  of  hair  filling  crofs  the .  temples^  and  by  that 
^^  means  breaking  the  regularity  of  the  oval^  has  an 
^  effea:  too  alluring  to  be  ftri^y  decent/'  The 
room  reprefented  in  this  plate  is  adorned  with  a 
melange  of  pidurcs  on  wanton  and  devotional  fub- 
jeds. 

Mr.  Walfde  has  remarked^  that  the  works  of  B»^ 
garth  have  little  obfcurity.  This  poficion  is  true  in 
general^  though  Mnrriagt  i  Im  Mode  may  fupply  an 
exception  to  it ;  no  two  perfons,  perhaps,  having 
hitherto  agreed  in  their  explanation  of  Plate  the 
third  f . 

When 

♦  See  p.  35. 

t  In  the  third  plate  of  this  work,  the  figure  of  the  fnnale 
unclaiping  a  penknife,  is  faid  to  hare  been  defigned  for  the 
once  eeiebrated  BctPf  Cartkfs.  This  remark  is  fnppofed  to  be 
countenanced  by  the  initials  £•  C.  on  her  bofom.  From  being 
in  a  date  to  receire  company,  this  woman  had  been  long  re« 
duced  to  (how  it,- and,  after  repeated  confinements  in  various 
prifoos,  was  buried  from  the  poor's  honfe  of  St.  Paml^  Covent 
Garden^  April  22,  17$^,  about  fcvcn  years  after  this  fct  of 
prints  had  been  publiihed.  Such  a  reprefentation  of  her  de- 
cline from  beauty,  as  may  be  given  in  the  plate  before  us,  is 
juftified  by  various  pafiages  in  Lo^eling^s  poems,  Latin  and 
EmfjUfb^  written  about  the  year  1738,  and  publiihed  in  1741. 
Thus  in  his  ode,  "  Ad  Sixtumy''  ' 

Carkfis  turpis  macies  dccentem 
Occupat  vuitum  ■ 

Again  more  amply  in  his  Elegiac  EpiAIe,  **  Ad  Henricum  :** 

Nympha  Cmfentini  quoe  gloria  fulferat  Horti, 

Cui  vix  vidiiTet  Druria  veiira  parcm, 
£xul,  inops,  liquic  proprios  milernnda  Penates, 
'  Fortune  extremas  fuilinuitquc  vices. 

Nunc 


[    268    3 

"Wlim  this  (et  of  plates  was  tx>  be  tn^tmei^  Ri* 
%inefj  .a  young  artift,  then  juft  coining  iritocitaplojr, 
was  recoimniended  to  Mr.  Hogarib ;   and  a  hard  tar- 

»^     gai» 

Nunc  frahit  infaaftam  tenebrofo  in  carcere  rit^m, 

Et  lerat  infolito  moilia  naembr&xoro. 
C^rltfis^  ah  !  quantum,  quantuai  mutaris  ab.  \\\k 

CarUfe^  qux  Ptneris  maxima  cura  fuit  f 
^de  tun  risere  olim  Charitefque  Jocique, 

Hie  fueraoc  Fs^ge  currus  3r  arma  Dc* ;        * 
Ars^rutit  Cives,  arfit  Judaus  AfeUa^ 

£r  te  Bellonim  deperiere  chori. 
Jam  (ordvsv  pallenfque  gcnat,  &  flaccid  i  mamfnaff 

Non  oculi,  quondam  qui  naicu^re,  micant* 
Heu  !  obi  formofae  rei^rentcs  lilia  malae ! 

Labra  ubi>  purpiireft  quae  nibucrc  rofii  \ 
Te  puer  lAdiius^  le  faftidirque  juvencut 

,  Tarn  marcefcentero,  diilimilemqne  tui. 
Siccine  tam  fidam  curas  Erycina  ininidram  ? 

Hxccine  militiae  pratmia  digna  tuae  ? 
O  y^nui!  6  nimiumt  nim'uimqiie  oblita  tuarum  I 

Carlefis  an  meruit  fortts  acerba  pati  ? 
Quae  poflh^c  ajifve  tuia  imponet  honorem, 

Ardcbit  pofthac  vcl  tua  caftra  fequi  ? 
Omoigenas  aequo  circumfpice  lumine  moechaa 

Quas  tua  pellicihui  Druria  dives  alit| 
Qiiz  ccllas  habitant,  viroi  peditefve  pcragrant^ 

Aut  qnx  HafpimtM  incoluere  lares ; 
Invcnirnda  fuit  niifquam  lafcivior,  artuf 

Mobilior,  facris  vcl  magis  apta  tuis, 
Larlffh  nh  noiliis  &  flcnda  &  fleta  Camo^nis  f 

Acct'd.u  veilris  nulla  medela  malis  ? 
Te  vercor  mileram  fortuna  tcnaciter  anget, 

Ncc  veniet  rebus  mollior  aura  tuis. 

Ag»in  in  his  Ode,  *'  Ad  CaroUm  B " 

■  rehiiquenc 

CarUfii  qunndnm  mifcra;  Penates 
D^f^h/a  II  JvlfifcH^  duo  ptrvicacii 

t'ulmiua  lingux. 

Again 


*s 


gi)tQ)W«s  made.    Ravenet  .went  through  two  of  the 

platev .  but  the  price  proved  far  inadequate  to  the 

>  labour. 

Again   in  "d  *^  Copy  of  Verfet   on  Beti^  Cl^\  cooiing  lo 
*«  Town,  &c," 

Rdbirts  will  curfe  ttt  whores— 

From  worn-out  CartUfs  to  fair  Kitfy  Walhr.   • 

Again  in  an  Ode  intituled  **  Meretricca  BrUamuca!* 

Alma  fcortorum  Druriaqmt  cuftos 
Orta  Neftnno  !  tibi  cura  pulchrc 
Carlefis  fatis  data,  tu  ftcund^ 

Cariefe  regnes. 

Thefe  lines  will  ferve  to  enforce  the  moral  of  The  Harhi\ 
Pr9gr^Sy  while  they  aim  at  the  illufiration  of  a  fingle  circum* 
fiance  in  Mtrriaft  a  la  Modi  x  where  if  this  female  is  iocro* 
duced  at  all,  it  iecms.  ro  be  in  the  chara6^er  of  an  opulent 
procured,  either  threatening  the  peer  for  having  difeafed  her 
favourite  girl,  or  preparing  to  revenge  herfelf  on  the  quack 
whofe  medicines  had  failed  to  eradicate  his  lordfliip's  diforder. 
That  heroine  mufl  have  been  notorious,  who  could  at  once  en« 
gage  the  pencil  of  Ihgarth  and  the  pens  of  LotftUng  and 
Fielding^  who  in  the  lixth  chapter  of  the  firfl  book  oi  Amelim 
ha«  the  follow  iog  fiery :  *'  I  happened  in  my  youth  to  fit  be- 
^^  hind  two  ladies  in  a  fide-box  at  a  pUy,  where,  in  the  bai* 
**  cony  on  the  oppofite  fi^ie  was  placed  the  inimitable  Ih^fif 
**  CarcUfi^  in  company  with  a  young  fellow  of  no  very  formai^ 
'^  or  indeed  fober,  appearance.  Ooeof  the  ladies,  L  remem* 
•*  ber,  iaid  to  the  other—*  Did  you  ever  fee  any  thing  look 
*^  {o  modefi  and  lb  innocent  as  that  girl  over  the  way  ?  What 
'*  pity  it  is  fiKb  a  creature  fiiould  be  in  the  way  of  ruin,  as  [ 
*'  am  afraid  fiie  is,  by  her  being  alone  with  that  young  fellow  i' 
''  Now  this  lady  was  no  bad  phyiiognomifi  ;  fi>r  it  was  impof- 
^*  fible  to  conceive  a  greater  appearance  of  modefiy,  innocence, 
'^  and  fimplicity,  than  what  nature  bad  diiplayed  in  the  coua- 
**  tenance  of  that  girl ;  and  yet,  ail  appearances  ootwith* 
'*  fianding,  1  mylelf  (remember,  critic,  it  was  in  my  youth) 
**^  had  a  few  mornings  before  feen  that  very  identical  pidure 
*'  of  thole  engaging  qualities  in  bed  with  a  rake  at  a  bagnio, 
*'  fmonking  tobacco,  drinking  punch,  talkmg  obfcenity,  and 
^'  fwearing  and  curfing  with  ail  the  impudence  and  impiety  of 

•*  the 


I 


C   370  ] 

kbour.    He  remonftratcd,  but  coutd  obtain  no  aug- 
( mentation.      When  the  Sigi/miinda  was  to  be  en- 
graved, 

**  the  loMtefl  and  mod  abandoned  trull  of  a  Toldier  "  We  may 
*•  add,  that  one  of  the  mad-men  in  the  Ijft  plale  of Tir  Sait't 
pTBgrffi  has  likcw'ife  written  "  channing  Btiij  Cartk/s"  on 
the  rail  of  the  itairi,  and  wcari  hex  portrait  round  his  neck. 
Perhaps  beween  the  publication  of  The  Rakt'i  P'Vgrtf,  and 
Maniagt  a  Iti  AJidt,  Ihc  fuDk  fi'on)  a  wanton  into  a  band. 
Mri.  Htyv.-oc^t  Bti/cy  Thtu^iUfi  was  at  firft  eaiitk-d  Bnfiy 
Cartlcfs,  but  the  name  irat  afterwaids  changed  for  obvious 
reafooB. 

7htLenM  Daily  Pofi,  Ni>^.  iZ,  1735,  contains  the  follow- 
ing advertifemeni  from  thit  notorious  female  : 

'*  Mrs  CareU/i,  from  the  Piatia  in  Crvmi-GarJujiy  not  be> 
ing  able  to  make  an  end  of  her  affairs  fo  foon  ss  (he  ex- 
pelled, intends  on  hLtnitr/  next  to  open  a  coffee-houfc  in 
PruJraK's-Cmrt  fin  The  Old  Bailey ,  n'hereilic  hopes  her  flic  nds 
"  will  favour  her  wiih  their  company,  notwithflanding  the  ill 
**  litualion  of  the  pbce  -,  lince  her  mitfonunee  oblige  her  ilil) 
to  remain  ihere, 

"  N.  D.  It  is  the  iippennoll  bonfc  in  the  couil,  and  coachct 
•'  and  chairs  m.iy  come  up  to  the  door." 

Again  in  TltLenJon  Daih  /'«;?,  Oa.  ai,  1741,  Mrs.  Cartkfi 
■dvertifes  Tie  Sf^^'i  Ofrra,  at  the  theatre  m  yamtfStrM, 
•H^iiiriei,  for  her  benefit.  Off.  ij.  At  the  bottom  of  the 
•dvertifcrrent  ftie  fays,  "  Mrt,  Cai-tk/i  ukes  this  benefit  be- 
•'  caufc  (he  finds  a  fn^ll  prefling  oCt:afion  for  one  ;"ajid  as  (he 
"  has  the  hippincfi  of  knouiog  Ox  has  a  great  manj  friends, 
'*  hopes  not  to  find  an  inftance  to  the  contrary  by  their  being 
*>  abfcnt  ihc  above-mentioned  evening;  and  at  it  wtmM  be 
^  cniirctyinccDvenient,  and  coofei^itenily  difagreeable,  if  they 
**  ihould,  flic  ventures  to  believe  they  won't  fail  to  let  her 
••  b:ive  rhc  honour  of  their  company.  In  "he  bill  of  the  day 
"  (be  ffiys — N.  B.  Mrs.  Ctirtkfi  hopes  her  friends  will  favour 
*•  her  affording  to  ihcir  |)rorrife,  to  relieve  her  from  tcmblc 
■*  His  of  ihr  vapours  proceeding  from  bad  dreams,  though  ttie 
*•  comfort  it  they  generally  %••>  by  the  contraries. 
-  "Tickets  to  be  hid  .>i  Mr«.  CanteJ'i's  CoSee-houfe,  tha 
'  *^  PUylj«iiff-Paj;agt,  Br.dgn-Sirtft  " 

Would  the  public,  at  this  period  of  refinement,  have  pa- 
-  ticntty 


[     27X     3 

^yrtdf,Vb*  Ravenet  was  in  a  different  fphere  bf ilfe* 
The  painter,  with  many  compliments,  folicited  bi|l 
affilbmce  as  an  engraver,  hut  Jtavenet  indignantly 
declined  the  connexion*  v 

ft 

tiently  endured  the  familiar  addrds  of  fuch  a  flumefefs,  fuper- 
annuated,  advertifiog  (Inimpet  ? 

The  reader  will  perhaps  ihiile,  when,  after  fo  much  grave 
ratiocination,  and  this  long  dedudtoa  of  particulars,  he  is 
informed  that  the  letters  are  not  £.  €•  but  F.  C.  the  initials 
of  Famt^  Cock^  daughter  to  the  celebrated  au^ioneer  of  that 
name,  with  whom  our  artift  had  had  ibme  cafual  difagreement* 

The  following,  fomewhat  difierent,  explanation  has  alfobeea 
communicated  to  nne  by  Charles  Rogers^  efq.  who  fays  it  came 
from  Sw!Uv4m^  one  of  Hogarib^s  engraven :  **  The  nobleman 
**  threatens  to  cane  a  quack-do6tor  for  having  given  pills  which 
**  proved  ineffedtuai  in  curing  a  girl  he  had  debauched  ;  and 
**  brings  with  him  a  woman,  from  whom  he  alledges  he  caught 
**  the  infe^ion ;  at  which  fhe,  in  a  rage,  is  preparing  to  fiab 
**  him  with  her  clafp  koife.  This  wretch  is  one  of  the  loweft 
*^  clafs,  as  is  manifeft  by  the  letters  of  her  name  marked  with 
•*  gunpowder  on  her  breaft.  She,  however,  is  brought  to  the 
**  French  barber-furgeon  for  his  examination  and  inlpe^ion, 
^'  and  for  which  purpofe  he  is  wiping  his  ipedades  with  hh 
**  coarfc  muckendcr/* 

The  explanation  |;hren  by  Rouqttet^  however,  ought  not  to 
be  fupprelTed,  as  in  all  probability  he  received  it  from  Hogarth^ 
**  II  falloit  Indiquer  la  ftiauvaife  conduite  du  heros  de  la  piece. 
**  Uauteur  pour  cct  effet  Tintroduit  dans  Tappartement  d*ua 
**  empirique,  oii  il  ne  peut  gu^res  fe  trouver  qu'en  confequence 
<*  de  fes  debauches ;  il  fait  en  m^me  terns  rcncontrer  chcz  cet 
*^  empirique  une  de  ces  femmes  qui  perdues  depuis  long-tems, 
*^  font  enfin  leur  metier  de  la  perte  dcs  autres.  11  fuppofe  un 
**  dtoifle  ebtre  cette  femme  et  fon  h^ros,  dont  le  fujet  paroh 
**  &tre  la  mnuvalfe  fanti  d'un  petite  filie,  du  commerce  de  la« 
^*  quelle  il  ne  s'eft  pas  bien  trouve.  La  petite  fiile  au  rcAe 
'*  fait  ici  contrafbe  par  fon  ^ge,  fa  timidit6,  fa  douceur,  avec 
**  le  cara^^re  de  I'autre  femme,  qui  paroit  un  compof6  de 
'*  rage,  de  fiireiir,  et  de  tons  les  crimes  qui  accompagnent 
*<  d'ordinaire  les  derni^res  debauches  chez  celles  de  fon  fexe. 

*•  L'empirique 


C  *7»  3 

.  Ita  the  fourth  of  thefe  plates  *  arc  tbc  following 
portraits:  Mrs.  Lane  (afterwards.  Lady  J3/>^i7^ 
adorbg  Careftini ;  her  hufband  Fax  Lane  ailcep. 
Roujtut  only  calls  him  ^'  Un  gentilhomme  cani- 
f*  pagnard,  fatigue  d'une  courfe  apres  quelque  renard 
•'  ou  quelque  cerf,  s'endort."  This  idea  feems  to  be 
countenanced  by  the  whip  in  his  hand.  The  fame 
explainer  adds»  fpeaking  of  the  two  next  figures, 
*^  Ici  on  voit  eo  papillotes  un  de  ces  perfonages  qui 

**  L'empirique  et  ion  appartfment  foot  da  objett  cntier^* 
**  ment  epifodiques.  Quoique  jadis  barbier  f,  il  eft  aujourdhni, 
**  ii  i'on  en  juge  par  Tetalage,  non  feulment  chirurgicn,  maU 
*^  naturalifte,  chimiflc,  mechanicien,  medecin,  apoticaire; 
**  et  voui  remarquerez  qu'il  eft  Franepis  pour  comble  de  ridi- 
*'  cule.  Uauteur  pour  achever  de  le  cara^erifcr  fuivant  Ton 
*^  id6e,  hii  fait  inventer  det  machines  extrcmemeot  compofees 
**  p3ur  les  operations  les  plus  finaples,  comnie  Cjdies  de  re- 
**  met t  re  un  membre  difloqu£,  ou  de  deboucher  uoe  bouteille. 

*^  Je  ne  decidcrai  pas  fi  Pauteur  eft  aufti  heureux  dans  le 
<*  choix  des  objecs  dc  fa  fatire,  quand  il  les  prendparmi  nous, 
**  que  lorfqu'il  les  choiftt  parmi  ceux  c^e  fa  nation  i  mats  il 
**  me  femble  qu  il  doit  mieux  connoitre  ceux-ci ; .  et  je  crois 
*^  que  cette  planche  vous  en  paroitra  un  exemple  bien  mnr- 
**  que.  II  tourne  ici  en  ridicule  ce  que  nous  avons  de  moins 
**  mauvais  ;  que  deviendroit  le  refte  s'il  ecoit  vrai  qu*il  nous 
**  conniit  aifez  pour  nous  depeindre  ?" 

*  Scot  in  engraved  the  firft  and  (ixth  ;  Baron  the  fccond  and 
third  j  Ravcnct  the  fourth  and  fifth. 

f  This  circumftance  feems  co  be  implied  bv  the  bmkeo  comb,  the 
pewter  bsfon,  and  the  liorn  fo  placed  as  to  refemhie  a  harber'i  pole,  all 
which  are  exhibited  cither  above,  or  within  the  glafs  caie,  in  which  the 
ikclcton  appears  whir|>erinc  a  man  who  had  bceo  exficcated  by  fomc 
mode  of  emhalmiog  at  prcfent  unknown.  About  the  time  of  the  pub- 
lication of  this  fct  of  prints,  a  number  of  bodiei  thus  prefened  were 
difcorered  in  a  vault  in  ^i6f/rc^tf/f/ church.— Our  Q^ack  is  likewife  a 
vinuofo.  An  ancient  fpur,  a  liigh-crowned  hat,  old  Ihocs,  &c.  together 
with  a  model  of  the  gallow*,  are  among  his  rariiiek.-— Oa  his  talde  is 
a  (kull,  rendered  carious  by  the  difcafe  he  ib  nrufefTing  to  cure.— Thefe 
two  lad  obieAs  are  mumcor}'  a^  well  as  chira&criftic. 

is  ^*  paflcnt 


m 

^*  jpaflf^Qt  teute  leur  vie  \  tadier  de  t>lai!t  fttii^j 
'^  refiffir ;  la,  uri  eventail  au  poihg,  on  reconnoit  vxk 
•*  de  ces  heretiques  en  amour,  un  fedateur  ^Ana* 
^y  trem^^  The  former  of  thefe  has  been  fuppofed  to 
reprefent  Monfieur  Mcbil,  the  Frvjjian  ambafiadof; 
Weideman  is  playing  on  the  German  flute.-^The  pic« 
tures  in  the  room  arc  properly  fuited  to  the  bed* 
chamber ,  of  a  profligate  ^zM-^JufHer  and  lo^  Lift 
with  his  Daughters,  Ganymede  and  the  Eagle,  and 
the  Young  Lawyer  who  debauches  the  Countefs* 
Ihe  child's  coral,  hanging  from  the  back  of  the 
chair  ihe  fits  in,  ferves  to  fliew  ihe  was  already  a  mo« 
ther ;  a  circumftance  that  renders  her  condu£b  ftiil 
more  unpardonable.  Some  of  her  new-made  pur« 
chafes^^  expofed  on  the  floor,  bear  witnefs  to  the 
warmth  of  her  inclinations.  Thefe  will  foon  be  gra- 
tified at  the  fatal  mafquerade,  fbr  which  her  para« 
mour  is  offering  her  a  ticket. 

The  pompous  pi&ure  on  the  right  hand  of  the 
window  in  the  nobleman's  apartment,  Plate  L  alfo 
deferves  attention.  It  appears  to  be  defigned  as  ai 
ridicule  on  the  unmeaning  flutter  of  French  portraits^ 
fome  of  which  (particularly  thofe  of  Louis  XiV.)  are 
painted  in  a  flyle  of  extravagance  equal  at  leafl  to 
the  prefcnt  parody  by  Hogarth.  This  anceftor  of  our 
peer  is  invefted  with  feveral  foreign  orders.  At  the 
top  of  one  corner  of  the  canvas,  are  two  winds 
blowing  acrofs  each  other,  while  the  hero's  drapery 
is  flying  quite  contrary  direftions.     A  comet  is  like- 

a 

wife  ftreaming  over  his  head.  In  his  hand  he  grafps 
thclightning  of  Jove,  and  repofes  on  a- cannon  going 

T  off. 


h'jS.'^,. 


Ost 


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iij>r 


t^m^z^emt  legL  tac  ''.'•wT 


AnMXkg  fucn  lirie  cnuLU 
ciicapt  t2K;  aodot  ce  a 
XciKf  ts  toe  Candk,  cmhirrraric  of  tiie  uMi.tgjg£ 

Wi/<D  <mgravix»gft  on  £  co^'^an-n^  jok  aic  made 
fro.T;  iar^  pjctines^  a  t?7  parts  of  tbeoi  viil  vna- 
vol'j.Oi '  '^coajc  fo  frr^^U,  as  almc»i:  to  want  dzftinct- 
ficfc.  1'.  ha'5  r'a:^-  th'JS  \'.hh  £  nunbcr  of  figures 
Cw»^  2>j/'^r  *L/^:Vi  tr.t  urrSnifned  cdjscf*,  iccn 
i\\x*jJY/A  a  'A.rid:/*  in  tht  nrft  j.sic  of  this  work. 
th/urio  rji^yjy^c  xwcii.  fof  tbc  lEzy  vcnnin  of  his 
Jy^"'fir;y'*  r.:.:,  v. ho,  having  sorhir.g  to  do,  arc  fc- 
lir:j;  or,  ti-t  biovk^  of  flo3C,  or  fiaring  at  the  builds 
injj-t* ;  i'A  ^— s  K'jiiiiu^t  ba?  dei'criljLJ  them,  •*  Une 
**  \XKj\.\,'.  c;  Ife^.'r^tis  o:fi:'5,  oui  font  dans  Ic  cour  de 
*'  ct  L«iif!.'  f.r,  tcl.cvt  dc  caractcrner  le  faflc  ruinrox 
^*  rjui  frriV;:'..::r;t  Ic  comtc."      The  iiiine  iUuilrator 

•  7i*':  L'.irj<<r5  "'  ?*'cSit€£iurc  in  ^h's  rn£n:fhcd  noble* 
i/.iif/«  i*'^y^  </ri  ili*.     ^r.t  ^'Couiit,  arc  icxn  to  cuacranra^e. 

t  J  <»•(  cdiii^x  ic^.iirf  at  a  ftacd  for  wact  of  muiicy,  no 
.'*  rkiU'.n  nyiKajizi/^^xx  the  icaffolds,  or  ccar  Lheau 

properly 


f   «75  3 

^ioptAf  calls  the  Gtizen  Echevin  (i.  e.  Iheiiff)  of 
Lcmbn,  on  account  of  the  chain  he  wears. 

Plate  II.  From  the  late  Dr.  Ducarel  I  received 
die  following  anecdote-;  but  there  muft  be  fome 
miilake  in  it^  as  Herring  was  not  arcbbllhop  till  fe* 
veral  years  after  the  defigns  for  Marriage  d  la  AMe 
were  made. 

"  Edward  Swallow^  butler  to  Archbiihop  Herrings 
**  had  an  annuity  of  tea  pounds  given  to  him  in  his 
**  Grace's  will.  For  the  honefty  and  fimplicity  of 
^<  his  phyfiognomy^  this  old  faithful  fervant  was  io 
^^  remarkable,  that  Hd^arfb,  wanting  fuch  a  figure  in 
^^  Mahii^e  i  la  Mode,  actompanied  the  late  dean  of 
•*  SanM,  Dr.  Thomas  Greene,  on  a  public  day,  to 
''  Lifmbeth,  on  purpofe  to  catch  the  likenefs.  As 
**  they  were  coming  away,  he  whifpered,  *  1  have 
'^^  hiiii !'  And  he  may  now  be  feen  to  the  life  pre- 
^  ferved  in  the  old  (teward^  in  Plate  11.  with  his  hands 
•«  held  up,  &c." 

In  Plate  V.  the  back  ground,  which  is  laboured 
with  uncommon  delicacy  (a  circumitance  that  will 
be  remarked  by  few  except  artifts),  was  the  work  of 
Mr.  Ravenet*s  wife.  Solomon* s  wife  judgement  is  re- 
prefented  on  the  tapeftry.  When  Ravenet^s  two  plates 
were  finiihed,  Hogarth  wanted  much  to  retouch  the 
faces  ^,  and  many  dlfputes  happened  between  him 
and  the  engraver  on  this  fubjed.  The  firft  im- 
preffions,  however,  efcaped  without  corredlion.  Thofe 
who  poflefs  both  copies,  may  difcover  evident  marks 

*  In  his  advertifemeat  for  thii  dt  of  plates,  he  had  engaged 
tp  engrave  all  the  facet  with  hit  own  band.   See  p.  a6ji«  Note. 

T  a  of 


t    «7»    3 


isiri}  piOOigbcL  up  br  iik  itoivis:  nirrir. 

I  ii?vt  iiscx  loic  rear  oir  xcri£  taoi:  ois  iiugiiai: 
flf  dis  frm&'is,  viic  is  k)  p'sar**?',  disc  txis  szg^  of  ji 
figiir?  it  rbt  tEpcfcr  iiippir  lir  u-an:  n:  ier  mcx^ 
£  coarb:  v'aart  of  &  wazoar  olis^  Jwul  JL 


T^iat;  the  firx  of  ns  &:,  sffands  T.ruuurt  mt  op- 
{xmiDrr  1^  nhifl-jMiit^  oie  iolknrxxig  remark,  viiick 
Ik  ha3  nartr  at  tiie  aocus  of  hk  undcrtakix^  i  ^^ 


^  qi:'*U£  jh^iaL'  lit,    poji  aii^E  circ,  cc  j?':;ani  m 


'  de  phsfiean  pago.*  Speaks^  of  oar  cidzcc^  par* 
fisaocj*  £m  be — ^  Torez^^vcnB  ca  p'^^es  conio* 
^  T«  dam  k  coin  d'ac  anDcure  r  To;3  k  dcvin^ 
^  rkz  p2Sy  Touft  oif  £  ciss  pas  jamais  tcsu  a  J^ 
^  giCter^e^  cpfcHa  ibxir  auS  X2xi£  inzrqDc  d'ecano- 
^  ZLjt ;    niais  L  fcX  TOU5  dirt  cac  it:«  p^p^  wcu  £ 


**  can*   ii  niirziz^     La  p^Tfar.,  Tzriizai  it  pia»  vi* 
**  ;ce:fd  uat  fi;»t  grarb  cans  Ic  pre- ler  cabar^  oC. 

*•  li  ruric,  r:  ^£  jcnt  k  ics  piciLs.^ 

As  Rsupiz:  obirrres,  *^  Cc  qui  itr:  a  gsmir  cr: 

**  indie  at  uat  rcoDu:i.it  baSr."    Tar  ickjcir'.  o:  luc 


fccKJ — chr  fi-vcd  Gcg — the  df^arr'mg  j.i:\fici£:i — U)c 
icfeOcd  and  rlcirrv  coailitiji.  of  rht  child  v^uo  :» 


C    477    ] 

brought  to  take  a  laft  kifs  of  its  cljring  mother— arc 
circumftances  too  ftriking  to  be  overlooked. 

Tbe  Daily  Advertifer  of  1750  affords  the  following 
illuftratiqn  of  our  artift's  hiftory :    "  Mr.  Hogartb 
•*  propofcs   to   publifli  by  fubfcription   two  large 
^*'  prints,  one  reprefenting  Mo/es  brought  to  PbaraobU 
'*  daughter ;   the  other  Paul  before  Felix ;   engraved 
'*  after  the  piftures  of  his  painting  which  are  now 
**  hung  up  in  The  Foun4ling  Hofpital  aiid  Lincoln" s^Inn 
"  Hall.    Five  Shillings  to  be  paid  at  the  time  of 
•*  fubfcribing,  and  Five  Shillings  more  on  the  deli- 
**  very  of  the  print.    On  the  firft  payment  a  receipt 
will  be  given,  which  receipt  will  contain  a  new 
print  (in  the  true  Dutch  tafte)  of  Paul  before  Felix. 
^*  Note,  The  above  two  prints  will  be  Seven  Shillings 
**  and  Six  Pence  each  after  the  fubfcription  is  over  ; 
**  and  the  receipt-print  will  not  be  fold  at  a  le(s  price 
^*  than  One  Guinea  each.     Subfcriptions  are  taken  in 
'*  till  the  6th  of  June  next,  and  no  longer,  at  The 
"  Golden-Head  in  Leicejler- Fields ^  where  the  drawings 
**  may  be  feen ;    as  likewife  the  author's  fix  pidures 
'*  of  Marriage-i'la- Mode,  which  are  to  be  difpofed  of 
**  in  the  following  manner  :  That  every  bidder  fign 
"  a  note  with  the  fum  he  intends  to  give.     That  fuch 
•*  note  be  depofited  in  the  drawer  of  a  cabinet,  which 
"  cabinet  fliall  be  conftantly  kept  locked  by  the  faid 
*^  fVilliam  Hogarth ;   and  in  the  cabinet,  through  a 
**  glafs  door,  the  fums  bid  will  be  feen  on  the  face 
^*  of  the  drawer,  but  the  names  of  the  bidders  may 
'^  be  concealed  till  the  time  of  bidding  fhall  be  ex- 

T  3  '*  pired. 


€€ 
€€ 


C  »7«  3 

^  ptred»  That  each  bidder  may,  by  a  frdh  note^ 
^  adyance  a  farther  fum  if  he  is  outbid,  of  which 
'^  notice  ihail  be  fenc  hiau  That  the  fum  lb  ad- 
^  yanced  Ihall  not  be  Ie&  than  Three  Guineas*  That 
'« the  time  of  bidding  ihall  continue  till  twelve 
'^  o*clock  the  6th  of  jfuiu  next,  and  no  longer.  That 
^  DO  dealer  in  pistes  will  be  admitted  a  bidden 

^^  As  (according  to  the  llandard  of  judgement,  lb 
^  righteoufly  and  laudably  eilabliihed  by  pit^ure- 
^  dealers,  piSure- cleaners,  pidore-frame-makers, 
^  and  other  connoifleurs)  the  works  of  a  painter  am 
^  to  be  efteemed  more  or  lefs  valuable  as  they  are 
^  more  or  Icfs  fcarce,  and  as  the  living  painter  is 
'^  moil  of  ail  iSe^d  by  the  inferences  refulting  firom 
'^  this  and  other  confiderations  equally  uncandid  and 
•*  edifying ;  Mr.  Hogarth^  by  way  of  precautsoD,  not 
•*  puff,  begs  leave  to  urge,  that,  probably,  this  will 
•'  be  the  laft  fuit  or  ferics  of  pifturcs  he  may  ever  cx- 
^  hibir,  bccaufe  of  the  difficulty  of  vending  fuch  a 
**  number  at  once  to  any  tolerable  advantage,  and 
•*  that  the  whole  number  he  has  already  exhibited  of 
^  the  hiftorlcal  or  humourous  kind  does  not  exceed 
**  fifty,  of  which  the  three  fets  called  The  HarlaVs 
**  Pf/gr^,  The  Rake's  JProgrefSy  and  that  now  to  be 
**  (bid,  make  twenty ;  fo  that  whoever  has  a  talk  of 
^  bis  own  to  rely  on,  not  too  iqueamilh  for  the  pro- 
**  du(Sion  of  a  Modern,  and  courage  enough  to  own 
^  it,  by  daring  to  give  them  a  place  in  his  colleftioo 
"  (till  Tiine,  the  fuppofed  finilher,  but  real  dcfigncr 
*•  of  p^btings,  has  rendered  them  fit  for  thofc  more 

**  facred 


C    *79    ) 

♦*  facred  repofitories  where  Schools^  Names,  Heads, 
**  Mafters,  &c.  attain  their  laft  ftage  of  preferment)^ 
**  may  from  hence  be  convinced  that  multiplicity  at 
^*  leaft  of  his  (Mr.  Hogartb*s)  pieces  will  be  no  di- 
•^  minution  of  their  value.** 

Mr.  l^ne,  of  HilUngdonj  near  Uxbridge,  bought  the 
(ix  original  pid:ures  for  120  guineas^  at  Hogartb^s 
au(9:ion*» 

%.  A 

*  The.  account  given  in  a  former  edition  of  this  volume 
concerning  the  fale  of  the  original  pidures  of  Marriage  a-lm^ 
madi^  being  fomewhat  erroneous,  I  am  happy  in  the  preient 
opportunity  of  acknowledging  my  obligations  to  Mr.  Lam 
abovementioned,  who  has  corrected  my  mi  (lakes  by  a  comma* 
nication  of  the  following  particulars  relative  to  the  purchife  : 

'*  Some  time  after  they  had  been  finiflied,  perhaps  fix  or 

**  fcven  years,   during  which  period  Mr.  Hogarth  had  been 

**  preparing  and   pubiifliing  prints  from  them,  in   the  year 

**  1750  he  advertiied  the  fale  of  the  originals  by  a  kind  of 

^*  au^ion  not  carried  00  by  perfonal  bidding,  but  by  a  written 

**  ticket  on  which  every  one  was  to  put  the  price  he  would 

'*  give,  with  his  naipe  fubi'cribed  to  it.     Thefe  papers  were  td 

**  be  received  by  Mr.  Hogarth  for  the  fpgce  of  one  month ;  and 

*'  the  hii^heft  bidder,  at  twelve  o'clock  on  the  laft  day  of  x\\t 

**  month,  was  to  be  the  purchafer  :  and  none  but  thofe  who 

**  had  in  writipg  made  their  biddings  were  to  be  admitted  oa 

*^  the  day  that  was  to  determine  the  fale.     Thisnouvelle  me* 

"  thod  of  proceeding  probably  difobliged  the  public  ;    and 

*^  there  feemed  to  be  at  that  time  a  combination  againft  poor 

'*  Hogarth^  who  perhaps,  from  the  extraordmary  and  frequent 

'*  approbation  of  his  works,  might  have  imbibed  fome  degree 

'*  of  vanity,  which  the  toxvn  in   general,  friends  and  toes, 

'^  (cemed  refolved  to  mortify.     If  this  was  the  cafe  (and  to 

^'  me  it  is  very  apparent),  they  fully  effe^ed  their  dt^lign  ;  for 

**  on  the  memorable  (ixth  of  June  1750,   which  w<)s  to  decide 

^'  the  fate  of  this  capital  work,  about  eleven  o'clock  Mr.  Lane^ 

V  the  fortunate  purchafer,  arrived  at  the  GolJeu  Head\  w^en, 

*\  to  his  great  furprize,  expe^ing  (uhu;  he  had  been  a  witnefs 

T  4  **  to 


lead  Jif  Ac  Ipcsab  in  nade  tr>  ini  cisi^'  of  Jin&, 


•  to  ir.  Tr J--;,  »"hsr  Strr^vru  diuiOKL  of  mam-  ir  hii  im£qibb^  ' 
"^  TO  mvi  iDuuL  ns  i»iu:iiip-Tiion.  ful  or  noim  am.  ^isa'  per- 
**  una jpri..  ut  uiii-  tuuiil  tiif  ixiinr--'  aiiL  ni:  ni^fsninw  Trent 
**l>:.-''tf-/«w-.fer5:ir-  ti  tiit  knval  ^iistsn .  Talknif  tnjjsths-.. 
^*  auc  ciqisitii!;  l  niiniiisr  of  neiutiiFr  a:  isat'u  r  nn:  nf 
**  buvsTi.  i\ir.  S/m^t*  -iBBi.  nniaiitsi'  tut  hinrhst:  uaidro^. 
"*'  fnm  r  vsniisnsai.  v/ei.  amnvru,  a:^:2C  Nuiinny  coinxiii; 
■•*  IT.,  .lUiiir  tCT  mmutBi!  Dcnirt  tv/»»vt.  tr-  int  itsin^  ciiict  n 
'^*  tht  ruon;,  IHi.  IjnrrTDic  TAt.  'B.j^arti  hr  wnuiL  xxiaic  tiu. 
"*'  pDiniUi  gumeas.  Txir  ^\vdL  tiiet  ftnci:  iwaWt,  anL  'zlf 
"  ^»-/£  wiii«L  Mr.  Ijwif  im-  ir  ni;  purjnak.  hnnm^  it  rj- 
*'  ar  apresamt  imt.  iyi-..Zii»r<  aniwr^L.  Pr-T^*ti-  in.  Nn«r 
*"  lul.m- -L  t  icent:  nf  riil»iH>aii':^  fmir  H^-rir-r"    i-i-nc  tnr 

4 

*•  X'uatr.  anc.  vun*  ninTt:  afcliet.  ^i*"  i^v.,  :  jrea:  ann?T»-- 
**  aiKc  tr  uimiriiTiintiitcin  m  tiic  pamisr.  anc  rTir.  TTixt 
•*  ^rcii:  Tcaiwr..  I'n^  I#!i'Iui.  loic!  hiir..  be  hat  i\\jn  nimttt: 
^  pTWJtn  m  fiMTj;:  :nt  oeisTxiiiiaRuir  of  tiit  iair  a:  u  oriy  ar. 
**  iiuur.  vi«i.  rut  itrinitt  a:  :ba:  par:  uf  it«-  thvt^.  v/crr  hanii"* 
^  uii,  Ht^tr'tt..  It  £  lunt  anc  mamip'  txxa:  cniiit  nn:  eirirs. 
^  mjicrva*.!"!*,  fnir..  Ptr^iap:  r  msty  lit  ic  V*^.  La»i.  afis-  a 
**jhu-:  pauk.  dt:c.tTr*:c  hiniMei'  ii  ht  nf  Tm  laxns  nnininr.. 
**  aflonig.  tier  :xit  a^iF  v.-a-  ver'-  iiiMr'y  Tcwra^a-.'.r  rn-  ni-  ::- 
*'  iiour.  auL.  r  nt  'ri"»!!^r  r  v-niiiL  vnt  o:  ic^-'ir*  'r  nin.. 
*■  v.i»Uif.  gvvt  uin  Til-  tUTCf  r'=in:*4.  u  fmc  t  112:12-  rirr^ifcJT. 
^^  Jitfvtr'tr  va'tTi'*  a:iff:i:sr  tut  nfer.  ant  csip-efct  ny-  a:- 
*■  »-.iiov.i*:c.ff.TH'nr.  iir  ziit  i: inane i?  ir.  tnt  li^nnfrcf:  lem^.i. 
"  Vii*.  pT!niiii.i  i:i;*nrMic  retxivec  ^ca:  enznmiumf  nnir  ::ie 
*•  1/ticitJ- .  v'lii    xrnjioisc  It   muke    r  punli::.     Tui*  u\i«  ic-- 

*•  <njir  o:  oir  a-^il'  wa-  r^nn^mbcrsc  bx  niir.  ir  :nc  :imt  -if 
*•  Hit  uea:!*  — *-:;oir  nnt  f  *cin'j>:.  twr  nnur,  xaoncr  rn.ti  rnt 
'•  ".int*  a;ipoim?:C  u;  A>.JLtfJi:,  li*i^a-i*  :a!C  iit  v:mi:;  nr  mn^r 
*'  iTcipi'.i-  ;m.  II n  jf^riieroirv.  mi:  :iia*.,  r  iit  va«  i)i cater  v.*i:ii 
*'  UK  uuvjiaiL.  iit  nimic::  v.af  aiiunuanu*-  ir  virt  tnr  nur- 
•k  cbalir.  Ht  tutt:  ticiir-c  Mr.  iij«f  ir  x)*riniiit  tha:  ht  wnuic 
•*  nir  dnxMnt  «j:  tnt  jiifturts  vitnnii:  p-ff\Hiuif\i  arniiamtin|; 
*'  hin  :r  iiK  ini^ntion.  anc  tha:  nt  wnuic  nr^-s"  pcmii:  apv 
♦•  perxui.,  iiudsT  prtnsiicc  uf  ci::aiiiug,  U/  zncddtL  wi±  rncn., 

••  as 


C    »8x    3 

September  24^  1745*  William  Hogarth  finx.  C.  Mofe^ 
leyfculp.  ,  J 

3.  The  fame  head  cut  out  of  the  plate^  and  printed 
off  without  the  fpeech. 

;  4.  The  Battle  of  the  Piftures.  ^*  Ticket  to  admit 
"  per  Jons  to  bid  for  bis  works  at  an  auSion**  On  the 
plate  called  Tbe  Battle  of  tbe  FiSures  is  written^ 
**  The  bearer  hereof  is  entitled  (if  he  thinks  proper) 
^^  to  be  a  bidder  for  Mr.  Hogarth's  pidtures,  which 
'*  are  to  be  fold  on  the  laft  day  of  this  month  [Fe^ 

**  bruary^  1744-5-1" 

5*  A  feftoon,  with  a  maik,  a  roll  of  paper,  a 
palette,  and  a  laurel.  Subfcription  ticket  for  Garrtck 
in  Richard  the  Third.  A  very  faithful  copy  frooi 
this  receipt  was  made  by  R.  Livefajy  1781.  It  is  to 
be  fold  at  Mrs.  HogartVs  houfe  in  Leicefler-fquare. 

^*  as  he  always  defired  to  taVe  that  office  on  hirofelf.  Thit 
^'  promife  was  readily  made  by  Mr.  Lane^vtho  has  beea  tempted 
^*  more  than  once  by  Hogarth  to  part  with  his  bargain  at  a 
**•  price  to  be  named  by  himfelf.  When  Mr.  Lam  bought  the 
*^  pictures,  they  were  in  Carlo  Marratt  frames  which  cofi  the 
**  painter  four  guineas  apiece.** 

The  memory  of  this  occurrence  ought  always  to  attend  the 
work  which  afforded  Mr.  Lane  an  opportunity  of  difplaying 
fo  much  difinterefted  generoiity. 

Another  correfpondent  begins  the  fame  ftory  as  follows—^ 
A  little  time  before  the  audion,  Hogarth  publickly  declared, 
th^t  no  pi^ure-dealer  fhould  be  allowed  to  bid.  He  alfo  called 
on  his  friends,  requeuing  them  not  to  appear  at  the  fale,  at 
his  houfe  was  fmali,  and  the  room  might  be  over  crowded. 
They  obeyed  his  injunctions.  Early  in  this  mortifying  day  he 
dreiled  himfelf,  put  on  his  tye^wig,  ftrutted  away  one  hour^ 
fkvA  fretted  away  two  morCi  no  bidder  appearing,  &c.  &c. 

1746. 


Smem  Lord  Lnat  *.     Drawn  from  the  Sfc,  and 
im  aquafarta    by  JFiUiam  Hsgarth.^ Mogartb 
fud  iiimfeif^  that  Lord  Lmafs  portnut  was  taken  (at 

*  *'  This  |>ovrerfa1  laird,  it  las  been  obfenred,  was  one  of 
^  4he  kft  Chirftabt  that  jin.fci  w&d  rfae  rude  nxaimfin  and  bor- 
^  Imixhw  authori^  of  the  cau^  feudal  ^gea.  He  idEded  in  a 
**  houfe  which  would  be  cfiacned  but  an  indxficmit  one  for  a 
^  verf  ^iratc»  plain  countiy  {enrkman  in  ^w^mmi\  as  it 
^  ^ad,  |m>perlf  9  oo^r  four  rooas  on  a  flocyr.  -and  cboie  not 
**  large*  Bere,  ^oapcver,  lie  kept  a  fort  of  court,  and  kvcral 
*^  pvblic  tablet ;  and  had  a  nuoDeraus  body  of  retainers  alwavB 
^  attending.  His  own  con^ftant  refideDoe,  and  the  place  wiicre 
^  he^ootircd  companj,  cwm  at  dinner,  was  in  the  vcrv  iame 
^  roooD  where  he  lodged ;  and  hii  lady*K  fole  apurment  was 
^  )aa  bed-room ;  and  tiie  only  provi£on  for  the  lodging  of  the 
^  iertaBtt,  and  retainen^  wat  a  quastirr  of  ftraw^  which  tbcf 
^  iprcad  every  night,  on  the  floon  of  the  lower  rooms,  where 
^  the  whole  inferior  part  of  the  £imily,  confifiing  of  a  rery 
^  great  number  fiS  perioos^  took  up  their  abode.**  See  Mr* 
Kingt  oliiervationf  00  ancient   Ca£lcs,  in  the  Arch^^iogtA^ 

Sir  WiUimm  Tntrng^  one  of  the  managen  appointed  by  the 
Commont  of  Crest  Britaim^  for  condu.'^ing  the  profccurion 
againil  this  Nobleman  for  High  Treafen,  in  the  year  174;, 
■Bakes  the  following  obfen-atton  :  ^*  Your  Lordfliips  have  al- 
^  ready  done  national  juAice  on  foroe  of  the  principal  traitors, 
^  who  appeared  in  open  arms  againfl  hts  Majcily,  by  the  or> 
^  dinary  coorfe  of  law;  but  this  noble  Lord,  who,  in  the 
**  wholf  courfe  of  his  litV,  has  boai^ed  of  his  fupe rior  cunning 
^  in  wickednefs,  and  his  abiliry  to  commit  frequent  treafons 
**  with  impunity,  vainly  imaginrd  that  he  might  poffibly  l>e  a 
^  traitor  in  prirate,  and  rtbcl  only  in  his  heart,  by  lending 
**  his  fon  and  his  followers  to  j<iin  tlie  Pretender,  and  rcmain- 
**  ing  at  iM>mc  hiaiiclf,  to  endeavour  to  deceive  his  Majclh-'s 
**  faithful  iiibjrdts ;  hoping  he  might  be  rewarded  for  his  foa*t 
•*  fervtces,  if  fucccfsful ;  or  his  /on  alone  be  the  fuffcrer  for 
*'  hn  offences,  if  the  undertaking  failed  :  diabolical  cunning  ! 
•*  monfuous  impisty  1"     Sec  :>/ai€  Trials^  vol.  IX.  p.  627, 

the 


t  ^83  3 

Qie  Whiie-Harij  at  St.  ManU)  in  the  attitude  of  re- 
lating  on  his  fingers  the  numbers  of  the  rebel  forcei^ 
— *^  Such  a  general  had  fo  many  men,  &c."  and  re* 
marked,  that  the  mufcles  of  Lovat^s  neck  appeared 
of  unufual  ftrength^  more  fo  than  he  had  ever  fi^eo* 
When  the  painter  entered  the  room,  his  lordihip» 
being  under  the  barber's  hands^  received  his  old 
friend  with  a  falute,  which  left  much  of  the  lather 
on  his  face,— The  fecond  impreffions  are  marked^ 
Frice  One  SbiUing.  When  Hogarth  had  finiihed  this 
plate,  a  printfeller  offered  its  weight  in  gold  for  it* 
The  impreffions  could  not  be  taken  off  fo  faft  as  thejr 
were  wanted,  though  the  rolling-prefs  was  at  work  all 
night  for  a  week  together.  For  feveral  weeks  after* 
wards  he  is  faid  to  have  received  at  the  rate  of  i%L 
^tt  day. 

!•  Mn  Garrick  *  in  the  charafter  of  Richard  IIL 
Tainted  by  Wm*  Hogarth ;  engraved  by  Wm.  Hogartb 
^nd  C  Grignion.  The  late  Mr.  Duncombej  of  Dun* 
combe  Fark  in  Torkjbirey  gave  200  /.  for  the  original 
picture,  which  is  now  in  the  pofleffion  of  his  family. 
The  expreffion  of  the  countenance  is  happily  hit  oflT, 
but  the  figure  is  abundantly  too  large  and  mufcular. 
This  print  was  afterwards,  by  Hogarth's  perjniffion, 
copied  for  a  watch -paper. 

*  •*  Mr.  Garrick  had  icvcral  of  HogartPs  paintings  ;  an<f 
•'  the  latttr  dcGgned  for  him,  as  prcfident  of  xht  SbakeJ^emre 
•'  club,  a  mahogany  chsrtr  richly  carved,  on  the  back  of 
^  which  hangs  a  medal  of  the  poet  carved  by  Hogarth  oat  of 
**  the  muiberry-tr^rc  planred  at  Stratford  by  Sbakejj^are.*^ 
Anecdotci  of  Paiating,  vol.  IV,  p.  i8o.  edit.  8vo,  i7&t. 

3.  A 


I    «84    3 

J.  A  fimd  of  vtrioas  weapons,  bag-pipes,  &c« 
mod  a  pair  of  fciflars  cutting  out  the  arm  5  .^>t'  Scotland. 
A  fobfcription-ticket  for  the  March  10  lincbUji  of 
which  the  original  price  was  only  7  ^.  6  c/.  It  was 
to  be  railed  to  loi.  6d.  on  clofing  :\\c  fubfcription. 
The  additional  three  (hillings  afforded  the  fubfcriber 
a  chance  for  the  original  pid:ure. 

1747-  / 
I.  Stage-coach.      An  elcdion   proceffion  in  the 

yard.     Deji^nid  and  engraved  by  IVilliam  Hogarth 

In  this  plate  there  is  a  variation.     The  early  im*> 

preffions  have  a  flag  behind  the  wheel  of  the  coach, 

infcribcd  no  old  baby,  which  was  the  cry  ufed  bf 

the  opponents  of  the  honourable  John  Child  Tyhtej 

(then   Vifcount  CaJHemain  and  now  Earl  Tylmy  *) 

when  he  ftood  member  for  the  county  oiEJfex^  againft 

Sir  Robert  Abdy  and  Mr.  Bramfton.     The  figure  ftiU 

carries  a  horn-book^  and  a  rattle  in  its  hands.     At  the 

eledion,  a  man  was  placed  on  a  bulk  with  an  infant 

in  his  arms,  and  exclaimed,  as  he  whipt  the  child, 

••  What,  you  little  CbiU^  mull  you  be  a  member  ?** 

The  family  name  was  changed  from  Child  to  Tylney 

by  an  zSt  of  parliament  in  1735.     In  this  difputed 

election,  it  appeared  from  the  regifter-book  of  the 

parifli  where  Lord  CafiUmain  was  born,  that  be  was 

but  20  years  of  age.     Some  pains  have  been  taken 

to  afcertain  the   particular  inn-yard   in  which   the 

fcene  is  laid,  but  without  fuccefs,  fo  many  of  the 

^  Since  dead. — Uur  Sacratic^i  usttfims  faffk  ciMmi$s. 

publick- 


|>ubUck-heu(es  between  fFhUecbapel  and  Chelmsfifi 
in  ^Jix  havjrig  been  altered,  or  totally  rebuilt. . 

2.  Induftry  and  Idlenefs,  in  twelve  plates  *.  Mfi 
IValpolt '  obferves,  that  *'  they  have  more  merit  in 
^'  the  intention  than  execution.'*  At  firft  they  were 
printed  off  on  very  thin  papers  .  Elate  Y.  Thfi  fceoe 
kCuckold^4  P^i^^  below  London  Bridge.  Plate  VI; 
In  a  few  firft  imprefiion^,  f  ^  Goodchild  and  Wefi*\  i$ 
written  under  the  iign,  inftead  of  ^^  Wejl  and  Godd^ 
**  child.  ^  Jtiogartb  had  inadvertently  placed  the  liamc 
of  >  the  junior  partner  firft.  Some  mercantile  friend^ 
however,  pointing  out  the  miftake,  when  as  yet  only 
a  few  copies  were  taken  off, .  our  artift  cbrreded  itj 
to  avoid  the  criticifms'of  Cheapfide  and  CornbilL  In 
this  plate  is  a  figure  of  P/jtiip  in  the  Tub,  a  well- 
known  beggar  and  cripple,  who  was  a  conftant  epit 
thalamift  at  weddings  in  London,  and  had  vifited  Ire* 
land  and  The  Seven  Provinces.  The  French  clergy- 
man in  Plate  VIIL  was  defigned  for  Mr.  PlaieU,'  cu^ 
rate  of  Barnef.  Plate  XL  The  fcene  is  in  a  cellar 
of  a  noted  houfe  that  went  by  the  name  of  ^<  The 

*  The  following  defcription  of  HogartVi  defign  is  copied 
from  his  own  band-writing :  ^*  Induilry  and  Idlenefs  exemplia 
'^  fied  in  the  condud  of  two  Fellow  'Prentices  :  where  the  one, 
**  by  taking  good  courfes,  and  purfuing  points  for  which  he 
**  wat  put  apprentice,  becomes  a  valuable  man  and  an  orna- 
'*  meat  to  his  country  ;  the  other,  by  giving  way  to  idleQei% 
*^  naturally  falls  into  poverty,  and  ends  fatally^  as  is  exprefled 
^*  in  the  laft  print*  As  the  piints  were  intended  more  for 
>*  ufe  than  ornament,  they  were  done  in  a  way  that  might 
**  bring  them  within  the  purchafe  of  whom  they  might  moil 
^'  concern  ;  and,  leil  any  print  fliould  be  miilaken,  the  de- 
**  fcriptioa  of  each  print  is  eagraved  at  top/* 

•*  Blood 


|liM<  itat  mtgm  ihiK  jbDMfc  «Blr  csUhitE^  x 

pttdni  ;&  omindi  widbKC  (^  OBI 


M  Ai:  <acif^  WBBK  :aM9r.  b  Ffane  XL  s  £«^  ^//i^ 
due  «tf5l/-4cJi£;v^'x  «imuier  ;cif  {nx^ermsa:;.  Izit  iiflLmc 
iMAip  lib  Ji  CUT!,  «/  lirii^Mm  xfa£  Ibodr  of  sitf:  .cnniinul, 
ii  jbife  ouiAier.  Tkim^  faer  &cs:  s  cmcsaisii,  :fiif 
ii  iiifkitif  u»ftt'«j£  r>v  iics-  £3xssi  of  ibrmw.  Ami  tfar 
I^Uu:;!:  tutfu:  fttr  lixtii  WfiTL  throu^tuiir  itu  irr^frromr 
OTfiMsitinuituttHi  liif  hm.  Viaxt  JLIL  hreac-wt.  Prmct 
4l(  ff^tf^/^i,  xiiul  rttr  Phncrfe  afWalgif  id  the  bakrony. 
Tthr  itutuliirtk  ni  ttu;  lU'tvctcfnuths*  and  fiiarianers^ 
Cnin^HiiiuN.  ujirirtur  in  thr  jirciccfiiDn.  Thr  &ig.  or  the 
unriiuT  ii(  niu  iti  xiiv  Aaiuls,  tieiong;;  to  the  }'innens 
anil  ?Mrr.illi!T«..  Tht  hiiiT  tor  this  icries  oi  nrinrs  was 
fwwlf!nr»v  luucij  trnni  rhr  iiu!  comedy  o*  Luiizziard' 
itoff,  l»v  "^iontoH^  C^pjiuiH,  aiu!  Air'/ion.  renrinred  in 
li9i///  ^  CAMfuSitmv  n!  Old  Pinvs.  *'  Tht-  tccnes  of 
••  luMifHi  wwCi  ilu  f':unmj!i-iuuifL.''as  ^ir.  l'\dpoL  vizW 
illilafve<ft.  '*  nrr  iniiimahU*  rt^prcfcnrations  or  our  t'e- 
•'  timr.  tollit*^,  OT  unavoidable  woes ;  and  tht  con- 
'•  txxw  fhuwr.  lu  xwt:  loru-n:nvor,  when  the.  compa- 
♦  niot"  IV  \\\>  childhood  i^  hrnugh:  bcforr  him  as  a 
*'  crinunal,  is  a  touching;  niiturw,  an*.!  hv^  with  hu» 
••  nwnr  AiinuMuiion  and  rcft^Aon."  Th.  urc  ccw 
mrdur.  I\ti.  "/lilt/.,  i^cv  ^^othcr»vilc  Tiancz^  anc  bro- 
ihei  ui  the  ^uinur  ot  that  naniCy  dranutuci;  tnia  k*- 


ries  q£  prints ;  and  MT.Kinii  BO«r  deputyHalaliiga^ 
of  Drury-Iam,  performed  the  chara^r  of  the  Goo4 
Trentice.  \ 

Thefc  Plates  were  v^touched  hj  Hogarii  i  hut,  as 
ufual,  whatever  they  gained  irk  refped  to  foroe^  they 
loft  in  the  article  of  cleaitiefs.  They,  oflfer  no  vacia^ 
tions,  except  fuch  as  are  dccafioDed  by  his  having 
thrown  a  few  of  the  figures  into .  ihade^  that  others 
might  appear  more  prominent.  Dr,  Ducarel  informed 
me,  that  the  paflages  of  Scripture  applicable  to  the 
different  fcenes  were  feleded  for  Mr.  Hogartb,  by 
his  friend  the  Rev.  Mr.  Arnold  King. 

In  ^e  following  year  was  publiihed/  price  one 
Hulling  (biding  an  explanation  of  the  moral  of  twelve 
celebrated  prints  lately  publifhed,  and  defigned  by 
the  ingenious  Mr.  Hogarth) j  **  The  Effeds  of  In- 
<'  duftry  and  Idlenefs>  illuftrated  in  the  Life,  Ad* 
^*  ventures,  and  various  Fortunes  of  Two  Felloir 
*•  'Prentices  of  the  City  of  London :  fliewing  the 
<'  different  Paths,  as  well  as  Rewards  of  Virtue  and 
^*  Vice ;  how  the  good  and  virtuous  'Prentice,  by 
<^  gradual  Steps  of  Induftry,  rofe  to  the  higheil 
*^  Pitch  of  Grandeur  ^  and  how,  by  contrary  Pucy 
**  fuits,  his  Fellow- Trentice^  by  Lazinefs  and  Wick* 
^'  ednefs,  came  to  die  an  ignominious  Death  at  the 
'^  Gallows,  t^  This  little  book  ought  to  be  read  by 
"  every  Trentice  in  England,  to  imprint  in  their 
<<  hearts  thefe  two  different  examples,  the  contrary 
•*  effedls  each  will  produce  on  their  young  minds 
^'  being  of  more  worth .  than  a  hundred  times  thcr 
'^  price,  /•  €.  an  abhorrence  of  the  vice  and  wicked* 
4.  "  ncfs 


«  k6  tbejr  pcfcrive  in  die  <me  boy,  ind,  ao  die 
^  cotttfaqr,  an  endcmronr  after  an  ixnitatioo  of  die 
^  afiioos  of  the  other.  And  is  a  more  proper  pre* 
^tmt  to  be  given  to  die  Chamber  of  Lomhn,  at  the 
M  binding  and  enrolling  an  ap[Mentice»  than  any 
««  tther  book  whatever.  Printed  by  Charles  Corbett, 
^  at  jUdifouj  Head  in  Fleet- ftreet.'' 

3.  Jacobus  Giiii,  architedbus.  TT.  Hvgartb  ieHn. 
B.  Barmfctdf. 

4.  Jacohu  Gibbs,  architedus.  W.  Hegartb  delin. 
7.  M^  ArdeUfec.  Partly  mezzotinto^  pardy  graved. 
No  date. 

5.  To  this  period  may  be  referred  the  arms  of 
ne  feundlifig  HoJpiiaU  printed  off  on  the  tops  of 
Ae  indentures ;  together  with 

6.  The  fame,  but  fmaller ;  employed  as  a  fronrif« 
piece  to  ^'  Pfalms,  Hymns,  and  Anthems  ;  for  the 
**  Ufe  of  the  Children  of  the  Hofpital  for  the  Main* 
*'  tenance  and  Education  of  expofed  and  defcned 
"  Young  Children/' 

They  are  both  claficd  here,  becaufe  the  original 
drawing    (fee    under   the   year  17S1)  is    dated   in 

'747- 

1748. 

1.  A  monk  leading  an  afs  with  a  Scotch  man  and 

woman  on  it,  &c.   A  wooden  cut.  Head  pcce  to  the 

**  Jacobite's  Journal.**     This  was  a  news^paper  fee 

up  and  fupported  by  Henry  FieUrrg^  and  carried  on 

for  a  few  months  with  fome  fuccefs.    The  wooden* 

cut  was  only  prefixed  to  fix  or  feven  of  the  papers. 

Being 


C  489  ] 

iBeibg  fiiintly  executed,   it  was  icon  worn  out,  and 
has  lately  been  copied  in  aqua  tinta  by  Mr.  Livefay. 

2.  Pool  of  Bitbefda^  from  the  pidure*  he  painted 
for  Sti,  Bariholomtw^s  Hofpitah  Engraved  by  Ravenei 
for  Si  j^ufien,  as  a  frontifpiecc  for  Stackboufe^s  Bible. 
In  this  plate^  I  am  afiured  by  an  old  acquaintance  of 
Mn  Hogarth f  is  a  faithful  portrait  of  Nell  Robinfon^ 
a  celebrated  courtezan,  with  whom,  in  early  life^ 
they  had  both  been  intimately  acquainted. 

1749. 

i .  ^  The  Gate  of  Calais  J.    Engraved  by  C.  MoJIey 

^  Of  this  pidlure  Mr.  S.  Ireland  has  a  large  fketch  in  oil. 
t  In  The  General  Advertifer^  March  {^^  1748-9,  appeared  th# 
following  i 

"  This  day  is  publiflied,  price  5;,  A  Print,  defigncd  and  en-  ^ 
*•  graved  by  Mr.  Hogarth^    reprefcnting  a  Prodigy   which 
V  lately  appeared  before  the  O^x^  of  Calais. 

«•  O  the  Roatt  Beef  of  Old  England! 
•*  To  be  had  at  the  Gelden-Head^  in  Lclcefter-Squart^  and  at 
*»  the  Print  Shops.'* 

t  The  following  lines  were  written  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Tawnlcy^ 
Matter  of  Merchant  Taylors*  School^  and  fpoken  by  one  of  the 
fcholars,  O^oitr  22,  1767, 

ASSA    BUBULA. 
Littore  in  oppofito,  quit  turrim  Dunn's  m  altum 

Oftentans,  ur^das  innperiofa  regit, 
Ferrca  flat,  mnlto  cum  milite,  porta  Cakji : 
(Ingeninm  piftxit  talia,  Hogarthcy  tuum). 
En  \  fudans  carnis  portat  latus  ille  bovile, 

Qpem,  trepidis  genibus,  grande  fatigat  onus ; 
Obflupet  hie  fixis  ocuUs  atqiic  ore  patenti, 
£t  tenue,  invitus,  jus  cito  mittit  humi : 
Accedit  monachus,  digito  tangcnte  rubenten:i 

Carnero,  divinum  prodigiumque  colit. 
Omnia  vil'a  placent  animum ;    nun  pafcis  inani 

Pic^urA,  pariier  qu«  placet  atque  docet. 
Egrcgius  patrix  proprios  dat  pi£tor  honores; 
lie  palmam  juda  ell  fent  bovina  caro. 

U  and 


€    ^90    1 

and  fK  UogOfth.  '<  Ws  own  head  fietchlng  the  view. 
^^  He  was  arrefled  when  be  was  making  the  dramng^ 
••  but  fit  at  liberty  'uhen  bis  furpoje  was  known**  Sec 
above,  p.  49*  Mr.  Watpole  alfo  obierves,  that  in 
this  piece,  though  it  has  great  merit,  ^'  the  carica- 
**  tura  is  carried  to  cxcefs.*  Mr.  Pine  the  engraver 
fat  for  the  portrait  of  the  Friar,  a  circumftance  of 
which  he  afterwards  repented  * ;  for,  thereby  ob- 
taining the  nick-name  of  Friar  Tine^  and  being 
much  perfccured  and  laughed  at,  he  ftrove  to  pre- 
vail on  Hogarth  to  give  his  Ghoftly  father  another 
face.  Indeed,  when  he  fat  to  our  artift,  he  did  not 
know  to  what  purpofe  his  iimilitude  would  afterwards 
be  applied.     The  original  picture  is  in  the  poffcffion 

♦  Mr.  // tf/.^.'.V'j  Dcv  edi:ion  of  his  **  Acecdotcs  of  Painiing* 
hn\'.:.5;  bctn  pubHHsed  whil ft  ihc  prcisr.t  page  was  pre pii ring 
lor  the  iccrnd  edition,  1  took  ihc  cirlicfi  onoorturitv  of  let- 
\\\\^  t!a:  .  i'lr.irab!?  writer  Tpcak  tor  h  n'.:e'.:.  in  anuvcr  to  a 
j'ai..w'ii!  :r  ::;  wM:h  I  hiii  pic'iun.c.i  to  dln^r  from  him. 
**  i:  .■/.  .  ■'  Ti'-.-.-jcd  his  :pi:lt  oi"  ridic*.:':  'v\  pcri"ora;i:ics,"  ^I 
:io\  •-  .  i..i'  woi^ii  .:t  ?.Ir.  //«•>."•  •'  ::  -zx-zt  pr«^ceedi.:  bc- 
•*  \i^r'  !  N.tv!":^?  an..!  dr.:wK.gs ;  h.i  p::r'?  tcuLhed  the  Jolly, 
•'  b'.v.  i-.vv  '  .  ::c:iVa,  Far'.y  he  drcv  a  no  red  r..i*.'c.7,  oz^z 
•*  1 :"  ::'c  .■...;...-.  -;"^ag  a  iTiafiiff  tLat  bad  rtbbcc  lis  kirwhcn^ 
••  1.  .:  :'  J  :;.!::  .':;.■  *-*«  sou  Vierit  to  hii  houVc  and  cut  :r.r 
*'  p.r;:^  ...  r.^ccs"*.  i  have  been  reproved  for  thitf.flcrtica/' 
ci  :;:';.. ^>  *  .r  apr^rcnblc  }:i  ^^r:v::ci,  •*  and  irjftanccs  hive 
'•  t>«.-:  j-.oT.Tii  c.;j:  thit  coriira^::*::  n-.c.  1  tm  f;r  from 
*•  *^i .:.  .\:  =::  :::  an  ;*rror,  ar.t:  i.- ^  i,:jw  :ha:  n:v  po'Jtv.n  waf 
»...,..,•..  y ^^     V . . ; ;   fr.^'^  ^ .  .•  .V.  J  -  ,^  ;_^--  ^^  £  s Jd'^ : cd  ■•.  c re  by 

:  .^   : .-. :  i  ■. i  c  i :: ^ *»t u r.. 5 .      ^ j ;    T.- .%  c7  -  *r  and   Dr.  3/.'  i*-^: « 
■.  n  t  ^  i"  /f-  • . . ; '    /*•-. ^"  J. '  wc :  tf  .  .i : her  c  \r  n*  pic*  id t  r. '  i  n v  d  th in 
*•  :...:..?.     Or^.-*?.  ^i  Mr.  P.  .,'  ,  were  irerf  p'.^rtraK*,  *c:ro- 
**  d-..-^^;  by  ilxir  «.  /  r.  ^!c::nf,  o:  ^itli  tccir  coaicni/* 

•  5^c  ibovr.  j\  f  «• 

I  of 


*      'I'- 


of  the  Earl  ottbarlmoni. :.  Soon  yter  it  was  fiAi^ied, 
it  fell  xl^wh'by  accident^  and  a  naif  ran  tffiough  the 
crofs^on  the  top  of  the  gate.  Hogarth  ftrove  in  vain  i 
to  mend  it  with  the  fame  colour^  fo  as  to  conceal  the 
blcmilh.  He  therefore .  introduced  a  ftarved  crow, 
looking  down  on  the  roaft-beef^^'and  thus  completely 
covered  the  defied.  j 

The  figuip  of  the  half-fiarved  French  ccntiiel  has  ^ 
fince  b^n  copied  at  the  top  of  more  than  one  of 
the  printed  a4yertifements  for  recruits,  where  it  is 
oppofed  10  the  reprefentation  of  a, well-fed  BritiJIy 
foldier.  Thus  the  genius  of  Hogarth  flill  militates 
in  the  caufe  of  hit  country, . . 

A  copy  of  this  print  was  likcwife  engraved  at  the 
top  of  a  Cantata,  intituled,  T^he  Roajl  Beef  of  Ola 
England.  A^it  is  probable  that  the  latter  was  pub' 
lilhed  under  tne  fandion  oif  our  artift,  I  Ihall,  with- 
out fcruple,nranfcribe  it. 

RECITATIVE. 

*Twa$  at  the  Gates  of  Calais,  Hogarth  tclls^ , 
Where  fad  Defpaif  and  Famine  always^iwells, 
A  meagre  Frenchman,  Madam  Grand/ire's  cook. 
As  home  he  fleered  his  carcafe,  that  way  took. 
Bending  beneath  the  weiglit  of  fam*d  Sir-loin, 
On  whom  he  often  wifti'd  in  vain  to  dine. 
Good  Father  Dominick  by  chance  came  by. 
With  rofy  gills,  round  paunch,  anci  greedy  eye ; 
Who,  when  he  firft  beheld  the  greafy  load^         • 
His  bcncdiftion  on  it  he  beftow'd ; 

U  2  And 


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t^9*    J 
hiir  finger  prefs'd. 
He  lick'd  h^cbaps,  and  thus  the  knight  addrefi'd  : 

A  hvelj  Ltfs  to  M  Friar  campkc. 
O  rare  Roafi  Beef  I  lavM  hj  all  mankind. 

If  I  was  doomed  to  l|pve  thee^ 
When  drefs'd  and  gamiihM  to  my  mind, 

Aild  fwtmming  in  thy  gravy. 
Not  all  thy  coi2ncr3r*s  force  combined 

Should  (rem  my  fury  fave  thee.  ^ 

Rcnown'd  Sir^kin,  oft-tknes  decreed 

The  theme  of  En^ajb  ballad, 
£Vn  kings  on  thee  have  deign'd'to  feed, 
4       Unknown  to  Ftencbmatfs  palate  ; 
Then  how  much  more  thy  tafte  ctxceeds 

Soup- meagre,  frogs,  and  falJad.    ft 

EECITATIVE. 

A  half-ftarv'd  foldier,  ihirtlefs,  pale  and  lean, 
^^Tio  fuch  a  fight  before  bad  never  feen, 
Like  Garrick^s  frighted  Hamlet^  gaping  flood. 
And  gaz'd  with  wonder  on  the  Britijh  food. 
His  morning's  mefs  forfook  the  friendly  bowl. 
And  in  fmall  dreams  along  the  pavement  dole  : 
He  heavM  a  figh,  which  gave  his  heart  relief. 
And  then  in  plaintive  tone  declar'd  his  grief. 

*       A      1       R. 

Ah,  facre  Dieu !  vat  do  I  fee  yonder, 
Dat  looks  fo  tempting,  red  and  white  ? 

Begar  I  fee  it  is  de  Ro4(fi  Beef  from  Lcr:dre, 
O  grant  to  me  one  letel  bite. 

But 


^^ 


C    aw    J 

18ut  to  my  guts  tf  yoii  give  no  heeding. 

And  cruc!  Fate  dis  boon  denies,  ^ 
In  kind  compHion  (q  my  pleadings  4 

Retell  and  let  Ite  feaft  my  eyes. 

R   B  tf   I    T   A   T   1    V    E. 

His  fellow  guard,  of  rigj^t  Hibernian  clay, 
Whofe  brazep  front  his  country  did  betray. 
From  TyiurnU  fatal  tree  had  hither  fled. 
By  honed  means  to  get  his  daily  bread  ; 
Soon  as  iho  well-known  profpe&  heifpy'd. 
In  blubbering  acxrents  dolefully  be  cried  : 

Aim* 

Iff 

EJlfn  d  RooHf^  &c» 
Sweet  Beef^  that  now  caufes  my  ftomach  to  rife. 
Sweet  Beefy  that  now  caufes  my  ftomach  to  rife, 
^So  taking  thy  fight  is. 
My  joy  that  fo  light  is. 
To  view  thee,  by  pailfuls  runs  out  at  my  ey^ 

While  here  I  remain,  my  life's  not  worth  a  farthing, 
^\^hile  htre  I  remaiij,  my  life's  not  woircb  a  farthing,       ^ 

.    Ah!  hard-hearted Zi^zc^^ 
Why  did  I  comofcto  ye  ? 
The  gallows,  more  kind,  would  have  fav'd  me  from 

Jftanring,  -; 

RECITATIVB. 

Upon  the  ground  har(L|;)y  fioor  Sawney  fate,    - 
Whored  hi^  nofe^  and  icrat^'d  bis  ruddy  pate  \ 
But  when  Old  Englan<rs  bulwark  he  defcry'^. 
His  dearlov'd  mull,  alas !  was  thrown  afide.  4 

With  lifted  hands  he  blefs'd  his  native  place. 
Then  fohib'd  himfelfj  and  thus  bewailed  Jaiis  cafe : 

%  U  3  AIR. 


C    «94    ] 

;  AIR.  r 

^  ^  Th^  Broom  ofCowdenknows^  &c. 
How  hard,  O  Sawney  I  it  th^ot, 

W  ho  ii'as  fo  bly th  of  late,  •  * 

To  fee  fucb  meat  as  can't  be  got,  5 

When  hunger  is  fo  great ! 
0  the  Beef^  the  bomy  bonny  BeefU 

Wten  roafted  nice  and  brmvn, 
J  wijh  /  bad  afiice  of  thee, 

Hira:  fweet  it  would  gong  down^ 
Ah,  Charley!  hadft  thou  not  been  fecn,  * 

This  ne*er  had  hapt  tp  me : 
I  would  the  De'el  bad  pickt  mme  eync 
Ere  1  had  gang'd  with  thee. 
0  the  Becf^  &c. 

a^   CITATITE. 

But  fee  !  my  Mufe  to  England  takes  her  flight 
Where  Health' zvA  Plenty  chearfully  unite. 
Where  fmiling  Freedom  guards  great  George^s  throne^ 
And  cliains,  and  racks,  and  tortures  are  not  known : 
\\  luji'e  I'\i;/-e  fuperior  bards  have  often  wrote. — 
An  £::cicnt  fable  give  mc  leave  to  quote. 

A      f       R. 

T/?e  RcLift  hccf  of  Old  England. 

Ai  once  on  a  time  a  young  Frog^  pert  and  vain, 

I{{  li'  Id  a  Jar^e  Ox  grazing  on  the  wide  plain, 

J  !(-  beaded  his  fize  he  coDld  quickly  attain. 

Oh  I  the  Rojjt.  Beef,  &c. 

'  Then  eap^erly  ftretchipg  his  weak  little  frame, 

Mar.HiiH,  who  Hood  by,  like  a  knowing  old  danc, 

Criol,  **  Son,  to  attempt  it  you're  greatly  toblamc.** 

Ul !  tie  Rmjl  Djif^  &c.  4» 

But 


C    ^95    ] 

But,  deaf  to  advice,  he  for  glory  did  thirfl. 
An  eflfort  he  vennirM,  more  (Irong  than  the  firft, 
Till  fwelling  and  firming  too  hard,  made  him  buKt. 
*    Obi  tj^  RojtSe^,  &c. 

Then,  Britons^  be  valiant ;  the  moral  is  clear : 
The  Ox  is  Old  England,  the  Frog  is  Mollfieur, 
Whofe  puffs  and  bravadoes  we  need  never  fear. 
Obt  tfe  Roaft  Beef^  &c.  ' ' 

For  while  by  our  commerce  and  arts  we  arc  able 
T6  fee  the  brave  Ox  fmoaking  hot  on  our  table. 
The  French  muft  «'en  croak,  like  the  Frgg  in  the  fable. 
Obi  tbe  Roaft  Beef,  &c. 

Printefl  for  iJ.  Sayer,  at  the  Golden  Buck  in  Fleei^ 
Jireet ;  and  J.  Smithy  at  HogartVs  Head  in  Cbeapjide. 

At  the  end  of  a  pamphlet  which  I  ihall  ha^  occa* 
fion  to  mention  under  the  year  1755,  was  announced, 
as  fpeedily  to  be  publilhed  under  the  aufoites  of  our 
artift,  *'  A  Poetical  Defcription  of  Mr.  H^artVs 
"  celebrated  print,  The  Roaft  Beef  of  Old  England, 
"  or  the  French  furprized  at  the  Gate  of  Calais.'* 

2.  Portrait  of  John  Palmer^  cfq,4ord  of  the  ma- 
nor of  Cogenhoe  or  Cooknoe,  aild  patron  of  the  church, 
of  Edon  in  Northamptonftnre.  W.  Hogarth  pint.  B. 
Baron  fculp.  This  fmall  head  is  inferred  under  a 
view  of  Eilon  Church. 

3.  His  own  head  in  C^^Py  ^  P^g-^^y  ^nd  i  pa- 
lette with  thcline  of  beauty,  ftc.  infcribed  Gulielmnt 
Hogarth.  Seipfe  pimcit  &  Jculpjit.  Very  fcarce,  bc- 
cauf::  Hogarth  erafed  bis  own  porbrair,  and  introduced 

U  4  that 


«. 


I    »9«    ] 

that  of  Mr.  Cburcbill,  under  the  charaAcr  of  z  bear, 
in  fh  roonu    See  under  the  year  1763. 

On  this  print,  in  its  original  fiate,  the  ScaadaGzade^ 
ft  fatire  publiflicd  about  1749,   has  the  following 
lines.    The  author  rcprefents  himfclf  as  ftanding  be* 
fore  the  window  of  a  print-ihop. 
•*  There  elbowing  in  *mong  the  crowd  with  a  jog, 
''  Lot  good  hihcrTutil,  faid  I,  witikfeisdog! 
'*  But  the  artirt  is  wrong;  for  the  dog  Ihould  be  drawn 
*•  At  the  heels  of  his  matter  in  trot  o'er  the  lawn* — 
^'  To  yuur  idle  remarks  I  take  leave  to  demur» 
•'  *Tis  not  y^W/,  nor  yet  his  canonical  cur, 
•*  (Quoth  a  fage  in  the  crowd)  for  Pd  have  you  to 

*•  know,  Sir, 
^*  'Tit  H0fi^rib  himfelf  and  his  honeft  friend  Tiwfer^ 
**  Infcprate  companions  I  and  therefore  you  fee 
'*  Cheek  by  jowl  thcv  are  drawn  in  familiar  degree; 
*^  Both  ftriking  the  eye  with  an  equal  eclat, 
«•  The  biped  fhi  here,  and  the  quadruped  Tirai — 
^  Yen  mean — the  j^rcat  dog  a:ul  the  man,  I  j'::ppo:e, 
•■  Cx  ih?  man  anJ.  the  t*o£ — l^'i  'u:;  nsvcuchufc. — 
••  Yv*u  vOi'»c\*t  vouMclf  righ:'y — \\;:rr.  ir.'jcn   '^  Vs 

••  F.^!  !hc  Av*i;S.ic4^.  iVTiV^  v(x:  i.:^  iScuki  have  zxi'L 

•'    ^*V, 

•'  i-^  :re"-:  wa*'* 
^'  \  i^^*-**  i  :vji.7*  x:c  4  j\^":cc  c  cr^s.. 


f<  Whom  ^rotflaid*  delivers  to  praife  as  hi^friend  f 
^<  Thus  a  jaclSiapes  a  lion  would  fain  rccommenct^ 
^*  The  very  fclf  facnc — how  boldly  they  ftrikc, 
<^  And  I  can't   forbear  thinking  tlicy Ve  fomewhat 

«  allke.^ 
**  Oh  fie !  to  a  dog  would  you  Hogarih  compare  ?«^-*« 
^^  Not  fo — ^I  fay  only  they're  alike  as  it  were, 
^^  A  refp^fbiUe  pait !  all  fpeAators  allow, 
*'  Apd  that  they  deferve  a  defcription  below 
^'  In  capital  letters,  Behold  we  are  Two.** 

4.  Portrait  of  Hogartb,  fmall  circle.    Mr,  Bafin 
(to  whom  this  plate  has  been  afcribed)  fays  it  is 
much  in  our  artift's  manner.    On  enquiry,  however, 
it  appears  to  be  no  other  than  a  watch-paper  "  Pub- 
*'  liffied  according^  to  A&  of  Parliament  by  R.  Sayer^ 
'*  oppofite  Fetterlaney   Sept.  29,  17^9,"  and  ccr* 
tainly  copied   from  the  fmall  portrait  of  our  artift 
introduced  in  The  Roajl  Beef  of  Old  England. ,  Ano- 
ther head  of  him,  with  a  fur  cap  on,  was  alfo  edited 
by  the  lame  printfeller,  at  the  fame  time*    There  is 
likewife  a  third  head  of  Hofortb^  in  an  oval,  prefixed 
as  a  frpntifpiece  to  ^*  A  Diftertation"  on  his  fix  prints, 
&c.  Gin  Lane,  &c.  which  appeared  in  J75i» 

1750- 
l«  nomas    Herrings    Archbiihop  of    Canterbury^ 

W9  Hogarth  p.  B.  Baron  fculp.  Of  this  pifture  (which 

is  prefcrved  in  Lambeth-Palace)  the  Archbiihop,  i9 

a  letter  to  Mr.  Duncambe,   fays,   **  None  of' my 

*  The  name  under  which  Fielding  wrote  a  news-paper  caU^ 
^d  The  Jacohitis  Journal,  the  froQtifpiece  .by  Hogarth.  ^ 


♦*  friends 


f 


C    «9«    1 

^  fritn^  cao  bear  HagariVs  pifture  ;**  and  Mr. 
JkmmSe,  die  Wb,  m  a  note  to  this  e^lUe^  obferves, 
chat  '^  tbif  jnfture  (as  appears  by  the  print  engraved^ 
*f  hf  Barm  in  1 750)  exhilnts  rather  a  caricature  than 
^  ^likenefsy  the  figure  being  gigantic,  the  features 
^  ^1  aggravated  and  quires ^  and,  on  the  whole,  (o 
^  far  from  conveying  an  idea  of  that  6s  flaoitm^ 
^  nmefjuc  henigni^  as  Dr.  Jortm  expreffisi  it,  that 
'^  engaging  fweetnefs  and  benevolenq^,  which  were 
^  chara&eriftic  of  this  prelate^  that  they  feem  rather 
^  expreffive  of  a  Bonner^  who  could  bum  a  heretic 

^  l^aCi  hard  features  Hogarth  might  command  ; 
^  A  Herrings  fweetnels  aiks  a  Rtpiolds"  hand." 

BtgMTib  .however  made  the  following  obfervation 
while  the^'Archbiihop  was  fitting  to  him':  '^  Your 
^*  Grace,  perhaps,  does  not  know  iSiat  fome  of  our 
**  chief  dignitaries  in  the  church  have  hifd  the  bed 
^  lucM  in  their  portraits.  The  mofl  excellent  head^ 
^^  painted  by  Fandyck  and  Knellir^  were  thofe  of 
•^  Laud  ar.fl  THIotfim.  The  crown  of  my  works  will 
^'  be  the  ri'prcfcnraiion  of  your  Grace**' 

1.  Jacobui  Gtbbs^  Architedus,  A*  M.and  F.R.  S. 
H$g0rth  djln^  Baron  f'ulp.  The  fame  face  as  that  in 
1747,  but  in  an  oftngon  frame,  which  admits  more 
of  ihc  Wly  to  be  fhcwn,  as  well  as  fomc  architcc- 
ture  in  the  back  ground,  i  here  is  alfo  a  fmaller 
head  of  l/Mi,  in  a  circle,  &c.  but  whether  engraved 
by  laron  from  a  pidture  by  Hogarth^  or  any  other 
hand,  is  uncertain.  Perhaps  it  was  defigned  as  a 
vignctic  for  I'omc  fplcndid  edition  of  Gibbi^s  works. 

3,  The 


C    299    3      ^ 

'  3.  The  March  to  Ftncbley  ♦,  dedicatdl  to  the  Eng 
ollPruffia  \  [as  "  an  Encouragcr  of  the  Arts/']  "  in 
^*  r^entment  for  the  late  king^s  fending  for  the  piUure 
•*  to  St.  yames%  and  returning  if  without  any  otbi^ 

*  Gemeral  jiJvirti/er^  April  i^^  1750, 
Mr  Hflg^rth  is  publifhiag,  by  fubfcription,  a  print  repJisTeot* 
iDg  the*V!iarch  Co  Pincbliy  ipk  thje  year  174)6,  engraved  on.a^cop- 
per-plate,  12  nches^by  li*    The  price  t  s.bd, 

Subforiptions  ar^^faikcn  in  at  fit  Gulden  Head  in  Leieefgr" 
fields^  till  the  30th  OT  this  inftant;  and  not  longer,  to  the  end 
that  the  eogrppng  indy  not  be  retarded. 

Note,    Fach  Print  will  be  half  a  Guinea  after  the  Subfeyip«. 
tion  is  d<rer. 

In  the  Snbicription-book,  are  the  particulars  of  a  projif^ 
whereby  each  fubfcriber  of  three  (hillings,  over  and  above  thft 
faid  feven  {hillings  and  iixpence  for  the  print,  will,,  in  confi« 
deration  thereof,  be  entitled  to  a  chance  of  having  the  original 
pii^ure,  which  (hall  be  delivered  to  the  winning  fut^fcfib^  as 
foon  as  the  engraving  is  finiihed. 

General  ^dverti/er^  Ma^  I,  17 50. 
Yeflerday  Hbv  Hcg^ih^s  fnbfrription  was  clpfed.  i8a§ 
chances^ faejng  fubfcribed  for,  Mr.  Hogarth  gave  the  remaining; 
167  chaAces  to  The  Foundling  Ho/pital^  At  two  o*clock  the  bodC 
was'opened,  and  the  fortunate  chance  was  N*  1941,  which  be* 
longs  to  the  faid  Hofpithl ;  and  tfie  fame  night  lAv.  HogmrA 
delivered  the  pi£tore  to  the  Goyerhors. 

t  PRUSIA,  in  the  earlied  impre&ons.  I  have  been  aiTured 
that  only  twenty -live  were  worked  off  with  this  literal  im- 
perfcdliOT,  as  Hogarth  grew  tired  of  adding  the  mark."  with  a 
pen  over  one  S,  tofupply  the  want  of  the  other.  He  tlicre-' 
fore  ordered  the  infcription  to  be  corredJed  b»jr«.rc  any  greater 
nnmfx:]:  pf  iropreilions  were  taken.  Though  this  circuflfiance 
was  minitioned  by  Mr.  7hane^  to  whofc  e^iperience  in  fucl| 
niatters  fome  attention  is  due,  it  is  difliculc  to  fuppofe  that 
Hogarth  wasbitigued  with  correcting  his  own  miilake  iii  fo 
fmall  a  numfier  of  the  firift  Imprcllions.  1  may  venture  to 
add,  that  I  have  fecn,  at  leaft,  five  and  twenty  marked  in  the 
manner  already  defcribcd  :  and  it  is  fcarce  poflible,  confider- 
ing  the  multitudes  of  thefe  plates  dilpcrled  in  the  world,  that 
1  fliould  have  UiCt  with  all  that  were  fo  dillinguilhcd. 

^'  notice.*' 


K 


» ■ 


\ 

^  notft.^  TUs  print  is  engravii  fy  Luke  Sullivan ; 
but  afterwards,  as  we  learn  from  a  pote  at  the  bot* 
tomofitp  was  '^  Retouched  and  mf  oved  by  M/^. 
^  Hfgartbf  and  republiihed  June  12,  i76u''''Tbc 
m^rmements  in  it^  however^  remain  to  be  difcovered 
by  better  eyes  than  mine. 

I  am   authorized  to   add. -that  foon  aftft  the 
lottery  defcribed   in  a  note  at    the  beginning   of 
this  article,   our  artifl:  waited  on  The  treafurer  to 
^the   Foundling  Ho/trital,   acquainting   hfto  that  the 
^    tniftees  were  at  liberty  to  difpofc  of  the  pi&ure 
by^udion.     Scarce,  however,  was  the  meflage  deli- 
vered, before  he  changed  his  mind^  and  never  after* 
wards  would  confent  to  the  meafure  he  had  originally  - 
propofed*    The  late  Duke  of  Aneaftm  offered  the  < 
hofpital  300  /•  for  it.    The  folklwing  complete  ex- 
pbnation  of  it  is  in  The  Siudenty  voU^IL  p.  162. 
It  is  fuppofed  to  have  been  written  by  the  ingenious 
Mr.  Bonnel  Tbomion. 

^  The  fcene  of  this  reprefcntation  is  laid  at  Tot- 
••  fenham  Court  Turnpike ;  the  King'^^Head,  Adam  and 
••  £vf ,  and  the  Turnpike-bou/e^  in  full  view ;  |)eyond 
^  which  are  difcovered  parties  of  the  guards,  bag* 
^'  gage,  &c.  marching  towards  Higbgate,  and  a  beau- 
•*  tif  A  diftant  profpeft  of  the  country ;  the  fky  fine- 
**  ly  painted."'  The  pi&ure,  confidered  together,  af* 
''  fords  a  view  of  a  military  march,  and  the  humours 
*^  and  diforders  confequent  thereupon. 

7  «*  Near 


^  Near  the  center  of  the  pifture,  the  painter  hfjk 
<'  exhibited  bis  principal  figure,  which  is  a  handfome 
#  young  grenadier,  in  whofe  face  b  ilrongly  depicted 
'^  rq^entance  mixed  with  pity  and  concern ;   the  o^ 
^^  cafion  of  which  is  difclofra  by  two  females  puttifig 
•*  in  their  claim  for  his  perfon,  one  of  whom'  has  ^ 
<'  hold  of  bis  right  arm,  and  the  other  hzs  feiiceltSk 
*^  left.    The  figure  %pon  his  right  hand^  and  pcv- 
"  baps  placed '^tber^Ujr  the  painter  by  way  of  prefc- 
^'  rence  (as  the  objed  ef  love  is  more  defirabFe  thaif 
*'  that  of  duty),  is  a  fine  young  girl  in  her  perfon, 
<<  debauched,  with  child,  and  reduced  to  the  mifer*  ' 
^^  able  employ  of  felling  ballads,  and  who,  with  a 
*'  look  full  of  love,  tcndernefs,  and  diftrefs,  cafts  up 
her  eyes  upon  her  undoer,  and  with  tears  defcend- 

ingdown  her  cheeks,  feems  to  fay -fare  you  can'* 

not-^^-^vill  not  leave  me  !  The  perfon  and  deport- 
ment of  this  figure  well  juftifies  the  painter's  turn- 
*'  ing  the  body  of  the  youth  towards  her.  The  wo- 
**  man  upon  the  left  is  ai  ftrong  contrail  to  this  girl ; 
*^  for  rage  and  jealoufy  have  thrown  the  human 
*'  countenance  into  no  amiable  or  defirable  fonn. 
'•  This  is  the  wife  of  the  youth,  who,  finding  him 
engaged  with  fuch  an  uglyjlut^  aflaults  him  with  a 
violence  natural  to  a  woman  whofe  perfon  and 
beauty  is  negleded.  To  the  fury  of  her  counte- 
nance, and  the  dreadful  Weapon  her  tongue,  an- 
•*  other  tenor  appears  in  her  hand,  equally  formida- 
**  ble,  which  is  a  roll  of  papers,  whereon  is  wrote, 
"  The  Remembrancer  I  a  uord  of  dire  and  triple  im- 

"  pert; 


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',  I  vi!'-e  r.jic:!:  upon  ritrr'rg  riie  irjc  mcu.- 
ad  «nriTt;r.g  id>  the  fpirx  at  cie  gjRss  ac- 

••  Ic  :5  cafily  cuctrnifcle  chaf  zhc  raro  fstciLn  ar? 
^  of  d^i^rest  pirties*  lTi£  hrllid  of  G^J  .drcr  jar 
^  joMr  £riij(,  and  a  print  of  :he  Dftb  ^  Cambaind^ 
*^  in  (he  balLct  of  the  girl,  and  che  crol^  upon  the 
^^  back  of  the  wifcj  whh  the  implcmencs  of  her  occu- 
'^  pation^  fuficitntly  denote  the  painter's  intention  : 
«  and,  vi^hat  is  truly  bcautifol^  thefe  incidents  are 
'^  applicable  to  the  march. 

"  The  hard-favoured  ferjeant  diredlj  behind^  who 
•*  cnjoj'S  the  foregoing  fccne,  is  not  only  a  good 
^'  ccnrraft  ro  the  youtn,  but  alfo,  with  other  heljjs, 
*^  throws  forward  the  principal  figure. 

^*  Upon  the  right  of  the  grenadier  is  a  drummer, 
^'  who  alfo  has  his  izco  Rimembrancen^  a  woman  and  a 
**  boy,  the  produce  of  their  kinder  hours;  and  who 
*'  have  laid  their  claim  by  a  violent  feizure  upon 
**  his  perfon.  The  figure  of  the  woman  is  that  of  a 
••  complainant,  who  reminds  hirn  of  her  great  ap- 
**  plications^  as  well  in  fending  him  clean  to  guard, 
^'  as  other  kind  offices  donc^  and  his  promifes  to 

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C   303  3 

■  ■  ■  *  J  * 

^<  make  her  an  honeft  womani  which  he,  bttfe  itld 
^^  ungrateful^  has  forgot,  and  pays  her  affcdion  with 
"  nceleft.  The  craning  of  her  neck  Ihews  her  rc- 
'^  monftrances  to  be  of  the  ihriU  kind,  in  which  (he 
*^  is  aided  by  the  howling  of  her  boy.  The  dn|nH 
<'  mer,  who  has  a  mixture  of  fu«i  and  wickednefs  ja 
his  face,  having  h^d  as  many  reproaches  as  fuit 
his  prefent  inclinations,  with  a  bite  of  his  lip,  and 
a  leering  eye,  appfies  to'the  inftrument  of  noife  ia 
^  his  profeffion,  and  endeavours  to  drown  the  united 
^*  clamour ;  in  which  he  is  luckily  aided  by  the  ear^ 
^^  piercing  fife  near  him. 

*'  Between  the  figures  before  defcribed,  but  more 
^*  baik  in  the  picture,  appears  the  important  but 
**  meagre  phiz  of  a  Frenchman,  in  clofe  whifper  with 
**  an  Independent.  The  firft  I  fuppofc  a  fpy  upon  the 
**  motion  of  the  army,  the  other  probably  drawn 
**  into  the  croud,  in  order  to  give  intelligence  to  his 
^^  brethren,  at  their  next  meeting,  to  commemorate 
^*  their  noble  ftruggle  in  fupport  of  Independency. 
^^  The  Frenchman  exhibits  a  letter,  which  he  affures 
him  contains  pofitive  intelligence,  that  10000  of 
his  countrymen  are  landed  in  England,  in  fupport 
of  liierty  and  independency.  ^The  joy  with  which 
**  his  friend  receives  thefe  glorious  tidings,  caufes 
**  him  to  forget  the  wounds  upon  his  head,  which  he 
**  has  unluckily  received  by  a  too  free  and  prema- 
^*  ture  declaration  of  his  principles. 

*^  There  is  a  fine  contrail  in  the  fmile  of  innocency 
^'  in  the  child  at  the  woman's  back,  compared  with 

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*  ■  •  ■  ■ 

^  and  p$st  the  fnj,  in  which  ddign  (he  is  Hopped 
^  by  a  felloWj  who  prefers  fun  and  mifchief  to  hu« 
^  maoity.  Above  their  heads  appears  a  little  man  ^ 
^  of  meagre  frames  but  full  of  fpiritSj  who  enjoys 
^  the  combat,  and  with  fids  clenched,  in  imi^ina- 
'*  tiott  deals  blow  for  blow  with  the  heroes.  This 
*'  figure  is  finely  contrafted,  by  a  heavy  lluggifh  fel- 
*<  low  juft  behind.  The  painter,  with  a  llroke  of 
^*  humour  peculiar  to  himfelf,  has  exhibited  a  fi^re 
**  Ihripking  under  the  load  of  a  heavy  box  upon  his 
*'  back,  who^  preferring  curiofity  to  eafe,  is  a  fpeda- 
^  tor,  and  waits  in  this  uneafy  ftate  the  iflue  of  the 
*^  combat.  Upon  a  board  next  the  fign,  where  roots, 
*^  flowers^  &c.  were  faid  to  be  fold,  the  painter  has 
^^  humoroufly  altered  the  words,  and  wrote  thereon, 
^Tottenham-Court  Nurfny;  alluding  to  a  bruifing- 
^  booth  in  this  place,  and  the  group  of  figures  un* 
•*  demeath. 

''  Faffing  through  the  turnpike,  appears  a  carriage 
**  laden  with  the  implements  of  war,  as  drums,  haU 
*'  berts,  tent-poles,  and  hoop^petticoats.  Upon  the 
*'  carriage  are  two  old  women-campaigners,  funking 
^^  their  pipes,  and  holding  a  converfation,  as  ufual, 
^*  in  fire  and  fmoke.  Thefe  grote(que  figures  afford 
^*  a  fine  contrail  to  a  delicate  woman  upon  the  fame 
^'carriage,  who  is  fuckling  a  child.  This  excellent 
^'  ^gure  evidently  proves,  that  the  painter  is  as  ca* 
'^  pable  of  fucceeding  in  the  graceful  ilyle  as  in  the 

*  The  real  or  nick  name  t){  this  man,  who  was  by  trade  a 
fobler^  it  iai4  to  have  been  Jockey  Jamtt.. 

X  **  humourous. 


C   3P6    I 

•  huiiMff^r'f-  A  Ikrie  boy  lacs  at  xhc  itsx  of  mit 
^  %iire;  and  the  paxniery  :o  i&ev  him  of  maniai 
*^  hrttd^  has  placed  a  ucail  rrjiaper  in  his  nnurh. 

••  The  fcrio'is  group  of  The  pnadpal  ^jircs^  la 
^  the  center,  is  aaeiy  reiierai  by  a  xene  of  humour 
^  CO  the  left*  Here  an  odker  has  frized  a  mUk- 
'^  wench,  and  Is  kiiEng  her  hi  a  manner  exceffirrdy 
^  lewd,  /et  noc  unplcanng  to  the  girl,  if  her  eye  is 
^^  a  proper  interpreter  of  her  a&dions  :  while  the 
^  ofuccT'%  ruffles  fuffi^  in  this  a&ioOy  the  girl  pays 
'^  her  price,  by  an  arch  foldier,  who  in  her  abieace 
^  of  attention  to  her  pails,  is  filling  his  hac  wicb 
^  milk,  and,  by  his  waggifh  eye,  leems  alio  to  par- 
^  take  of  the  kif&ng  fcene.  A  cbxmney-fweeper^s 
^  boy  with  glee  puts  in  a  requeit  to  the  ibidier,  to 
^  fupply  him  with  a  cap  full,  when  his  own  turn  is 
^^  ferved  ;  while  inorher  ibldxer  points  out  the  fun  to 
^*  a  fellow  felling  pyes,  who,  with  an  inimitable  face 
**  of  fimple  joy,  negleds  the  care  of  his  goods,  which 
**  the  I'oidier  rfcxteroufly  removes  with  his  other 
^  hand.    In  the  figure  of  the  pye-man,  the  pencil  has 

*'  exceeded    defcription here  the  founding  epi- 

^*  thcts  of  prodigious — ixcciknt'-'^vcnderful — and  all 
**  the  other  terms  ufed  by  Connolfleurs  (when  fpcak- 
'*  ing  oi  the  beauties  of  an  old  pidure,  where  the 
*'  objefts  muft  have  lain  in  eternal  obfcurity,  if  noc 
^*  conjured  out  to  the  apprcher.fion  of  the  fpcfta* 
**  tor,  by  the  magic  of  uninrclligiblc  defcription} 
^*  arc  too  faint  to  poiut  out  i:s  real  merit, 

^'Thc 


t  ^^7  0 

^«  Th*  jolii  foidier  divefted  of  one  fpalter-daHii  and 
^  bear  loiling  the  ocher^  and  knocked  down  by  all-^ 
^*  potent  gin,  lipon  calling  fbf  Pother  cogue,  his 
^*  waggiih  comrade^  fupporting  him  with  one  hand^ 
■<^  endeavours  to  pour  water  into  his  mouth  with  the 
**  othet,  whkh  the  experienced  old  one  rejiefts  with 
'^  difdain,  puts,  up  his  hand  to  his  ^^^^  ^ho  bears 
*'  the  afms  and  gin-bottle,  and  who,  well  acquaint- 
^^  ed  with  his  tafte,  is  filling  a  quartern.  And  here 
^'  the  painter  exhibits  a  (ermon  upon  the  exceffiye 
*^  ufe  of .  fpirituous  liquors^  and  the  deftrudive  con- 
*^  feqUences  attehding  it :  for  the  foidier  is  not  only 
**, rendered  incapable  of  his  duty,  but  (what  is 
*^  ihocking  to  behold)  a  child  begot  and  conceived 
'^  in  gin,  with  a  countenance  emaciated,  extends  its 
^^  little  arms  with  great  earnefbiefs,  and  wifhes  for 
**  that  liquor,  which  it  feems  well  acquainted  with 
**  the  tafte  of.  And  here,  not  to  dwell  wholly  upon 
'^^  the  beauties  of  this  print,  I  muft  mention  an  ab* 
•*  furdity  difcovcred  by  a  profefled  connoifleur  in 
**  painting — *  Can  there,  fays  he>  be  a  greater  ab- 
^*  furdity  than  the  introducing  a  couple  of  chickens 
**  fo  near  fuck  a  croud — and  not  only  fo — but  fee-— 
*'  their  dire&ion  is  to  go  to  obje£ts  it  is  natural  for 
**  *em  to  ihun — is  this  is  knowledge  of  nature  ? — ab- 
*'  furd  to  the  laft  degree  !*-— -And  here,  with  an 
*^  air  of  triumph,  ended  our  judicious  critic.  But 
**  how  great  was  his  fuprizc,  when  it  was  difcovered 
*'  to  him,  that  the  faid  chickens  were  in  purfuit  of 
^  the  hen,  which  had  made  her  cfcapc  into  the  poc- 
;*  ket  of  a  fiilor.     ' 

X  z  *•  Next 


^  Sat  the  fign-poft  is  as  hauA  tar  ttuuwing,  mp 
^  ha  hac,  crying  '  Godblefs  KaxgGteje/  Befere 
^  h:ai  Is  an  image  cf  cmnkm  Loyiitf ;  wao,  widi 
**  hb  flurt  cue  of  his  bcrfriic»»  and  Iiajuou  m  his 
^  handy  iroors  dcftmflioa  oa  cfae  hevbof  the  \^^^i^^ 
^  A  noe  figure  of  i  fpeakiag  old  wobbb,  widt  a 
^'  ba&ct  upon  her  hev!,  will  spon  view  cdl  yoa  what 
^  ibe  fidku  A  hamane  fiskficr  penxifing  a  feUoar 
^  hard-jooded  widi  a  band  of  gmupoo  hisback^ 
'^  and  flopped  by  die  aoad,  widi  a  ghnbict  bores 
«  a  bole  m  the  head  of  die  caik,  aod  is  kindiT  cafiog 
^  him  of  a  part  of  his  bimhciu  Xcar  him,  is  die 
^  figure  of  a  fine  gendemaa  m  die  army.  A%  I  (up* 
^  pofe  die  painter  df%nrd  him  irafaoat  cfaaraCkr^ 
^  I  ihall  dierefbre  only  obferre,  disc  he  a  a  tctt 
^  pretty  feDovr,  and  happily  the  coatemphooD  of 
'^  his  own  dear  perifao  guards  ban  from  the  attempts 
^  of  the  wicked  women  on  his  rig^c  hand.  Upon 
**  the  right  hand  of  this  petit  wuiire  is  a  licentious 

ibidler  rude  with  a  girl,  who  fcrcams  and  wreaks 

her  IhrlcTengeazice  upon  his  face,  whilft  his  com- 
*^  rade  is  removing  off  fbme  linen  which  hangs  ia 
«*  his  wav. 

^  You  will  pardon  the  invendoo  of  a  new  term— 
^'  I  (hall  include  the  whole  Iuh^s  Head  in  the  word 
''  Cattery^  the  principal  figure  of  which  is  a  noted 
^'  fat  Covins  Garden  lady  *,  who,  with  pious  eyes  call 
'^  up  to  heaven,  pra7s  for  the  army's  fuccefs,  and 


€€ 


*  ThU  figure  it  repeated  b  the  laft  phac  bot  one  ef  I»^t^ry 
and  j^n^aad  waa  defigned  for  Motlier  Dm^^Ha^  Piazza. 

1  ••  the 


i    3P9    1 

^  the  iafe  ceturn  of  many  of  her  babes  of  grace.  An 
^  officer  offers  a  letter  to  one  of  this  lady's  children, 
*^  who  rejedb  it ;  poffibly  not  liking  the  caufe  her 
^^  fpark  is  engaged  in^  or^  what  is  more  probable, 
^^  his  not  having  paid  for  her  lad  favour.  Above 
^^  her,  a  charitable  girl  is  throwing  a  ihtUing  to  a 
^<  cripple,  while  another  kindly  adminifters  a  cor* 
^^  dial  to  her  companion,  as  a  fure  relief  againft  re- 
'«  fledtioiu  The  reft  of  the  windows  are  full  of  the 
'*  like  cattle ;  and  upon  the  houle-top  appear  three 
**  cats,  juft  emblems  of  the  creatures  below,  but 
^^  more  harmlefs  in  their  amorous  encounters.*' 

There  is  likewile  another  explanation  in  ^e  Old 
Womaifs  Magazine^  vol.  I.  p.  182.  To  elucidate  a 
circumftance,  however,  in  this  juftly  celebrated  per- 
formance, it  is  neceilary  to  obferve,  that  near  70/- 
tenbam  Court  Nurfery  was  the  place  where  the  famous 
Brougbfon^s  amphitheatre  for  boxing  was  erected. 
It  has  been  fince  taken  down,  having  been  rendered 
iifelefs  by  the  juftices  not  permitting  fuch  kind  of 
diverfions*  This  will  account  for  the  appearance  of 
the  Bruifers  at  the  left  hand  corner  of  the  print. 
One  of  HogariFs  ideas  in  this  performance  alfo  needs 
the  affiftance  of  colouring,  to  render  it  intelligible. 
The  perfon  to  whom  the  Frenchman  is  delivering  a 
letter,  was  meant  for  an  old  Highlander  in  difguife, 
as  appears  from  the  plaid  feen  through  an  opening 
in  his  grey  coat ;  a  circumftance  in  the  print  that 
efcaped  me,  till  after  I  had  feen  the  pi&ure,  and 
perufed  Rouquefs  explanation  of  this  particular  cir- 

X  3  cumftance^ 


t    31®    1 

eumfianee^  wUcli  I  Ihall  add  in  his  own  Words,  vid^ 
{lis  refleftions  at  the  end  of  it.  *'  A  drqite  du  pniv- 
•♦  cipal  group  paroit  une  figure  dc  Frangoisj  qu'oi\ 
'^  a  voulu  rcprefcnter  commc  un  homme  4e  quelquo 
'*  importance,  afin  dc  lui  dopner  plus  dc  ridicule  j 
**  il  parlc  a  un  bomriie  dont  ]a  natipn  eft  indiquee 
♦*  par  I'ctoffe  de  fa  veftc,  qui  eft  cellc  dont  s'habil- 
^'  lent  les  liabitaps  des  montagnes  A^EcoJfe :  le  Franfois 
^*  femblc  communiqucr  ^  VEcoffoU  des  Ictrfes  qu'il 
♦'  vient  de  re^evoir,  &  qui  ont  rapport  a  Tevene- 
"  mcQt  qui  donnc  lieu  a  cettc  niarche.  Les  Jnglais 
♦^  nc  fc  rcjouiflent  jamais  bien  fans  qu*il  en  coutc 
♦*  quclquc  chofe  aux  FranfQis ;  leur  theatre,  leuf 
•*  converfation,  Icurs  tableaux,  ct  fur  tout  ceux  de 
♦*  notre  peintre,  portent  toujours  cetfc  glorieufc 
^  marque  dc  Tamour  dc  la  patrie  ;  les  romans  memc 
•'  font  orncs  de  traits  amufans  fur  cet  ancien  fujet  5 
♦'  Texccllent  auteur  de  Tom  Jon^s  a  vpulu  auflS  la* 
^*  cher  les  liens.  Mais  le  pretendu  mcpris  pour  les 
^*  Frangois  dont  Ic  pcuple  de  ce  pais-ci  fait  profeflion, 
^^  s'explique'  felon  moi  dune  fa9on  fort  equivoque. 
^*  I-e  mcpris  fuppofe  Toubli ;  mw  un  objet  done 
•^  on  medit  pcrpetuellement  eft  un  objet  dont  on  eft 
•*  perpf  tucllcmcnt  occup6 :  la  fatirc  conftitue  unc 
^*  attentipp  qui  me  ferpit  foupconner  qu*on  fait  aux 
*^  Francois  Thonneur  de  les  ha'ir  up  peu.'* 

AJl  the  offtradts  from  thp  faces  in  the  original 
pidure  of  the  March  to  Finchleyj  in  red  chalk  on 
oiled  paper,  are  flill  prcfervcd. 

This  reprefentation  may  be  faid  to  contain  three 

portrait^ 


4' 

/A 


C  3<''  3 

imtnStSj'di  of  which  were  acknbwledged  by  the 
artiA'j  a  noted  French  pye-man ;  one  of  the  young 
fifers  then  recently  introduced  into  the  arniy  by  th^ 
Diike  of  Cumberland ;  and  a  chimney-fweeper  with 
an  afped  peculiarly  rbguifli.  The  two  latter  were  ^ 
hired  by  Hogarth^  who  gave  each  of  them  half  a 
crown,  f6r  hk  patience  in  fitting  while  his  likenefs  wat 
taken.  Among  the  portraits  in  the  March  to  Finib^ 
ley  (feys  a  correfpondent)  that  of  Jacob  Henriques 
may  alfo  be  difcovered,  I  wiih  it  had  been  pointed 
©ut* 

WitK  this  plate  (of  which  the  very  few  proofs  in 
aqua-fortis^  as  well  as  the  finilbed  ones,  are  highly 
valuable)'  no  unfair  ftratagcms  have  been  pradifed, 
that  a  number  of  the  various  impreffions,  taken  off 
at  different  times,  might  be  miftaken  for  the  earlieft* 
On  copper  nothing  is  more  eafy  than  to  cover,  alter, 
efface,  '  or  re-engrave  an  infcription,  as  often  as 
temporary  convwience  may  require  a  change  In  it  *^ 

Witnefi, 

*  Pr§0fs  were  anciently  a  few  impreffions  taken  off  in  the 
courfe  of  an  engraver's  procefs.  Ht proved  a  plate  in  different 
dates,  that  he  might  aicertain  how  far  his  labours  had  been 
fuccefsfuly  and  when  they  were  complete.  The  excellence  of 
fuch  early  impreffions,  worked  with  care,  and  under  the  ar- 
tifl's  eye,  occafioning  thcni  to  be  greedily  fought  after,  and 
liberally  paid  for,  it  has  been  cudoniary  among  our  modern 
piintfellers  to  tgke  off  a  number  of  them,  amounting,  per* 
haps,  to  hundreds,  from  every  plate  of  coqiiderable  value ; 
and  yet  their  want  of  rarenefs  has  by  no  means  abated  their 
price.  On  retouching  a  plate,  it  has  been  alfoufual,  among 
the  fame  confcientious  fraternity^  to  cover  the  infcription, 
which  was  immediately  added  after  the  firft  proofs  were  ob« 
(ainedy  with  ilips  of  paper,  that  a  number  of  fecondary  proofii 


» 


EL  s:it:  I 

WicnefiM.tlMKiiifnil  copies  cSTUlMimfi  rhmt  off 
whkbi  cxUbte  the  names  of  tkcee  diifiunt  pn^^ 
cbii'fourtfa  hat  none  at  aiL 

The  lioQi&hc^  cji  this  March  to  Fhuilgy  neecLnoi 
vthemencly  lament  their  'Mane  oft  he  orig^naL  Tliftr 
fjpirir  ot  :c  is  moftfatchtoilT  traaifcted  oa  the  coppm:. 
At  t»  the  cotouring^  ic  will  basdij  deligjbt  ilackej cs 
afc  ace  accoftoooed  toche  piftocca  oi  Sugmac  Ttakn^ 
To  me  the  pdkiUBg  of  the^  Mdrch  t$  fbuMef  apit 
peari  haril  aad  heavyj  aadhaafBodi  the  ak  of  a.cQ» 
loared  prints 

.  I  flmitd  nor,  oa  that  occainn,  omk  tft  add, 
thac  Mr.  Siromgij  \%  bis  Impaaj  iMt§  the  Rifs  aad 
SfiMJbm$ni  cfthe  Roj^i  Auukmj  ^  Atts  im  LeadaB^ 
obfervva,  that  ^^  the  dofntsoiis  is  paattoig^  whkh  ffe 
«^  vtTti  anifts  pireieoKd  ta  fie  FomedBag  He^fHel^^ 
firftltd  to  the  idea  of  thofe  HThJhkybna  which  are  aft 
pref^snc  fo  lucrative  to  our  Rojral  Acackmf,  and  fa 
enterraming  ^o  the  publick.  Uagartb  rmrft  certain!]* 
be  coivAcered  as  a  chiet  among  ihelc  becetadors. 

!•  Biif-firtii  '*  \    two  of  chetn,    with  vaziauoasy 

(the 

mi^^  Ma  he  rmred.  This  dericeit  nocoriotn,  aodtooofcea 
pra^rii<?d,  ■.vrhr>tit  cifcovriy,  00  the  uaikiifoi  porchaller.  A 
nr.w  print,  in  (horr,  is  or  rhe  iamc  idis  to  a  crafty  deaier,  as 
a  frf(h  giri  ?o;)poiiiic  bawd*  lo  both  laAanccs  Ufgmfefuct^ 
Imgi  If  diipofed  ot  many  timet  over. 

♦  Gtatrml  Aihfertifer^  Fthrmmry  15,  r7^>|;i« 
Oa  Fhd^  next  '^iD  be  pvbiiiked,  price  one  iliiiling  csch» 
Two  iarfre  prints  defrg^ied  aad  etched  by  Mr.  Hagmrth^  caiU 
cd  Biir'Jlreet  and  di a-AMr« 

it 


C  Its  1 

fdit  former  ^pnec  x/.  the  )atMr  ti,  6d.}.miGi» 
Ism.  The  following  ver&t  under  thefe  two  prints 
;ure  by  the  Rev.  Jdr«  ^^rr^  f^wnkf^  Mafier  of  JMIwv 

Beer,  happy  prodvDi%  of  our  ifle^ 

Can  ^ewy  ftrength  impart^ 
Andy  wearied  with  fatigue  and  toil^ 

Can  chear*  each  manly  heart* 

Labour  and  Art,  upheld  by  thee, 

Succefsfully  advance ; 
We  qui^thy  balmy  juice  with  glee. 

And  water  leave  to  France. 

Genius  of  Health,  thy  grateful  tafia 

Rivals  the  cup  of  Jfove^ 
Aod  warms  each  Engtijh  generous  breaft 

With  Liberty  and  Love. 

Gin*Lanb. 

Qna^^  curfed  fiend  I  with  fury  fraught. 

Makes  human  race  a  prey ; 
It  enters  by  a  deadly  draught. 

And  {teah  our  life  away. 

A  pumber  will  bepript^d  in  a  better  manner  for  the  Curi- 
^U8  at  i9.bd.  each. 

And  op  Thurflay  following  will  be  publiQied, 

Four  Friaty  on  the  fubje£t  of  Cruelty*  Price  and  fise  the 
iame. 

N*  B.  As  the  fubje^i  of  thefe  Prints  are  calculated  to  re« 
form  fome  reigning  vices  peculiar  tq^  the  lower  cUfs  of  people* 
in  hopes  to  render  them  of  more  extendve  ufe,  the  author  hat 
publifhed  them  in  the  cheaprft  manner  podible. 

To  be  ba4  at  the  GoUen  Head  in  Leicifl^r  Fields^  where  may 
be  had  ap  hU  of  her  workSf 

Virt  - 


▼fftncand  i  ruuiy  dnrcQ  to  defpiuu 

Its  rac;^  compcii  -o  flr, 
•Bar  chsriihtSy  ^tir  heilHh  care, 

TliCit,  Murder,  Pcrjur:". 

Dam::'!  cup  !  :faar  on  rhc  viuij  prers, 

Thii  liouid  5re  contains. 
Whicii  naadnezs  :o  the  hcazt  ccm^eys, 

And  roils. U  thro'  the  ?dos» 

Mr.  /f^  :f 0^  oiMPreSf  that  the  vamtxoo  of  the  butt 
cber  lifting  the  Frencimsm  in  his  hand,  was  an  itter* 
thoughi  ^  *,  hoc  he  is  mifiakcn.  This  btaccer  is  in 
rcaiirf  a  blaekfrndbi  and  the  viokot  hyperbole  is 
fiDund  io  the  origiisai  drawing,  as  weU  as  in  the  ear- 
Ikft  impretSona  of  the  plate.  The  firft  copies  or 
Bitr-fircgtj  Gin  Laxi,  acd  T^r  6'/4^rx  c/*  Cruelty,  \vcre 
taken  oS'on  very  thin  paper ;  but  this  being  objected 
to,  they  vcrc  afterwards  printed  on  thicker.  The 
painter,  v^rho  in  the  former  of  thefe  I'ccncs  13  copyiTi^ 
a  ho:cb  irom  one  hanr^ingby  him  :is  a  puttern,  :as 
been  rriy»rr.cd  as  a  ftrokc  of  fatirc  on  /cbn  :y.dpbcn 
IJitardj  vho  'r:s  Mr.  Waipeie  obfervcs)  *'  co*j.d 
"render  r.or-:n^  'vjc  what  he  faw  before hia  eves  -.'* 
Is  13  ;  ro's'sxAc  vhac  Hozartb  received  ihc  nnt  i  J:a 
for  tfaek'e  ^wo  prints   rr-^rn   a  pair  of  others  jy  ]  eier 

•  T  .im  f'lr-';  'o  perceive  *':n:  •■'^hriifcr.-mnn  r-jm:::!*!!  \•^t 

t  TI  c  «/(itfiiun  '"hitr.  //'•y^r''cn'cr:iincd  i  r  tnc  "nvrius  -  ; 
I>r.  //•//  «•  i:^v  \.t  •.if'fo\fcrc«  v\  115  A'r.r-  ;.iVf.  ■.  hen:  ////.  i  .- 
tiqiic  vjM'ntTC  i\t:yi;  ficirry  11  put  viro  i  baifcct  i^ircti^ru  c« 
tat  Tsuuk'J.lujLc:,  :n  ^;»  Jrtnu^i  U.:irLV*  l  '^r^f. 


i 


iBref^if  (cothmonly  called  Bret^el  i^enfer;  or  EetHfi 
Br^ugel),  which  exhibit  a' Cofttraft  of  a  fimitar  kind^' 

■  ^^  "  A»  ft 

The  one  is  entitled  La  graffiy  the  other  La  maigri 
Cuifine.  In  the  firft,  all  the  perfonagei  are  wcU-fecf 
jind  plump;  in  the  fecond,  they  arc  ftarved  anc( 
flender.  The  lattet  of  them  alfo  «hibits  the  figures 
pf  an  emaciated  mother  and  child,  fitting  on  a  ftraw* 
piat  upop'the  ground,  whbm  I  never  faw  without 
thinKittjg  on  the  female,  &c.  in  Gin  Lane  ♦•  In  Jfo- 
gartby  the  fat  Engtijh  blackfmith  is  infulting  the 
gaunt  Frenebman;  and  in  Sreugel,  the  plump  cqolc 
U  kicking  the  lean  one  out  of  doors.  Our  ardtf 
yras  not  unacquainted  with  the  works  of  this  maftcTy 
as  will  appear  by  an  obfervation  on  the  Lilliputians 
giving  Gulliver  a  clyfter. 

On  the  fubjef);  of  thefe  two  plates,  and  the  foxir 
following  ones,  was  publiihed  a  ftupid  pamphlet, 
intituled,  "  A  Differtation  on  Mr.  HogartFs  Six 
^^  Prints  lately  publiflied,  viz.  Gin-Lanej  Beer-ftreet^ 
>*  and  The  Four  Stages  of  Cruelty.  Containing,  L  A. 
f  genuine  narrative  of  the  horrible  deeds  perpetrated 
^*  by  that  fiery  dragon.  Gin ;  the  wretched  and  dc* 
f^  plorable  condition  of  its  votaries  and  admirers; 
f^  the  dreadful  havock  and  devaftati6n  it 'has  made 
^^  ambngft  the  human  fpecies  ;  its  perlticious  eflfe& 
^^  on  the  foldiers,  failors,  and  mechanicks  <^  this 
f^  kingdom ;  and  its  poifonous  and  peftilent  qualities 
f  *  in  deftroying  the.  health,  and  corrupting  the  mo» 

*  This  emaciated  figure,  who  appears  drunk  and  alleep  at 
f he  cprqer  of  this  print,  was  painted  from  nature, 

^*  rals 


C  i'«   J 

"  nb  of  diff  {Mople.  IL  Ulcful  obbmtioo* 
**  wiotoa  aad  iohimuQ  cruelty,  IcTcrely  udrizkig 
"  tbe  frradice  of  the  cocmnoa  people  in  fportiag 
'  *■  with  the  lives  of  animals.  Beictg  a  proper  key  for 
*  the  right  apprcheo&xt  of  the  author's  meaning  ia 
<*  tbofe  defigns.  Humbly  inTcribcd  to  the  Right 
"  Hooourable  Fraxeis  Oxkajnt,  Eiiq;  Lord  Major 
**  of  the  Ctty  of  Lmdm,  and  tbe  worlhipful  Ciurt  of 
"  AldeTmen,  who  bave  b  worthily  dt&iDgvUhed 
**  tbemfelvcs  b  the  roeafures  they  bare  taken  lo  fap. 
**  prefs  the  excel!nve  ufe  of  fpirituous  liquors.  Lett- 
*dm.-  Printed  for  B.  Dkiin/om  on  LudgateBiU' 
"  1751.  Price  one  ihilling  ;"  and  eleven  pence 
three  fanhings  too  dear,  being  compiled  out  of  Rty- 
watds*s  "  God's  Revenge  againft  Murder,"  &c. 

3.  The  Stages  of  Cniclty*  is  four  prints.  Dr- 
Jigntd  iy  Wm.  Hagartbt  frict  4  j.  Of  tbe  two  latter 
of  tbefe  there  are  wooden  plates  *  on  a  large  fcale, 
bv*.4nj  fntblijbed  by  Wm.  Hogarth,  Jan.  r,  1750. 
y.  BeH/tulp.  They  were  done  by  order  of  our  ar- 
tift,  who  wiflved  to  ditTufe  the  faluury  example  they 
contain,  as  far  as  poflible,  by  putting  them  wicfaia 
ike  reach  of  the  moaned  purchafer ;  but  finding  this 
node  of  executing  his  dcfign  was  expcnftvc  beyond 
czpedation,  he  proceeded  no  further  in  it,  and  was 
cootcDt  to  engrave  them  in  his  own  coarfe,  but  fpi« 

*  N.  B.  The  fiifl  of  ihcfe  wooilcn  cut)  diflen  ta  natty  dr* 
cvailUncu  from  tlu  cogriTing.  In  ihe  foniicr,  the  ngbt 
btnd  «>f  the  inurdercT  il  viGbIc;  in  the  latter  it  u  pmiorcd 
Khind  htm.  Conr)p*rifon  will  dstcA  l«vcr<it  other  Taiiation* 
■a  ttu*  plsic  and  ill  t'cUow, 

rited 


[    S^7    ] 

fitcd  mantftr.    Impreffions  from  the  wooden  bbcks 
are  to  be  had  at  Mrs;  HogariVs  boufe  in  Ltkefier^ 
fieldi.    This  fet  of  prints,  however,  is  illuftmed 
with  the  following  verfes : 

First  Stags  of  CainKLTT^ 


^« 


While  various  fcenes  of  fportxve  woe       ^ 

The  infant  race  employ,  , 
And  tortured  Vidims  bleedbg  (hew 

The  tyrant  in  the  boy ; 
Behold  l^a  jwth  of  gentler  hearty 

To  fpare  tlxe  Cwiture's  pain  ♦, 
O  take,  ^e  cries— ^take  all  my  tart^ 

But  tears  and  tart  sire  vain. 
Learn  from  this  fair  example — you. 

Whom  favage  fpbrts  delight. 
How  Ctuelty  difgufts  the  view. 

While  pity  charms  the  fight. 


Secohd  Stage  of  Q|initTT; 

The 'generous  ^^^^,  in  hoary  age, 

SubduM  by  labour  lies ; 
And  mobrns  a  cruel  matter's  rage. 

While  Nature  firength  denies. 

*  The  thmiling  an  srrovr  up  the  Aiodttnent  of  a  dogt  ii 
Bot  an  idea  of  Enjfi/h  growth.  No  man  ever  beheM  the  (ama 
a£t  of  cruelty  praStfed  on  any  animal  in  Lomim.  IbgarA^ 
howeveri  met  with  this  ciieufflftance  In  Odhfi  fimfnuim  ^ 
'  St.Ant^f^^  and  tranfplanted  it,  without  the  leafi  propriety,  into 
'm  prefent  fituation. 

The 


^ 


Tbe  soodcc  X^rf^  c/caismt.  and  iaas^ 


t»     -;^««L 


!&iid  dies  bencttk  the  biova. 
lahuman  wresdi !  U7  whcott 

This  awar4  C/ceity  > 
W1m(  iot'reft  rprinp  from  bad/racsi  diccds  } 

What  joy  from  miicry  ^ 

m 

HL  OLCzvrt  rsr  nu^cndK. 

To  lawlds  I^'#  whea  ooce  hesafd^ . 

Soon  crime  co  crime  fiiccceds; 
Ac  length  bq^d  co  fi^i,  tfac  juni 

By  her  AfM^r  bkeds* 
Tec  karoy  ledociog  man,  sot  aig^ 

MTich  ad  ia  table  cloudy 
Cm  ikreen  the  gniltf  deed  from  %k  ^ 

Fool  M  order  cries  alood^ 

« 

The  gapiog  woonds,  the  blood-ftain'd  fieef^ 

Now  ihock  Us  trembling  y3«i; 
But  oh  1  what  j^gs  his  breafl  nmd  feel. 

When  Death  bis  LncU  fhaU  to!L 

IV«  Tut  Reward  of  Crxjeltt* 

Behold^  the  Villaii^s  dtte  difgracc 

Not  death  itfclf  can  cod  : 
He  finds  no  peaceful  burial-place  1 

His  bf cathlcis  cot ie,  co  fricad^ 


Toti 


t    3!9    3 

Tom  from  the  root,  that  wicked  Xo9^if  - 

Which  daily  fwore  and  curftl 
Thofe  eye-balls,  from  their  fockets  wrung, 

.  That  glow'd  with  lawlefs  luft. 
His  heart,  expofed  to  prying  eyes. 

To  pity  has  no  claim  \ 
But,  dreadful !  from  his  bones  Ihall  rife    ^\ 

His  monument  of  ihame  *• 


1 


3.  Boys  peeping  at  Nature,  with  Variations. 

Receipt  for  Mofes  brought  to  Fbaraoh'^s  Daughter^ 
and  ^t.  Paul  bif ore  Felix. 

The  burlefque  Paul^  &c.  being  the  current  re- 
ceipt for'thefe  two  prints,  I  know  not  why  our  artift 
Ihould  have  altered  and  vamped  up  his  Boys  peeping 
at  Nature  (fee  p.  i88.)  for  the  fame  purpofe.  This 
plate  was  lately  found  at  Mrs.  Hogarth^s,  but  no  for- 

*  In  the  laft  of  thcfe  plates,  "  how  delicate  and  fupcrioTj^ 
as  Mr.  Walpole  obferves,  '*  it  HogarthU  fatirei  when  he  inti* 
^*  mates,  in  the  College  of  Fhyficians  and  Surgeons  that  preGde 
**  at  a  diiTe^ion,  how  the  legal  habitude  of  viewing  (hoclcinfg 
*^  fcenes  hardens  the  human  mind,  and  renders  it  unfeeling. 
*<  The  preiident  maintains  the  dignity  of  infeniibility  over  aa 
•*  executed  corpfc,  and  confiders  it  but  as  the  objeiS  of  si 
**  ledture.  In  the  print  of  the  Sleeping  Judges,  this  habi- 
^*  tual  indifference  only  excites  our  laughter."  To  render 
his  fpedtacle,  however,  more  fhocking,  our  artid  has  per- 
haps deviated  fron^ nature,  againft  whofe  laws  he  fo  rarely 
oftends.  He  has  imprelTed  marks  of  agony  on  the  face  of 
the  criminal  under  diffedtion  ;  whereas  it  is  well  known,  that, 
the  mod  violent  death  once  paft,  the  tumult  of  the  features 
fubfides  for  ever.  But,  in  Uogarth'^s  print,  the  wretch  who 
has  been  executed,  (eems  to  feel  the  fubfequent  operation* 
Of  this  plate  Mr.  A  Ireland  has  the  original  drawing* 

met 


r  m  ] 


s  nft  tafmupc^ 


wits  pfOpflttp^  C^MBfl  SI  CDS  irit   li  lbs 
MMSBU  dtfipl^  KWIC  lie  IM ifiC  TTI  WBTT  IT  M  S  P''^ 

loKUt  tD  ntf  iimiifrirgmg  fciiuiTi  puiuutfaflBi» 

^  foul   DCfttC  TfWTf    flCBRmt  2DS  KX3KCn0i    Ht 

file  troc  Dwidb  ttAt^  b^  0*1  Ibgmtk*  TItis  was  dw 
luutipt  fiv  fhttntms  csBsgMx^  aod  ok  die  fexioot 
Pm/  and  A& ;  iod  it  a  £aire  aa  i>WBft  pifturcfc 
It  1^  ooDtaini^  in  die  duafier  (tf  a  ferjeant  tearing 
Ui  bfic^  n  pwiian  ot  Btant  duBfkll^  wiiQ  was  not 
ever-delicate  in  tite  langp^  he  tded  at  dus  bar  to 
fcb  adverfiurics  and  anc^jontSi*  Thia^  however^  is 
ttd  hi  adiers  to  be  die  pomak  dEWilBam  Kag  % 
LL.  D*  Principal  of  S/.  Jb7  flaff^  a^BTt^  Ina^n^ 
nation  of  dds  prints  die  Devil  is  inORxhiced  fiiwing 
odTa  Icgol  die  flool  on  whidi  Pea/  fiaqda*  In  the 
ikitd  uupteiliony  as  if  noted  in  tne  ccrtlefikm  ibld^laft 
at  Cbriftit^Sf  **  Hearth  has  again  taken  our  the  DeviL 
^  Bf  tbcfe  TariatioDS  of  Devil  and  m  Devil,  he  giances 
^  ^  Coileflors^  who  gire  great  prices  for  fnch  ra* 
^  rsties ;  and.  perhaps  be  had  in  his  eye  the  famous 
••  print  of  the  Sfaephcrd*s  Oficriog  by  PoiUj^  after 
^  Cmdo^  which  iells  very  dear,  without  the  Angcis.'* 
This,  however,  ift  errooeoos.    .^ter  the  dsRnon  was 


*  Of  Dr.  £rix*  ^ho  was  «^  a  tail,  leao,  fv<dl-looking 
^  mtn/'  theie  it  a  ftriking  likoMft  in  wr^^tiig^i  View  of  the 
loftailacion  of  Lord  WtflmBrdmmd  m  Gbaocallor  of  Ottfkrd  in 
1761.  Soaie  pankulanot  hit  life  aod  wmiiigt  may  be  lean 
in  die  ^  Auccdotcs  of  Mr.  Bm»^^  pu  594* 


once 


C    3^1    ] 

<Mice  ^idmittedy  *be  was  never  difcarded.  The  plate 
in  Mrs*  Hogarth's  keeping  confirms  my  aflertion. 
In  the  firft  proof  of  Poillfs  ShefberJ^s  Qff^i^gy  ^^^ 
angels  are  lightly  fketched  in  ;  in  the  finifhed  proof 
they  are  totally  omitted ;  but  were  afterwards  inferr- 
ed. There  are  fimilar  variations  relative  to  the  arms 
at  the  bottom  of  it. 

Of  this  burlefque  Faul^  &c.  none  were  originally 
intended  for  fale ;  but  our  artift  gave  them  away  to 
fuch  of  his  acquamtance^  &c.  as  begged  for  them. 
The  number  of  thefe  petitioners,  however,  incrcafing 
every  day,  he  refolved  at.  laft  to  part  v^ith  no  copies 
of  it  at  a  lefs  price  than  five  Ihillings^.     All  the  early 
proofs  were  ftained  by  himfelf,  to  give  them  that  tint 
of  age  whick  is  generally  found  on  the  works  of 
Rembrandt.     Of  this  plate,  however,  there  are  two 
impreffions.        The  infcription  under    the  frji  is 
•*  Paul  before  Felix.    Defign'd  and  fcratch'd  in  the 
"  true  Dutch  tafte  by   &c/'      Under  the  fecond^ 
'<  Defigned  and  etch'd  in  the  ridiculous  manner  of 
**  Rembranty  &c/'    From  the  former  of  thefe  Ho^ 
"  garth  took  off  a  few  reverfes  ♦.     He  muft  have 

been 

^  Mr.  Walpok  has  honoured  a  pniTage  in  the  firft  edition  of 
this  hafty  work,  with  the  following  firidure  :  (fee  Anecdotet 
of  Painting,  vol.  IV,  p.  149)» 

*•  I  have  been  blamed  for  cenfurins^  the  indelicacies  of  Fk* 
^'  mijh  and  Butch  painters ,  by  comparing  them  with  the^- 
•*  rity  of  Hogarth^  againft  whom  arc  produced  many  in  (lancet 
**  of  indelicacy,  and  fome  repetitions  of  the  fame  indelicacy. 
'*  I  will  not  defend  myfelf  by  pleading  t^c  thefe  indances  are 
*'  thinly  fcattercd  through  a  great  number  of  his  works,  and 
**  that  there  is  at  leafb  humour  in  moftof  the  incidents  quoted, 

Y  ■  •*  aad 


been  Cbverdy  tiwrtifed  wlien  he  foand  Us  luAcraoi 

of  PmU  befoic  RUx  ws  mote  oovtied 

and 


^  ,•  ♦•••.«(•.» 


^  ad  due  xbey  inficiBae  feme  refleffioo^  wkkh  k  aever  the 
**  cafe  of  the  ferdgnen— 4mt  can  I  cl»(e  bn  fimile  wlka  ooa 
^*  of  the  nafikft  exampies  fped&cd  is  fnm  the  burieiqae  of 
**  P#b/ before  Frfor,  pro&fledlj  in  ridknle  of  the  groA  images 
•*  of  the  Dmtch  r** 

In  coniequence  of  private  msarb  froin  Mr.  iFl  this  qneih- 
ooable  poiirion,  as  well  at  a  few  otben^  had  been  obviated  ii» 
my  fecond  noprefioo  of  toe  trifling  peiniisance  vuaw  affei'ed 
to  the  public  :  but  at  our  author  cjonot  fikyfr  hmt  JmUt^ 
when  the  oecafion  of  hb  minh  was  do  longer  meant  to  be 
in  his  way,  I  would  aik,  in  defence  of  my  former  obfervadon, 
if  moralifis  nfnally  attempt  to  reform  profligates  by  writiog 
treatifes  of  profligacy  ?  or,  if  painters  have  a  right  to  chaf- 
tife  indelicacy,  by  exhibiting  grofe  examples  of  it  in  their  own 
performances  ?  To  become  indecent  ourfelves,  is  an  nnwar* 
rantabie  recipe  for  curing  indecency  in  others*  The  oUceni* 
tits  of  JwmiHol  have  hitherto  met  with  no  very  fiicceisfui  rin* 
dicarion  :  **  Few  are  rhe  converts  j^cfnsrhas  made/*  Accor* 
ding  ro  our  critic's  mode  of  rcaiSraing,  a  homicide  might  urge 
that  the  crime  of  which  he  fiands  accufed  was  commitred 
only  as  a  falutary  example  of  the  guiit  of  murder  ;  nay,  thus 
indeed  every  human  offence  might  be  allowed  to  bring  with 
it  its  own  apology.— I  forbear  to  proceed  in  this  argument, 
or  might  obfervc  in  behalf  of  our  **  foreigners,'*  thai  their 
incidents  infinnate  fome  rcfieclioas  as  well  as  Hogarth* s.  The 
evacuations  introduced  in  Dmtcb  pidures,  moft  certainly  in« 
culcate  the  neceffiry  of  temperance,  for  ihofe  only  who  eat 
and  drink  too  much  at  fairs,  or  in  ale  houiies,  are  liable  to 
fuch  public  and  unleemly  accidents  as  Htemjkirk^  OfiaJg^  and 
TeiucTiy  have  occafionally  reprd'entcd.  If  we  are  to  look  for 
**  Sernions  in  fiones,  and  good  in  every  thing,"  this  inference 
is  as  fair  as  many  which  Mr.  H^,  leems  inclined  to  produce 
in  honour  ot  f«H)r  Hogarth^  who,  like  Sbai/pesre^  often  fought 
to  entertain,  without  keeping  any  moral  purpofe  in  view» 
But  was  there  either  wit  or  morality  in  Hogarth^i  own  eva» 
cnation  againft  the  door  of  a  church,  a  circumtbnoe  recorded 
by  Mr.  Forrrflm  his  MS»  tour,  though  prudently  fopprefled 
in  his  printed  copy  of  it  ?  Perhaps,  following'  Uaele  Toij^ 

advice^ 


C    3*3    3 

fthd  adcnifed  than  his  ferious  painting  on  the  fame 
ftbjed. 

I*  Paul  htf ore  Pelixj  ffom  th^  oHginstl  painting 
in  Lincoln* s-Inn  Hall^  painted  by  W^  Hogarth.  '*  J^^beri 
'*  is  much  lefs  Dignity  in  this^  than  Wit  in  the  /r^- 
"  ceding**  Under  the  tnfcription  to  the  firft  irbprcf* 
fions  of  this  plate  is  •'  Publifhed  Feb.  5,  1752.  En* 
"  graved  by  Luke  Sullivan."*  To  the  fecond  ftate  of  it 
was  added  the  quotation  which^  in  p.  64,  I  have 
printed  from  Dr.  Jofepb  Watton^s  Effay  on  the  Gc* 
nius  of  Pope^  It  was  covered  with  paper  in  the 
third  impreifion^  and  entirely  effaced  in  the  fourth* 

2.  The  fame,  "  as  firft  dejigned,  but  the  wife  of 
'*  Felix  was  afterwards  omitted^  becaufe  St.  Paulas 
'^  hand  was  very  imprcperfy  placed  before  herJ^  I  have 
fecn  a  copy  of  it,  on  which  Hogarth  had  written, 
'^  A  print  off  the  plate  that  was  fet  tfide  as  infuffi- 
'*  cient.  Engraved  by  W.  W*  On  the  appearance 
of  Dr«  Warton^s  criticiim  on  this  plate,  Hogarth 
caufed  the  whole  of  it  to  be  engraved  under  both 
this  and  the  next  mentioned  prints  without  any  com« 
ment* 

advice,  he  had  better  have  wiped  the  Whole  up,  and  faid  no* 
thing  about  the  matter.  Our  worthy  Tour-writef ,  however, 
tvas  by  no  means  qualified  to  be  the  author  of  a  ScntiraencaL 
Journey.  He  rather  (and  purpofely,  as  we  are  told)  tefem* 
bles  Ben  JonfoiCt  communicative  travelleri  who  faya  to  hit 
companion, 

1  went  and  paid  a  moccinigo 

For  mending  my  filk  dockings ;  by  the  way 
I  cheapenM  iprats,  and  at  St.  MartCs  I  urin^d« 
Faith|  rliefe  are  politic  notes ! 

Y  a  3,  Mofu 


t    SM   3 


pftStiBic  1ft  Tfe  fumS^  Hfi^tuL    Lngr^^es:  ij  Wm 
rf  «  3««£irT  xni  dial  kricr-rosc!   tie    -mucis, 

4ft 

5-^'^  ckI:«-  -^  PvJSiifaai  as  iiu  A5  ,5!K&*  ir  dear 
rrakKi^    1V&  «CK  lidr  ace,.  lo*TC^Rsr>  oirlTtr:  auas 

**  titohndku:  tit  jji  Mag^ii^^    Fjc±  jir'Txaan:  j  i.  -S*** 
aiT'f:  nuuu. 

vti.  iU:   ii|»urr.    11    ;iu  •ii?i;iimi»    tiifcr  nuv^y    vnn   awe  ii  "nu 

<«iijir;'?ti»{       'Viu  itiiiinncu*   n    tiu   J,jp:uB  VtiinuTji  :inn=aT» 

:n  mii'T  nivr.niT:ijis  ii  'tiu  Tirm    riiiii   m    riu  oinTa.    cir  tiuiTs 

:|!ti   r.-tMuni:*   :  \:;mtnr    imitr -a-tirj!,    v;iii.    lul-umrnst;    am 

v.;K*f!i;  nr  u:r  ;c:t.}«:!\    :!niw{rv2   tii:   ni!-w;i   ij   line  ii   tiriiuij 

u'.-iu 111!-   *'jiti    ;    v..iliur\imT.:i!.    v/iu  iv.i   iw*  lutun  a    iui:t. 

um    lit     (ill    iiYAii/fit     inn     tuim:    n  uuiiviiii.::  its    in.\    tauii; 

'V-'->u»^/.    //v"    hit    ni    iu»r*     n     tis    tt.!.      ''"lu  r.r.cmirn^   H" 

'III!    nt--:  «   ivM-w-sin    ;:-m?imt     *   iu>f:  int  it*ai  oiu  lu   u.-.u 

(n  ."-.T.*/!'-    tiui^tittir  iT.i   /jjnua  'mm    nit:    :mitm»    ;   nv.r.:.- 

rfA-^M  Muifi   rt  Jiu   .I'll'/'   a.-.fiiuiit:aii*^      t    unpcj     nvuts    lu 

4(miu.   til    -.11    i'^s'^ff-   ''nu-tJ!       /ri-'*rn*    "jiiiU   wu,   ikc  **»^ 


*^» 


im  .iilUiVUS 


C  325  3 

2.  Analyfis  of  Beauty.    Two  plates.    Mr ^Walpole 
obferves^  that  Hogarth's  *'  famples  of  grace  in  a 
*•  young  lord  and  lady  are  ftrikingly  ftiff  and  affec- 
**  ted.    They  are  a  Bath  beau  and  a  county  beau« 
**"  ty.**    The  print  is  found  in  three  different  ftates. 
**  In  the  original  plate  the  principal  figure  reprefent- 
"  ed  the  prefent  king,  then  prince,  but  Hogarth  was 
'*  defired  to  alter  it.    The  prefent  figure  was  taken 
•*  from  the  laft  duke  of  •  King/fon ;  yet,  though  like 
**  him,  is  ftiff,  and  far  from  graceful  *."  In  Plate  t. 
Fig.  19.  the  fat  perfonage  dreft  in  a  Roman  habit, 
and  elevated  on  a  pedeftal,  was  defigned,  as  Hogarth 
himfelf  acknowledged,  for  a  ridicule  on  ^uin  in  the 
charafter  of  Coriolanus.    Effex  the  dancing-mafler  is 
alfo  reprefented  in  the  aft  of  endeavouring  to  reduce 
the  graceful  attitude  of  Antinous  to  modern  ftiflfnefs^ 
Fig.  20.  was  likewife  meant  for  the  celebrated  Dej^ 
noyer^  dancing  in  a  grand  ballet. 

Dr.  Beat  tie  y  fpeaking  of  the  modes  of  combination, 
by  which  incongruous  qualities  may  be  prefented  to 
the  eye,  or  the  fancy,  fo  as  to  provoke  laughter,  ob- 
ferves  *^  A  country  dance  of  men  and  women,  like 
**  thofc  exhibited  by  Hogarth  in  his  Analyfis  of  Beau- 
*^  ty,  could  hardly  fail  to  make  a  beholder  merr}'', 
**  whether  he  believed  their  union  to  be  the  cfFcdt 
<*  of  defign  or  accident.  Moft  of  thofe  perfons 
**  have  incongruities  of  their  own  in  their  ihape, 
**  drcfs,  or  attitude,  and  all  of  them  are  incongruous 
"  in  refpedt  of  one  another ;  thus  far  the  aflfemblage 

*  Anecdotes  of  Painting,  8vo.  vol,  IV.  p.  166. 

Y  3  ^*  difplays 


C  326  3 

^  di(playt  contranety  or  want  of  relation :  and  they 
'^  are  all  united  in  the  fame  dance ;  and  thus  £n 
**  they  irre  mutually  related.  And  if  we  fuppofe  the 
*'  tv/o  elegant  figures  removed,  which  might  ba 
^^  done  without  leifening  the  ridicule,  we  ihould  Qot 
^^  eafily  difcern  any  contraft  of  dignity  and  mcaoneii 
^^  in  the  group  that  remains. 

^'  Almoft  the  fame  remarks  might  be  made  09 
*'  The  Enraged  Mufician^  another  piece  of  the  fams 
•^  great  matter,  of  which  a  witty  author  quaintly  fays, 
^*  that  it  deafens  one  to  look  at  it.    This  extraordi* 
•*  nary  group  forms  a  very  comical  miicture  of  in* 
^  coBgruity  and  relation ;  of  incongruity,  owing  tq 
<*  the  diCimilaj:  employment  and  appearances  of  the 
♦*  feveral  pcrfons,  and  to  the  variety  and  diflbnancc 
•'  of  their  refpeftive  noifes ;  and  of  relation,  owing 
^  to  their  being  all  united  in  the  fame  place,  and 
**  for  the  fame  purpofe  of  tormenting  the  poor  fidlcr, 
^*  From  the  various  founds  co-operating  to  this  one 
"  end,  the  piece  becomes  more  laughable,  than  if 
•*  their  meeting  were  conceived  to  be  without  any 
^^  particular  deftination  i  for  the  greater  number  of 
*^  relations,  as   well  as  of  contrarieties,    that  take 
**  place  in  any  ludicrous  aflembly,  the  more  ludi- 
**  crous  It  will  generally  appear.    Yet,  though  thi^ 
*'  group  comprehends  not  any  mixture  of  meanner^ 
**  and  dignity,  it  would,  I  think,  be  allowed  to  b^ 
**  laughable  to  a  certain  degree,   merely  from  th^ 
*'  juxta-pofition  of  the  objeds,  even  though  it  wer^ 
**  fuppofed  to  be  accidental/'    Eflay  on  Laughte;:^ 
and  Ludicrous  Compofition,  410  £dit«  •  6o8. 

4C 


C    3^7    } 

^^ Hiaveno  new  books^  tias !  to  amnfe  myfelf  or 
•*  you ;  fo  can  only  return  yours  of  Hogarth's  with 
^'  thsmks.  It  furprized  me  i^eeably }  for  I  had 
*^  conceived  the  performance  to  be  a  fct  of  prints 
^^  only,  whereas  I  found  a  book  which  I  did  not 
^<  imagine  Hogarib  capable  of  writing ;  for  in  bis 
^^  pencil  I  always  confided,  but  never  imagined  his 
^^  pen  would  have  afforded  me  fo  much  pleafure. 
**  As  to  his  not  fixing  tbeprecife  degree  of  obliquity^ 
•*  which  conftitutes  beauty,  1  forgive  him,  becaufe  I 
**  think  the  tafk  too  hard  to  be  performed  literally  : 
**  but  yet  he  conveys  an  idea  between  his  pencil  and 
**  his  peuj  which  makes  one  conceive  his  meaning 
"  pretty  well.**    Lady  LuxborougVs  Letters,  p.  gSo^ 

I  ihall  here  tranfcribe  as  much  from  the  Analyfis  as 
18  neceflary  to  communicate  our  artift's  defign  rela* 
tive  to  the  various  figures  that  compofe  the  country* 
dance  in  the  fecond  plate.  The  reader  who  neither 
poffeffes  the  book,  nor  wilhes  to  accompany  the 
author  throughout  his  technical  explanations,  may 
defire  fome  intelligence  concerning  the  prefent  fub- 
jefL 

^*  C  H  A  P.  XIV. 
'*  Of  Attitude. 
*• — As  two  or  three  lines  at  firft  arc  fufficient  to  Ihew 
'*  the  intention  of  an  attitude,  I  will  take  this  oppor- 
**  tunity  of  prcfenting  my  reader  with  the  iketch  of 
**  a  country-dance,  in  the  manner  I  began  to  fet  out 
**  the  defign  ;  in  order  to  fliew  how  few  lines  are  ne- 
^  ceflTary  to  exprefs  the  firft  thoughts  as  to  different 

y  4  "  attitudes 


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'*    i  .1    :  jjf'  jir;*apj'   pcriu*.  inu-   citiurni  his  ^ 

^>  .:*.   ii:^c:      -J'   *UL.    iujc:  .i;»i«-ri!'    11:1.  ::   ..  men 

«.r  .;,'...iji'.  f  .^,  .•  ii   »#vupi'  o"   ;.  uar:  :.ui2'  max:  : 

.  .'      '...c'.'':.-#'.i    '-.JL.^L   iLi:ii  iijjurr.   a-  '  tiiougnt 

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«.t    ..11  .o  :  .      J  lA    I .»  »t   ii'.iC  ii»';  v/iu:  Ii:^»  h: 
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;^  .. ..    .  g  j^,>2.i  .jc.    j  :..i.«.f  /«>*  v*:/:    ',  k/t^  X  tgurc 

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:i...  ^^  ^.L,  J  jji  'A  iL'w  taf  v,w(h£/i  LttA'ten  thc  fat 
i.  ....  ..i.;  Li.v.  swk  Ad<<i  <«.«c  ill  4  l'<^{ij-wi(;i  for  whom 

i  I..  1  ..«)^K  M  i^jiL  ijt  4ii  X>  1  hr  [>;im  lady,  his 
I.  i  1..  ii«L  li^iiii^  Laliit,  \»y  [uLkini;  back  her 
,.  .4)  ill  ,  eali  ii,  uii!ii  i!:^*  w.iilt  iip-A-ardSy 
*.. .  1    .1    ..1.  ..I'li    h,   vvuu  4  Ui  iju'it    line  uiiJcr  it. 

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^  The  uniform  diamond  of  a  card  was  filled  by  thtf" 
**  flying  drefs.  &c.  of  the  little  capering  fellow  in 
^  the  Spencer  wig ;  whilft  a  double  L  marked  the 
^  parallel  pofition  of  his  poking  partner's  hands  and 
^  arms  [M  B.  This  figure  was  copied  from  tbat  of  am 
**  uncouth  young  female  whom  Hogarth  met  with  at 
•*  Meworth  ajfemblf] :  and,  laflly,  the  two  waving 
**  lines  were  drawn  for  the  more  genteel  turns  of  the 
**  two  figures  at  the  hither  end, 

**  The  drawing-room  is  alfo  ornamented  purpofelf 
•*  with  fuch  ftatues  and  pidhires  as  may  fervc  to  »• 
"  farther  illuftration.  Henry  VIM.  [Fig.  72.  P.  2} 
**  makes  a  peried  X  with  his  legs  and  arms  t  and 
•*  the  pofition  of  Charles  [Fig,  51  •  P.  2,]  is^  com^^ 
*^  pofed  of  Icfs-varied  lines  than  the  ftatueof  £Ac;^rf 
*^  VL  [Fig.  73.  P.  2.];  and  the  medal  over  his  head 
'*  is  in  the  like  kind  of  lines ;  but  that  over  Qj.  £/r- 
**  zabetb,  as  well  as  her  figure,  is  in  the  contrary  ;  fo 
are  alfo  the  two  other  wooden  figures  at  the  end* 
Likewife  the  comical  pofture  of  aftonifiiment  (ex- 
<*  prcffed  by  following  the  direAion  of  one  plain 
*'  curve,  as  the  dotted  line  in  a  French  print  of  5iwi- 
**  cbo,  where  Don  ^ixote  demolifhes  the  puppet* 
•*  Ihow  [Fig.  75.  R,  P.  2],  is  a  good  contraft  to  the 
•*  efFeft  of  the  ferpentine  lines  in  the  fine  turn  of  the 
**  Samaritan  woman  [Fig.  75.  L.  p.  2.]  taken  from 
**  one  of  the  bed  piftures  Annibal  Carache  ever 
<*  painted." 

Refpefting  the  plate  numbered  !•  there  arc  no  va- 
jiacions.    In  its  companion  the  changes  repeatedly 

made 


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OBftdttOB  XL  (ttitsr  Sift.  •imtisuL     lb.  oisr,.  luiftunu^ 


III     »«<Ml 


fit tivt^^id^. ±c  niincpxi  xaxzie:  djot  /me*  anv  ifanq^ 
tDclicmtckiacs^:  ia.  :iie  fccDBui  ir.  isrlesgithesna ;;  anL 
16\immtLrattmtrvahY:n£zr:%im  inttmdnnL  liribft 
fioi  sod  irmii  fxririnm;  aitcL  of:  lin^.  gtttn.  jcnvcni. 
the  ymin^  lani  aod  hii.  ^mmn.  (amLjuiL  jsiicx.  One 
figjuc  Qi:  r  hff  mar,  wool  i^^miaDB^aat.  die.  il&iciiom^ 

iib  ^  vanac  eeiy  oimh.  lintiift  ttnm.  impfcdBoKtiuB 

tteot  adSmd:  cinti  cfaiss  iiimm  y^<ijflBcc:  viBfe  cpignailjF 
■— iMiMiiiiTi  Ffamwl  11W1  lit"  fiiii  iTi  imh  \jt.thos: Uiff§h 
tUttritffm,  HKft;  okk  ggnttemMT:  iiiiTfgnngi  3vra^'  hw 
^tt'Tflhlfft,  whiterfhc:  iCfrantdir  putting;  cat  bis:  i  fpttcn^ 
fftflkt^,  fteiiss COD  nrmmrnimc  ttei  luppio&tMi^; aodt 
Unrii^  uncet  noMnihwi.  tfap  arig^ini  i^cir.  iir.  q»U. 
\ihictt  is  in  ?Ah.:rr/^^V  pcoltifi&a^  L  vrjicrre  tbax 
tfar  coacin^nnsQ  iv  :erminaied  iiv  a   ti^  aKk?uifai^ 
OBtci:  boir- ^vinoowy  X  csicurmb^     ptitccUr  coamt 
tcnt.vtnb-  tbcL  icesRcr  at:  tdei  \vecxain|p  iticrtusd  in 
3^39,,  Sec. 
UnBa^'siidt^  ttai:ic.tcnsffii£&3xei  tht  coupie  dtugr^ 

lisi  Ihui  vrriitd  .tai  jot  iniAtcr  in  i&t^  cei^ueect 

at: 


of  a  weddio|;-bal)>  that  he  has  reprefented  the  bridt 
dancing  with  the  bridegroom  *. 
.  When  Hogartb  ihewed  the  original  painting,  from 
which  this  dance  has  been  engraved,  to  my  inform- 
ant, he  defired  him  to  obferve  a  pile  of  hats  to  thft 
corner,  all  fo  charadteriftic  of  their  refpedive  owners^ 
that  they  might  with  eafe  be  picked  out,  and  given 
to  the  parties  for  whom  they  were  defigned.j 

3.  The  Political  Clyfter. 
Nahianoi  l^fiws  \.  Dr.O^Giartb  fcuJp. 

m  Mrrg.  Cbi  Nf.  ndw  Lps  icpte  fcfr.  i^c.Jhd  b.  Prgd^ 
See  GulUMrU  Sfeecb  to  the  HenbU.  Hau/e  of  Vulgaria^  m 
UlUpuU 

This  was  originally  publiihed  about  1727,  or  1728^ 
vnder  the  title  of  '^  The  punilhment  infilled  on  Le* 
^'  muel  Guiliver,  by  applying  a  Lilypucian  Fire  Ea^ 
^'  gine  to  his  pofteriors  for  his  urinal  profanation 
*^  of  the  Royal  Pallace  at  Mldendo ;  which  was  in- 
^'  tended  as  a  Frontifpiece  to  his  firfl;  volume,  but 
**  emitted*  Hogmartb  fculp.^^  The  fuperiority  of 
the  impre0ions  thus  infcribed  is  confiderable  %• 

More  than  the  general  idea  of  this  print  is  fiolen 
from  another  by  HelUJb  Breugil^  whom  I  have  already 
^ncntioned  in-  a  remark  on  Beer-Jlreet^  and  Gin-lancm 
The  Dutcbtnan  has  reprefented  a  number  of  pigmies 

*  As  difcrcnt  faihions,  however,  prevail  at  different  times, 
this  obfervation  mny  be  wrong. 

t  Originally  miitaken  by  Mr,  Walpok  for  the  nanae  of  a  li* 
Vtputian  painter,  but  put  right  in  his  new  edition. 

X  The  prcfent  unmeaning  title  of  this  plate,  was  beltowed 
on  it  by  its  owner,  Mr,  Syer. 

delivering 


T  ^  1 

jpEDrrtroir.  z  iiaid  th  fjerg>.    Sis 
is  tiiiuT  oc.  iiiLrtrrr  of  GsJlovr ,  tt  tTDoor 
rimrzztsaa*.  ircyrr.'ra' tu:  iiir  rzLH  tare:  mass 
tsts  U2ixc£:.  intr.   rrrfh'^ni:^:  Tinuicsf   rose 


ptzzissrr  set  iia;.    xc  issr;.  isj^.zc.  iix^ 


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•*  tfLr  5»fif.',  amnmo:  ir,raitc£:-  mi:  rii-sTr  ccc 
•^tnnr.  tier  rnsnnffca:  avasirirr;,   arx   Uiufiricr 

*'  is»{in:^  cd  tee  uniign:  k^y^?  it  tm::  icrsr- 
-^  ain>It-£i.  asc  tK  dsriss  ciinknrj:  rcrtrr 
^aiaiT    Tit:  prnr  layj*  bcwrr  u^  h.  how-m,  no 
niDT^*  rxsnuiinciiior  a: 


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C.333    ]  I 

€€  fifteen  ihillingSi  bemg  the  firfl^  &c.  for  thf€e 
<^  prints^  &c«  on  the  payment  of  fixteen  fhilliogs 
"  and  fixpence  more." 

a.  Frontifpiece  to  Kirby^s  Perfpe£tive**  Engraved 
by  Sullivan.     Satire  on  falfe  perfpedive*     Motto^ 
^*  Whoever  maketh  a  defign  without  the  knowledge 
*'  of  Perfpedtive^  will  be.  liable  to  fuch  abfurdides 
^'  as  are  fbewn  in  this  frontifpiece/'    The  occafion 
of  engraving  the  plate  arpfe  from  the  miflakes  a6 
Sir  £•  WalpoUy  who  was  learning  to  draw  widiout 
being  taught  pe;rfpe6:ive.    To  point  out  m  a  fbrong 
light  the  errors  which  would .  be  likely  to  happea 
from  the  want  of  acquaintance  with  thofe  principles, 
this  defign  was  produced.    It  was  afterwards  given  to 
Kirbyy  who  dedicated  Dr.  Brook  Taylor*s  Method  of 
Perfpedive  to  Mr.  Hogarth.    The  above  anecdote  is 
recorded  on  the  authority  of  the  gentleman  alreadf 
mentioned.     The  plate,  after  the  firft  quantity  of 
impreffions  had  been  taken  from  it,  was  retouched, 

*  ••  This  work  is  in  quarto,  containg  172  pages,  and  Jt 
plates,    in  the  whole;    with  a  frontifpiece  defigncd  and 
drawn  by  Mr.  Hogarth,     Tis  a  humourous  piece,  (hewing 
**  the  abfurdities  a  perfon  may  be  liable  to,  who  attempts  to 
*•  draw  without  having  fomc  knowledge  in  pcrfpedtive.     As 
**  the  produ6tion  of  that  great  genius,    it   is  entertaining ; 
•*  and,  though  abounding  with  the  grofleft  abfurdities  poffiblc, 
•'  mny  pafs  and  plcafc ;  otherwifc  1  think  it  is  a  palpable  in* 
*'  fult  offered  to  common  fcnfe,  and  tacitly  calling  the  artiflj 
*«  a  parcel  of  egregious  blockheads.     There  is  not  a  finiflbcd 
*'  piece  in  the  book,  but  the  mafon's  yard  and  the  landicapes; 
**  fo  that  I  queftion  if  the  whole  of  rhc   plates  were  forty 
**  pounds  expencc.    It  was  firft  printed  for  himfclf  at  Jpfwicb^ 
**  dedicated  to  Mr.  Hogarth^  and  publifhed  iu  the  year  1754.." 
Malton^  Appendix  to  Trcatifc  on  Pcrfpcdtivc,  p,  106. 

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Boc.  Sir  JEJtotfn:' ll«iK£:.  £n^:lr  df  tfee  B£th/; 
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[    335    ] 

Tbe  original  pidhires  are  now  in  the  pofieffiod  of 
Mrs.  Garrick^  at  Hampton.  The  infcription  on  die 
banner^  "  Give  us  our  eleven  days,**  alludes  to  the 
alteration  of  the  Style  in  1752 ;  in  which  year,  from 
the  2d  to  the  14th  of  September^  eleven  days  were 
not  reckoned  by  aft  of  parliament.  In  the  eiedion- 
dinner,  Mr.  Hogarth  aflured  the  writer  of  thb  para- 
graph, that  there  is  but  one  at  table  intended  for  a 
real  portrait ;  and  that  is  the  hijh  gentleman  [dlie 
prefent  Sir  John  Pamell,  nephew  to  the  poet,  and 
remarkable  for  a  very  flat  nofe],  who  is  diverting  the 
compattt]^  by  k  face  drawn  with  a  burnt  cork  upOQ 
the  back  of  his  hand,  while  he  is  fuppofed  to  be 
fingiiig — Jin  otd  woman  chat  bed  in  grey.  This  gen- 
tleman (then  an  eminent  attorney)  begged  it  as  % 
favour ;  declaring,  at  the  fame  time,  he  was  {o  ge^ 
nerally  known,  that  the  introdudion  of  his  face 
would  be  of  fervice  to  our  arcifl  in  the  fale  of  hit 
prints  at  Dubtin.  Notwithftanding  Hogarth^s  aller*^ 
tion,  the  handfome  candidate  is  pronounced  to  be 
the  late  ^omat  Potter,  efq.  and  the  effigy,  feen 
through  the  window,  with  the  words  "  No  Jewf^ 
about  its  neck,  to  be  meant  for  the  late  Duke  of 
Newcajlle.  Of  yet  another  real  perfonage  we  receive 
notice,  from  a  pamphlet  intituled  **  The  laft  Blow^ 
or  an  unanfwerable  vindication  of  the  Society  of 
Exeter  College,  in  reply  to  the  Vice-chancellor  Dr. 
King,  and  the  writers  of  Tbe  London  Evening  Pojl.^ 
4to.  1755.  p.  21. — **  The  next  charader,  to  whofc 
y  merits  wc  would  do  jufticc,  is  the  Rev,  Dr.  C—Jf^ 

«  (Coferat). 


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jf/if  ///,  •    %  pixWick  will  fee  the 

/W/.  .  .-■     *7S*'«^^  the  freeholders, 

fVit  ;  "  .  .  ^'^r^*  .IIljariii»g  for  the  fake  of 

jiii  "" '^  .^^'?>  *^^^f *  jtto  ftoentblc  and  humane 

(V  \,..  '^"^^  !ie:r^  rf*«  dignity  and  bene- 

I'  .\: :'*"*"V'  A«*^    Never  did  alderman  at 

,>'-^    1  'ai0  *'«*^^  **^^  ^^  ^^^'^  ^°  ^P' 
, . -i;::.*^  /  j^^  »>  hi*  country,  or  fwallow  ale 

.  ^v ;'-^^^  ijci  :*^  -^^  ^^  ^  patriot.    Thefe  circum- 

..  isi-'^  ^'V,  ,^ih:il  <^  Mir-  Hogarib  will  undoubtedly 

'^^mfi^^^^   but  it  is  much  to  be  lamented, 

'  ***i5i  **^*^*  ^'^  cannot  apjtcar  in  this  print,  and 

*^ '.  -.  fW  ariilt  caimoi  delineate  that  perluafive  flow 

•  ^vuucncc  which  could  prevail  upon  Copyhol- 
.  ^;4>ibiuic  ihcii  bale  tenures  and  iwcar  thcm- 
. , -a  FrcKhv4vl.:\.     Ki;r  t'.usoKUorv  ^t'a:  c:5cr-jr.u 

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height  of  Tbe  Treafury  is  conttafted  with  tlie  fqtiat 
folidity  of  The  Horfe-Guards,  where  the  arch  is  {o 
tow,  that  the  ftate-coachmah  cannot  pafs  through  it 
with  his  head  on';  and  the  turret  on  the  top  is  lo 
drav¥n  as  to  refemble  a  beer-barrel,  ff^are  the  archi« 
tedt  very  gravely  rertiarked,  On  this  ocCafion,'  that  the 
thief  defed  would  have  been  fufficiently  pointed  but 
by  making  the  eoachman  only  floop.  He  was  hurt 
fcy  Hogartb*s  ftroke  of  fatire.  Money  is  likewifc 
thrown  from  The  Trea/ury  windows,  to  be  put  into 
k  waggbn,  and  carried  into  the  country.  George 
Alexander  Stevens^  in  his  celebrated  *^  Ledure  on 
•*  Heads,*'  exhibited  the  man  with  a  pot  of  beer, 
explaining,  with  pieces  of  a  tobacco  pipe,  how 
Porio  Bello  was  taken  with  fix  fliips  only.  In  Plate 
III.  Or.  ShebbearCi  with  fetters  on,  is  prompting 
the  idiot ;  arid  in  Plate  IV.  the  old  Duke  of  New- 
c^Jlle  appears  at  a  window.  A  happy  parody  in  the 
laft  of  thefe  plates  may,  perhaps,  have  efcaped  th* 
notice  of  comtnoh  obfcrvers.  Le  Brun^  in  his  battle 
of  the  GranicuSf  has  repreferited  an  eagle  hovering 
above  the  laurel'd  helmet  of  Alexander.  Hogarth  has 
painted  a  goofe  flying  over  the  periwig'd  head  of  the 
fuccefsful  candidate.  During  the  coriteiled  Oxford^ 
Jhire  eledion  ia  1754^  ah  outrageous  mob  in  the  Old 
Intereft  had  furrounded  a  poft-chaife,  and  was  about 

to  throw  it  into  the  river ;   when  Captalin  T — -. , 

Within-fide,  ihot  a  cMmney-fweeper  who  was  moft 
a&ive  in  the  aflault.  The.  Captain  was  tried  and  ac* 
^itt^d.    To  this  fwSi  Hogarth  is  fuppofed  to  allude 


mdtcWtmktr  nUag  on  the  Bear,  witii  x 
im  bir  fiUV  aod  X  csxbme  br  riis  Sdc,  -^ixidi 

kiiU  ^fcr  iirrtc  :wrce:i,   .^co  has  clambered  op 
-jraiL     TTic  member  chaired  is  :"aid  to  jear 
tban  an  icciotnral   relcmbiancs  ro  Mr.  DsdhigfUL^ 
atrcrwsirdi  Lord  JrEf^^^Tz^^. 

In  17:9  inpcanKi  ^^^  A  Poeticii  Deicripuaa  a£ 
^  \ir.  iiu^arth'i  Eu^ioa  Prints  ^,  in  foin-  r^rimp^^ 
♦*  Wnrrcn  antler  Mr,  Hignrtb\  fanction  and  inipec-^ 
'*  -;on/'  vhich  I  ihail  jvirh  riic  let's  temple  tnmicribe 
St  i^^rje  je:a*/v  -f»,  is  ir  ;^ras  originalljr  introduced  hy 


*  **  'T'\iT,'j;^',  a.'wtreoxptcd  Tcr  io'proicarrfnmc'*  2&£iz.TQai, 
-^    C     A     X    T     O         L 
77;/  iftr^fors'i  of  ax  ^l^ctios  E»rsRTAi»ME2ir« 

Ho'iA.'  r;f,  'hou  mirmr  of  rhc  age! 

: '  -r >  M » r  I  •  i  .1  rri,  :  hoTi^  I'c  rcca'd  ha 
r  »  -.i  .rr  *I.c  San-*tioR  jf  vour  raoie; 

A...:  x.Ai'..\i'.z  »i  'i»c  .r.:rr.an  iicarr  ; 
'    ..   i<    o  .r  >;:ic;:.  -^..iv*   nv  psa 

P,x;iri  li    i.c  •oiceni  or  rbc  ruinci. 
'r;»r  u;:rroiir3,  r'o«Ii«,  'ti  niAnkiod  ; 
'J'.rn   i.i^nt  Thvicii  :hn  yenc  rcgnrd^ 
\<)r  i.-r.n  'icncata  the  r^ik  rhc  bard  ; 
Y-rr.    hoii^n  uniir,  perhaps  imkaawn^ 
I  luppiic.uc  :hv  ^id  iione : 
I^-r  rhcr**  all  -.fc  Xinc  intpirc, 
l;o  Pioii,  G  ifc^ftr-'/j^  rune  mr  lyre! 
].*::  o'vT  my  rhuiights  :hv  ipirit  O^^tit^ 
And  :hv  vair  tancv  -Vakcn  mine : 
I  feci  rhc  grnnuic  infliicncc  now  ! 
h  jiowi  !— fny  great  ^'ifoUs  Thou  I 


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C    33J>    3 

|)ie  following  rem^tkable  advertifement,  dated  Cheapo 
ftde^  March  i,  1759.    "  For  the  fatisfadion  of  the 

•*  reader^ 

^he  Writs  arc  iffued :— to  the  Town 
^he  future  Mettibers  hailen  down ; 

The  merry  bells  their  welcome  foiindi 

And  mirth  and  jollity  abound, 

The  gay  retinue  now  comes  in. 
The  crouds,  with  emulative  din, 
Proclaim  th*  arrival,  rend  the  iky. 

And  Court  and  Countf^s  all  the  cry. 

Each  joyous  houfe,  of  fre%  accefs, 

For  patriot  plebeians^  moVe  or  iefs, 

Is  now  feveard,  in  printed  bills ; 

So  quacks  contrive  to  veAd  their  pilUw 

So  Bayes  makes  Earth,  and  Sun,  and  Mooo^ 

Difcourfe  melodtoufly  in  tune  ; 
\  And,  full  of  wit  and  complaifance, 

Cry,  **  Firft  of  all  we'll  have  a  dance  !** 

So  at  Elections  *tis  difcreet 

Still  firfl  of  all  to  have  a  treat ; 
\  The  pulfe  of  every  man  to  try. 

And  learn  what  votes  they  needs  muft  iti^\ 

No  freeman  well  Can  tell  his  fide, 

Unlefs  his  belly^s  fatisfied. 
Behold  the  feftive  tables  fct. 

The  Candidates,  the  Voters  met !  r 

And  Ip,  againft  the  wainfcot  placM, 

Th'  efcutcheon,  with  three  guineas  gracM^ 

The  motto  and  the  creft  explain, 

Nvhich  way  the  gilded  bait  to  gain. 

There  WilUam^s  mangled  portrait  telU 

What  rage  in  party  bofoms  dwells ; 

And  here  the  banner  fpeaks  the  cry 

For  **  Liberty  ahd  Loyalty.'* 

While  fcratches  dignify  his  face. 

The  tipfy  Barber  tells  his  cafe ; 

How  well  he  for  his  Honour  fought ! 

How  many  deviliili  knocks  he  got ! 

While,  forcM  to  carry  on  the  joke. 

The  'Squire's  juft  blinded  with  the  fmoke ; 

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'?/'  m   mar^  z:ri:>kiire.  xcid  viggoL  jxa^t^ 
He  mrriis  lAinilKiP  rnor:  -T*ii:  iiv  iul&. 

Viae  iter  die  i^^n:•l  Qtaakcr  gat  T 

T  2  nake  ator  inrarot  ftine  ami  tlcadv  r 
7nr  'iffxr  sad  -^eil  ^ww  Euaaui^  'iCunr 
^*iar  ^i'hg!t  the  ?!;ftianc:  «aa  iio» 
rncard;.nr  tbumis  ^xnw  jrirB  :he  str^ 
rur  nutica  air  i  r»i  raii'c  :fic  ':hBBr: 
j^rui  n«t«;ling  Xat  brill:  iciapc^  her  fL'uy 
"vV'lUe  T'^unpm.  bait  Icrud  dxdioing  r^ngiL^ 
>  Hi  /tffn'.^t"^  baijpipes  fqneiiking  :nll 
'•    Jtju  :lvc   lie  ri.nij,"^  ir  rhar  j'ou  Till. 
Til  wic   .-.11  .iiiaTTJ  •ni::'iiv-i^  jrcj.il, 
.ii!U    iitl    lie  ^TC::{t  n^c  *fj   left  : 
3«K  J'^ivrW.  :'2cs  i^pnak:-    c  piain. 
T'i..r   -r:nn\ii  ioa'*  ;c-jprfi   rit:  Inin  ; 
A    :cipirc.  vsi!  -n  iit-.v-j-rffw  sauwni 
V«j\v    :»u>  .i»m  bv  rhc  --jiltr-bnuc : 
Ail,  .iu*.tti  'oiut '   in  inibuili  -ic. 
Or,  jv  1%.  .J/^rczw    '"ii  nmt  lie! 

';::ic:-  'tit-y  'nz  'uir.i  ^rom  'he  Gown. 
•'!  .:••:»  i  :h^utind' — L:v  :hr  bvit*-» 


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C    34.    ] 

» 

'^  opiokp  of  the  following  Cantos^  which  is^  <  That 
^  the  thoughts  entirely  coincide  with  his  own ;  that 

.  "  therf 

Huzza  !  the  Blad^-go^a^n  wins  the  dav  !«-* 

The  Mayor  with  oyrtcrs  dies  away  *  f— 

But  foftly;  don't  exult  fo  fiift. 

His  fpirit's  noble  to  the  lail ; 

His  mouth  fiHl  waters  at  the  difh  ; 

His  hand  ftill  holds  hit  fityourite  fiih ; 

Bleed  him  the  Barber-furgeon  wpu^d ; 

He  breathes  a  vein,  but  whereas  the  blood  t 

*  In  Tii  Eur^pe^n  M^aninf  for  the  montli  of. OS.  ij^j^,  appears  a 
letter  on  the  fubjed  of  Painting,  (i^ned  t^.  I.  P.  which  comajiis  the  foU 
Sowinff  eztraordinarY  critieifin  oo  the  or^utpnapfe  htreViefcrihed. 

**  Our  Qwn  iniqnitable  HogMrth  ha^  in  fome  of  h>s  la(ur  pieces, 
^  grofsiy  ?ioiated  this  rule;  and,  for  the  fa)^  of  crowding  his  piece 
**  with  incidents,  has  reprefented  whale  cou^d  not  happen  at  al). 

**  In  Ms  repreCt^ntatioo  of  an  EleiHon  £caA,  he  hts  placed  a  man  at 
^*  the  end  of  the  table  with  an  oyfVer  (till  upon  his  fork,  and  his  fork  in 
**  his  handy  though  his  coat  mud  havic  ^en  ()rippcJ  up  from  his  arm 
**  after  he  took  it  u^,  hy  the  fureeoo,  who  hat  nude  an  ioc^c^'^lual  at- 
*'  tempt  to  let  him  blood.  Suppofing  gloctonv  to  have  fo'faV  abforhed 
**  all  the  perA»ns  pr^at,  even  at  the  tr^  of  a  iea(^,  as  that  none  of  them 
**  fhoald  pay  the  leaft  attention  to  this  incident,  which  is,  if  not  impof* 
*'  fible,  improliable  in  the  hii^h^ft  degree,  they  mu(l  neccOarily  have 
''  been  alarmed  at  another  incident  that  is  reprefenred  as  takin£^  place  at 
**  the  fame  moment :  a  great  flone  h^s  jaft  broke  through  the  window^ 
**  and  knocked  do^fn  one  of  the  company,  whp  is  exhibited- in  the  a6t 
*<  of  falling ;  yet  every  one  is  repn^fcntcd  as  purfuing  \\\^  puxpofc  with 
•«  the  utmw  tranc^uillity.*'  ]    ' 

I  mud  entreat  my  reader  to  examine  the  print,  before  I  can  expc^ 
Keltef,  when  I  afTure  him,  that  for  this  eriticifm  there  ib  not  the  flightei^ 
foundation.— -The  magiftrate  is  bled  in  the  right  arm,  which  is  bared 
for  that  purpofe,  by  dripping  the  coat-fleeve  from  iL-r-lc  is  in  his  left 
hand  that  he  holds  the  fork  with  the  oyiler  on  it,  hie  coar-dcevo  being 
all  the  while  on  his  left  arm.— As  ro  the  attention  of  the  company,  it  is 
carncflly  engaged  by  dlfifierent  obje&s ;  and  H^artb  periups  (ieiigncd  to 
infmuate  that  accidents,  ariOng  from  repletion  or  iitdigeHiun,  are   too 

common  at  ele^on  dinniers  to  attraf^  notice  or  excite  lulicitude Tlie 

brickbat  has  not  noifily  forced  its  way  through  a  window,  but  wat 
tlifDwn  in  at  a  cafement  already  opej) ;  and  a  moment  mud  have  elapfed 
before  an  event  fo  inflantaneous  couJd  be  perceived  in  an  aifembly,  every 
individual  of  which  had  his  dillin£t  avocation.  Of  this  moment  our 
artid  has  availed  hiinfclf.  Till,  thctcfore,  the  accident  was  difcove^^ed, 
he  has,  with  the  utmod  propriety,  left  every  pci/bn  prcfenc  to  pursue 
his  former  uain  of  thought  or  arou(cment« 

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fin  .ueiE  Tcrv  iiiimw  caae^ 

Sr  Lontfiiiir  giiv^  *tic  ticder  ttob  ! 

^  CfBTTy-  JUfiiiucr  (ZSuB^    nmss.  3aft  ;»::ig  • 

Tbr  AlOtfraaji.  ice !  roam-  **  rte  bcsL* 
Yc  acartr  rxxxt  *  -itia  fieer  'hr  ^oiu^ 
Tes  ^nflstr  pmih  the  ^aai  jdbam» 

-vnti  trmch  icinmi  ins  dnuv 

ffis  pinz  dceitfes  iie  rteaoi  ro  jr&inf 
Bsffiuiu  -he  -^vet  T^ra  him  padn : 
9iit  je  .1  c:tner  'hu  mt  rhii. 
Cfir  tucj^  J  rcrran— fic'*  \t  *  *■  ♦  *. 
A  r.'^  'be  -ncyrrei  :n  'tic  'cnrru 
TVhuit  rxcr  ttj  ncrrr  .T.tflnt  tj  frown, 

Amu  fiognii^  :&kc9  hu  r'toinrcs  'if: 

Whiit  Minrrn*  -Jniti  ;aTr  And  -mniiir.  -taic^ 

'•♦  ^^•^cKiiccTB  \  Bxf^r^  look  -c  tdtrc:" 

TT.t  Jinr  C!«ic  •"be  Tiyicc  pjtts, 

**  7oTc  :or  "m  Hononr,   iird  "ae  ufr?  ^ 

**   riicit   -cilcor-boprs  uc  iil  /our  jwrx  !** 

3t::  :t,  '^ixh  pumznu  :cc:r, 

C;i«,  **  ..oMs    take  'brv  ^nbta  fmm  noe  ;      ^ 

•*  '.V?.y  "hu  Mtzn  lownn^nt  ptriuiy  ." 

Hii   m',    T::h  .il.;"iiifit:tn:    d::^:^^ 

TriT  "r^c  "inu  ::zjiau  .^iifaiv  r*ung, 

Rcy;.:i,  **  Thrrj  ^riOLxntaii  I   :5n:a  rcfiife, 

*•  ^yiktaiicrc J  ;our  caiia  In  v%aui  oi  .i*xa  .'*• 

Bui 


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I    343    ]     ' 

**  works  have  been  formerly  explained  by  other 
«*  hands,  yet  none  ever  gave  him  fo  much  fatisfadtion 
^  as  the  prefent  performance.  John  Smith.*' 

In 

But  hark  !  what  uproar  ftrikes  the  car ! 
Th'  oppofing  mob,  inccns'd,  draw  near  : 
Their  waving  tattcr'd  enligns  fee  ! 
Here  *^  Liberty  and  Property  :** 
A  Ja^bcl'd  Je^  up-lifted  high  ; 
There  **  Marry  all,  and  aiukiply.'* 
Thcfe,  theie,  ai^  patrotic  fccnes ! 
But  not  a  man  knows  what  he  means* 
The  Jordan  drives  their  zeal  to  cool,       "^ 
With  added  weight  of  thrcc-legg'd  ftool : 
But  all  in  vain ;  and  who  can^t  eat, 
Now  fally  out  the  foe  to  beat ; 
For  glory  be  the  battle  try'J  ; 
'Huzza!  my  boys,  the ye/J(Kv  fide, 
Obferve-the  loyal  work  begin, 
And  flones  and  brick  bats  enter  in ! 
That  knocks  a  riiftic  veteran  down  j 
This  cracks  the  Secretary's  crown  j 
His  minute-book,  of  fpecial  note, 
For  every  fure,  and  doubtful  vote. 
Now  tumbles ;  ink  the  t?ible  dyes, 
And  backward  poor  PilUGarlick  lies. 
The  Butcher,  one  who  ne'er  knew  dread, 
A  Surgeon  turns  for  toother's  head  ; 
His  own  already  broke  and  bound, 
Yet  wn\i  pro  pair ia  deck'd  around. 
Behold  what  wonders  gin  can  do, 
External  and  internal  too  ! 
He  thinks  a  plailer  but  a  jefl ; 
All  cure  with  what  they  like  the  bed : 
Pour'd  on,  ft  fooths  the  patient's  pain ; 
Pour'd  in,  it  makes  him  fight  again. 
His  toes  perchance  pop  out  his  Ihoe, 
Yet  he's  a  patriot  through  and  through  ; 
His  lungs  can  for  his  party  roar. 
As  loud  as  twenty  men,  or  more» 

Z  4  Yc 


*  r 


finr  of  t&B  &St  cK  'tirtr 


^-4'      11 


Whit  ;^  'he  .•ie3r''iini'i 
Aoct  Sir  z  mil,  'fnf  g^orioBr 


3iK  Jflfif  .nr  •«(,  pi«t  In  -vkibtcv 
Fnr  r'articr  Sdr  ae  rKxr-far  inrT 
3kir  -viil  tbtsir  catdnfrmiteni  it  an^ 
Xrj'^orzteall^  xf  amxi  rfwf'Tc  .n. 

Xca^ttT*,  grrhayi  dfjr  pBcsfol  mind. 
Ik  wn  'M  aoifeorbiami  iociiii'xi ; 
'F^itsx.  .est  'jtaot  fuift-  fbiniki  luuwu  'luiiiB^ 
Fir  tec  ^  ^ivni  .  md  mnir  z  JEck  * 

Jtad  /i>(lgn  ro  the  fcccsid  pzrt. 

C    A    y    T    O        IL 

7ns£  4  froin  *he  .-nsiincii  if  uic  tlinn^ 
XoTT.  ^cnilf;  leaser,  zaznc  -kong ; 
A  ifiium  .itaii'>  no  ::itTcr  okc — 

T.ii^eTt.er  cr  is  !ook  Toaiii— 

r  J  ilifinr  -he  roilitj  or  'he  j^-ir"; 
•MKt,  ;iriiin^  rrnm  'he  prt:*    jf  -lagc^ 
?.criir.iai  'he  -.•s.in,  :hc  ciiipni  -.gc ! 
r  mm  iiUb' t  donie,  or   >rrtnd  rcnuwn. 

Ti  Puiizh^  :b  cnmical  .^nd  imart  j 

ilaiirn  -tciii^tits,  .n  crcrv  fphcre, 

r.j  .luf^  3isn  iAu^  as  ';Th2t  incy  ov.* 


*•  W:dk 


C    34S     3 

tI))Myval  <]fv«r  tlie  ftag*s  horns  is  unproved.  A  ihadair 
pa  the  wainfcot^  prpceeding  from  a  fuppofed  mo? 

doir 

f  *  Walk  in,  the  ooly  fliow  in  town ; 

**  Punch  candidate  for  CttzzU-Jown i^ 

There  fee  the  pile,  in  modern  taftc. 

On  top  with  tub-like  turret  grac'd ! 

Where  the  qrampM  entrance,  like  fome  ibcif 

Knocks  off  the  royal  drivei^s  head; 

Lives  there  a  Wit  but  what  will  cry, 

•*  An  arch  fo  low  is  mighty  bigbf^* 

See  from  tlie  Trcafury  flows  the  ffAA, 

To  (liew  that  thofe  whd*rc  bought  zitfMft 

Come,  Perjury,  meet  it  on  the  road, 

?Tis  all  your  own  ;  a  waggon-load. 

Ye  party-tools,  ye  courtier- tribe. 

Who  gain  no  vote  without  a  bribe, 

l^aviflily  kind,  yet  infincere, 

Pehold  in  Punch  yourfelves  appear  ! 

And  you,  ye  fools,  who  poll  for  p^^ 

Yc  little  great  men  of  a  day ; 

For  whom  your  favourite  will  not  car6^ 

pbfenre  how  much  bewitch'd  you  are  t 

yet  hufli ! — for  fee  his  Honour  near  j--^ 
Truly,  a  pretty  amorous  leer : 
The  ladies  both  look  pleafant  too  \ 
*f  Purchafe  fome  trinkets  of  the  y«r.*f 
pne  points  to  what  (heM  have  him  buyj; 
The  ofher  cafts  a  longing  eye ; 
And  Shylochy  money-loving  fouJi 
impatient  waits  to  touch  the  cole : 
But  here's  a  Porter  ;    what's  the  ncWt  ?-^ 
Ha,  ha, 'a  load  of  billet-doux  ! 
llumbly  to  fuc  th'  Electors'  favour. 
With  vows  of  CatO'Vikt,  behaviour ; 
And  how  the  Borough  he*ll  efpoufe, ' 
When  once  a  Member  of  the  Houfe  t 
Though  wifer  folks  will  lay  a  bet. 
His  promifes  he'll  then  forget. 
But  pray  your  Honour  condefceivl 
/Vn  eye  on  kneeling  H^iU  to  lend ; 

Grani 


C  9^  5 
81—1  tM\  4kf  Tlilfr  iMfy  "i"  iTfii  iT  j  'fislaHC  off  tils 


'3rDir  -titk  nw  h  -tint  Jk  iiiiriis:. 

Si..  Witt  ^uuit  iKce.T^Tis^snDKrjRjf^ 

3i.  tinie='liMr:tiu&£:inigfa^:fihiBeir— 
^  hnm: 'Snmi^  JduBBBt  wAt^iMnxi^, 
'Wiucfc  lifkrr  jou  afc— «tne  ^ndlaT: 
Sir  -ntofft..  m  -vsit  ^ttBT.  .is:  sacttdl. 

Tier  0;f!C  ir  ^ttbsrjBttrTwr,-; 

^*  Sn,  J*ir  jnrannSaiirii  ^••tte^'SgiiiTg 
*'  Tuir  cmmatw  AnyailJidnt;; 
<^lAy  iiDttte^amaiBs  aasr  iaF 
•^'T^is  jut«i:faBiiii,Eir;?— ^Hk  SV 
Tter  -f' otner  cto^  ***  hmcl  -fid^  unuc*^- 

^  iiic,  iKiA  Ak  Mimuurg  inwiarinn: .-; 
*'  TtK  ^isaifl£  Xanin:  ic  -ifar  .uniunJ** 

l^ra  wriv  &all  iitt  -wnsr  ttafct, 
'Sttrst  imti.  "tfar  .am  jiKiBuumv  nsikr? 
Tieiune  'i— tiini  mn — hrisi  cusl  xsauLT. 
>!*'!;.,  uttr  tBT  fcttiuk  It  uniitrfcnit  - 
Tot  Crwum  SlvI:  bss  !hiic  -c^  he  am.  ^ 
Isu:  -^'otusr  tip  ^iit-  fumig;:  stsanr*. 

Tiux,  cinniuig  £f^  ^ui*  tarts  vna.  ^ 
'hwxsii  a.  tisic  Tu*  |;aiiB&  k  Jiinrri ,: 
Tnr  irnncf:  JimnBr  c  aL  «nir  nwi .. 
}iir  lim:'*!  cauin ;;  im.  SKsnif  iiirL 
Ti  tiuDuugb;  is  "Cdius  ±nin.  mxth. 

"^VBi,   Hrnrftlttg   IC  tilt  '{gaolic  Tunre 

yuuBs  sswL  ±yr  wimiist  iims  jnr. 
7:iac  7iiv]£  lirmf,.  v*xii  iihqk  x  cag^ur 


C    347    ] 

uncler  her  apron,  and  now  dangles  by  her  fide :  « 
.  faltfeller  is  llkewife  miffing  from  the  table.    In  the 

firil 

And  oft  has  (carM  the  hoftile  coaft, 

Tho'  fix'd  in  Inn-Tardy  like  a  poft, 

Stiil  keeps  his  furious  power  in  ufe  ; 

Devouring  of  the  Flvwer'de4ucem 

HoV  Certain  thofe  expanded  paws  !  > 

How  dreadful  thofe  extended  jaws  ! 

Behind  him  Ats  the  Hoftefs  fair. 

Counting  her  ca(h  with  earned  care  ; 

While  at  the  door  the  Grenadier 

Infped^s  her  with  a  cunning  leer ; 

As  who  fliould  fay,  **  When  we're  alone^ 

••  Somepart  of  that  will  be  my  own  !** 
But  who  are  thofe  two  in  the  Bar  ? 

Guttlers  I  fancy — that  they  are  ; 

The  fowl  to  Him*s  a  noble  feaft ; 

He  fure  makes  mouths,  to  mock  the  beaft  ; 

And  t'other  hopes  to  find  relief. 

By  eating  half  the  round  of  beef. 

From  Gcorgty  who  wears  the  Britijb  zvo^n^ 

To  the  remotefl  country  clown. 

The  love  of  politics  extends. 

And  oft  makes  foes  of  neared  friends. 

The  Cobler  and  the  Barber  there. 

That  born  to  frown,  and  this  to  ftarc. 
Both  poiitive,  you  need  not  doubt. 
Will  argue  till  they  both  fall  out, 

**  Well,'*  fays  the  Tonfor,  *<  now  we'll  tiy, 
**  Who^B  in  the  right,  yourfelf  or  I  • 
•*  One  moment  let  your  tongue  be  ilill, 
•*^Or  elfe  be  judgM  by  Johnny  Hill: 
•*  Vernon  he  thought  a  glorious  fclloA', 
**  Which  made  him  put  up  Porto  Bello. 
•*  I'll  teach  you  reafon,  if  I  can— 
^*  I  (hould  though  fliavc  the  Gentleman  ; 
**  But-  never  mind  it,  let  him  wait ; — 
**  Thefc  bits  of  pipe  the  cafe  (hall  date."— • 
'     **  Drink,"  cries  the  Cobler,  *•  l*m  adry  ; 
«^  Fflu^^  damn  your  nonfenfe,  what  care  I  ? 

"  I  tcld 


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inmHcffiut  lfln^  ihr  ham  iw 
pc  liir  ViitA"!    iwnr  of  awmiir 


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•  1  • 

0gllniry  on  ^is  cockade ;  in  the  fecond  we  &ai  Pf§ 
pMtria  in  its  ftead.    Tke  lemons  and  oranges  that 

ooco^ 

From  Workhoiifei  Gabl,  and  Ho^itat| 
Submifs  thqr  coinie,  thie  PatHots  all  1 

But  lei'i  get  nearer,  while  we  iby,«-<« 
Good  Matter  ConiUblei  make  way! 
^*  Hoi !  keejJi  the  pipage  elear  and  fair  '\^^ 
*^  I'll  break  your  fliina !— ftand  backward  there  I 
^*  What  1  won't  yon  let  the  Pollers  come  ?'*^ 
Reader,  tfaty  think  us  fo^— but  fintm. 

Now  praife  and  prejudice  expand^  , 

In  printed  bilfo,  from  hand  to  hand  ; 
One  telUy  the  *Squire^t  a  man  of  worth  | 
Generqut  and  nc4>le  fr<>m  his  birth : 
Another  plainly  nAakes  appear,*  \ 

'*  Some  circnmftance,  in  filch  a  year«^ 
The  voice  of  ScandalS  fure  to  wait. 
Or  true,  or  falfe,  each  Candidate. 
Obfefve  the  waving  flags  applied. 
To  let  Free-bdlders  know  their  fide  f 
Hark,  at  each  vote  exult  the  crew  ! 
•«  TiUowl  Huzza !— Huzza  1  the  Blu! 

Whdt*br  has  walk'd  through  Cbelfea  town'i 
Which  Buns  and  Charity  renown. 
Has  many  a  College  Veteran  feen. 
With  fcar»feam'd  £ioe,  and  batter'd  mien* 
But  here's  a  theoie  for  future  (lory  ! 
Survey  that  Son  of  Mars  before  ye  I 
Was  ever  Peniioner  like  him  f — 
What,  almoU  robb'd  of  every  limb  ! 
Only  one  arm,  one  teg,  one  thigh  ; 
Gods  !  was  that  man  defign'd  to  die  / 
Infpe&  hh  anweot,  war-like  face ! 
See,  with  what  furly,  manly  grace, 
He  gives  the  Clerk  Co  underibnd 
liis  meaning,  with  his  Wo6den  hand  f 
Perhaps  in  AnnJ^  glorioUs  days, 
His  courage  gatn'd  immortal  praife  x 
Britofu^  a  people  brave  and  rough, 
^hat  time  lo/d  figUtmgf  well  enouj^h  > 


once  lay  oni^  p^pcr,  by  the  tub  in  which  the  boy  is 
maJuDg  pundi^  are  taken  away ;   becaufe  Hogarth, 


m 


And,  glad  their  native  land  to  aid. 

Leg-making  was  a  thriving  trade  • 

But  now  we  from  ourfelves  defrart. 

And  war*8  condu6ted  with  new  art ; 

Our  Admirals,  Generals,  learn  to  nin^ 

And  Leg-makers  are  all  undone. 

Still  he*s  an  open,  hearty  blade, 

PleaiM  with  his  fword,  and  gaj  cockade  i 

Unbrib'd  he  votes ;  and  *tis  his  pride ; 

He  always  chofe  the  honeft  fide. 

You  think  he  feems  of  roan  but  half,    ' 

But,  witty  Clerk,  fuppreis  your  laugh  ; 

His  heart  is  in  its  ufual  place. 

And  that  fame  hook  may  claw  your  fice* 

How  learnedly  that  Lawyer  pleads  ! 

<*  A  vote  like  thb,  Sir,  neVr  fucceeds ; 

**  The  naked  hand  (hould  touch  the  book  ; 

••  Obfcrvc  h*as  only  got  a  hook.** 

«*  Sir/'  cries  the  other,  **  that's  his  hand  ; 

(Qyibbles,  like  you,  I  underftand) 

•*  And  be  it  either  fleib  or  wood, 

•*  By  Heavens  !  his  vote  is  very  good.** 

Wife  Counfellor  !  you  reafon  right. 

You'll  gain  undoubted  credit  by't ; 

But  pleafe  to  turn  your  head  about, 

And  find  that  Idiot*s  meaning  out ; 

DilVnil's  the  Whifperer  from  his  chair^ 

*Ti8  quite  illegal,  quite  unfair ; 

Though  fliackles  on  his  legs  are  hung, 

Thofe  ihackles  can't  confine  his  tongue  | 

Methinks  I  hear  him  tell  the  Nifey, 

•»  Be  fure  to  vote  as  I  advife  ye  ; 

••  My  writings  (hew  Pro  always  right ; 

*^  The  nation  fmks  ;  we*re  ruin'd  quite  ; 

**  Ammc{^%  entirely  loft ; . 

**  The  French  invade  our  native  coaft ;    . 

•*  Our  Minifters  won't  keep  us  free  ;— • 

*^  You  know  all  this  as  well  as  me« 


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C    35'    1 

in  all  probability^  had  been  informed  that  vitriol^  oi^ 
cream  of  tartar^  is  commonly  ufed^  inftead  of  vege« 

table 

•*  All  men  of  parts  arc  out  of  place ; 

•*  Tis  mine,  'tis 'many  a  wife  tnan^s  cafe| 

'*  And  though  fo  Cf/tf-Uke  I  write, 

**  I  ne'er  fhall  get  a  farthing  by't." 

Good  Clerk,  difpatch  them  quick,  I  pray  l^  aj 

How  eaiy  fopU  are  led  aftray ! 

He  thinks  th'  infinuation*s  true, 

As  all  the  race  of  Idiots  do. 

But  who  comes  here  ?     Ha,  one  juft  dead^ 

RavilliM  from  out  th'  infirmary's  bed  j 

Through  racking  follies  fad  and  fick^ 

Yet  to  the  caufe  he'll  ever  ftick  ; 

Tie  the  groat  favour  on  hit  cap, 

And  die  True  Blue,  whate'er  may  hap,  'J 

Oh,  Vice !  through  life  extends  thy  reign  i 
When  Cuftom  fixes  thy  domain, 
Not  W{fley*s  cant,  nor  Whitfiells  art. 
Can  choice  thee  from  th*  envelop'd  heart  I 
Behold  that  wretch  !  whom  Venus  knows 
Has  in  her  revels  loft  his  nofe ; 
Still  with  that  feafon'd  Nurfe  he  toys  5 
As  erft  indulges  fenfual  jo3rs  ; 
Can  drink,  and  crack  a  bawdy  joke. 
And  ftill  can  quid,  as  well  as  fmoke. 
But,  Nurfe,  don't  fmile  fo  in  his  face  ; 
Sure  this  is  not  a  proper  place  ; 
Take  from  your  duggs  his  hand  away, 
And  mind  your  fick-charge  better,  pray$ 
Confider,  if  his  faithful  fide 
Should  hear  that  in  their  caufe  he  died, 
They'd  be  fo  much  enrag'd,  I  vow. 
They'd  punifli  you  ! — the  Lord  knows  how. 
Befide,  you  take  up  too  much  room, 
That  boy*led  Blind-man  wants  to  come; 
And  'fcap'd  from  wars,  and  foreign  clutches, 
An  Invalid's  behind  on  crutches. 

The  man  whofe  fortune  fuits  his  wifli, 
A  glutton  at  each  favourite  diihi 

Who, 


fldBiic  ?*'"iffy  Off  ptifiilc  «■  ■  ^m^w    Xtt* 


Ana  iTAdm  iuiwi  fbas  cbmh»  -wch   tubi  ; 
iliitf  "a* of    I'iMiBi ■;  tiMBy  ail  m^ 


jbut  .isakke  :xsiift 

Cbt'cT^re  him  <m  rtie  waSam^  si ! 

Scrucfauig 

koA  ?Tt&,  flui0ioii«r«BnviM«f  big: 

Pisrha)it  hargofcr  OMiiftatioar 

Ann  iTfil  b^  uuEDrtnf  b«  oy'^iy 
Caiei^  rfier're  Ofi  cte  fnpfr  Mr. 
lb iiT  M  if  >^^fraHP«,  fiwn'd  6ir  ittif, 
far  |{enlu^  r;bbv<>^  wiiat  ]^«a  viil^ 

WUk  rcaipcr^d  piaticr^  teod  w  h-iitop 
?rnm  lu»  lier  &ce  ro  iikm  :te  oA.^ 
■eflui^  on  Mluftitk  ifanlMff , 
THe  araer  ^msvtcMw  Sfcmtacr  liee ! 
Str.u-k  •vtrh  hit  Uiok^fb  fsTd  aod  inf , 
Thtf  Wag  reibii^e»  :o  Ikeich  ir  o«c  : 
l-iii(jn:n^  :nc7  vic^  :fac  pcnc:i''t  pnxz,— 
••  *^»'!t  very  itkc  hiii^ — tlur  ir  i*,'^ 
\\ux'<  'o  r^.n  oaivScer  with  xka  longs  ! 
**  TH?  C««ilowf  fiiall  redrdt  our  vronfi .' 
/  vr-tfivant,  wane  io  hamoimnit  ^e ; 
Tnr  'tcari^rt  :kii^ ;  the  naden  fimic 
A'.'i  .o,  aiihoofh  fo  rhack  the  rour, 
T'ney'/c  nKMB  to  pvdi  iIm  gi«f»  aboor ! 
v\»cicry  h«r  province  kce^ ; 
One  Beadle  wacchM  s  t'arfaer  fleept* 

Hut  lee  char  chariot !  who  ridet  there  ? 
MrtrmmiSj  Sir,  a  iady  fair  ; 


^  TTie  tnipnimif  anifl  in  Vhtt^Jhruif  well  koonn  to  ^he  learned  «nd 
tii|eav>ui,  iv  Uts  rcceilcnce  ta  akiag  Biilb  tnm  die  Luc,  ami  caits 


C    353    J 

tlie  third  itnpref&on  a  hat  Is  added  to  tho(e  before  on 
tht  ground,  and  another  on  the  bench*    The  whole 

plate 

To  her  celeftial  charms  are  given  | 
Ador^  on  earth,  beloved  in  heaven  ; 
Her  frown  makes  nations  dread  a  fall ; 
Her  fmile  gives  joy  and  life  to  all. 
Too  geneiDuSy  nAerciful,  and  kind ; 
Her  Servants  won^t  tKeir  daty  mind ; 
Neither  their  Miflrefs^  call  regards ; 
Their  (Indy's  how  to  cheat  at  cards ; 
The  reins  of  power,  oh,  iiidifcreet ! 
They  trample,  carelefs,  Under  feet ; 
Th*  tlnguided  couHerb  neigh  and  fpurn. 
And  ah,  the  tar  muft  overturn ! 
Juft  gods,  forbid ! — there's  comfort  yet !. 
For,  lo,  ho^  near  that  faVing  Pitt  ! 
8ure  Heaven  de(ign*d  her  that  refource^ 
To  ftop  her  venal  fervants  couife  j 
Her  peace  and  fafety  to  reftore, 
And  keep  from  dangers  evermore. 
Ha  I  fee,  yon  diflant  cavalcade  ! 
Exulting  crowds,  and  flags  difplayM  ! 
Let's  to  the  bridge  our  foot-ftcps  bend—* 
So  cheek  by  jole,  along,  my  friend. 

G    A    N    T    O       IV. 

CHAIRING      ibi     MEMBERS. 

**  Huzza  !  the  Country  !  not  the  Court  !*'•♦ 
Your  Honour  can't  have  better  fport ;  * 
la  old  arm-chair  aloft  you  foar — 
No  Candidate  can  wi(h  for  more. 
Th'  election's  got,  the  day's  your  own, 
And  be  to  all  their  member  known  ! 

Ye  Moths  of  an  exalted  fize  ! 
Ye  fage  Hiftorians,  learn'd  and  wife  ! 
Who  pore  on  leaves  of  old  tradition  ; 
Vers*d  in  each  praetor  exhibition ; 
Tell  me  if,  *midfl  the  fpoils  of  age, 
i^d  rclicks  of  the  ipoulder'd  pagt» 

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^nx,  .-axle  .'e.      en  vtatk  jear  -us 
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*cc  uc  I*iou>^ii«  lo  s»  :af€s  caUsil  "  Ths  3Aau  Cooqcqc 


t    355    1 

^^  wlAtUilfiokengcv^hfff^m.Iif^ih^.^:   The 

two  MrMds  in  baiich  were  afterwards  effaced* 

I  may 

How,  like  a  hero,  void  of  dread^ 
He  aims  to  cract  that  fiulor's  head  ! 
While,  with  the  purchafe  of  the  ftroke. 
Behind  y  the  bearer*t  pate  it  broke  : 
The  faitor  too  refolvet  to  drub. 
Wrathful  he  fwayt  the  ponderous  club  | 
Who  to  ftir  up  hit  rage  fhall  dare  ? 
He'll  fight  for  ever — ^for  his  Bear, 

Sir  Ihdtbrdi  agreed,  Beaf-baitiog 
Was  carnal,  and  of  man's  creating ; 
But,  had  he  like  that  Thrdher  dooe^ 
1*11  hold  a  wager,  ten  to  one. 
His  knighthood  had  not  kept  him  fafe  ; 
That  Tar  had  trimm'd  both  him  and  Aalfb^ 

In  fighting  George^s  glorious  battteS| 
To  fave  our  libei^ies  and  chattels ; 
Commanded  by  fonoe  former  Howe^ 
Ordain*d  to  make  proud  GmUim  bow^ 
A  cannon-ball  took  off  his  leg : 
What  then  ?  he  fcorns,  like  fome,  to  beg  s 
That  muzzled  beaft  is  taught  to  dance. 
That  Ape  to  ape  the  beaux  of  France ; 
The  country  folks  admire  the  fport^ 
And  fmall  colledions  pay  him  for*t. 
Sailors  and  Soldiers  ne*er  agree ;— - 
There's  difference  'twixt  the  Land  and  Sea  : 
He,  willing  not  a  jeft  fhall  'fcape. 
In  uniform  riggs  out  his  Ape  :-— 
From  which  we  reafonably  infer 
An  Ape  may  be  an  Ofiicen 
But,  hey-day  !  more  difafters  dill  P 
Turn  quick  th;^  head,  bold  failor  WIIL 
In  vain  that  fellow,  on  his  Afs, 
Attempts  to  Hogs,  at  home  to  pafs. 
The  hungry  Bear,  who  thinks  no  crim9 
To  feafl  on  guts  at  any  time« 

*  The  earliift  imprejioiu  of  this  place  ia  it^  ftcoad  d^it^  have  tht 

lame  10 11 1  ipt  ion. 

A  a  a  .     ^rrefli 


C  M«  3 

I  mKf  hear  ttMbfTy  that  this  performance,  m  ks 
onatttltkKit^w^  £v  tiie  noft  fioiftcd  and  labcrions 


Arre&M  the  garbagt  in  the  tub, 

Aod  with  hit  feoot  begms  fo  groEu 

Priy  k  TT  ft'tendtj^  hoicA  brochcr. 

That  fMie  Aft  chat  iboaid  ride  anocber  ? 

The  bdft  ieemt  wearied  widi  hk  toil. 

And,  Iffce  the  bear,  wooM  aiuich  a  while. 

The  good  wife  tkon^  that  efery  pig 

Should  in  the  waib,  thea  cowfiif,  i^igw 

And  went  indoiriooflf  to  fiod 

Her  fiumljT  of  the  hospfii  hind  ; 

But,  oh,  imhappf  &ce  to  teil ! 

Behind  the  Tbrdber  down  ihe  fdlz 

Indeed  the  wonder  were  no  more. 

Had  the,  bf  chance,  fidFn  down  before : 

Away  the  fow  itni^ttd  raat. 

Attended  bf  her  little  ones : 

Thole  grnntinp  to  each  other  ioaoding  ; 

Tbii  fquealcing  flirill,  throu^  fiear  of  drowning^ 

^*  The  lamb  thoa  dooni'ft  to  Meed  to-daj, 
^*  Had  he  thj  reafbo,  woo'd  be  play*  ?** 
And  did  that  Bear  know  be^d  be  beat. 
Would  be  from  out  that  firiin  eat  ? 
The  Afs't  rider  lifts  hit  diet ; 

Take  out  yoar  nofe,  old  Bruin^  quick ; 

A  grin  of  vengeance  arms  hit  ^ce, 

Preiaging  tortare,  and  difgrace* 

The  Ape,  who  dearly  loves  to  ride 

On  Brultii  back,  in  martial  pride, 

Dejc^ed  at  the  fad  occalion, 

I/K;ki  up,  with  foft  comroiferation  % 

At  if  to  fpeak,  **  Oh,  fpare  my  friend  I 

**  Avert  that  blow  you  now  intend  !*• 

'Tit  complaifant,  good-natur*d  too ;— « 

Much  more  than  many  Apes  would  do. 
Obfer? e  the  chimney-fweepers ,  there  ! 

On  gate-poft,  how  they  laugh  and  ibre ; 

•  Ice  f0f^i  Efiay  on  Man. 

Tbofe 


t,  357    1 

^  all  HcgartVs  engravings.  Having  been  two  ^earf 
on  fale  (from  1755  to  1757)  it  was  confiderablf 

worn 

■ 

Thofe  bonei,  and  emblematic  iknll. 
Have  no  efTedt  to  make  them  dull ; 
Pieas'd  they  adorn  the  death-like  head 
With  fpedtaclea  of  gingerbread. 

When  LmJom  city*t  bold  train-band  * 
March,  to  preferve  their  track  of  land^ 
Each  valorous  heart  the  i^^xrri^  defying. 
While  dnmis  are  beating,  colours  flying. 
How  many  accidents  refound 
From  Tawif'biU  to  th'  ArtiUery»gr9tnd ! 
Perhaps  fooie  hog,  in  friflcy  pranks, 
Ujiluckily  breaks  through  tlwir  ranks. 
And  makes  the  captain  itonn  and  fwear, 
To  form  their  foldiers,  as  thty  were: 
Or  elfe  the  wadding,  which  th^rami 
Pop  into  fome  one's  ear  they  jam  i 
Or  not  alert  at  gun  and  fivord. 
When  thetr  commander  gives  the  word 
To  ike,  amidfi  the  duft  and  clamour. 
Forget  t6  draw  their  defperate  rammer  % 
And  one  or  two  brave  comrades  hit. 
As  cook«  fix  larks  upon  a  fpit. 
That  Monkey's  fure  not  of  the  reg'ment. 
Yet  ftill  his  arms  Ihould  have  abridgement  { 
The  little,  aukward,  martial  figure. 
Will  wriggle  till  he  pulls  the  trigger  : 
*Tis  done — and  fee  the  bullet  fly  ! — 
Pop  down,  you  rogue  !  or  elfe  you'll  die« 

Survey «  as  merry  as  a  grig, 
The  Fiddler  dancing  to  his  jig ! 


^*  Company  marched  according  to  cuftooi  once  in  three  ycafi  (called 
'<  Barnes's  March  ^hj  which  they  hold  an  cftatc)  :  they  went  to  Sir 
^'  George  W^bitmore*s^  and  took  a  dunghill.  Ai  thiy  were  inarching 
"  through  Bunbili'Ro'w,  a  large  hog  ran  betwcjCA  a  woman's  legs  and 
**  threw  her  down,,  by  which  atcident  the  ranks  were  broke,  which 
**  jput  the  army  in  the  utooll  confafion  before  the/  could  recover." 

Aa}  No 


I  35a  3 

of  Plate  tbe  ^rmitz 
and  TTfrmfftrrf  tfll  aln 

Conid  ef«r  boail  noore  Icagcii  of  faeudx 
Tli  his  ID  wait  on  Msfler  Asibiv 
And  mae  awar  m  ail  faA  doin^; 
Toil  tluDk  thit  ftxaii§By  hat  'd&ao 
Than  QjAaw  did  in  da^rdf  |Qie£ 
With  modttn  UdloB  ia  if  tet ; 
They  gftan  fixatdi  to  iIbm  Tiifc^liniii 
Be  rook  to  fcnping  in  bkgggt^ 
And  playt  ia  cone^  at  weD  aa^ima  | 
Eledbnt  chacr  hit  oMrqrliBact ; 
Sure  alvnqrf  cbe^  ca/^Qr  bi^jmtc 
Jn  topag  haalsb  m 
As  csBecntias  .iJBf  Oowrivr*. 
Tfao'  fbnie  Mnfcaaa  fiaan 
Theftriofi,  if  ^nnkagbfi  too  anch^ 
Tet  heU  tope  ala^  or  float  Cyhty, 
And  ibapo  as  «dl  wiaa  dnqky  as  Ibbaw 

Loy  oa  jaa  flaoc  wfaidi  Ihwrs  fhe  wqr» 
Thar  rtaaeOcrs  m^nlc  go  aiLn^ ;  ^ 

And  rdlf  boir  qaaqr  mUes  cfa^  lag  00, 
From  L&mdm^  in  the  drawling  waggso^ 
A  Soldier  firs,  ia  naked  buff! 
In  troth.  Sir,  this  is  odd  enough  ! 
Hii  head  bound  up,  his  fwjrd-blade  broken^ 
hrA  fldh  wi:h  many  a  bloody  token, 
Dechre  he  fangjbt  exuemclj  well ; 
Bur  which  had  bed  oa%  who  can  tell  I 
If  he  Aere  vidor,  *tis  cnnfeit. 
To  be  ib  nsaoi'd  makes  bad  the  beil : 
What  though  he  (hiarr,  he  likes  the  jobb  j 
Tis^^  to  head  a  paity-oiob. 
But  what  reward  ibr  all  he  did?— 
Ch,  Sir,  hell  never  want  % — ^mid, 

Tboe's  fomewbat  (avory  in  the  wind—* 
Thoie  Courtiergy  Friend,  have  not  yet  dm'dg 
Their  tme  aDy,  grvre  Fuxadt'cmife^ 
A  na^  ^fbc  kmed  in  caelawi^ 

(Whoib 


C    359    ] 

molt  all  die  original  and  finer  traces  of  the  buria 
were  either  obliterated  or  covered  by  fucceeding  ones. 

In' 

(Whofc  meagre  clerk  below  can't  venture. 
And  wiihes  daninM  the  long  indenture), 
I  As  cuftom  bids,  prepares  the  dinneri 
For,  though  they've  loft,  ytt  he*s  the  winner*  . 
See,  the  domeftic  train  appear  f 
Old  £«jfi&Bi^  bringing  up  the  rear  ! 
Curfe  on  their  flx>machs9  who  can*t  brook 
Oood  Engiyb  hxc^  from  En^ifi  cook  I 
Obierye  lank  Monfieur,  in  amaze. 
Upon  the  valiant  foldier  gaze ! 
'*  Morbleu !  you  love  de  fight,  V€  fee, 
^*  But  dat  is  so  de  dt(h  for  ve/' 
Behold,  above^  that  azure  garter- 
Look,  now  he  whilpers,  like  a  tartar  ; 
By  button,  fafl  he  holds  the  other, 
The  loft  ele^ion  makes  a  pother. 
^*  All  this  parade  is  idle  fluffs- 
•^  We  know  our  intercft  well  enough— 
'*  We  ftill  fupport  what  we  e^ufe  ; 
^\  We'll  bring  the  matter  in  the  Houfe.'* 

Of  fome  wife  man,  perhaps  pbilofopheri 
(If  not.  It  flings  the  vice  a  glofs  over) 
rve  read,  who,  Maudlin-like,  would  cry 
Soon  as  he  'ad  drunk  bis  barrel  dry : 
Yon  fellow,  certain  as  a  gun. 
Of  that  Philofopher's  a  Sob  : 
Long  as  the  pot  the  beer  could  fcoop, 
^e  fcorn'd,  like  fwine,  to  trough  to  iloop  ; 
But,  now  'tis  (hailow,  kneels  devout^ 
Eager  to  fuck  the  laft  drop  out» 
Vociferous  Loyalty's  a-dry. 
And,  1.0,  they  bear  a  firefii  fupply ! 
That  all  the  i|>ob  may  |xiar  applaufe, 
And  know  they'll  never  ftarve  the  cauic. 

When  grey-mare  proves  the  better  horfe^ 
The  man  is  miserable  of  courfe  ; 
That  Taylor  leads  a  precious  life-'w 
jLook  at  the  termagant  his  wife, 

A  SI  4  She 


C  360  3 

In  ihort.  there  is  the  (acne  difierence  bciwcca  the 
caflieft  and  latcft  impreffions,  is  there  was  between 
the  firft  and  fecond  Ibte  of  Sir  ^9.^  QtiUr^i  fiockiogs, 
which,  by  frequent  mending,  from  filk  degenerate4 
into  worded. 

She  pays  him  (wttx\j  o'er  the  head  ;<— 
'*  Get  home,  yoa  dog,  and  get  ^rour  bread; 
*^  Shall  1  have  oodiing  Co  aj^Kar  io, 
*<  While  yon  get  dmnk  elediooeering  ? 

See  from  die  Town-ball  prefs  the  crowd, 
While  rufiie  Butchere  riog  alond ! 
Thrre,  lo,  tbeir  cap  of  liberty ! 
Here  t'other  fide  ia  effgy  I 
A  notable  devioe.  to  call 
The  Courtier  party  blockheads  all : 
Aloft  Tme-Bfue,  their  eoiigo,  Aid, 
And  acclamatiofM  rend  the  ikies. 
Reflet,  my  friend,  and  judge  from  thence^ 
Honr  idle  this  extreme  eapence ; 
What  mighty  fums  are  thrown  away. 
To  be  the  pageant  of  the  day  ! 
In  vsiin  Defcrt  implores  protcdtoiu  1 
The  Rich  are  fonder  of  £!c(5lfon3« 

Th*  ambitious  Peer,  the  Knighr,  the  'SquirC| 

Can  buy  the  Borough  they  dclirc ; 

Yer  fee,  with  unafTifting  tyc. 

Arts  fade  av/ay,  and  Genius  dtc. 

'I  irM  with  the  applnuding,  and  the  fnccring, 

And  all  that's  iHfd  Elc^ftionccring, 

I  think  to  take  alitrle  tour, 

And  likely  lowVd  iho  Gallic  fhorc  ; 

The  Mafc,  to  whom  wc  bear  no  malice, 

Invircs  me  to  the  Gate  of  Calais  *. 

That  gaic  to  which  a  knight  of  worth, 

•YclcpM  Sir  Uin,  of  Eritijb  birth, 

Advanc'd,  though  not  in  hoilile  plight, 

And  put  their  army  in  a  fri^jht. 

But  more  it  fits  not,  hereto  tell, 
.&0y  courteous  Reader,  fare  thee  well^ 
*  See  above,  p.  2 9 5, 

I  Icarn 


I  learn  alfo^  en  the  bell  authority,  that  cxir  ardft. 

mho  was  always  fond  of  trying  to  do  what  no  mas 
had  ventured  to  do  before  hiia,  refolved  to  finiih 
this  plate  without  taking  a  fingle  proof  from  it  as  he 
proceeded   in   his  operation.    The  confcquence  of 
his  terr^erity  was,  that  he  almoft  fpolled  his  pcrfor- 
Riancc.     When  he  difcovered  his  folly,  he  raved, 
flaniped,  and  fuore  he  was  ruined,  nor  could  be  pre- 
vailed on  to  think  otherwife,  till  his  pafEon  fubfided, 
and  a  brother  artifl  affifted  him  in  his  efforts  to  re- 
ipedy  the  general  defedt  occaiioned  by  fuch  an  ^- 
^mpt  to  perforgi  an  impoffibility. 

In  Plate  11.  we  mpet  with  a  frcfli  proof  of  our 
^nift's  inattention  to  orthography  ;  Party-tocl  (ufcd 
:}s  a  proper  name)  being  here  fpelt  parti-tool.  This 
plate  was  engraved  by  C.  Grfgnfoa,  and  has  been  re- 
touched, as  the  upper-row  of  the  lipn's  teeth  arc 
quite  oblitepted  in  the  (econd  impreffion. 

Platp  \\1.    The  m^itia-  (or,  as  Hogcrih  fpells  it/ 

milifia)   bill  appearbg  oyt  of  the  pocket  of  the 

piaimed  voter,  is  oi^ly  found  in  the  fecond  impreffion. 

Jhis  print  was  engraved  by  Hogarth  and  Le  Cave  *• 

The  dead  man,  whom  they  are  bringing  up  as  a 

♦  MorelloH  Le  Cave.  Mr.  ffalpole^  in  liis  catalogue  oi  RngUJh 
cngravep,  (odav^  ^rdit.)  prpfefles  to  l^now  no  morcofthb 
artift  thaa  that  he  was  *•  a  fcholar  of  FLart^**  and  **  did  a 
**  head  of  Dr.  PoceckehtfoTQ  T<iWIj*i  edition  of  tjic  Doctor's 
f*  works.'*  In  the  year  1739,  however,  he  engraved  Ca//^Vi 
Coram^  &c,  at  the  head  otthc  Power  of  Attomcy,  &c.  (a  dc- 
fcriprion  of  which  fee  p.  254.  of  the  prefcnt  work)  and  after* 
>vards  waa  Hogartljs  coadjutor  in  thi«  third  of  his  Eie^ion 
plates*     Ac  the  bottoni  of  it  he  Is  only  ilylcd  Le  Cave. 

voter. 


C    3<f^    1 

voter,  iBodei  la  an  event  of  tbe  (ame  kind  thtf 
btppeMd  doring  the  conteflcd  elcdion  between  Bof- 
i»mh  flod  Sehujn.  ^^  ^'by,"  iajrs  one  of  the  clerks^ 
^  Jim  have  brought  us  here  a  dead  man." — **  Dead  !** 
cries  tbe  bringer ;  ^'  dead  as  you  fuppofe  him,  you 
**  ftaH  foon  bear  him  voce  for  Bofwwrth.^  On  this, 
a  tbump  was  given  to  the  body,  which,  being  full  of 
wind^emitted  a  found  that  was  immediately  affirmed 
to  be  a  diilind,  audible,  and  good  rote  for  the  can* 
didaee  already  mentioned. — This  circumftance,  bow^ 
ever,  might  have  reference  to  the  behaviour  of  tbe 
late  Dt.  Barrowby^  who  perfuaded  a  dying  patient 
he  was  fo  much  better,  that  be  might  venture  with 
bim  in  his  chariot  to  go  and  poll  for  Sir  George 
fandeput  in  CovenuQarden^  The  unhappy  voter 
took  hts  ^byfician^s  advice,  but  expired  in  an  hour 
after  his  return  from  tbe  buftingSt  ^'  If  Hogarth^ 
fays  Mr.  Walp^U^  ^^  had  an  emblematic  thought,  he 
••  exprcifcd  it  with  wit,  rather  than  by  a  fymbol. 
••  Such  is  that  of  the  whore  fctting  fire  to  the  world 
•*  in  I'he  Rake's  Progrefs.  Once  indeed  he  defcendcd 
*'  to  ufc  an  allegoric  perfonage,  and  was  not  happy 
•*  in  it.  In  one  of  his  ElcAion  prints  f  plate  III.] 
•*  Britannia's  chariot  breaks  down,  while  the  coach- 
^^  man  and  footman  are  playing  at  cards  on  the 
r  box.^ 
In  the  fecond  imprcffions  of  Plate  IV.  *  (which  wa$ 

•  Some  of  thcfcfcencs  having  been  reverfcdby  the  engraver^ 
ffbc  figures  in  thcnn  are  renrcicntcd  as  ufing  their  lett  hands 
fjiilcad  oi  thbir  right. 

^pgravc4 


engrtwrcd  tyTF.  Hogarth  and  F.  Avilin^)  the  (hado'rtf 
«n  the  fun-dial,  denoting  the  hcnir^  and  the  word 
indmt«r  (commonly  fpclt  indenture)  on  the  fcroll 
hanging  out  at  the  attorney^  window,  arc  both' 
luided.  The  6re  from  the  gun  is  alfo  contibqed 
farther;  the  bars  of  the  chuTch*gate  are  darkened | 
and  the  upper  fprigs  of  a  tree,  which  wi^re  botf  at 
firft,  are  covered  with  leaves.  .:•.•• 

By  tbefe  marks,  the  vnikllful  purchafer  may  di^J 
guiihthe  early  from  the  later  impreffions.  I  forbetf 
therefore  to  dwell  on  more  minute  variations. 
,  The  ruined  houfe  adjoining  to- the  attorney'^,  tn* 
timating  that  nothing  can  thrive  in  the  neighbour* 
hood  of  fuch  vermin,  is  a  ftroke  of  fatire  that  ihould 
not  be  overkx)ked. 

The  publick  were  fo  impatient  for  this  fet  of 
prints,  that  Hogarth  was  perpetually  haftening  his 
coadjutors,  changing  fome,  and  quarrelling  witll 
others.  Three  of  the  pli^tes  therefore  were  (lightly 
fxecuted,  and  fopn  needed  the  reparations  they  have 
^nce  received. 

The  following  curious  addrefs  appeared  in  the 
'Public  Advmifer  oi  Feb.  28,  1757. 

"  Mr.  Hogarth  is  obliged  to  inform  the  fubfcribers 
4'  to  his  E|e<£lion  Prints,  that  the  three  laft  cannot  be 
<*  publiihed  till  about  Chriftmas  next,  which  delay 
^^  is  entirely  owing  to  the  difiiculties  he  has  met  with 
<^  to  procure  able  hands  to  engrave  the  plates ;  but 
^^  that  he  neither  may  have  any  more  apologies  to 
V  make  on  fuch  an  account^  nor  trefpafs  any  fur- 

"  they 


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«*«her<m  rte  indulgence  oi  the  public  by  encreafing 
**  acollcdlicw  already  fufficicntly  large,  he  intends  to 
**  employ  the  reft  of  his  time  in  portrait-painting; 
**  cbielly  thjs  notice  feems  more  neceffary,  aj  fevcral 
**  rpufious  and  fcandatous  prints  '''  have  lately  been 
**  publiftied  in  his  name. 

"  All  Mr.  Hogarth's  engraved  works  are  to  be  had 
**  at  his  houfc  in  Lekejlir -fields^  fcparatc  or  together; 
"  as  alfo  his  Analyfis  of  Beauty,  in  4to.  with  two 
••explanatory  priflts,  price  15/.  With  which  will 
*'  be  iltlivercd  gratis,  an  eigh teen-penny  pamphlet 
•*  publiflied  by  A>  Miller,  called  The  Live/itgator, 
**  written  in  oppoiitipn  to  the  principles  laid  dowQ 
w  in  the  above  Analyfis  of  Beauty,  by  ji.  R.  f,  a 
«  friend  lo  Mr.  Hc^artb,  an  cmincm  portrait-paintci 
•'  now  of  Rmnf," 

1  be  foregoing  advertifemcnt  appears  to  have  been 
wrinen  during  the  influence  of  a  fit  of  fplccn  or  dtf* 
appointment,  for  nothing  elfc  could  have  difiated  to 
our  artift  fo  abiurd  a  rcfoluiion  as  that  of  quitting  a 
walk  he  had  trod  without  a  rival,  to  rci-cntcr  another 
in  which  he  had  by  no  means  dlftinguifhed  himfclf 
from  the  herd  of  common  paintcn, 
1756. 

1.  Fratut  and  Englaitdf  two  plates ;  both  etched 
by  himiclf.  Under  them  are  the  following  verfcs, 
l»y  Mr.  (Jorrick  : 

*  Qocf^,  wbat  were  the  fL-and^oui  printi  19  which  he  »I- 
\oAfi 

t  Tbi»  J.  R.  wa»  jUlat  Hamfaf ;  but  )w»iiig  never  ja^ 
with  hi*  \fiUnt.inctt  1  can  give  uu  account  uf  ii. 

FUATB 


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Plate  L    FraHcIw 

With  lanthern  jaws^  and  croaking  gut. 
See  bow  the  hz\{-&zrv^d  Frencbmen  ftrut^ 

And  call  us  Englijh  dogs ! 
But  foon  we'll  teach  thefe  bragging  foes^ 
That  beef  and  beer  give  heavier  blows 

Than  foup  ai\d  roafted  frogs. 

The  prieftsj  inflam'd  with  righteous  hopes. 
Prepare  their  axes,  wheels ,  and  ropes. 

To  bend  the  -ftiff-^neck'd  finner } 
But,  ihould  they  fink  in  coming  over^ 
Old  Nick  may  filh  'twixt  France  and  Dcverg 

And  catch  a  glorious  dinner. 

Plate  11.    England. 

See  yohn  the  Soldier,  Jack  the  Tar, 
With  fword  and  piftol  arm'd  for  war. 

Should  Mounfeer  dare  come  here  ! 
The  hungry  Haves  have  fmclt  our  food. 
They  long  to  tafte  our  flefh  and  blood,. 

Old  England* s  beef  and  beer  I 

Britons f  to  arms  !  and  let  'cm  come. 
Be  you  but  Britom  ftill.  Strike  home, 

And  lion-like  attack  'em  ; 
No  power  can  fland  the  deadly  llroke 
Tbat*s  given  from  hands  and  hearts  of  oak^ 

With  Liberty  to  back  *em. 

2.  The  Search  Night,  a  copy*    J.  Ftelding  fcui^. 


t  3^  t 

ilfi  March,  175^  *.  **  A  very  tadjfrint,  and  t  it^ 
«*  lieve  an  mpojition.^^^  On  this  plate  are  fixteen  fiupid 
verfes,  not  worth  tranfcribing.  It  was  afterwards 
copied  again  in  two  different  iizes  in  miniature'^ 
printed  off  on  cards^  by  Darly^  in  1766.  The  original  ^ 
in  a  fmall  oval^  was  an  impreflion .  taken  from-  th^ 
top  of  a  filver  tobacco-box  ^  engraved  by  Hogarth  iocr 
one  Captain  Johnfon,  and  never  meant  for  publics 
tion. 

^758- 
1.  His  own  portrait +,  fittingi  and  painting  tl) 

Mufe  of  Comedy.     Head  profile,  in  a  cap.    The  A-^- 

nalyfisof  Beauty  on  the  floor.     IV*  Hogarth,  ferjeani^"^ 

painter  to  his  Majejiy.     The  face  engraved  by  W.  ^ 

Hogarth, 

I  Ihould  obferve,  that  when  this  plate  was  left  "^ 

with  the  perfon  employed  to  furnilh  the  infcriptioni   « 

he,  taking  the  whole  for  the  produdtion  of  ourartift, 

wrote  "  Engraved  by  W.  Hogarth''  under  it.    Ho* 

garth,  being  confcious  that  the  face  only  had  been 

*  There  is  alfo  a  copy  of  this  print,  engraved  likewife  by 
Fielding^  and  dated  Auguft  11,   1746. 

f  Among  the  prints  bequeathed  by  the  late  Mr.  Forrefit^ 
his  executor  Mr.  Caxc^  is  this  head  cut  out  of  a  proof,  and 
touched  up  with  Indian  iifk  by  Hogarth,  Mr.  Forrefi^  in  an 
infcription  on  the  back  of  the  paper  to  which  it^is  affixed,  ob- 
ferves  it  was  a  prefent  to  hkn  from  Mrs.  Hogarth. 

With  thefe  prints  are  likewife  feveral  early  imprefEons  from 
other  plates  by  our  artift ;  and  in  particular  a  March  to  Finch* 
/ejuaocommonly  fine,  and  with  the  original  fpelling  of  pbusia 
uncorredted  even  by  a  pen.  I  am  told  that  both  the  head  and 
this,  with  other  engravings  in  the  colledion  of  the  late  Mr.  '* 
f^rrtfi^  will  b«  fold  by  audion  iu  tlie  courfe  of  the  Winter  '^ 

•  -        I  touchcc& 


touched  by  himfelf,   added^  with  his  own  hao^f 
^  ne  Face''  Engraved,  &c. 

In  the  fecond  impreffioo  ^*  The  Face  Engraved 
•*  by  W.  Hogarih*'  is  totally  omitted. 

la  the  third  impreflion  *^  Serjeant -painter,  &c/' 
is  fcratched  over  by  the  burin,  but  remains  dill  fuf- 
ficiently  legible. 

The  fourth  impreffion  has  ^^  the  face  ret^ucbei^ 
•*  htU  not  fo  like  as  the  preceding  *.  Comedy  alfo  has 
*^  the  face  and  majk  marked  with  black  f ,  and  infcribed^ 
'^  CoMBDY,  1 764.  No  Other  infcription  but  bis  name^ 
«  William  Hogarth,  1764.'' 

The  original  from  which  this  plate  is  taken,  is  in 
Mrs.  Hogarth's  pofTeffion  at  Chifwick.  '  A  whole- 
length  of  herfelf,  in  the  fame  fize,  is  it9  companion* 
They  are  both  fmall  pi<3:ures. 

2.  The  Bench.  Over  the  top  of  this  piate  is 
written  in  capitals— CHARACTER.  Under  it ''  of 
**  the  different  meaning  of  the  words  CbaraSer^ 
'  ^*  Caracatura,  and  Outrcy  in  painting  and  drawing.'* 
Then  follows  a  long  infcription  on  this  fubjed:. 
The  original  painting  is  in  the  collection  of  Mr. 
Edwards* 

I.  The  Cockpit.  Dejigned  and  engraved  by  W^ 
Hogarth%  In  this  plate  is  a  portrait  of  Nan  Rawlins^ 
a  very  ugly  old  woman  (commonly  called  Deftford 
Nan,  fometimcs  the  Duchefs  of  Deftford),  and  well 

•  ^  i.  c.  the  two  firft.  , 

t  So  ia  both  the  third  and  fourth  impreiCons.-    . 

remembered 


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C  36S  1 

ftthembered  at  N£:fmarht,  She  wa*  a  famous  cfocfc.* 
feeder,  and  did  the  honours  of  the  gcntUmen't  ordi- 
nary at  yVer/^m^/ow  ;  white,  in  return,  a  frnglc  gen- 
>tleman  was  deputed  lo  prefidc  at  the  table  approj 
priated  to  the  Indies.  The  figure  with  i  hump  back, 
was  defigned  for  one  Jack/oit,  a  cfncc  noted  Jockey 
at  Newmari-et,  The  blind  prefident  is  Lord  ///if 
iMik  Berl'te,  wlio  was  a  coiirtaiit  artoWer  of  this 
diverficin.  His  portrait  was  before  clifcoverable  iri 
the  crowd  round  the  bruifers  in  the  March  to  Finchtty. 
•  By  the  ctjckpit  laws,  any  pcrfoii  who  cannot,  or 
will  not  pay  his  debts  of  honour,  is  drawn  up  in  a 
balkit  to  the  roof  of  the  building.  Without  a  know- 
ledge of  this  circtim fiance,  the  fliadow  of  the  mati 
who  is  offering  his  watch  would  be  unintelligible^ 

The  fubjciftot  The  Cockpit  had  been  recoin'nitnd-' 
ed  to  hhgaTtb  fo  long  ago  as  1747,  in  the  followmg 
lines,  fiill  printed  In  The  Gentlcman*i  Mjgazjne  of 
that  year,  p.  ijiz. 

•'  Where  Dud/len'i  *  walks  with  vary'd  beauties  iKine, 
•*  And  fomeare  pleas'd  with  bowling.fotne  with  wine, 
•'  Behold  a  generous  train  of  Cocks  repair, 
,  *'  To  vie  for  glory  in  the  toils  of  war ; 
**  Each  hero  burns  to  conquer  or  to  die  : 
*'  What  mighty  hearts  in  little  bofoms  lie! 

"  Com^,  Hcgarih,  ihou  whofe  art  can  bcfl  declare 
"  What  forms,  what  features,  human  ^nflions  wear, 

•  A  fjcnikmati')  fcat,  about  a  mile  from  Birminjilntnr,  Sited 
up  for  ct'C  reccptioa  of  cqmpsaj',  ia  inuiation  of  i'Mx-tmlJ 
Cardiff, 

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*•  Otxne,  with  a  painter's  philofophic  fight, 

••  Surrey  the  circling  judges  of  the  fight* 

"  Touch'd  with  the  fport  of  death,  while  every  heart 

*•  Springs  to  the  changing  face,  exert  thy  art ; 

**  Mix  with  the  frailes  of  Cruelty  at  pain 

*'  Whatever  looks  anxious  in  the  luft  of  gain ; 

"  And  fay,  can  aught  that's  generous,  juft,  or  kind, 

"  Beneath  this  afpedt,  lurk  within  the  mind  ? 

"  Is  luft  of  blood  or  treafure  vice  in  all, 

"  Abhorr'd  alike  en  whomfoe'er  it  fall  ? 

"  Are  mighty  dates  and  gamblers  ftill  the  fame  ? 

^^  And  w^  itfelf  a  cock^^fight,  and  a  game  ? 

*^  A  re  fieges^  battles,  triumphs,  little  things ; 

"  And  armies  only  the  game-cocks  of  kings  ? 

**  Which  fight,  in  Frcedoxi's  caufe,  ftill  blindly  bold, 

**  Bye-battles  only,  and  the  main  for  gold  ? 

"  The  crefted  bird,  whofe  voice  awakes  the  mom, 
"  Whofe  plumage  ftreaks  of  radiant  gold  adorn, 
"  Proud  of  his  birth,  on  fair  Salopians  plain, 
**  Stalks  round,  and  fcowls  defiance  and  difdain. 
**  Not  fiercer  looks  the  proud  Helvftians  wear, 
"  Though  thunder  flumbers  in  the  arms  they  bear: 
*^  Nor  Thracias  fiercer  Tons,  a  warlike  race  ! 

Difplay  more  prowefs,  or  more  martial  grace. 

But,  lo  !  another  comes,  renown'd  for  might, 
**  Renowo'd  for  courage,  and  provokes  the  fight. 
"  Yet  what,  alas !  avails  his  furious  mien, 
**  His  ruddy  neck,  and  breaft  of  varied  green  ? 
•*  Soon  thro*  his  brain  the  foe's  bright  weapon  flies, 
**  Eternal  darknefs  fliadcs  his  fwimming  eyes ; 

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^^  Proftrate  he  falls,  and  quivericrg  fpums  the  ground^ 
^'  While  life  indignant  iffues  from  the  wound, 
•*  Unhappy  hero,  had  thy  humbler  life 
*^  Dcny'd  thee  fame  by  deeds  of  martial  ftrife. 

Still  hadft  thou  crow'd,  for  future  pleafures  fpar'd^ 

Th'  exulting  monarch  of  a  farmer's  yard. 

**  Like  fate,  alas !  too  foon  th*  illuftrious  prove. 

The  great  by  hatred  fall,  the  fair  by  love ; 
•*  The  wife,  the  good,  can  fcarce  preferve  a  name, 
•*  Expung'd  by  envy  from  the  rolls  of  fame. 
**  Peace  and  objivion  ftill  through  life  fecure, 
**  In  friendly  glooms,  the  fimple,  homely,  poor. 
^'  And  who  would  wiih  to  bafk  in  glory's  ray, 
^*  To  buy  with  peace  the  laurel  or  the  bay  ? 
♦*  What  tbo'  the  wreath  defy  the  lightning's  fire, 
•*  The  bard  and  hero  in  the  ftorm  expire, 
"  Be  reft  and  innocence  my  humbler  lot, 
•*  Scarce  known  through  life,  and  after  death  forgot  V^ 

2.  A  fmall  oval  of  Bifhop  Hoadly^  setat.  83*  Ho^ 
garth  finx.     Sberhck  fculp. 

1760. 

I .  Frontifpiece  to  Trijram  Shandy*  Of  this  plate 
there  are  two  copies ;  in  the  firft  of  which  the  bat 
and  clock  are  omitted.  S.  Ravenet  fcul^.  In  this 
platt  is  the  portrait  of  Dr.  Burton^  of  Torky  the  Ja- 
cobite phyfician  and  antiquary,  in  the  character  of 
Dr.  SV. 

Sterne  probably  was  indebted  for  thefe  plates 
(efpecially  the  £cft  of  them)  to  the  following  com- 
pliment he  had  paid  our  author  in  the  firft  volume  of 

^rlfiram 


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Trijtram  Shandy.  *^  Such  were  the  outlines  of  Dr. 
••  Slopes  figure,  which,  if  you  have  read  HogartVs 
•*  Analyfis  of  Beauty ^  and,  if  you  have  not,  I  wifli 
^*  you  would,  you  muft  know,  may  as  certainly  be 
**  caracaturcd,  and  conveyed  to  the  mind  by  three 
'*  ftrokes  as  three  hundred." 

2.  Frontifpiece  to  Brook  Taylor*s  Perfpeftive  of 
Architeftur**.    With  an  attempt  at  a  new  order. 

*  Publifbcd  in  two  volumes,  folio,  I76it  hy  Jojhua  Kirly^ 
Dcfigrter  in  Perff>e6tivc  to  \xi\  Majefty. — **  Here  is  a  curious 
'  frontispiece,  defigned  by  Mr.  Hogarth  ;  but  not  in  the  iame 
ludicrous  ftyle  as  the  former  (fee  p*  333)  •  '^  ^^''^  ^^  be 
wiQicd  that  he  had  explained  its  meaning  ;  for,  being  fym- 
*^  bolical,  the  meaning  of  it  is  not  fo  obvious  as  the  other.  To 
•*  me  it  conveys  the  idea,  which  Milton  fo  poetically  defcribcs^ 
•*  of  the  angel  Uriel  gliding  down  to  Paradife  on  a  fun-beam  ; 
**  but  the  young  gentleman  has  dropped  off  before  he  bad 
**  arrived  at  his  journey's  end,  with  Palladio^s  book  of  arclii- 
•*  teclure  on  his  knees,  A  ray  of  light  from  the  fun,  riftng 
**  over  a  diftant  mountain,  is  dire<5lcd  to  a  fcroll  on  the  ground, 
•*  on  which  arc  two  or  three  fcraps  of  pcrfpe^ivc ;  over  which, 
**  fiipported  by  a  large  block  of  ilone,  is  the  upper  part  of  a 
•*  iccptrc,  broke  off;  the  fliaft  very  obliquely  and  abiurdly 
**  inclined,  fomewhat  rcfcmbling  the  Roman  t^fccs,  and  girt 
**  above  with  the  Prince  of  Walts^i  coronet,  as  an  aflragal, 
**  through  which  the  fafces  iife,  and  fwcll  into  a  crown, 
**  adorned  with  embroidered  ftars  ;  .this  is  the  principal  ob- 
**  je^t,  but  mod  vilely  drawn.  The  ray  p«ffes  through  a 
'^  round  temple,  at  acunfidcrable  diiUnce,  which  is  »lfo  falily 
**  reprefentcd,  the  cur\-es  being  for  the  diftance  too  round, 
"  .:ttd  confequently  the  diminution  of  the  columns  is  too 
**  great  It  appears  ro  pafs  over  a  pic^  of  water;  on  this 
'^  fide  the  ground  is  fertile  and  luxuriant  with  vegetaiion, 
*-^  al)Ounding  with  trees  and  flirnbs ;  on  the  other  lide  it  11 
•*  rocky  and  barren  f-    What  is  indicated  by  this  fecms  to  be, 

t  The  idea  of  this  contraft  between  fertility  and  *  arrcnncfs  is  an 
old  one.  H(*garto  prubiibly  took  it  from  the  cagravio^  known  t)v  the 
nasie  of  sioffuMs  Dream, 

B  b  «  ^  that. 


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IT.  Hosartb,  "July  1760.  W.  molUtfiulp.  LeftaJiy 
reader  fhould  fuppofe  that  this  idea  of  forming  a  new 
capita!  out  of  the  Star  of  St.  George,  the  Prince  of 
Wales's  Feather'^,  and  a  regal  Coronet,  was  hatched 
in  the  mind  of  Hogarth  after  he  had  been  appointed 
Serjeant  Painter,  the  following  pafiage  in  the  Atta- 
int will  piove  that  many  years  before  he  had  concei- 
ved the  prafticabiliry  of  fuch  an  attempt :  fee  p.  40. 
**  I  am  thoroughly  convinced  in  myfelf,  however 
'*  it  may  ftartle  fome,  that  a  completely  new  and 
"  harmonious  order  of  architecture  in  all  its  pai 
*'  might  be  produced,  &c,"  Again,  p.  46.  "  Ev( 
"  a  capit.ll,  compofcd  of  the  aukward  and  confined 
*'  forms  of  hats  and  perriwigs,  as  Fig.  48.  Plate  I. 
"  in  a  fkilful  hand  might  be  made  to  have  fomc 
"  beauty."     Mr.  S.  Irf/nmihas  the  original  Hictch. 

3,  Mr.  Huggins.     A  fmall  circular  plate.    Hogarth 
fi»x.     AhjoT fculp.     On  the  left,  a  buft,  infcribed, 

"  II  DIVINO  ARIOSTO."  "  DaSTE  L'LsFi-BNO,  It 
*'  PcRCATORio,  iL  Paradiso."  Mr.  Hl'ggtnt  (of 
whom  fee  p.  19.)  had  this  portrait  engraven,  to  pre- 
fix to  his  tranfiation  of  Dante,  of  which  no  more 
than  a  fpcclmcn  was  ever  publifhed. 

The  bull  of  Jriojio  was  inferred  by  ihe  [K)fiti\-e 
order  of  Mr.  Huggint  (after  the  pUic  was  finifhcd), 

••  ihar,  (ilicrcihc  art*  are  tncouragcd  by  i!ic  rays  of  royal 
•'  tavciiir,  ihcy  will  ihtivc  and  flouritli  ;  but  nherc  tlicy  are 
"  ncgletleii,  and  do  not  fiud  encouragement,  they  will  droop 
«' and  languifli."  jI/h/Wi  Appendix  la  Ins  Treaufc  on  Per- 
fpcctivc. 

*  Mr.  U.  Emfya  I135  lately  realized  this  plan,  by  his  Pro- 
jiol'ali  for  a  new  order  of  arciiitciiiurc,  j;8i. 

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though  much/againft  the  judgement  of  the  engraver, 
who  was  convinced  that  a  (till  ground  wopld  have 
Ihewn  the  countenance  of  the  perfon  reprefentcd  to 
much  greater  advantage.  Mr.  Major^s  charge  was 
only  three  guineas,  and  yet  eleven  years  clapfed  be- 
fore he  received  even  this  trifling  acknowledgement 
for  his  labour.    Dr.  Monkhoufe  has  the  plate. 

1761. 

1.  Frontifpiece  and  tail-piece  to  the  catalogue  of 
pidlures  exhibited  at  Spring  Gardens.  W.  Hogarth 
inv\  C.  Grigfuon  fculp.  There  is  a  variation  of  this 
print ;  a  Latin  motto  under  each  in  the  fecond  edi- 
tion. In  the  earlieft  impreflions  obity  correded  after- 
wards to  obiit.  The  fame  mark  of  ignorance,  how- 
ever, remains  unamended  over  the  monument  of  the 
Judge  in  the  firft  plate  of  the  Analyfts. 

2.  Time  blackening  a  picture.  Subfcription -ticket 
for  his  Sigifmunda.  **  ThiSj  and  the  preceding  iaiU 
**  piece,  are  fatires  on  Connoijfeurs** 

3.  The  Five  Orders  of  Perriwigs  at  the  Corona- 
tion of  George  III.*  Many  of  the  heads,  as  well 
as  wigs,  were  known  at  the  time.  The  firft  head  of 
the  fecond  row  was  defigned  to  reprefent  Lord  M?/- 
combe ;  and  thofe  of  Bifliops  Warburton,  Mawfon, 
and  Squire,  are  found  in  the  groupe.  The  advcrtife- 
ment  annexed,  as  well  as  the  whole  print,  is  faid  to 
have  been  a  ridicule  on  Mr.  Stewart's  Antiquities  of 

*  A  Differtation  on  Mr ^  Hogarfb^s  print  of  the  Order  of 
Perriwigs,  viz.  the  Epifcopal,  Aldermanic,  and  Lexonic,  is 
printed  in  7%f  Beauties  of  all  the  Magazines^  l/^i,  P*  5>« 

B  b  3  Athens, 


r  37*  ] 

JbbitUj  in  wiueh>  with  minutt  accuracy^  are  given 
the  meafurements  of  all  the  membei%  of  the  Greek 
Architedure.  The  infcription  under  the  print  af- 
fords a  plentiful  crop  of  falfe  fpcllings — volumns— 
tdvertifment — ^bafo — &c.  The  fccond  e  in  adver- 
tiff ment  was  afterwards  added  on  the  neck  of  the  fe« 
male  figure  juit  over  it.  The  firft  and  fubfequent  un» 
preflicns  will  be  known  by  this  diftindion. 

4.  Frontifpiece  to  the  Farmer^s  Return  from  Lqh^ 
don  J  an  Interlude  by  Mf.  Garrick  ♦,  aded  at  Drury 
Lwe.  W.  Hogatib  delin.  J.  Bofin  fculp.  In  Mr, 
Fojler's  coUtdtion  is  a  bad  copy  of  this  plate,  ng 
name,  the  figures  reverled.  The  original  drawing 
was  given  to  Mr.  Gar  rick  ^  and  is  fuppofed  to  be  in 
the  poffLffio^  of  his  widow  at  Hampton.  Mr.  5.  hre* 
land  has  a  fketch  of  it.  An  excellent  copy  of  this 
plate  is  fometimes  fold  as  the  original. 

5.  Another  frontifpiece  to  Trifiram  Sbandy  (for 
the  fecond  volume).  His  chrillcning.  F.  Ravenet 
fculp. 

♦  Mr.  GarricVs  publication  was  thus  prefaced  :  •*  The  fol- 
••  lowing  interlude  was  prepared  for  the  Hagc,  merely  with 
**  a  view  of  affifting  Mrs,  Frltchard  at  her  benefit ;  and  the 
•'  defirc  of  ferving  fo  good  an  adlrefs  is  a  better  excufe  for  itf 
•*  defedts,  than  the  few  days  in  which  it  was  written  and  rc- 
*^  prefented.  Notwithdanding  the  favourable  reception  it 
*♦  has  met  with,  the  author  would  not  have  printed  it,  had  not 
*•  his  fricud,  Mr,  Hogarth^  flattered  him  moft  agreeably,  by 
•*  thinking  the  Farmer  and  bis  Family  not  unworthy  of  a  Ikctch 
**  of  his  pencil.  To  him,  thereforei  this  trifle,  which  he  hat 
**  fo  much  honoured,  is  infcribed,  as  a  faint  teflimony  of  the- 
**  fincere  efteem  which  the  writer  bears  him,  both  as  a  man 
"  and  an  artift,** 

6.  The 


C    375    ] 

•6.  The  fame  engraved  by  Ryland.  This,  as  I 
am  informed^  was  the  firft,  but  was  too  coarfely  ex- 
ecuted to  fuit  that  prepared  for  the  firfl  volume  of 
the  fame  work.  ^ 

1762. 

1.  Credulity,  SuperfiitioD,  and  Fanaticifm.  "  Sa- 
V  tire  on  NUtbcdifis'*  "  For  deep  and  ufeful  fatire,*' 
fays  Mr.  Walp^U^  ^*  the  mofi  fublime  of  all  his 
•*  works/* 

This  print,  however,  contains  fomewhat  more  than 
a  fatire  on  Methodifm.  Credulity  is  illuflrated  by  the 
€gure  of  the  Rabbit-breeder  of  Godalming^  v^ith  her 
fuppofed  progeny  galloping  from  under  her  petti- 
coats* St.  Andre's  folly  furnifhed  Hogarth  with  mat- 
ter for  one  of  his  lateft,  as  well  as  one  of  his  earlieft 
performances. 

Prima  diSe  nuhi^  fummd  dicende  Camand. 

2.  The  Times.  Plate  L  In  one  copy  of  this  print 
Henry  VIII.  is  blowing  the  flames ;  in  another  Mr. 
Pitt  has  the  fame  employment.  As  this  defign  is  not 
illuflrated  in  Trti/lers  Account  of  Hogarth^ s  Works, 
I  fliall  attempt  its  explanation,  and  fubjoin,  by 
way  of  note,  a  humourous  defcription  of  it,  which 
was  printed  in  a  news^paper  inuuediately  after  it's 
firfl  appearance  in  the  world  *• 

Europe 

*  The  principal  figure  m  the  chara£ler  of  Henry  VIII.  ap- 
pears to  be  not  Mr*  P.  but  auother  peribn  whole  power  is 
iignified  by  bis  bulk  of  carcafe,  treading  on  Mr.  F.  repreieuced 
by  3000 1.  The  bellows  may  fignify  his  well* meaning,  chough 
inefied^ual)  endeavours  to  extinguilh  the  fire  by  wiud,  which, 

B  b  4  though 


I 


[    37«    ] 

Europe  on  Ore  ;  France,  Germany,  Spain,  in  flame*, 
which  are  extending  to  Great  Britni/i.  This  dcfola- 
tioD  continued  apd  afTiAed  by  Mr.  Piii,  utidei  the 

though  it  will  put  out  a  fiTiflll  f1:*ine,  will  chcHfli  a  large  or 
The  gunler   of  the  engine-pipe,    I  (liould  ihitik, 

mean  hia  M ,  who  uiiwearie<Jly  [rics,  by  a  more  proper" 

method,  lo  flop  the  flames  of  war,  in  which  he  ii  adifted  by 
all  his  good  fubje^i,  both  by  fea  and  laod,  notwithflanding 
any  interruption  from  AuJiferi  or  Briteni,  Maai'vrs  or  Nerti 
Brhans.  The  rcfpef^able  body  at  the  bottom  can  never  meari 
the  nagiftratei  of  LenJaM;  Mr.  H.  has  more  fenfe  than  to 
abufe  £j  refpedabie  abody;  much  left  can  it  mean  thcjudgei. 
1  ihinlc  it  may  as  hkely  be  the  Couri  of  Seffion  in  S^etUtd, 
either  in  the  attitade  of  adoration,  or  with  uutfprcad  arm* 
intending  to  catch  their  patron,  iliauld  his  flihs  give  wajr. 
The  Frtncbman  may  verj-  well  fit  at  his  eafe  among  hit  m'le- 
rable  countfyn*omen,  as  he  is  not  unacmiainicd  tjiat  Fra»(t 
hat  always  gained  by  negotiating  what  the  loft  in  fighting. 
The  fine  gentleman  ai  !b(  window  with  bit  gairciieer;,  and 
the  barrow  of  periodical  papers,  refer  to  ihc  prcfeui  coDtenf^r 
ing  panics  of  every  denomin.icion.  The  breaking  of  the 
Xewtiifiit  armi  alludes  lo  the  refignation  of  a  grear  perfonage  j 
and  the  replacing  of  ibcm,  by  the  lign  of  the  four  clenched 
fifti,  may  be  ihought  cmblcmaiical  of  ihe  great  acpoomy  of 
llU  fuccclTor.  1  he  Ner/eli  jig  lignifics,  in  a  lively  manner, 
the  alacrity  of  ail  his  Majnty's  forces  during  ibe  war;  and 
G.T.  [Geer^e  Te'j.'iijhettd] /ecu,  is  an  opporcune  complimcot 
paid  to  Lord  Ttvinjhtad,  who,  in  conjtmftinn  with  Hr.  HlnJ- 
ham,  publiflied  "  A  Plan  of  DUdplme  f^r  ihe  Ufe  of  iho 
"  Ner/elk  Miliiia,"  410.  and  had  been  the  grcateCl  advocate 
for  the  eftahlifhment  of  oUr  prefent  militia.  The  pi^nie  of 
the  Iniiiatt  alive  Irom  ^mrri,/t  is  a  fatire  on  our  Uie  uncivj. 
liied  beb.tviour  to  the  three  chiefs  of  the  Cii^rcl/T  naiion,  whq 
were  lately  in  this  kingdom  ;  and  the  bags  of  money  fct  ihia 
in  a  flitl  clearer  point  of  view,  Signifying  the  fums  gaiucd  by 
Ihcwing  (hem  ai  out  public  gardens-  Tbe  Hy  Duuhman,  with 
his  pipe,  fcems  pleafed  with  the  combuliion,  from  which  be 
thinks  he  fliall  be  a  gsiner.  And  the  Duke  of  M';i'rTii"'t,  un- 
der the  figure  of  i  dove,  is  coming  from  Franei  (o  give  a  ccf- 
fation  of  huUililies  to  Eureft. 


cne 1 


C    377    ] 

flg^  of  King  Henry  VIIL  wlih  bellows  increaiing 
the  mifchief  which  others  arc  driving  to  abate.  He 
is  mounted  on  the  ftilts  of  the  populace.  A  Che/bire 
cheefe  depends  from  his  neck,  with  3000A  on  it« 
Thi$  alludes  to  what  he  had  faid  in  Parlianient-^that 
he  would  fooner  live  on  a  Cbejbire  cheefe  and  a  ihouU 
der  of  muttODf  than  fubmit  to  the  enemies  of  Gma 
Britain.  Lord  Bute^  attended  by  Englijb  foldiers, 
failorSy  and  Highlanders,  manages  an  engine  for  ex- 
tinguiihing  the  flames,  but  is  impeded  by  the  Duke 
of  Newcajiky  with  a  wheel* barrow  full  of  Monitors 
and  North  Britons^  for  the  purpofe  of  feeding  the 
blaze.  The  refpeftable  body  under  Mr.  Piii  are  the 
dldern^'en  of  London^  worihiping  the  idol  they  had  fet 
up ;  wbilft  the  muiical  King  of  FruJ/ta^  who  alone 
is  fure  to  gain  by  the  war,  is  amuiing  himfelf  with  a 
violin  amongft  his  miferable  countrywomen.  The  pic- 
ture of  the  Indian  alludes  to  the  advocates  for  retain* 
ing  our  IVeft  Indian  conqueftsi  which,  it  was  faid, 
would  only  increafe  excefs  and  debauchery,  llie 
breaking  down  of  the  Newcqfile-zrms,  and  the  draw- 
ing up  the  patriotic  ones,  refer  to  the  refignation  of 
that  noble  Duke,  and  the  appointment  of  his  fucccf- 
for.  The  Dutchman  fmoking  his  pipe,  and  a .  Fox^ 
peeping  out  behind  him,  and  waiting  the  iffue ;  the 
Waggon,  with  the  treafures  of  the  Hermione;  the 
unneceflary  marching  of  the  Militia^  fignified  by  the 
Norfolk  jig ;  the  Dove  with  the  olive-branch,  and 
the  miferies  of  war;  are  all  obvious,  and  perhaps 
need  no  explication! 

To 


C    3?S    ] 

To  tkofe  already  given,  however,  may  be  addrd 
the  following  doggrel  vcrfcs : 

Devouring  flames  with  fury  roll 
Their  curling  fpires  from  Pole  to  Pole, 
Wide-fpreading  devaftation  dire. 
Three  kingdoms  ready  to  expire  ; 
Here  realms  convultivc  pant  for  breath. 
And  quiver  in  the  arms  of  death. 
Ill-fated  ille  !  Britanma  bleeds  ; 
The  flames  her  trait'rous  offspring  feeds  : 
Now,  now,  they  feize  her  vital  parts— 
O  favc  her  from  his  murd'rous  arts ! 

In  air  exalted  high,  behold  ! 
Fierce,  noify,  boilterous,  and  bold, 
Swol'n,  like  the  king  of  frogs,  that  fed 
On  mangled  limbs  of  vidims  dead, 
With  larger  bellows  in  his  hand, 
Than  e'er  a  blackfmith's  in  the  land. 
The  flames  that  wafte  the  world  to  blow. 
He  points  unto  the  mob  below  ; 

*  Look,  BritoHs,  what  a  bonfire  there  ! 

•  Halloo,  be  d — 'd,  and  rend  the  air.' 
Aldermen,  martow-bones  and  cleavers. 
Brokers,  ftock-jobbers,  and  coal-heavers, 
Tcmplarty  and  knaves  of  evVy  ftation. 
The  dregs  of  Lomion,  and  the  nation  ; 

-Contraftors,  agents,  clerks,  and  all 

Who  Ihare  the  plunder,  great  and  fmall,     ^         L 

Join  in  the  halloo  ac  his  call.  } 

Higher 


C  m  1 

Higher  they  raife  the  ftilts  that  bore 
The  fliapelcfs  idol  they  adore  : 
He,  to  increafe  his  weighty  had  flung 
A  Mill-ftonc  round  his  neck,  which  hung 
With  bulk  enormous  to  the  ground^ 
And  adds  thereto  Tkne  Thoufand  Pound; 
That  none  may  dare  to  fay  henceforth^ 
He  ^vanted  either  weight  or  worth. 
He^  blows, — the  flames  triumphant  rife. 
Devour  the  earth,  and  threat  the  fliies. 
When  lo !  in  peaceful  mien  appears. 
In  bloom  of  life,  and  youthful  years, 
George,  Prince  of  Men :  a  fmile  benign 
That  goodnefs  looks,  prognoftic  fign 
Of  foul  etherial,  feems  to  bode, 
A  world's  deliverer  fcnt  from  God. 
Array'd  in  Majcfty  ferene. 
Like  hcav'nly  fpirits  when  they  deign. 
In  pity  to  mankind,  to  come, 
And  flop  avenging  judgement's  doom; 
Behold,  and  blefs  !  juft  not  too  late 
T'  avert  a  finking  nation's  fate. 
He  comes,  with  friendly  care  to  flay 
Thofe  flames  that  made  the  world  their  prey. 
Bom  to  reform  and  blefs  ^he  age, 
Fearlefs  of  FaSIion^s  maddening  rage. 
Which,  with  united  malice,  throngs. 
To  reap  the  harveft  of  our  wrongs. 
He  labours  to  defeat  our  foes. 
Secure  our  peace,  and  eafe  our  woes. 

Before 


C  380  3 

Before  him  Faffion  dare  not  fhcw 
Her  ghaftly  face  and  livid  hue. 
But  back  retires  to  Temple-Bar, 
Where  the  fpcftator  fees  from  far 
Many  a  traitor's  head  ereft, 
To  ihew  what  traitors  muft  expedt. 
Upon  that  barefaced  figure  look. 
With  empty  fcuU  and  All  peruke  \ 
For  man  or  (tatue  it  might  pafs ; 
Caf<xr  would  call't  a  golden  afs. 
Behold  the  vain  malicious  thing. 
Squirting  his  poifon  at  his  king. 
And  pointing,  with  infernal  art, 
Th*  envenomed  rancour  of  his  heart. 
Higher  in  parts  and  place  appears 
His  venal  race  of  Garretteers ; 
A  ftarving,  mercenary  tribe. 
That  fell,  for  every  bidder's  bribe. 
Their  fcantling  wits  to  purchafe  bread,' 
And  always  drive  the  brifkeft  trade, 
When  Fa3ion  founds  with  loudeft  din. 
To  bring  fome  new  Pretender  in. 
This  tribe  from  their  aerial  ftation. 
Deluge  with  fcandal  all  the  nation  : 
Below  contempt,  fccure  from  Ihamc, 
Sure  not  to  forfeit  any  fame. 
Indifferent  what  part  to  choofe, 
With  nothing  but  their  cars  to  lofc. 
Not  Virtue  on  a  throne  can  be 
From  tongues  below  refentmcnt  free. 


Of 


C    381    3 

• 

Of  human  things  fuch  the  diftra&ion^ 
With  Liberty  we  muft  have  Fadtion. 

But  look  behind  the  Temple-gatej 
Near  the  thick^  clumfy,  ftinking  ,feat^ 
Where  London^s  pageant  fits  in  ftate  ; 
What  wildy  ferocious  Ihape  is  there^ 
With  raging  looks  and  favage  air  ? 
Is  that  the  monfier  without  name. 
Whom  human  art  could  never  tame^ 
From  Indian  wilds  of  late  brought  o*er^ 
Such  as  no  Briton  faw  before  ? 
I  mean  the  monfter  P  *  ♦  »  prefented 
To  the  late  King,  who  quickly  lent  it,    . 
Among  his  other  beads  of  prey. 
Safe  in  a  cage  With  lock  and  key. 
Some  faid  he  was  of  Britijb  blood. 
Though  taken  in  an  Indian  wood. 
If  he  ihould  thus  at  large  remain,. 
Without  a  keeper,  cage,  or  chain. 
Raging  and  roaming  up  and  down. 
He  may  fet  fire  to  half  the  town. 
Has  he  not  robb'd  the  Bank  ?— Behold, 
In  either  hand,  what  bags  of  gold  ! 
Monders  are  dangerous  things  let  loofe : 
Old  Cambrian,  guard  thy  manfion-houfe. 

But  here,  what  comes  ?     A  loaded  car, 
Stuff'd,  and  high  pil'd,  from  Temple-Bar. 
The  labouring  wretches  hardly  move 
The  load  that  totters  frpm  above. 


By 


By  their  wrf  faces^  and  high  ftratm. 
The  cart  fome  lutnpiih  weight  containf. 

*  North  Bretons — Gentlemen — come,  buy, 

*  There  *s  no  man  fells  fo  cheap  as  I. 

*  Of  the  North  Briton  juft  a  fcore, 
'  And  twenty  Monitors  or  more, 

*  For  juft  one  penny— —— 

*  North  Britons — Monitors — come,  buy,^ 

*  There 's  no  man  fells  fo  cheap  as  I. 

«  North  Britons  I  Monitors  I  be  d^M  ! 

*  Is  that  the  luggage  you  have  cramm'd 

*  Into  your  ftinking  cart  ?     Be  gone, 

*  Or  elfc  111  burn  them  every  one. 

*  Good  Sir,  I'm  fure  they  are  not  dear, 

*  The  paper's  excellent,  I  fwcar — 

*  You  can't  have  better  any  where. 

*  Come,  feel  this  Iheet,  Sir — pleafe  to  choofe— 

*  They're  very  foft,  and  fit  for  ufe. 

*  All  very  good.  Sir,  take  my  word — 
^  As  cheap  as  any  can  afford. 

«  The  Curate,  Sir,  Lord !  how  he'll  foam ! 

*  He  cannot  dine  'till  we  get  home. 

*  The  Colonel  too,  altho'  he  be 

^  So  big,  fo  loud,  fo  proud,  dy'e  fee, 
^  Will  have  his  Ihare  as  well  as  he.' 

While  on  a  fwelling  fack  of  cheefe 
The  frugal  Dutchman  fits  at  eafe. 
And  fmokes  his  pipe,  and  fees  with  joy 
The  flames,  that  all  the  world  deftroy. 
Keep  at  a  diftance  from  his  bales. 
And  iure  thereby  to  raife  the  fales ; 


Good 


/ 


C  383  3 

Good  'h/b.  Reynard^  wifer  (till, 

Difplays  you  his  fuperior  ikill : 

Behind  the  felfifh  mifer's  back* 

He  cuts  a  hole  into  the  fack^ 

His  paunch  well  crammVl^  he  fougly  lies. 

And  with  himfelf  the  place  fupplies  ;  ^ 

And  now  and  then  his  head  pops  out, 

To  fee  how  things  go  round  about ; 

Prepared  to  run,  or  Hand  the  five, 

Jufl  as  occafion  may  require. 

But  willing  in  the  fack  to  ftay. 

And  cram  his  belly  while  he  may, 

Regardlefs  of  the  babbling  town,  ^ 

And  every  intereft  but  his  own. 

On  yonder  plain  behold  a  riddle. 
That  mighty  warrior  with  his  fiddle,  . 
With  fneering  nofe,  and  brow  fo  arch, 
A-fcraping  out  the  German  march ; 
Bellona  leading  up  the  dance. 
With  flaming  torch,  and  pointed  lance. 
And  all  the  Fwries  in  her  train,  - 
Exulting  at  the  martial  flrain  % 
Pale  Famine  bringing  up  the  rear. 
To  crown  with  woe  the  wafteful  year. 
There's  nought  but  fcenes  of  wretchednefs. 
Horror  and  death,  and  dire  difirefs, 
To  mark  their  footfteps  o'er  the  plains. 
And  teach  the  world  what  mighty  gams 
From  German  vidlories  accrue 
To  th'  vanquiih*d  and  the  vidtors  too. 

7  'The 


) 


I 


[  i»i  J 

The  fidier,  at  his  eafe  redin*d. 

Enjoys  the  woea  of  human  kind  ; 

Purfucs  his  trade,  deftroya  by  rules. 

And  reaps  the  fpojis  of  Knaves  and  Fools. 
*  *  «  *  Mu/ta  defuni. 

The  firft  impreffions  of  this  prim  may  be  knowi 
ty  the  following  diftinilion.  The  fmoke  juft  over  the 
Dove  is  left  white  j  and  the  whole  of  the  compofitioo 
has  a  brilliancy  and  clesrnefs  not  to  be  found  in  tl 
copies  worked  off  after  the  plate  was  retouched. 

J  air.  told  that  Hn^arlb  did  not  undertake  thltf  po- 
liiical  print  merely  ex  officio,    but  through  a  hope 
the    falary    of   his  appointment  as  Serjeant  Painicr 
uoald  be  increafcd  by  fuch  a  fiiow  of  zeal  for 
reigning  Miniflry. 

He  left  behind  him  a  fecond  part,  on  the  (iime 
fubjedt ;    but  hitherto  it  has  been  withheld  from  the 
public.     The  finiflicd  Phtc  is  in  the  pofleflion 
Mrs.  Hogarth. 

There  fccms,  however,  no  rcafon  why  this  dcfi| 
ftould  be  fuppreffed.  The  widow  of  our  anift  i» 
happily  independent  of  a  court ;  nor  can  aught  re- 
lative to  the  politics  of  the  year  1762  be  of  confe- 
qucnce  to  any  party  bow  exitVmg.  Our  Monarch 
alfo,  as  the  patron  of  arts,  would  rather  encourage 
ihan  prevent  the  publication  of  a  work  by  //ojar/A, 
even  though  itfhould  recall  the  difagrecable  ideas  of 
fiftion  triumphant,  and  a  favourite  in  difgrace. 

3.  T.  Mordh  S.  T.  P.  S.S.  A.     W.  Hogorib  Jtliit. 

Jamtt  Baftrcfcuif.     From  a  drawing  returned  to  Mn 

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C.  385  ] 

Hogarth.    Of  this  plate  there  is  an  admirable  copy, 
though  it  has  not  yet  been  extenfively  circulated. 

4.  Henry  Ftddhig,  aetatis  48.      W  Hogarth  delin, 
James  Bafire  fculp.      From  a  drawing  with  a  pen 
made  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Fhlding,     "  That  gtn- 
*•  tleman,"  fays  Mr.  Murphy,  "  had  often  promifed 
"  to  fit  to  his  friend  Hvg,irthy  for  whofe  good  quali- 
"  tics  and   excellent    genius  he  always  entertained 
*'  fo  high  an  eftcem,  that  he  has  left  us  in  his  wri- 
**  tings  many  beautiful  memorials  of  his  affedtion. 
*'  Unluckily,  however,  it  fo  fell  out  that  no  pifture 
*•  of  him  was  ever  drawn ;    but  yet,  as  if  it  was  in- 
•*  tended  chat  fome  traces  of  his  countenance  Ihould 
"  be  perpetuated,  and  that  too  by  the  very  artiit 
•*  whom  our  author  preferred  to  all  others,    aftct 
**  Mr.  Hogarth  had  long  laboured  to  try  if  he  could 
"  bring  out  any  likenefs  of  him  from  images  ei- 
"  ifting  in  his  own  fancy,    and  juft  as  he  was  dc- 
*'  fpairing  of  fuccefs,  for  want  of  lome  rules  to  go 
**  by  in  the  dimenfions  and  outlines  of  the  face,  For- 
*'  tune  threw  the  grand  defiJcratum  in  the  way,     A 
*'  lady,  with  a  pair  of  fcilTars,    had  cut  a  profile, 
"  which  gave  the  diftances  and  proportions  of  his 
"  face  fufficiently   to  reftorc  his  loll  ideas  of  hinl. 
"  Glad  of  an  opportunity  of  pnying  his  lad  tribute 
"  to  the  memory  of  an  author  whom  he  admired, 
*•  Mr.  Hogarth  caught  at  this  outline  with  plcafure^ 
"  and  worked,   with  all  the  attachment  'of  friend- 
*'  Ihip,  till  he  finilhed  that  excellent  drawing  which 
"  ftands  at  the  head  of  this  work,  and  recalls  to 
Cc  "all^ 


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t    3««    3 

*'  sll,  who  have  feeti  the  original,  a  correfponding; 
"  iftiage  of  the  man."  Notwith (landing  this  authen- 
tic relation  of  Mr.  Murphy ^  a  different  account  of  the 
portrait  has  been  lately  given  in  one  of  the  news- 
papers. Mr.  Garritk,  it  is  there  faid,  dreflcd  himfetf 
in  a  fuit  of  his  old  friend's  cloaths,  and  piefented 
himfelf  to  the  painter  in  the  attitude,  and  with  the 
features,  of  Fielding.  Our  Rofcius,  however,  I  can 
alTert,  interfered  no  farther  in  this  bufmefs  than  by 
urging  Hegarth  to  attempt  the  likenefs,  as  a  neceflary 
adjunct  to  the  edition  of  Fielding's  works.  1  am  af- 
fured  that  our  arttll  began  and  finished  the  head  \m 
the  prefence  of  his  wife  and  another  lady.  He  had 
no  afllftance  but  from  his  own  memory,  which,  w^m 
fuch  occafions,  was  remarkably  tenacious  '*.  ^| 

1763.  9 

I.  John  Wilkes,  Efq.  Draws  f.om  the  I'^t,  and 
etched  in  aquafortis  by  Wm.  Hogarth.  Price  u.  It 
was  publiflied  with  the  following  oblique  note.  This 
is  *'  a  dired  contraft  to  a  print  of  Simon  Lord 

*'  LOVAT  +." 

Mr.  li'ilieSj  with  his  ufual  good  humour,  has  been 
heard  to  obferve,  that  he  is  every  day  growing  more 
and  more  like  his  portrait  by  Hogarth. 

In  the  fecond  impreflions  of  this  plate  there  arc 

•  To  thi»  flwich  fo  great  jufiice  was  done  by  the  engriver, 
tout  Mr.  Hogarib  declared  he  did  not  know  h»  own  drawing 
irom  a  proot  of  the  ;»late  before  the  ornamecu  were  added. 
This  prof  f  is  now  in  the  coUefticft  of  Mr.StetveHs. 

t  The  original  drAwing,  which  ww  ihrown  by  Hegmrth  into 
the  fire,  was  fbalchcd  on;  of  ii  by  Mrs.  Lrjuiif  and  is  aoir  io 
the  pofTefion  of  Mr.  S.  Inlands 


[    387    3 

a  few  flight  variations,  fufficient  at  leaft  to  Aew  rfiaC 
the  face  of  the  perfon  reprefented  had  been  retouched. 
I  haVe  bceo  told,  by  a  copper-plate  printer,  that  near 
4000  copies  of  this  caricature  were  worked  off  on  it* 
firft  pubfication.  Being  kept  up  for  two  or  three 
following  nights  on  the  occalion,  he  has  reafon  to 
remember  it. 

2.  The  Bruifer  C.  Churchill  *,  in  the  charadcr  of  a 
Ruffian  Hercules,  &c.  The  Ruffian  Hercules  was  thus 
explained,  in  j4k^_^,  1 763,  by  an  admirer  of  i/ofiir/i.* 
"  The  principal  figure  is  a  Ruffian  Bear  (i.  c.  Mr. 
**  Churchill)  with  a  club  in  his  left  paw,  which  he 
•*  hugs  to  his  fide,  and  which  is  intended  to  denote 
"  his  friendihip  to  Mr,  Wilkes :  on  the  notches  of  the 
**  club  are  wrote,  Lyt  i,  Lye  2,  &c.  fignifying  the 
■•  falfities  in  The  North  Briton:  in  his  other  paw  is  a 
•'  gallon  pot  of  porter,  of  which  (being  very  hot)  he 

*  In  a  ieiter  written  lo  his  friend  Mr.  mUei,  dated  Aug.  j, 
1763,  CiurcifV/ fay*  s  "  I  take  it  for  granted  you  have  feen 
*'  Htgari/i's  Pr/w  againflmci  Waseverany  thingfo  contemp- 
"  tible  t  I  think  he  ii  fairly /(■/»  Jt/r — I  think  not  to  let  him 
*'  off  in  that  manner,  although  I  might  fafely  leave  him  to 
"  your  NOTES.  He  has  broke  into  my  pale  of  private  life, 
^  and  let  t|iat  example  of  illiberality  which  I  wiHied^-of  that 
**  kind  of  attack  which  is  ungenerous  in  the  lirll  inllance,  but 
"  jufticc  in  return.  I  intend  an  Elegy  on  him,  fuppofing  him 
'*  dead  ;  but  •  *  tells  me  with  a  kifi,  he  will  be  really  dead 
"  before  it  comet  out  :  that  I  have  already  killed  him,  Sea. 
"  How  fweet  is  flattery  from  the  woman  we  We  !  and  how 
**  ivenk  ii  our  boalled  ftrength  when  oppofed  to  beauty  and 
"  good  fetife  with  good  nature  !" — In  Mr.  OjurchUPi  will  il 
(he  following  palTage  :  "  1  defirc  my  dear  friend,  Jr/hn  H'llktSy 
"  Efq.  to  colleft  and  publiOi  my  Works,  with  the  Remarki 
**  and  Explanations  he  his  prepared,  lad  any  othert  he  think* 
••  proper  to  make." 

C  c  1  *•  feemt 


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C   388   ] 

"  fecms  going  to  drink  :  round  his  neck  is  a  clergy- 
*'  man's  band,  which  is  torn,  and  fecms  intended  to 
*'  denote  the  bruifer.  The  other  figure  is  a  Pug-dog, 
"  which  is  fuppofed  to  mean  Mr.  Hogarth  himfelf, 
*'  pifling  with  the  grcatcft  contempt  on  the  eplftlc 
'*  wrote  to  him  by  C  Churcbill,  In  the  centre  is  a 
**  prifon  begging-box,  ilanding  on  a  folio,  the  title 
"  of  which  is.  Great  George-Street.  A  liji  of  the  Sub- 
"  fcribtrs  to  the  North  Briton  :  underneath  is  another 
*'  book,  the  title  of  which  is,  A  New  Way  to  pay  Old 
*'  Debts,  a  Comedy^  by  Maflinger.  All  of  which  al- 
"  liide  to  Mr.  Witketi  debts,  to  be  defrayed  by  the 
"  fubfcriptions  toT/jf  North  Jiriton." 

The  fame  defign  is  thus  illuAratcd  by  a  perlba 
who  thought  fomewhat  differently  of  our  artift ; 
*'  Theiffd',  with  the  ihattcred  band,  reprefents  the 
*'  former  firengih  and  abilities  of  Mr.  Hogarth : 
"  the  full  pot  of  beer  Hkewife  ihcws  that  he  was  in 
"  a  land  of  plenty.  The  flump  of  a  headlefs  tree 
"  with  the  notches,  and  on  them  wrote  Lye,  fignifics 
"  Mr.  Hogarth's  former  art,  and  the  many  produ<Sions 
**  thereof,  wherein  he  has  excelled  even  Nature  itfelf, 
"  and  which  of  courfe  mult  be  but  lies,  flattery,  and 
**  fallacy,  the  Painter's  Prerogative ;  and  the  flump  of 
"  the  tree  only  being  left,  fliews  that  there  can  be  no 
**  more  fruit  expcAed  from  thence,  but  that  it  only 
•*  ftands  as  a  record  of  his  former  fervices.  The 
*'  BarcAiirV  Dig  pifling  upon  Mr.  Churchill't  epiftle, 
"  alludes  to  the  prefent  ftate  of  Mr.  Hogarth  ;  that 
**  he  is  arrived  at  fuch  an  age  to  be  reduced  fo  lotv. 


[    389    ] 

'*'  IS,  from  the  ftrcngrh  of  a  Bear,  to  a  blind  Stiteher'j 
"  Dog,  not  able  to  diflinguilh,  but  pifling  upon  his  beft 
**  friend ;  or,  perhaps,  giving  the  public  a  hint  to  read 
**  that  Epiftle,  where  his  cafe  Is  more  fully  laid  before 
•'  them.     The  next  matter  to  be  explained  is  the  fub* 
"  fcription-box,  and  under  it  is  a  book  faid  lo  contain 
"  a  lift  of  the  Subfcrtben  to  the  North  Briton,  as  well  as 
**  one  of  a  New  Way  to  pay  Old  Debts.     Mr.  Hogarth  , 
"  mentioned  The  North  Briton,  to  avoid  the  cenfurel 
"  of  the  rabble  in  the  ftreet,  who,  he  knew,  would 
"neither  pity  nor  relieve  him;  and  as  Mr.  CWc/j///  ' 
**  was  reputed  to  be  the  writer  of  that  paper, 
"  would  feem  to  give  a  colour  in  their  eyes  of  iti  " 
*'  being  intended  againft  Mr.  Churchill.     Mr.  Hogarth  • 
"  meant  only  to  fhcw  his  neceflityj  and  that  a  book, 
"  ia!^l\tA  A  Lift  of  the  Subfiribfrs  to  //je  North  Briton, 
*'  contained,  in  faft,  a  lift  of  thofe  who  fhould  con- 
"  tribute  to  the  fupport  of  Mr.  Hogarth  in  old  age. 
"  By  the  book  entitled  A  New  Way  to  pay  Old  Debts,  J 
**  he  can  only  mean  this,  that  when  a  man  is  become  ' 
"  difabled  to  get  his  livelihood,  and  much  in  debt, 
"  the  only  fhift  he  has  left  is,  to  go  a-begging  to 
"  his  creditors. 

*'  There  are  likewife  fomc  of  his  old  tools  in  thia 
"  print,  without  any  hand  to  ufe  them." 

On  the  fame  occalion  were  publilhed  the  following  . 
verfcB,  "  on  Mr.  Hogarth's  laft  delicate  performance :' 
"  What  Merit  could  from  native  Genius  boaft. 

To  civilize  the  age,  and  pleafe  us  moft. 

In  lading  images  each  fccne  to  grace. 

And  all  the  foul  to  gather  in  the  face, 
Cc3 


[     390    3 

1  fttrti  t  valiimr  to  coDocala 
Y»l  «U  ilir  ftnrv  fmrl\  lo  rrvcal, 
>^'«%  lUlvf  ihr  nlfir\  al  our  Hc^artFi  e 
)lu(  i.v,  thr  OuviUiv'd  cmioencc  of  £uik 
>4tM  >UuhUc»  Ukc  tbc  exit  cu  a  fiame, 
Fnm  wbwti  when  mat  ^  un&uous  jnct  s  I 
A4tMt)ii(V«faiirTU»ut  itsficwi; 
|te  ^*«^  «ut  Nimr  »  bk  fam  ^. 


T    39>     ] 

And  with  honeft  derlfion  contemn  the  difpute, 
The  Bear  would  not  roar,  and  the  Dog  wouldb* 

mute: 
For  they  equally  both  their  patrons  betray. 
No  fenfeof  convi^ion  their  reafons  convey  ; 
So  neither  may  hope  one  convert  to  gain. 
For  the  Rhime  makes  me  fick,  and  the  Print  givci 

me  pain  *." 
This  plate,  however,  originally  contained  our  xtw 
rift's  own  portrait  (fee  p.  295).  To  fiiew  the  contempt 
in  which  he  held  the  »'  Poetical  Epiftic  to  Hogarth  -f/* 

h4 

*  In  a  few  days  after,  the  following  Advertilement,  for 
«  faiirical  Prlat  on  Hogartb,  wai  publiAied  : 

Tara,  ToMt  Tara  !  Tara^  Tui,  Tara  ! 

THIS  Day  made  its  appearance  at  the  noted  SUMFTER'i 
Folilical  Booth,  next  door  to  7?«  Braztn  Heai,  near  S^joe-Laae, 
FUtt-firiei^  which  began  precifely  at  twelve  at  noon,  a  nev 
humourous  performance,  entitled,  The  BRUISER  TRIUM, 
PHANT;  or,  The  Whole  Farce  of  the  Ltietjlir-fieldi  PanneJ 
Painter.  The  pritjcipal  parts  by  Mr.  H\tgaTib\  Mr,  W\iikts\, 
Mr.  C[tureliJir\,  Src.  &c.  &c.  Walk  in,'  Centlpmeo,  walk  ia\ 
Ho  more  than  61/.  a-picce ! 

t  The  reader  (hall  judge  for  bimfdf  of  thii  ppiftl^g 
•*  power  to  hurt.'' 

**  Amongft  the  fons  of  men,  how  few  arc  known 
Who  dare  be  j  lift  to  merit  not  their  own  ! 
Superior  vir|iie,  and  furcrior  Icnfe, 
To  kqavcs  and  fools  will  always  give  offence  i 
Nay,  men  ot  real  worth  can  fcarcely  bear. 
So  nice  is  Jealoufy,  a  rival  there. 

Be  wicked  as  thou  wilt,  do  all  that's  bafe, 
proclaim  ihyfelf  the  monfter  of  rhy  raoe  ; 
Lei  Vice  and  Folly  thy  Black  Soul  divide, 
Be  proud  with  meannefs,  and  be  n:ean  with  prid^  t 
Deaf  to  the  voite  of  Faith  and  Honour,  fall 
fsem  £dc  to  lide,  yet  be  of  none  at  all ; 

(^  9  4  Spui 


Utoi  ■<waiMj>«wftiiptHH'^^ 


C    393    3 

is  tbc  fame  error  relative  to  the  Monkey  lo  the  print 
of  the  Strollers.     This  kind  of  evacualion,  however. 


A  Tingle  inflance  where,  Sr^  laid  afide. 
And  Juftice  taking  place  of  tear  and  pride, 
Thou  with  an  equal  eye  didft  Genius  view. 
And  give  to  Merit  wlut  was  Merit'*  due  ? 
Gcniits  and  Merit  are  a  fure  offence. 
And  ihy  foul  fickcns  at  the  name  of  Seofe. 
Is  any  one  io  foolifii  to  fucceed  ? 
On  tNVY's  altar  he  is  doom'd  to  bleed. 
Hogarth,  a  guilty  pleafure  in  hit  c)-et. 
The  place  of  Executiuner  fuppliet, 
See  how  he  glotcs,  enjoj-i  the  facred  feaft. 
And  prove*  himfelf  by  cruelty  a  priefl. 

Whilft  the  weak  Artifl.io  thy  whinis  a  (lave. 
Would  bury  all  thofe  powers  which  Nature  gave. 
Would  futFer  blank  concealment  to  obfci.re 
Ttiofc  rays,  thy  Jealoufy  could  not  endure  ; 
To  feed  fhy  vanity  would  rufl  unknown, 
And  to  feciire  thy  credit  blait  his  own. 
In  Hogarth  he  was  fure  to  find  a  friend; 
He  could  not  fear,  anil  therefore  might  commend. 
But  whin  his  Spirit,  rous'd  by  honeft  Shame, 
Shook  off  that  Lethargy,  and  foar'd  to  Fame, 
When,  with  the  pride  of  Man,  refolv'd  and  Arong, 
He  fcorn'd  rhofe  fears  which  did  his  Honour  wrong, 
And.  on  himfelf  detcrmin'd  to  rely, 
Brought  forth  his  labours  to  the  public  eye. 
No  Friend  in  Thte,  could  fuch  a  Rebel  know; 
He  had  defcrt,  and  Hogakth  was  his  foe. 
Souls  of  a  limoroui  cad,  of  petty  R,ime 
In  Envy's  court,  not  yet  tjitite  dead  to  fliamc. 
May  fonie  Ueniorfe,  fome  (jualms  of  Confciencc  feel, 
And  fufler  Honour  to  abate  their  Zeal : 
But  the  Man,  truly  and  cotnpleaily  great, 
Allows  no  rule  of  aftion  but  his  hate  j 
Through  every  bar  he  bravely  breaks  his  way, 
Faflion  his  Principle,  and  Parti  h:s  prey. 
Mediums  in  Vice  and  Virtue  fpeak  a  mind 
Within  the  pale  of  Temperance  conGi^'d ; 


C    39S    1 

BfUmSf  and  a  begging-box  to  colled  fubfcrlpHocf 

for  them.     Di/igned  and  en^avtd  by  {Vmiiogarlh. 

In 

When  Libbstt,  all  trembling  and  «ghall, 
Fear'd  for  the  future,  knowing  what  was  pallj 
When  every  breaft  was  chill'd  uilh  deep  defpair. 
Till  Reafon  pointed  out  ihat  l^a  att  was  there  j 
Lurking,  moft  Ruiiian-like,  behind  a  fcreca. 
So  plac'd  all  things  to  fee,  hinifelf  unfecn. 
Virtue,  wiih  due  contempt,  faw  Hogaktu  Hand, 
The  murderous  pencil  in  his  palfied  hand. 
What  was  the  caufe  of  Liberty  to  him, 
Or  what  was  Honour  ?  Let  (hem  fmk  or  fwioi} 
So  he  may  grality,  without  cootroul, 
The  mean  refcDtroents  of  hit  fclfifli  foul. 
Let  Freedom  perifti,  if,  to  Freedom  true, 
Jn  the  fame  ruin  Wilkes  may  pcrifli  too. 
With  all  the  fymptoma  of  affur'd  decay, 
With  age  and  ficknefs  pinch'd,  and  worn  away, 
Fale  quivering  lips,  lankchtcka,  and  faultering  tongiie, 
Thefpirita  out  of  tune,  the  nerves  unlirung, 
The  body  fhrivt-rd  up,  the  dim  eyes  funk 
Within  iheir  fockets  deep,  the  weak  hami  flirunk 
The  Ifody's  weight  unable  to  fuflaui, 
Thcflreamof  lifcfcatce  trembling  through  the  vein. 
More  than  batf-kill'd  by  honeA  truths,  nhich  fell, 
Through  ihy  own  fault,  from  men  who  wilh'd  thee  well ; 
Canll  thou,  e'en  thus,  thy  thoughts  to  vengeance  givc^ 
And,  dead  to  all  things  elfe,  toMallce  live  } 
Hence,  Dotard,  to  thy  clofet,  (hut  thee  in, 
By  deep  repentance  wafli  away  tliy  fin, 
From  liaunis  of  men  to  fliame  and  forrow  fly, 
^nd,  on  the  verge  of  death,  learn  how  to  die. 

Vain  exhonation  !  wafli  the  Eihiop  white, 
Pifcharge  the  leopaid'i  fpots,  turn  day  to  nighti 
Contioul  the  courfe  of  Nature,  bid  the  deep 
Hufh  at  thy  Pygmy  voice  her  waves  to  llcep. 
Perform  things  pafling  ftrange,  yet  own  thy  art- 
Too  weak  to  work  a  change  in  luch  a  heart. 
^Thu  Envy,  which  was  woven  in  thy  frame 
^\  $rn,  wiU  to  ihf  UH  fcmain  the  fame. 


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tq^jm  loiiUB  nil  tttr  Club  01  n^ed  SaiS  {viz.  1.  3. ; 


C    397    3 

arc  left  white.     In  the  fecond  Lmpreffion  they  are 
completely  ftiaded ;  the  ruffle  on  the  hand  that  clafps 

the 

Thy  eager  hand  the  curtain  then  undrew. 
And  broughl  the  boafted  Mallcr-piece  to  view. 
Spare  t by  remarks — fay  noi  a  (ingle  word— 
The  Piflure  feen,  why  is  ihe  Painter  heard  f 
Call  not  up  Shame  and  Anger  in  our  cheeks  : 
Wi[hoiit  a  Comment  Sicumunda  fpeaks. 

Poor  SiGtsMONDA  !  what  a  Fate  is  thine  '. 
Dryden,  the  great  High-Prieft  of  all  the  Nine, 
Rcviv'd  thy  name,  gave  what  a  Mufe  could  give, 
And  in  hia  Numbers  bade  thy  Memorj- live; 
Gave  thee  tbofe  fofi  fenfations,  which  might  move 
And  warm  the  coldeil  Anchorite  to  Love  ; 
Gave  thee  that  Virtue,  which  could  curb  delire. 
Refine  and  cocfecrate  Love's  headftrong  fire  ; 
Gave  thee  thofe  griefa,  which  made  the  Stoic  fecif 
And  call'd  compatrion  forth  from  hearts  of  Ace) ; 
Gave  thee  that  firmncfs,  which  our  Sex  may  fliatne. 
And  make  Man  bow  tu  Woman's  juCler  claim. 
So  chat  our  tears,  which  from  compaffion  flow, 
Seem  to  debafe  thy  dignity  of  woe  ! 
But  O,  how  much  unlike  !  how  fall'n  !  how  chang'd  t 
How  much  from  Nature  and  herfelf  eflrang'd ! 
How  totally  depriv'd  of  ail  the  powers 
To  fhew  her  feelings,  and  awaken  ours, 
Doih  SicisMUSDA  DOW  devoted  Hand, 
The  helplefs  vidim  of  a  Dauber's  hand  [ 

But  why,  my  Hogartu,  fuch  a  progtefs  made, 
So  rare  a  Pattern  for  the  fign-poft  trade, 
In  the  full  force  and  whirlwind  of  thy  pride, 
Why  waK  Heroic  Painting  laid  afide  ? 
Why  is  It  not  refiim'd  ?  Thy  Friends  at  Court, 
Men  all  in  place  and  power,  crave  thy  fupport ; 
Be  grateful  then  for  once,  and,  through  the  field 
Of  Politics,  thy  Efi(  Pencil  wield  ; 
Maintain  the  caufe,  which  they,  good  lack  !  avow, 
And  would  maintain  too,  but  they  know  not  how. 

Through  cv'ry  Pan':el  let  thy  Virtue  tell 
How  Bi;Tfi  prevail'd,  how  Pitt  and  Temple  fell! 


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|>n>|Hiw^wi«Nfr»w(  i< Aiy  11111%  ii^HttMA 

Air""*  ol*^  *>^  nil*  iiiaiiWi  ■■  na. 

f^mt  fli'ti  tJw^  kwi^  ••  fcw  Ac  Svamwi 

V^MIi)  Aw  wiPH  wwn(  ,}lMta^  ftmA  nc  wnl 

Jl^iml  MVI  ^W  ^(MIBB^  *W  4MVBMIIK  VHBC9 

^OMtA  40,  -qnt*  Tgwili.  II—  «i  SMMHsAq^  J 


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fierences  occur  in  the  other  knots,  &c.    The  lofcrip- 
'  t\oa,  inflead  of  Ru£ian,  reads  Modem  Heicules. 

3-  The 

Tn  walks  of  Humour,  in  that  catt  of  Style, 
Which,  probing  to  the  quick,  yet  makes  u>  fmilc  j 
In  Comedy,  his  nat'ral  road  to  fame. 
Nor  lei  me  call  it  by  a  meaner  name, 
Where  a  beginning,  middle,  and  an  end, 
Are  apilyjoin'd  ;  where  parts  on  pans  depend^ 
Each  made  for  each,  as  bodies  for  their  foul. 
So  as  to  form  one  true  and  perfect  whole. 
Where  a  plain  Story  to  the  eye  is  told,  7 

Which  we  conceive  the  n-oment  we  behold, 
Hogarth  unrlval'd  Hands,  and  (ball  engage 
Unrival'd  praife  to  the  mofl  diftant  age.  1 

How  could'ft  Thou  then  to  Qiame  peiverfely  run. 
And  iread  that  path  which  Mai\ire  bade  Thee  Huiai 
Why  did  Ambition  overleap  her  rules,  . 

And  thy  vail  parts  become  the  Sport  of  Fools  t 
By  dilfereiit  methods  different  Men  excell. 
But  where  is  He  who  can  do  all  things  well  i 
Humour  thy  Province,  for  fomc  monfirous  crime 
Pride  flruck  Thee  with  the  frenzy  oi  SMme. 
But,  when  the  work  was  tinilh'd,  could  thy  mind 
So  partial  be,  and  to  taerielf  fo  blind. 
What  with  Contempt  All  view'd,  to  view  with  awe. 
Nor  fee  ihofe  faults  which  every  Blockhead  faw  i 
Blufli,  Thou  vain  Man,  and  if  defirc  of  Fame, 
Founded  on  real  Art,  ihy  thought*  inflame, 
To  quick  delliuaion  SioisMUcnA  give. 
And  let  her  memory  die,  that  thine  may  live. 

But  (hould  fond  Candour,  for  her  Mercy's  fake. 
With  pity  view,  and  pardon  this  miftake  ; 
Or  fhould  Oblivion,  to  thy  with  inoA  kind, 
Wipe  off  that  fiain,  nor  leave  one  trace  behind; 
Of  Arts  ik/jiU^d,  oi  Artists  by  thy  frown 
AvS'dfromjuJi  bopts.,  of  rifin^  ijiorlb  kept  dovim^ 
Of  all  thy  meannefs  ihrotigh  this  mortal  race, 
Canft  Thou  the  living  memory  erafe  ? 
Or  fliall  not  Vengeance  follow  tn  the  grave. 
And  give  back  jtiA  thai  mufore  which  You  gare  ^ 


1 


0Bac  ^ssnoHt DH  gk ffci    fell 


0P  IMMm  IS  -Mi  HWII^g  I&tf^  ^V  JVC  TOii^ 


X  dw  fttf  iVUilSt  witn  tcow  bufjM  Tot  rap^ 
But  witfa  Mnt^aiTofmw  Uijr  Age; 


to  dMoc'd.  &•  laft.  I  e 


K  cattxSba, 
■,Ufbm  tnae  ot^  tifc. 
To  Unodi  drdb  lato  the  Sea  at  Stnic  ' 
Bcdcr  /m  Thee.  l£3fce  crawling  m  rbc  eanlt. 
AlaeA  as  much  a  child  a»  at  ilqrtanti, 
Ta  faMV  nefigR'd  ia  piirp  tfa^  parttBg  hicuh^ 
AnrffaiA  tMBMk'd  uiifas  amm  oi  Death. 
wky'-wsttH  ilijr  ITT*  Eff  hain,  icKUiacat  EsMi 
Tbw  to  fp  <iawa  wnh  (arrtMr  co  the  gnve  ? 
tfom,  tif  mf  Soal,  it  ntlEanK  Uu^  ro  know 
4  lo  I  dcJi  J  toe 

c  to  p»e  the  ftioite. 
Son  '!«  «.  conic  which  iRtry  Fun  iiapajc* 
Tb  fentfy  ann'(  uropace,  iku  thuw, 
Wba^rc  fifcnn'd  o<  Imbc  better  {on  ot'  dijr, 
tbn  Uk  amao^  hnd  decay. 


r  401  ]  

Itepreffions  of  the  plate  thus  altered  *,  we  find  itft 
letters  N  B  added  on  the  club,  as  well  ai  the  epithet 
infamous  prefixed  to  the  word  Fallacy.  The  ihadowg 
on  the  political  print  are  likewil'e  changed,  and 
deepened ;  and  the  words  "  Dragon  of  WanlUj"  are 
added  at  the  end  of  "  I  warrant  ye." 

4.  .Print   of    the  Weighing-houfe   to    '*  Clubbe't  J 
*'  Phyfiognomy  j"  a  humourous  pamphlet  in  quarto^  | 
publiftied   in  1763,  by  Mr.  C/hWc -f-  (editor  of  thi, 
Hiftory  and  Antiquities  of  Whtaljidd  in  Si^olk),  aiu 

What  biitrr  pangs  muf!  humbled  Genide  f>:el ! 
In  their  laft  hours,  10  view  a  S-.vi ft  and  Steele  ! 
How  much  ill-boding  horrors  fill  her  breall 
When  She  beholds  Men^  mark'd  abuvc  the  reft 
For  qualities  moil  dear,  pliing'd  from  ihat  height, 
And  funk,  deep  funk,  in  fecond  Childhood's  night ! 
Are  Men,  indeed,  fuch  things,  nnJ  ^rc  ilic  belt 
More  fiibjed  to  rhis  evil  than  the  red:, 
'To  drivel  out  whole  years  of  Ideot  Breath, 
And  fit  the  Monurtienis  of  living  Death  ? 
O,  galling  circumflancc  to  hniniin  pride  \ 
Abafing  Thought,  but  not  to  be  denied  ! 
With  curious  Art  ihe  Brain,  too  finely  wrought. 
Preys  on  herfelf,  and  is  dellroy'd  by  Thought. 
Conftant  Attehiioii  wears  the  aft  ire  mind, 
Blots  out  her  powers,  and  leaves  a  blank  behtndi 
But  let  not  Youth,  to  iafolence  allied. 
In  heat  of  blood,  in  ftiU  career  of  pride, 
Poflefs'd  of  GENins,  with  unhallow'd  rage, 

■        -        =re,tl  ,gc, 

s  Fate  may  bow, 

ic,  may  be  like  Hocarth  now." 

price  [f,(  the  fecoDd  price  1  i.  6  J, 
my  Grfl  edition,  that  Mr.  Cluhbt  was  dfowneil 
t  ihit  furrounded  his  hoiife  at  ti^jigijtiid ;  but  rea* 
dily  retr^A  that  atTerlion,  having  been  fince  infarmcd,  that  bt 
died  a  natural  death,  of  old  age  and  ia£rmities, 

D  d 


Mock  the  i' 
The  greateft  Genu 
REYKotDs,  ini: 
•  The  firK  w 
t  I  had  faid  i> 


dedicate^! 


C  4«  3 

AA^  It  '**■>  nicm-irr  prbiTcd  io  i  colleSioi]  of  dup 
iggllMH  ,'Wfrtn,  publiihrd  u  hFuiich,  £  vols,  iznio. 
Wt  #•»»  «*trh  k  IK"*'  pngnving  erf  the  plite.  Thar 
h  tAit'  »  Thiri  eiijTiring  of  iht  femr  dcfign,  pou 


[    403    ] 

liis  Ii^t  a  ruinous  tower,  and  many  other  allegorical 
devices  ;  among  the  reft,  he  has  btroduced  his  owa 
"Times*." 

2.  The  Bench +.  The  fame  defcribcd  under  the 
year  1758;    but  with  additions.     The  plate  thus 

•  A  few  months  before  this  ingenious  artift  was  feizcd 
with  the  malady  which  deprived  fociety  of  one  of  its  greatett 
bmaments,  he  propofird  lo  his  itintchlefs  pencil  the  work  he 
has  intituled  a  tail-pine  {  the  firll  idea  of  which  is  faid  to  have 
bccD  Aarted  in  company,  while  the  convivial  glals  was  circu- 
lating round  his  own  table.  "  My  next  undertaking,"  fay« 
Hogarth,  "  fliall  be  the  EnJ  of  aU  Thingt.'*  "  If  that  is  the 
"  cafe,"  replied  one  of  his  friends,  "  your  hufimfs  will  Be  fi- 
"  nijhid ;  for  there  will  be  tm  tnd  of  the  fainter."  "  There 
"  ■viillio"  anfwered  Htgartb,  lighing  heavily  ;  "  and,  there-. 
"  fore,  the  fooner  my  luerk  is  done,  the  bttter."  Accordingly^ 
he  began  the  next  day,  and  continued  his  dcfign  with  a  dili- 
gence which  feemed  to  iadicate  an  apprehenlion  (as  the  report 
goes)  thai  he  (hoiitd  not  lire  till  he  had  completed  it.  This^ 
however,  he  did  in  the  mod  ingenious  manner,  by  grouping 
every  thing  which  could  denote  the  cnrf  ef  all  tliiagi — a  brokea 
bottle — an  old  broom  worn  to  the  Hump — the  butt-end  of  an 
old  mulket — a  cracked  bell  — bow  unfirung — a  crown  tumbled 
in  pieces — towers  in  ruins — X.)\a  Jign-pefi  of  a  tavern,  called  Tht 
WorWt  End,  tumbling — the  moon  in  her  wane — the  map  of 
the  globe  burning — a  gibbet  filing,  the  body  gone,  and  the 
chain  which  held  it  dropping  down — Phahvi  and  hii  horfcs 
dead  in  the  clouds — a  veflel  wrecked — Time,  wiih  his  hour- 
glafs  and  fcythe  broken  ;  a  tobacco-pipe  in  his  mouth,  the  laft 
whiff  of  fmoke  going  out— a  play-book  opened,  with  Exeunt 
«mnti  Aamped  in  the  coroer— an  empty  purfe-— and  a  ilatuteof 
bankruptcy  taken  out  againll  Nature. — ''  So  far,  fo  good," 
cried  Hogarth;  "  nothing  remains  but  this,"— taking  ht* 
pencil  in  a  fort  of  prophetic  fury,  and  dalhing  off  the  fimili* 
tude  of  a  painter's  pallet  broken — "  Finij,"  exclaimed  Hogarth, 
"  the  dttd  Is  done — all  is  over." — It  is  remarkable,  that  he  died 
ID  about  a  moath  after  thii  tail-pieCe,  It  is  alfo  well  known 
he  never  again  took  the  pencil  in  hand. 

t  A  tern)  peculiarly  appropriated  to  the  Court  of  Caitaum 
Pleat. 

D  d  1  tariedi 


I 


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•^to^^^^^^ 


I    4pS    i 

more  abfolute  burlefque  of  this  noble  fubjefl.'tha^ 
Hogarth,  who  went  ferioufly  to  work  on  ir,  has  here 
produced.  •'  I-k>w  art  thou  fallen,  O  Lucifer,  thou 
"  fon  of  th«  Morning!"  will  be  the  exclamation  of 
every  obferver,  on  feeing  this  unaccountable  per- 
formance, in  which  Satan  and  Death  have  loft  their 
terrors,  and  Sin  herfelf  is  divefted  of  all  the  powers 
of  temptation. 

I.  The  Good  Samaritan ;  by  Ravsnet  and  Delatre, 
In  The  Grub- Street  Journal  for  July  14,  17^7,  ap- 
peared the  following  paragraph  :  Yefterday  the  fcaf- 
"  folding  was  taken  down  from  before  the  piftare 
*'  of  The  Good  Samaritan  *,  painted  by  Mr.  Hog,trtl\ 
"  on  the  St;uf  Cafe  in  St.  Barlholomezv's  Hofpital, 
*'  which  is  efleemed  a  very  curious  piece."  Hogarib 
paid  his  friend  Lanihrt  for  painting  the  landfcape  in 
this  picture,  and  afterwards  cleaned  the  whole  at  his 
own  expencc.  To  the  imaginary  merits  of  his  coad- 
jutor, the  Analyfis,  p.  16,  bears  the  following  telli- 
mony  ;  "  The  Iky  always  gradates  one  way  or  other, 
'•  and  the  rifing  or  fctting  fun  exhibits  it  in  great 
"  perfcftion;  the-  imitating  of  which  was  Claud  de 
*'  Lorain  i  peculiar  excellence,  and  is  now  Mr.  Lam' 
"  berCs." 

2.  The  Pool  of  Sethefda;  large,  by  Ravenet  and 
PiLOt.  A  fmall  one,  by  Raveint,  has  been  mentioned 
under  1 748.  Both  very  indifferent,  Mr.  fValpoU 
juftly  obferves,    that  "  the  burlefquc  turn  of  our 


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'775- 

li  The  Politician  [Mr.  Tii/on,  lately  a  laceman  in  } 
The  Sirand],    from  a   Iketch  in    oil,    by  Hogarib, 
Etched  by  J.  K.  Sherwin.     PubUflied  05. 3 1 ,  1 77  J. 
1781. 

1.  Portrait  of  Solfull*,  a  maker  of  punches  for 
engravers.  IV-  Hogarth  del,  S.  J- fecit  aqua  fort, 
Mr.  S.  Ireland  has  the  original  Jketch.  This  portrait 
is  mentioned  by  Mr.  Wa!pole  under  the  title  of  "  Two 
**fmoll  heads  of  men  in  frojile  in  one  plate,  etched  by 
**  Mr.  Ireland, from  a  Jketch  in  his  Dtvn  coUe^ion." 

2.  Thomas  Pellet,  M.  D.  Prefident  of  the  College 
of  Phyficians.     R'.  Hogarth  pinxit.     C.  Hail  fiulpjit. 

3.  WtUiam  Bullock  the  Comedian,  U^.  Hogarth 
pinxit.  C.  Hall  fculpftl.  It  is  by  no  means  certain 
that  thefe  two  laft  portraits  were  painted  by  Hogarth, 

4.  North  and  South  of  Great  Britain,  W.  Hogarth 
delin,  F.  B.  [i.  e.  Framit  Bartolozzi']  fculp.  This 
little  print  reprefents  a  Scotchman  fcrubbing  againft  a 
fign-poft;  no  fign  on  it;  with  Edenborougb  callle  in 
the  back  ground  : — and  an  Englifhman  rcpofing  on  a 
poft,  with  a  pot  of  London  porter  in  his  hand ;  the 
fign  of  an  Ox,  with  roajl  and  hild,  by  way  of  in- 
fcription,  over  bis  head ;  and  a  view  of  St.  Paul's  at 
a  diftance.  I  do  not  believe  it  was  defigned  by  our 
artill,  whofe  fatire  was  ufually  of  a  more  exalted 
kind  :  ncitucr  are  the  figures  at  all  in  his  manner. 

A  ftetch  imputed  to  Hogarth,  and  engraved  by 


•  This  was  etched  a  fecond  time, 

dentally  loft  hu  fifft  plau. 

Pd4 


,  Inland  having  acci-* 


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tSV  WSKSKS   JSnUB^  ■UWIPU,  CJBWi 

tempaaan  nob  i^  j»  k  ocoes  wob  t&e  wfcs  i 
tank  mn^f,  wbbcb  3R  0  ffi"T^  ise  dbckbc  o 

9o  ms  OB  csBEicm  ibb  a^^  m  sfiex  ^f 
faio;  hoc  jety  bcaig  Sanrrijim  ^c 
IP  faiifioe  fisiikBde  as  cn^c^ 

EmSt  mmtt,  mu  Jmt  efi$  fim. 
MW  tkttmtK  M  t&c  Ml  ycitw  fimi  ■&• 


mmt  a(  SmJtf  wmexed  n  m.    The  hiSmj  mi 

fifcr  liM  sc  firft  iftiirt  cfac  ife  farcft,  tram  wtack 
grTfwgffrTt  ffrf  fiT^f  iTin^  wm  BOtihe  powhrfifc  wc 
fwgwlv*  Be^lNwiiUjOa  his  o«iijoi^geiDeBi^pn>- 
liBwKu  IB  juBini  mK  coDttscy f  Do^c  at  Icsft  CUBWIBUK 
that,  (taring  the  lace  nge  Ibr  colkdsig  the  mkka 
of  am  anift,  ao  oune  was  6>  ]ikdj  u  Em  CD^mr 
in  pvreluim.  Having  difpo&d  of  as  ntaBy  copiei 
•9  be  coold  in  confrqacoce  of  hanging  out  fuch  hhk 
colaiin,  be  now  &n  £ul  agpoa  Doder  cbofe  of  Saatfy, 
«nd  woald  probablf  nuke  s  third  range  with  Mr. 
Bmttarj't  fttg  at  lus  niafl  head,  were  mx  aor  fccood 
Hfgartb  »  hand,  to  dcted  the  impoflure, — The  prtca 
of  this  etching,  origiiiali^  2  i.  61/.  is  now  fold  ac  1  r. 
thoi^  the  proprietor  has  incurred  tbe  ficlh  expence 
of  decoratifig  it  io  tipm  tijua.  Shoold  ic  bi 
wBid  fnk  to  meet  with  bojrcn,  1  Sail  doc  be  itad^ 
W  cxchura,  with  OvU, 

Flettm 


C     4^9     3 

Fkham  fuccejfu  poffi  carere  dole. 
The  three  Uft  publilhed  by  John  Thjtie,  Rupert* 
Jlreet,  Haymarket. 

5.  Firfi:  ikccch  of  arms  for  The  Foundling  Hcfpital. 
Wm.  Hogarth  inv.  1 747.  Over  the  Crcft  and  Suppor- 
ters is  writtten — A  Lamb — Nature — Briiannia.  In 
the  fliield  is  a  naked  Infant :  the  Motto  Help. 

This  is  an  accurate  fac  fimile  from  a  drawing  with, 
B.  pen  and  ink  by  Hogarth.  Publiflied  as  the  Aft 
dlredls  7«^  31,  1781,  by  R.  Live/ay ,  at  Mrs.  Ho. 
garlh's,  L'icejhr  Fields.  The  original  is  in  the  col- 
Jeftion  of  the  Earl  of  Exeter, 

6.  Two  Figures,  &c.  Hogarth  inv.  F.  B.  [i.  e, 
Francis  Bcirtoloz2i]/ailp.  Thefe  figures  were  defigned 
for  Lord  Melccmhe  and  Lord  PFinchelfea.  From  a 
drawing  with  a  pen  and  ink  by  Hogarth.  PubtiJhed 
as  the  Aft  direds,  31  Juiy,  1781,  by  Jl.  Lhs/ay  at 
'i^lts.  Hogarth's,  Leiccjier-fields.  I  am  informed,  how- 
ever, that  this  drawing  was  certainly  the  work  of 
Lord  Townjhend.  The  original  is  in  the  coUedtion  of  . 
the  Earl  of  Exeter. 

7.  A  mezzotinto  portrait  of  Hagarth  with  his  hat 
on,  in  a  large  oval,  "  from  an  original  begun  by 
**  Wheltdon,  and  Bnilhed  by  htmfelf,  late  in  the  poflcf- 
"  fion  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Townley.  Charles  Ta-j/nUy  fic." 
The  family  of  Hogarth  afTcdt  to  know  nothing  of  thia 
painting ;  and  fay,  if  there  is  fuch  a  thing,  it  was 
pnly  flightly  touched  over  by  him.  It  muft  be  con- 
feflcd  that  it  bears  little,  if  any,  refeniblance  to  the 
feprefentations  of  our  artill  edited  by  hinifeif.    The 

origins! 


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[    4«o    3 

an^atl  ■00*  m  die  podcffioa  of  Bfr.  JaMrf 
n  has  beeo  mentioacd  io  p.  98. 
1781, 

I.  The  StaymafcR'. 

s.  Debates  od  Palmiftrr. 

The  biioour  m  the  firfi  of  the  two  1 
priacs  b  Dot  TCty  firocg,  and  in  the  (ccond  it  is 
intelligible  The  Male  Staymaier  feems  to  t 
profeffional  liberties  with  a  female  in  the  Tery  r 
where  her  hiHfoeuid  6ts,  who  ts  pUyiog  with  one  of 
his  children  prdented  to  him  hj  a  nurfc,  pcrfasps 
with  a  view  to  call  off  his  attention  from  what  a  gc»- 
iog  forward.  The  hag  fbcws  her  pretended  kire  Cof 
the  bfant,  by  kifEng  its  pofteriors.  A  maid  femnt 
holds  a  lookiog-glafs  for  the  lady,  and  peeps  ^nifi> 
caotly  at  the  operator  from  behind  it*  A  boy  with  a 
cockade  on,  aod  a  little  fword  by  his  fide,  appears 
to  ob&rve  the  familiarities  already  mcctiooed,  and  is 
ftrutti:^  up  fiercely  towards  the  Staymaker,  whik  4 
girl  b  fpilling  fofne  liquor  io  hb  hat. 

The  figures  employed  in  the  lludy  of  Pthmjby 
tcaa  to  be  defigned  for  Phyficians  and  Sai^eoos  af 
yn  Hofpital,  who  are  debating  on  the  oioll  commo- 
dious method  of  receiving  a  fee,  unanenure  to  the 
complaims  of  a  lame  female  who  (oUfrts  affiilancc, 
A  fpectre,  refetabliDg  the  Riral  Dantf  oacnes  out  be- 
hind, perhaps  to  intimate  that  pbyfich  |nd  poilbn 
will  occafionatly  produce  fimilar  effeds.  A  eUif 
cafe,  contiiiiiiog  Skeletons,  ii  open  ;  a  crocodik  hai^ 
«verhc3d ;  and  an  oivl,  emblematic  of  thb  £ipieat 
6  CQoitttqri^l 


[    4"    ] 

coufiftory,  ts  perched  on  an  high  (land.  I  fufpeft 
thefe  two  to  have  been  difcarded  fketches — the  firft 
of  them  too  barren  in  its  fubjefl:  to  delerve  finiihing, 
and  the  fecond  a  repented  effort  of  hafty  Ipleen 
againft  the  officers  of  St.  Bartbohmew's^  who  mighc 
not  have  treated  fome  recommendation  of  a  patient 
from  our  artift  with  all  the  rcfpeft  and  attention  to 
which  he  thought  it  was  entitled.  But  this  is  mere  1 
{uppolition.  9 

3.  Portrait  of  Henry  Fox  Lord  Holland.  1 

4.  Portrait  of  "James  Cauljield  Earl  of  CharUmont. 
The  above  four  articles  are  ail  etched  by  S.  Haynis, 

pupil  to  the  late  Mr.  Mortimer,  from  original  draw- 
ings in  the  pofleffioaof  Mr.  S.  Ireland. 

The  fix  prints  which  follow,  were  published  by 
fubfcription  by  Mrs.  Hogarth  in  April  \  7S2  ;  of  thefc 
No.  5.  was  engraved  by  Bartolozzi,  and  the  reft  by 
R,  Livefiiy, 

5.  The  Shrimp  Girl,  a  head,  from  ari  original 
iketch  in  oil,  in  the  poflcffion  of  Mrs.  Hogarth. 

This  plate,  which  is  executed  in  the  dotted  manner 
fo  much  at  prefent  in  fafliion,  ihould  have  been  etched 
or  engraved  like  thofe  excellent  performances  by 
Bcurluzzi  after  the  drawings  oi  Guercino.  Spirit, 
rather  than  delicacy,  is  the  charaifterifticof  our  artift's 
Shrimp  Girl. 

6.  7.  Portraits  of  Gabriel  Hunt  and  Benjamin  Read,  in 
a^ua-tinta,  from  the  original  drawings  in  the  poITeffion 
of  the  late  Mr.  Vorrefi.  The  drawing  of  Mr.  Hunt  was 
taken  in  1733,  a  period  when,  from  the  number  of 

ftrect- 


1 


t   t"   3 

,  k  was  ufual  to  go  armed. 
k  in  fnie  od  his  butroD-hoks, 

ODC  D^lii  to  the  club  ftf  ccT  bsrtng  lakco  a  longjoaniey, 
be  tcU  tttkcj'  there  .£2ag0r7i-  bad  got  od  bk  togoe- 
.  Apt^  sad  WIS  aboui:  id  tesre  ihe  room  ;  but,  I 
•  J|ptt  the  iJ7oUrr\'  of  bis  trimd  s  appearance,  he  c 
''Hcivcis-1  Khaimcbaniaei!''and,c 
^  pen  and  ink,  mik  the  disiniig  immediai 
«.itboiic  fcm^  dMOk. 

To  be  Tccfwded  ottlt  as  vanuis  of  ihr  haalc  a 
poiG,  is  so  vd^  Amsii^  mad:  of  di&iosins  m^ 
lUUwiiiafc  cf  Mir  ainfis  ctafa.  Then  k  ioBi 
ooner  OTcnar  Ttt  ^  Tensile  of  Fame 

t*  'nnw  Jibacs  ima  dir  A^^inal  farches 
JB^SH^^fln^ptc^  tnr  ihc  c|HDijd)  and  vransmz  4x 
t  S^iivw     Hit  ^savm^  as  ^  jwyen^  of 


iftw^u  5Miir  VK  a  fianoaB  hear:,  wiu>  died  i»- 
**  vanie  «  fianp- afe -Ana 

*'C^'  ■■  ,  fine  4 

**  ^f  14.    >mcc  that  ic  k 


[    413    1 

"  never  cng3ged  Brougbton  more.  He  is  a  ftrong 
"  able  boxer,  who,  with  a  /kill  extraordinary,  aided 
"  by  his  knowledge  of  the  fmall  and  back  fwords, 
**  and  a  remarkable  judgement  in  the  crofs-bultock 
"  fall,  may  conteft  with  any.  But,  plcafe  or  dif- 
"  pleafe,  I  am  rcfolved  to  be  ingenuous  in  my  cha- 
"  rafters.  Therefore  I  am  of  opinion,  that  he  is  not 
"  overftocked /with  that  neceflary  ingredient  of  a 
"  boxer,  called  a  bottom  ;  and  am  apt  to  fulpcft  that 
*'  blows  of  equal  ftrcngth  wich  his  too  much  affe 
"  him  and  difconcert  his  conduS."  Godfrey  on 
Science  of  Defence  J  p.  6i. 

On  Tayhr^i  tombftone  in  Deptford  chnrch-yard  ii 
the  following  epitaph  : 

Farewell  ye  honours  of  my  brow  ! 

Viftorious  wreaths  farewell  I 
One  trip  from  Death  has  laid  me  low. 

By  whom  fuch  numbers  fell. 
Yet  bravely  I'll  difpute  the  prize. 

Nor  yield,  though  out  of  breath  : 
*Tis  but  a  fall—  I  yet  fhall  rife. 
And  conquer — even  Death. 
The  idea,  however,  is  all  that  can  merit  praife  in 
thefe  rough  outlines  by  Hogarth,     Some  graver  cri- 
tics, indeed,  may  think  our  artift  has  treated  the 
moft  folemn  of  all  events  with  too  great  a  degree  of 
levity. 

9.  Nine  prints  of  Hogarth's  Tour  from  drawings 
by  Hogarth,  he,  accompanied  with  nine  pages  of  let- 
ter prefs.     The  frontifplece  of  this  work  (Mr.  Some- 


'% 


I 


e  »di  i>  iIk  na-iacce  (Mi.  Oiti,)  of  die 
(WluawlCU  WKiirc  wim  tbc  firm  ;  ne  wboie  cm^^ 

wriKiarics^  •SoMcfcvcaiKsofdcDiV.'&ya 
Ht.r<^<,  -vcRprinol  WlkKdaAaAc 

•>  At  lim  iM  Eiav  oteDkn  if  I 

<•  Mi.  SiMt,  aa4  iknc  af  Anr  ina&,  m  < 


TWIiwr—  HiiiHullMi 


faK  «)fc  <l«  gidMaad  Ir  I 

Ite  taaot  awilKpraMKBiaf  At  a 

t«i?iiiiiMt»jit  Aatmi  ■■■■iii*fc 


t    4T5    ] 

/  readers  will  anticipate  me  when  I  obferve 
univerfe  contains  no  place  in  which  Hogarth  had  fo 
little  interell  as  in  the  Cyprian  ifle,  where  Venus  was  at- 
tended by  the  Graces.  Hogarth's  original  iketch, 
which  he  delivered  to  Mr.  Cation  the  coach-painter 
for  the  purpofe  of  having  it  transferred  on  ha  carriage, 
is  now  in  the  pofleffion  of  Mr.  Livs/ay. 

11.  The  card  of  invitation  mentioned  in  p.  63. 
is  introduced  in  the  title-page  of  the  prcfent  pub- 
lication. It  is  engraved  by  J.  Cary,  a  young  artlft, 
whofe  abilities,  more  patticularly  in  the  line  of  map- 
engraving,  will  foon  raife  him  into  notice. 

12.  An  Old  Man's  Head  with  a  band.  In  the 
dotted  ftile.     Published  by  Uvefay, 

1.  Orator  f/^M/^.  Chriftening  a  Child.  Etched 
by  Sam'  Ireland  from  an  original  (ketch  in  oil — in 
his  pofleffion — by  Hogarth. — To  Francis  Grofe, 
Efq;  F.  A.S.  an  encourager  and  promoter  of  the 
ans,  this  etching,  from  his  favourite  Hogarth,  la. 
infcribed  by  his  obliged  friend  and  fervant, 

Sam"-  IrelanIi. 

2.  A  Landfcapc.  Etch'd  by  Sam' Ireland,  from 
an  original  pifture  in  his  polTeflion,  faid  to  be 
the  only  landfcape  ever  painted  by  Hogarth. — ' 
To  the  Right  Honourable  the  Earl  of  Exeter, 
an  admirer  of  Hogarth,  and  encourager  of  the  arts, 
this  etching  is  infcribed  by  his  Lordfhip's  moft 
obliged  and  obedient  fervant.  S.  Irelanb. 

■^hc  very  confiderable  degree  of  fkill  and  fidelity, 
^ifplayed  ia  the  execution  of  thefe  two  platesj  enri«, 

tin 


1 


I 


I 


t  4r<  ] 
ties  Ae  goNleinan  who  etched  then  to  rite  H 
tbaoks  of  every  coWe&or  of  the  works  of  Hogarlb, — 
Iflj^  a  hope  be  added,  thac  he  will  favour  us  araih 
jet  other  uopublilbcd  de%m  of  the  fame  mafler  i 


PaiNTS  ff/  lauirtaa  Date. 

Before  Mr.  fr<.^/(V  nmmeration  of  the  foUowti^ 
flwp'bills,  coats  of  arms,  &c.  made  its  appeaiance, 
perhaps  few  of  ibem  were  IcBOwn  to  our  colle&m. 
Coaccrning  the  gcnuir.encfs  of  ibme  of  tbefe  unim- 
portant engravings,  r.o  doubt  can  be  entertained  j 
but  whence  is  ii  inferred  that  all  of  ihcm  were  his 
produdions  ?  Do  we  receive  thecn  merely  on  the 
faith  of  Mr.  ?»nd  f  or  are  they  imputed  to  our  artift 
fw  any  other  rcafon,  or  on  the  ftrength  of  any  other 
teiltmotij' }  i  am  a0ured,  by  a  gentleman  who  pof- 
fcHcs  the  chief  of  them,  and  is  well  acquainted  with 
Htgariy'i  manner,  that  from  mere  external  evidence 
fcvcral  of  tbcfc  could  not  have  been  authenticated. 

It  is  natural,  however,  to  fuppofe  that  moft  of 
tbcm  (if  Hegarlb'j)  v/eve  the  fruits  of  his  apprcn- 
liceftiip  *.  Ai  fuch,  therefore,  they  fliouJd  be  p] 
at  the  beginning  of  every  collcduon. 

•  Let  ii  be  remembered  likewife,  ihat  bemg  bound  appren- 
ticc  to  llic  bugle  branch  of  engraving  arms  and  cyphers,  ihe 
najarirj'  of  hi*  worki,  whether  on  bafe  meial  or  filrer,  mntl 
lia\e  bei'ii  long  fince  melted  donn.  During  ihe  minority  of 
Haga'ib,  (he  formi  in  nhich  pUic  wai  made,  coitid  coninbuie 
little  10  iti  chsnic  of  pfelervation.  Pot-bellied  lanliirdi,  amJ 
fnlvcri  Icalloped  like  old-falbi&Dcd  minced-pict,  were  tli« 
bjgbcii  cSuri*  of  that  pehuil. 


li  I*^ple  in  a  fiiop  under'  tfie  kthjg*s  arms :  Mi^f 
^nd  Ann  Hogarth.    ^*  Aflyop-blW*  for  Iris  two  fiftcfsi 
\\o  for  many  yiears  kept  a  linien-draper^s^  or  rather 
vhat  is  tallied  a  ilop-fbop. 

Mary  and  jlm  Hogahb. 
from  the  Old  Frock-fliop  near  the  corner  of  TBi 
Long  Walk^  facing  The  Clcyfters^  Removed  to  y* 
Kings  Arms  joyning  to  y®  Little  Britain-gate^  near 
LQng  Walkp  Selii  y*  beft  and  mod  Falhionable 
Ready  Made  Frocks,  futes  of  Fuftian,  Ticken  and 
Hbllatid^  ftript  Dimmity  and  FlaBel  Waftcoats,  blue 
and  canvas  Frocks,  and  bluecoat  Boys  Dra*^'. 

Likewife  Fuflians,  Tickens,  Hollands,  white  ftript 
Diinitys,  white  and  ftript  Flanels  in  y^  piece. 
By  ^holefale  or  Retale,  at  Reafonabk  Rates. 

2.  His  own  cypher,  with  his  name  under  it  at 
length ;  ^'  a  plate  be  ufed  for  bis  books  J*  I  have  rea- 
ibn  to  think  it  was  neither  defigned  nor  engraved  by 
Hogarth. 

3.  A  Turk's  head.  «*  Afltop  bill,''  for  John  Barker, 
]goldfmith,  at  the  Morocco  Ambaflador's  head  in  Loni* 
bdrd'Ssteet, — A  copy  of  this  has  been  niade. 

4«  A  (hop-bill,  with  emblems  of  Trade*  Grand 
Duke  of  Tufcany's  arms  at  the  top  ;  thofe  of  Florence 
within  the  plate.  At  the  four  corners,  views  of  Nap- 
pies, Venice,  Genoa,  and  Leghorne. 

At  Mrs.  Holfsy 

Italian  Warehdufe, 

at  the  two  Olive  Pofts  in  y«  Broad  part  of  fhe 

Strand  almofl  oppofite  to  Exetir  Change  are  fold  all 

Sorts  of  Zr^i/rVm  Silks,  as  Luftrings,  Sattins,  Padefbii^ 

E  e  Velvets, 


Goldfmith, 
at  the  GcUen-Jtigel  in  Cran^ 
iourn  -  Street ^  Letce/ler  •  Fields. 
Makes  Buys  and  Sells  all  Sorts 
of  Plate,  Rings  and  Jewels 
&c. 


[418    3 

Velvets,  Damaiksy  &c«  Fans,  Legorae  Hats^  Fkmm, 
Lute  and  Violin  Strings,  JBooks  of  Effiinces,  Veniop 
Treacle,  Balfomes,  &ۥ  And  in  a  Back  WareBode 
all  Sorts  of  Ualian  Wines,  Florence  Cordials,  Ojrl, 
Olives,  Anchovies,  Capers,  Vermicelli,  Bologtiia  Sau- 
fidges,  Parmefan  Cheefes,  Naple  Soap,  &c. 

5 .  A  large  angel,  holding  a  palm  in  his  left  hani 
"  AJhap-biW  for 

ElUs  Gamhk  Ellis  GeuM 

Orfeure, 
a  PEnfeigne  de  PAngc  dt)r 
dans  CroMt^arM'^rHii  Ld* 
cffier-Fields.  Fait,  Aieheie,. 
&  vend  toute9.ibctetd'Ac|BD- 
terie,  Bagues  &  Bgonxsi  te. 

6.  A  fmaller  angel.  This  is  a  contraded  copf 
from  the  preceding,  was  another  ihop-bill  ibr  our 
Artift's  Mailer,  and  has  the  fame  infcription  as  dut 
already  given, 

7.  Another  fmall  angel  "  almoft  the  fame  as  the 
*^  preceding,'*  in  the  colle&ion  of  Mr.  ff^alpok. 

8.  A  large  oval  coat  of  arms,  with  terms  of  the 
four  feafons. 

9.  A  coat  of  arms,  with  two  flaves  and  tropbks. 
Plate  for  books. 

ID.  Another  coat  of  arms,  and  two  boys  as  tenns* 

1 1.  A  foreign  coat  of  arms ;  fupporters  a  lavage 
and  an  angeh    Ditto* 

12.  Lord  Aylmer's  coat  of  arms. 

13.  Two  ditto  of  the  Duchefs  of  Kendal;  one  of 
them,  an  impreffion  from  a  filver  tea-table. 

14.  The  Earl  of  Radnor^ $  arms,  froni  a  (ilver  cup 
and  cover. 

15,  A 


[    419    3 

.ij^  A  grifon,  with  aflag.    Acreft. 

16.  Mnervdy  fitting  and  holdiilg  the  arms  of 
tbUand,  four  Cupids  round  her.  "  Done  for  the  books 
^  ijjf  John  Holland,  herald-painter** 

Of  this  there  are  two  plates.  The  Fleurs  de  Lys 
iQ.  the  one  are  more  numerous  and  crowded  than  in 
the  otheri 

17.  A  ticket  for  a  burial. 

For  the  fame  purpofe  our  drtift'^  contemporary 
Q^</  likewife  engraved  a  plate,  which  is  dill  in  ufe, 

i8.  Two  fmall  for  Milton.  W.  Hogarth  inv.  i^fculp. 
,.  It  is  fo.  fingular, '  that  only  plates  referring  to  the 
Bf0:  and  third  books  of  Par adife  LoJ  Ihould  be  dif- 
Dovcred  with  our  artift's  name  fubfcribed  to  them^ 
that  I  almoft  fufpedt  th^y  were  not  executed  for  any 
Edition  of  that  work,  but  rather  for  fome  oratorio 
at  operatical  performance  founded  thereon,  though 
neither  performed  nor  printed.  An  example  of  two 
prints  by  Hogarth  to  a  fingle  dramatic  piece,  we  have 
already  met  with  in  Perfeus  and  Andromeda. 

If  the  firft  of  the  prefent  defigns  was  made  for  the 
firft  book  of  Paradife  Lofiy  one  might  almoft  fwear 
that  Hogarth  had  never  read  it,  or  he  could  not  have 
fallen  into  the  ftrange  abfurdijies  and  incoherences 
that  his  engraving  difplays.  We  have  on  one  fide  a 
Daemon  exalted  in  a  kind  of  pulpit,  at  the  foot  ot 
which  another  infernal  fpirit  lies  bound  in  chaiprs, 
while  a  cannon  is  pointed  at  his  head.  At  a  dif- 
tance,  in  the  centre  of  an  arcade  ado;^t6d_with  fta* 
tues,  is  a  throne  with  a  perfonage  feated  on  it.  Over 
hislieadare  little  beings  fuppordrig  ah* emblem  of 

E  e  2  eternity^ 


*n»rffgili  I  ■  I    II  — I  Mil  ■»>  i 


.  ate  aa^s  ilfaifrin  a<  Ikifc  •>•  •b  ki<  a 


mm  mmlU  bmx  wiOaa  A€  xad 


i 


C    4^'     ] 

A  bookfellcr  of  commoa  fagacity  would  have  been 
juftified  in  rejcding  thefc  defigns,  if  prepared  for 

feats  of  IiJE  peers  1  are  circiiir.flaDcea  entitled  to  a  more  flat- 
tering  reception  than  they  have  met  with.  Thai  this  print 
has  likewire  abfurdities,  1  am  ready  to  allow  :  yet  a  feltaire 
might  alk  whether  moft  of  ihcm  arc  tiot  infeparable  from  its 
fubjefl.  I  wifli,  for  the  fake  of  thofe  who  ackaowlcdge  the 
genius  of  Hot^/fth  only  in  familiar  combinati'ins,  that  the  phte 
in  qweflion  were  lefs  rare.  Our  connoifleurj  in  general  might 
ilicn  decide  on  its  merits.  The  only  known  impreflton  of  it, 
as  well  39  of  its  wmpaoion,  is  in  the  collection  of  Mr.  IVal- 
fiole*,  who  once  indulged  me  with  a  fight  of  them  both. 

*'  I  am  conient,  however,  ihat  the  lecond  of  ihefc  platef 
fliould  be  abandoned  to  the  auileritics  of  criticifm.  The  ar- 
chitciSnre  in  the  (kics  is  every  way  unfuitable  to  its  place.  The 
charaflers  of  the  Almighty  and  our  Redeemer  have  little,  if 
any,  difcrimination  of  attnbutei  or  years.  They  appear  fwing* 
ing  on  a  feftoon  compofed  of  tiny  cherubs,  cliiflered  together 
like  a  fwarm  of  bees.  The  Father  reils  his  arm  on  one  of 
thefc  childifh  fatellitcs  ;  and  the  bon  holds  another  by  ibe 
wing,  like  Damitia*  catching  a  &y.  J3encath,  ii  a 
angels,  who  perform  on  different  infiruments,  and  among 
others  (as  Mr.  Nk-hn!':  book  expreffea  it)  on  a  cinmfy  orgin. 
X-uci/er,  approaching  the  new-created  world,  aijpears  but  ae 
an  infed,  flying  towards  an  apple.  This  part  of  Hn^mtli's 
fubjeCt  is  beyond  the  compafs  of  any  deQgn  on  a  contrafted 
feale.  Saitm  might  be  delineated  in  the  aft  of  alighting  on  a 
promontory,  apart  of  the  e.     "      ' 

is  exhibited  on  a  flip  of  paper  measuring  abotil  fix  i-:che9  by 
four,  the  enterpiizing  fiend  ninft  be  reduced  to  very  infignifi- 
canc  dimenfions.  Such  aciicumllance  may  therefore  fuccced 
in  a  poet's  comprchenfivc  defcription,  but  will  fail  on  any 
plate  defigncd  for  the  ornament  of  a  little  volume. 

"Letmeadd.tbatthefetwoare  the  neatellaud  mofl  finiihed 
of  all  the  engravings  by  Uegarih,  The  fccond  miglit  hLivo 
been  miftaken  for  one  of  the  linaller  works  of  Pkari.  Peihaps 
the  high  price  demanded  for  the  plates,  wa»  the  rcafon  why  a 
fsries  of  them  was  not  continued  through  the  other  books  of 
faradije  Lefi." 

»  Thefc  two  plates 


I 


I 


mmnm,  Lrt  icliei 
mak  kxR  bees  jmeM^  tke  csfieft  of  Htg^rtlTM  pcr- 
fetaaaea,  aod,  fiix  fab  pnis  fior  Dtm  .^joMte,  wci^ 
io  il)  prababflky  tfanma  afidc^  as  nofiaeed  to  the 
porpofe  lipr  wfaidi  tber  were  cngratcd.  I  fane  bcc« 
totd,  iodeed,  iba;  a  coupk  of  plato,  by  iNir  vriC. 
CotbeccKiiedjrof72tf5/tfx^/h«/-,ate  Qill  i  iiflM^' 
If  Hfgariif  therefore,  was  otice  cmplovcd  is  pcepor- 
iDg  cats  to  tbe  pbjs  of  Dtydtm^  ibe  dcfigos  abcadj 
ntestiODed  mi^t  hare  been  ioccDded  for  two  dilenaK 
fcenes  in  He  State  cf  butuntt,  cr  the  Fall  sf  \figm. 

19.  A  coat  of  anns  from  a  targe  filrtr  lea  bblc. 
Under  tbeic  amu  are  a  lhcj<bcrd  aod  hU  flociE,  cx- 
ttdXj  the  (ame  as  tbofe  on  the  taakard,  N=  25.  A 
Aepberd  and  ibcpherdefs  alfo  are  the  fupportcn. 
This  has  been  afcribed  to  H&^artb,  but  I  fulped  it 
TD  be  a  copy,  and  am  lold  iodecd  that  it  was  en- 
graved by  Pelilreau. 

to.  Impreffion  from  a  coat  of  anm  engraved  oa 
a  fijfer  difii  made  by  DtUmery,  purcfaafrd,  at  ibrne 
diflaoce  of  time,  by  Sir  Cre^sry  Pa^e,  Ban.  who 
erafed  the  original  arms  from  the  efcutchron,  sitd 
had  his  own  put  in.  The  dilh  was  afternards  bought 

•  Thtfc  «re  m  iSe  colUflion  of  the  Eart  of  Fxf*rr,  md  «re 
fijd  cr>  hiivc  the  name  of  oor  inift  filUdoidiy  affixed  to  tlx 
I  tyait,  bowerer,  wuh  noccnainiy. 


mJ  to  them. 

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at  Chrijlle's  at  a  fale  of  Sir  Gregory's  plate ;  and'wlicn 
25  imprcffions  only  had  been  taken  from  ir,  was  cut 
to  pieces  by  R,  Morrifon,  1781.  I  wifli  fotne  of 
thcfc  difcoveries  of  Hogarth's  engravings  had  been 
made  by  people  who  had  no  immediate  view  to  their 
own  profit,  and  the  fale  of  their  acquilitions.  Too 
many  of  our  colleiftors  are  become  dealers. 

21.  Small  oval  print  for  the  Rape  of  the  Lock, 
This  was  not  deligned  for  any  edition  of  it.  A  few 
impreffions  only  were  taken  off  from  the  lid  of 
fnuff-box  engraved  by  Mr.  Hogarth,  as  it  is  believed, 
for  fome  gentleman  charailerized  by  Pope  in  hii 
celebrated  mock-heroic  poem.  It  is  one  of  the 
pooreft  of  Hogarth's  performances. 

22.  An  embiemaiic  print,  reprefenting  Agricul- 
ture and  Arts.  *'  It/eems  to  be  a  ticket  for  jotac  jb* 
ciety." 

23.  A  ticket  for  the  benefit  of  Afilward  the  trage- 
dian. A  fcene  in  The  Bfggar's  Op<.ra  ;  *'  Pitt  31." 
infc'ned  with  a  pen  between  "Theatre" and  "  Roy.il," 
in  a  fcroU  at  the  bottom  of  it.  I  have  feen  an  ini- 
preffion  of  it,  under  which  iscngravcd,  •'  Lincolus-!nn 
"  Fields,  Tuefday,  Aprill  23.  A  Bold  Stroke  /r  a 
"  IVife,  with  Entertainments,  for  the  benefit  of  Mr, 
"  Mlwavd."  This  carelefs,  but  fpirited  little  en- 
graving, has  more  of  Hc^arth's  manner  than  ieveral 
other  more  laboured  pieces,  which  of  late  have  been 
imputed  to  him. — Let  the  connoifleur  judge. 

This  ticket  (as  is  already  obit-rved)  mull  have 

been  ifflied  before  173?,  when  tlie  Theatre  in  L/n- 

E  e  4  tolits- 


r4M 

tttf^^  aNMOKdw  re^  mnoveii  to  C>c<tfC 


%  The  f«%f  Oafmam, 


tksmttr,  Gftr'Hf 

Uagiutb  rm.  ttja^ 


'riat/ttStTM  ^^^ 


To  the  nrtHI  unpreffiortt  of  tbis  pise,  the  i 

i  "ayi-r  (tor  whora  ic  bas  fiocc  been  reumcbed)  ^ 
wanctflg  **  .flr^^  /rsia  G^pel's  Doo  Qia«w».* 
UntWiKrh,  thcie  verges; 

Fnxn  FiftfTn  cltTin.  rrsnfpUnced  to  our  cuABy 
Two  olr^r:'!!  order*  ih  It  citation  boailt 
Il«re  ruer  io  mini  iturc.  npm'd  to  »iew 
TH'M  bf  riKir  cond'^  men  may  judge  ibeir  d 
The  Gf-'^rs'-.',  a  venerable  race, 
Ap'^^'t:  Hiftinguili'd  Aiirh  peculiar  grace  : 
Wlt^r  honour  !  w'trdocn  !  rruth  !  and  focial  hire  I 
feurr  Tuch  an  order  had  iu  bifrh,  above. 
But  msrlc    Free  Mafotn  '-  wbar  a  farce  is  this? 
Ho»  wild  iheir  myfttrf !  what  a  fiimt  tbey  k^&*fl[ 
Who  wmiM  WK  laugh  +.  who  fuch  occaGons  had  ? 
Who  Ihould  not  weep,  to  think  the  world  (b  madlf 
•  Oa  th'i  n«jifion  the  print  cxhibiii  a  ini'  ofh<K 
ihiii  m»f  hi'h'Ttn  h»ve  Hc^petl  obfcrvation.    Tu  render  dw 
putt  pfcfofcd  for  hluii'i'm  more  ir>nptiag,  ii  bu  futdict  un, 
fiiCh  t(  w'lmen  »'»'e  ■■  (be  uinr  vheii  iHc  plauwti  pgMiflied* 
f   W^«  Ti-j«U  M/  l/twfi,  t<<-.l   Parody    on  tbs  cancladiag 
tonplcl  (ff  /'i^'i  chariQcr  of  AJ£p». 

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I  Ihoulci  fufpcft  that  this  plate  was  publifhed  about 

174^,  when  the  Ptoceffion  *  oi  Scald  Mifirabk^  bad 
been  produced  -f  to  parody  the  cavalcade  of  the  Free 

*  The  contriver!  of  the  Mock  Proceffion  were  at  thni  time 
faid  to  be  Paul  U'hiieljtaJ,  cfq.  and  his  intimate  friend  (whole 
real  Ghriftian  nami:  was  Efquire)  Cam,  of  Pall  Ma!/,  furgcon 
to  FrtJtrie  Prince  of  ffalri.  The  ckty  officers  did  not  fuBer  ' 
thjg  proccffioa  to  go  through  TempU-Ear,  the  common  report 
then  being,  that  its  real  intent  tvas  to  affront,  the  annual  pro*-' 
cellion  of  the  Free  Mafons.  The  Prince  was  fo  much  of.  ' 
fen<led  nt  thii  piece  of  ridicule,  that  he  immediately  removed 
Cany  from  the  office  he  held  imder  him. 

-f-  The  print,  rep  relenting  a  View  of  &mfr/ff-//i>t/?  and  of 
7bi  SiraaJ,  is  3  feet  11^  inches  in  length,  and  tea  inches  in 
wldih  (  and  is  intituled,  "  A  Geometrical  View  of  ilte  giand 
"  Proceffion  of  the  fcaid-miferable  Mafona,  defigned  as  they 
**  were  drawn  up  over  againft  Somerfet-Hmji  in  Tht  Strenii,  ott 
"  the  Tweoiy-fcventh  of  j^i-/7,  An"  1741.  Invented  and  en- 
"  graved  by  A,  Brnaifi,  at  his  Lodgings,  at  Mr.  Jnr^aa't,  a 
"Grocer,  the  North  Eaft  Corner  oi' Compton-firect,  Se-i»t 
"  and  Ibid  by  iIjc  I'rintfelleM  of  LmM  and  jyeji  ~ 
Note,  A,  BtnoiJI  teachi;s  Drawing  abroad. 

"  N"  1.  Tbe  grand  Swo^rd  Bearer,  or  Tyler,  carrying  tho 
"  Swoard  of  State  [aFrefcnt  oUjhmatl  Mif  to  o\A  Myram  Kin] 
"  of  the  Sar«,eni)  lo  his  Grace  of  tKaitU,  Gr^nd  Matter 
"  the  Holy  Lodge  of  ft.  Joh«  efjerufakm  in  CUrkrmvttU, 
"  I.  Tylers  or  Guarders. 
"  5.  Gr.md  Chorus  of  Inftrumenis. 

*'  +.  The  Stewards,  in  three  Gntt  Carts,  drawn  by  Aflei. - 
•'  5.  T*'o  famous  Pillars,  Ja,bhi  and  Hm^. 
"  6.  Three  great  Lights:  the  Sun  Hieroglyphical  lo  rul« 
('  the  Day,  the  Mc^on  EnitiUmaiical   to  rule  the    Night ;   a: 
t'  Mafler  Mafon  political  lo  rule  his— Lodge. 
"  7.  The  Entered  Prentice's  Token. 

"  8,  The  Letter  G  fatuous  in  Malonry  for  tiifferencing  th«' 
"  Fallow  Craft's  Lodge  from  that  of  Prentices, 

"  9.  The  Funeral   of  a  Grand  Mailer,  according  to  thc! 
i'  Rites  of  the  Order,  with  the  15  loving  Brethren. 

•  M  10.  A  Mailer  Mafon's  Lodge. 
t-  "  II.  Oral 


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•  Ki<e^  ikr  •:«  pit,  by  liBir  CrfL 

••Mrffcr^M^.*— Fl»iitfbr7.JEeU;x  Tim  JO^-^i  Jmm 
m  ttrntfum,  aid  ibU  bf  fte  FanpfabbAopH  Sc    Hte 

faanOk  fcm  TV  Umbm  Dmif  P^,  Mwd  m^  r^^t^t, 
mc  M  TAtrihr  A*n>«  amck  Fne-MaibDa  nmchrf  dtnntgft 
*  fM-M^mid  Thtlinmi,  m  eir  »  rai^Ml»-Av,ai  pioertian  : 
*■  IM  <»«1E  tttoHV  OB  j»fc  i<a,  wuft  coss  hnas  in  dictr 


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himfelf  of  any  popular  fubjeift  that  afibrded  a  fcope 
to  ridicule.      Among  Harry  Carey's  Poems,    how- 
ver,  1729,  third  edition,  is  the  following; 
'*  The  Moderator  between  the  Free-Mafons   and 
*'  Gormogons. 
"  The  Mafons  and  the  Gormogons 
■  *'  Are  laughing  at  one  another, 
"  While  all  mankind  are  laughing  at  them  ; 
"  Then  why  do  they  make  fuch  a  pother  i 
<*  They  bait  their  hook  for  fimple  gulls, 
"  And  truth  with  bam  they  fmother; 
"  But  when  they've  taken  in  their  culls, 
"  Why  then  'tis — Welcome  Brother  !" 


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»'  drawn  by  fix  horfes,  each  of  a  different  colour  and  fize,  it 
*'  which  weic  the  grand  matter  and  wardens;  the  whole  at. 
'•  tended  by  a  vail  mob.  They  flayed  without  Trmpit  Bar  till 
*'  the  Mafons  came  by,  and  paid  their  cotnptimenta  to  ibem, 
"  who  returned  the  fame  with  an  agreeable  humour  that  pcf- 
"  fibiy  difappointed  the  witty  contriver  of  this  niAck  fcene, 
*'  whofe  niistortune  is,  that  though  he  has  fome  wit,  his  fub- 
*'  jc3«  are  generally  lb  ill  chofen,  that  he  lofes  by  it  a«  many 
■  '  friends  as  other  people  of  more  judgement  gnin." 

Again,  Afiri/ii,  174J.  "  Yefierday  being  the  annual  feaft 
"  of  the  ancient  and  honourable  focieiy  of  Free  and  Accepted 
*'  Mafons,  they  made  a  grand  proceffion  from  Brock-fntt  to 
♦'  HabrrdaJInn  Hall,  where  an  elegant  entertainment  was  pro- 
*'  vided  for  them,  and  the  evening  was  coticluded  with  thai 
"  harmony  and  decency  peculiar  to  the  focicly." 

"  Some  lime  before  the  fociety  began  their  cavalcade,  ■ 
"  number  of  llioc-cleaners,  chimney -fwetpers,  &c.  on  foot 
*'  and  in  carts,  with  ridiculous  pageanit  carried  before  them, 
"  went  in  proceflion  to  Templt-Bar,  by  way  of  jcfl  on  the  Free- 
"  Mafons,  at  the  expence,  as  we  hear,  of  one  hundred  pouudi 
"  rterling,  which  occaConcd  a  great  deal  of  diverfion." 

Again,  May  3,  1744.  "  Yefierday  fcveral  of  the  mock 
'*  mafou!  were  taken  up  by  the  conftable  empowered  to  im* 
'I  prefa  men  for  hia  Majelly's  fervice,  and  confined  till  they 
M  caa  b«  examined  by  the  jufticcs," 

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T^  psTtmrixT  mSpmcs  w twees  tfee  parties  retcnvn 
tp  by  thb  poan,  it  i>  ooc  oTy  to  aicenaia.  Pa- 
h*g»  Ae  hufnoaroas  wriier  2  ludcs  to  fbcne  I«:lii6n  or 
***#rf^'"  iKHr  forgoctco.  Mr.  GrM^,  in  ooc  of  ks 
leficn  to  Mr.  H'^-Ip-M,  uyf,  "  I  reckoo  dcxi  week  a> 
**  bear  you  ate  a  Free  Maioo,  or  a  Cira^sca  at  Icaft.^ 
4lDc()iiion   p.  18S. 

I  Inro  from  Mafunj  Di^3^t  &c.  a  pampUet 
publiflied  in  1730,  by  Samael  PrUb^rd,  bee  mem- 
ber of  a  CooflUuied  Lotlge,  that  "  FfoiJ  ibe  Ac- 
**  crptcd  Mafoo  fprang  the  real  Mafoos,  and  firoai 
•*  both  fprang  the  CA'awyau,  whofe  grand  maficr 
**  die  Volp  deduces  bis  original  from  tbe  Chim^^ 
"  wbofc  writing!,  if  to  be  credited,  maiatain  tbe 
"  hvpothcfcs  of  the  Pre-adamites,  and  coofcqucatly 
•*  mull  be  more  antique  than  MafoDry." — This  cir- 
mmllance  will  account  for  the  Ciiiufe  names  and 
habits  in  our  artifl's  plate. 

74.  S»nc})c,  at  tbe  magnificent  feafl,  &c.  ftanrcd 
by  hit  Phyfici^n.  Oa  the  top  of  this  plate  are  tbe 
following  words  :  "  This  origiiial  print  was  invented 
•"  and  engraved  by  tlUliam  Hogaitb.  Price  is"  At 
bonofn  wc  read,  W.  Hagartb  iirv.  ^  ftuif,  PriniM 
far  }/.  Overi9H  and  J.  Ho^le.  Perhaps  this  defign  was 
meant  as  a  rival  to  that  of  G^/w/  on  the  fame  fubjed ; 
or  might  be  intended  by  way  of  fpecimeo  of  a  com- 
plac  fct  of  pUtcs  for  Don  ^lixote.  Mr.  S.  Ireland  hai 
ibeor'ginal  drawing. 

25.    Impreflion  from  a  tankard   belonging  to  a  ] 
dub  of  artifb,  who  met  weekly  ai  The  BalTt  Utad  ii 

Cbrt'  \ 


c  419  : 

Clare-Market.  Of  thU  (ocicty  Hogarth  was  1 'mem*' 
ber.  A  fliepherd  and  his  flock  arc  here  reprefenrcd. 
26.  The  Gin  Drinkers.  This  may  have  been  ooe 
of  Hogarth's  early  performances  ;  and,  if  fuch,  is  to 
be  confidered  as  a  rude  fore-runner  of  his  Gin-Lane^ 
But  I  do  not  vouch  for  Its  authencity. 

2.7.  The  Oratory  *.  Orator  Htnky  on  a  fcaffold, 
a  monkey  (over  whom  is  written  Ameri)  by  his  fide* 
A  box  of  pills  and  the  Hyp  Doiftof  lying  befide 
him.  Over  his  head,  "  The  Oratory.  Invcniam 
viani,  aut  faciam  f ."  Over  the  door.  '*  Ingrtdere  hC 
*'  projicias  J."  A  Parfon  receiving  the  money  fw 
admiHion.  Under  him,  "  The  Treafury."  A  Butcher 
Hands  as  porter.  On  the  left  hand,  Modcfty  in  a 
cloud ;  Folly  in  a  coach  ;  and  a  gibbet  prepared 
for  Merit ;  people  laughing.  One  marked  The 
Scout  5>  introducing  a  Puritan  Divine.  A  Boy 
cafing  nature.  Several  grotefque  figures,  one  of 
them  (marked  Tee-Her)  in  a  violeni  fit  of  laughter. 
1  difcovcr  no  reafon  for  regarding  this  as  a  produc- 
tion of  Hogartby  though  his  name,  cut  from  the 
bottom  of  one  of  his  fmaller  works,  was  fraudulently 

*  There  arc  fuch  coincidences  between  this  print  and  that 
of  7?jf  Bf^gar'i  Optra,  as  incline  me  lo  think  they  were  both 
fay  the  fame  hiind, 

t  The  mi-tio  on  the  mcdaU  which  Mr  Hc«liy  difperfcd 
at  tickets  tu  his  fublcribers.     bee  Noie  on  Ouneiaii,  ML  199. 

;  Thisinlciipiion  is  over  theomer  door  of  Si   fuMl'i  ichnol. 

§  Oj  what  pLTlunage  the  name  of  Scput  was  bellowed,  i  am 
unable  to  iiilbrm  the  re.idei',  th.iii^h  1  rtcolltfl  haviug  fecn 
the  lame  figure  in  feveial  other  pniits,  partientarly  one  I'rora 
which  it  appears  that  he  was  at  laft  inuiiiu-cd. 

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coRtempc  of  a  peHbnmnce  which  hardlj  ddencs  lb 
uofavoimble  a  character.  This  eodrc  drfigo,  bow- 
ever,  is  ftolen  frocn  a  picture  of  Hitmfiirk,  which 
has  been  fince  eagraved  in  mezzotinto  by  iV.  Diekht' 
fen  of  New  Boni'jtrttt^  and  publiihed  Manh  to, 
1772.  The  original  pidure  is  b  the  poflelSoa  of 
Mr.  Wiofen,  furgeoo,  in  Rathhone  Place. 

The  title  given  to  this  plate  by  the  ingenious  en- 
gravpr,  i*  -Tbe  VUU^e  Mgtjirate.  All  the  male  figures 
ate  mon-kies;  all  the  female  ones,  cats,  tkiartb  has 
likcwife  been  indebced  to  its  companion — The.  Cea- 
fabU  oftbt  Nrgbl.  Few  iaiprcffions  from  theic  placet 
having  been  hitheno  fold,  they  ate  both  in  excelleot 
condition,  and  the  former  of  ibetn  exhibits  an 
putable  inftancc  oi  HogarthU  plagiarircn. 

While  Picart  was  preparing  his  Religious  Ctrem»- 
uieif  he  wrote  to  fome  iricnd  here,  to  fupply  him 
with  teprcfcnratioos  illuftrativc  of  his  fubjeft.  His 
coirefpoiident,  cither  through  ignorance  or  defigo* 
furniflied  him  with  the  two  preceding  plates  by  Ho' 
garth,  Picart  has  engraved  the  former  with  a  few 
variations,  and  the  latter  with  the  uttnoft  fidelity. 
The  one  is  called  by  him  Le  Serment  de  la  Fiile  qui 
ft  trowue  enceinte ;  the  other,  Le  Bapteme  demeftique. 
The  6rft  contains  a  luppofed  portrait  of  Sir  Tbomu 
d«  yeil.  For  the  convedion  of  a  eivil  into  a  reUpau 
ceremony,  let  the  Frenchman,  or  his  purveyor,  be 
anfwetable.  The  lines  under  Hogarth's  performance 
are  at  follows : 

Here  Juftice  triumphs  in  his  elbow  chair. 

And  makes  his  matktt  of  the  ttading  fair  j 

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His  office-flielves  with  parifh  laws  are  »rac'tl, 

Butfpelling-books,  and  guides  between  'em  plac'd.' 

Here  pregnant  mndam  fcreensthe  real  fire. 

And  falfcly  Uears  hcrbaQurJ  child  forhire 

Upon  a  rich  old  Ictcher,  who  denies 

The  faft,  and  vows  the  naughty  Huflif  lies  ; 

His  wife  enrag'd,  exclaims  againft  her  fpoufe. 

And  fwears  ftie'H  be  reveng'd  upon  his  brows  ; 

The  jade,  thejiiftice,  and  church-ward'ns  agteej 

And  force  hiTi  to  provide  fecurity. 

Hogarllj's  pidture  is  in  the  pofTeflion  of  the  Rev. 
Mr.  WbalUy,  tit  E^o»,  I^ortb.TmtonJhire. 

Mr.  Whaltrf  is  the  nephew  of  John  Palmer,  whofe 
portrait  is  mentioned  among  the  works  of  Hogarth. 
See  p.  295.  This  pidture  too  is  at  Edon.  The  fore- 
going print  (as  already  obferved,  p.  iji.)  mull  have 
been  publiHicd  before  the  year  1735. 

30.  Right  Hon.  Gujlavus  Lord  Vifcount  Bnyne, 
&c.  &c.  Whole  length,  raezzotintp.  W,  Hogarth 
pitix.  Andrew  Miller  Jicit.  "  A  very  bad  print,  dona 
"  in  Ireland." 

I  have  fincc  met  with  an  early  imprellion  of  this 
mezzotinto.  The  infcription,  dedication,  &c.  un- 
derneath it,  are  as  follows  : 

"  W.  Hi'gfirth  phix.  Ford  feat.  The  H'.  Hon"*, 
'*  Gujiavus  i^ord  Vifc'.  Boym,  Baron  of  StackalleTif 
"  one  of  his  Majefty's  moft  Hon'''".  Priuy  Council^ 
*'  one  of  the  Com",  of  the  Revenue  of  Irelmid,  &c. 

"  To  the  R'.  Hon"',  the  Earl  of  Kildare  this  piat« 
**  is  humbly  dedicated  by  his  Lordfliip's  moft  obet 
"  dient  humble  ferv'.  M/cb.  Ford. 

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Mid.  Fard,  Painter  i 
Price  5'.  j""."  [i.  e.  five 


"  Publifhed  and  fold  b) 
"  Print-feller  on  Cork  Hill, 
thirtcens,] 

Mr.  IValpole's  is  probably  a  later  or  a  retouched 
impreffion  from  the  fame  plate,  after  it  had  fallen 
into  the  hands  of  one  Andrew  Miller,  who  effaced  the 
name  of  Ford,  and  fubftituted  his  own. 

This  fcarce  print  will  undoubtedly  fuffer  from  com- 
parifon  with  the  works  of  Smith,  M'Ardelt,  Earkmt 
Jonetf  &c.  and  yet  perhaps  it  is  tlie  beft  mezzotinio 
that  Ireland  has  hitherto  produced.  It  muft  be  con- 
fefled,  however,  that  Hogarth's  whole-length  figure 
of  Lord  Boyne  is  equally  void  of  grace,  meaning,  and 
proportion ;  but  thefe  dcfefts  have  no  connexion 
with  the  labours  oi  Ford,  which  would  have  appear- 
ed to  more  advantage  had  they  been  exerted  on 
better  fubjedt. 

31.  Mr.  Pine  (the  celebrated  engraver),  in  the' 
manner  of  Rembrandt.  Mezzotinto  (about  the  year 
1746),  by  M-Ardellf  Price  a  j.  The  original  wa« 
in  the  pofleflion  of  the   late  Mr.  Ranby  the  furgcon. 

There  is  a  fecond  head  of  Mr.  Pine,  a  mezzotinto  ; 
both  hb  hands  leaning  on  a  cane.  Printed  for  George 
Pulley,  at  Reml/randft  Head,  the  corner  of  Bride- 
court,  FUcl-Jlreet. 

I  have  called  this  **  a  fecond  head,"  but  kQ< 
not  which  of  the  two  was  firll  publilhed. 

In  the  firft  edition  of  the  prefent  work  I  had 
defcribed  this  plate  as  an  unfinilhed  one,  but  have 
fuice  met  with  it  in  a  perfect  ftace. 

33.  A. 


r- 

-4 


■^ 


t    4!5     ] 

32.  A  View  of  Mr.  Ranhy's  houfe  at  Chifwkk. 
Etched  by  Hogarth.  This  view,  I  am  informed,  was 
taken  in  i75o>  but  Was  not  deligned  for  falc. 

153.  Daniel  Lock,  Efq.  F.  S,  A.  formerly  an  archi- 
teft.  He  retired  from  bufinefs  with  a  good  fortune, 
lived  in  Surrey-Jlreet,  and  was  buried  in  the  chapel 
of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  Mczzotinto.  ^,  Hogarth 
pinx.  J,  M-Ardell  fecit.     Price  t  s.  6^. 

34.  Chrift  and  his  difciples;  perfons  at  a  diftance 
carried  to  an  hofpital.  "  In  as  much  as  ye  have 
**  done  it  unto  one  of  the  leaft  of  thefe  my  brethren, 
"  ye  have  done  it  unto  me."  5/.  Matt.  xxv.  ver.  40. 
W.  Hogarlb  inv.  C.  Grignionfiuip.     Ticket  for  The 

.    London  Hofpital. 

As  this  charitable  foundation  was  inftituted  in 
1740,  probably  the  ticket  was  engraved  foon  after- 
wards. 

35.  Original  of  the  fame,  in  a  fmaller  fizt,  with 
the  Duke  oi  Richmond's  arms  as  prefidcnt. 

36.  Another,  alinoft  the  fame  as  N"  34,  but  with 
a  view  of  The  London  Hofpital. 

37.  Six  prints  for  Don  fixate.  W.  Hogarth  inv. 
ajmlp. 

When  Lord  Carteret,  about  the  year  1737,  waa 
feeking  artifts  to  defign,  Sec.  plates  for  his  Spanijh 
edition  of  this  famous  novel,  publiihed  in  1738, 
Hogarth,  of  courfe,  was  not  overlooked.  His  per- 
formances, however,  ga\^  fo  little  fatisfadtion  to  his 
noble  employer,  that  they  were  paid  for,  and  then 
laid  afide  in  favour  of  I'andrebank'i  drawings,  after- 
F  f  a  wards 


! 
I 


C    436     ]  ^ 

wards  engraved  by  Vandcrguchi,  The  places  remain* 
ing  in  ihe  hands  of  Mr.  Tonfoit,  his  lordfhip's  pub- 
lilhef,  at  his  death,  were  bought  by  Mr.  Dodfley^ 
who,  finding  they  exhibited  no  defcriplions  that 
could  render  them  welcome  to  the  polTeflbrs  of  any 
copy  of  Don  pixels  whatever,  had  the  titles  of  the 
chapters,  &c.  to  which  they  belong,  together  with 
references  to  the  corrcfponding  p<iges  in  Jarvis's 
tranDation,  engraved  under  each  of  them.  The 
fubjefts  of  them  are,  I.  Funeral  of  Chryfojlum,  and 
Maralla  vindicating  herfelf;  vol.  !.  p.  71.  II.  The 
Inn-keeper's  wife  and  daughter  taking  care  of  the 
Don  after  being  beaten  and  bruifcd,  p.  129.  III.  Don 
i:>tiixou  rtleafcs  the  galley  flaves,  p.  119.  IV.  The 
unfortunate  Knight  of  the  Rock  meeting  Don  fixate, 
p.  140.  V.  Don  ^axote  fcizes  the  barber's  bafon 
for  Mambrlno's  helmet,  p.  155,  VI,  The  Curate 
and  Barber  difguifing  themlclves  to  convey  Don 
^ixotc  home,  p.  166.  Ton/on  had  fevcral  fpecimens 
of  plates,  both  in  quarto  and  o<S:avo  fizes,  executed 
for  editions  of  Sbak/peare,  but  they  fliarcd  the 
fate  with  the  others  prepared  for  Don  fixate. 

38.  An  oval,  with  two  figures  reprcfintlng  Hymen 
and  Cupid.  A  view  of  a  magnificent  villa  at  a  dif. 
tance.  This  print  was  intended  as  a  ticket  for  Sigif- 
munda,  which  Ilogarfb  propofed  to  be  raffled  for.  It 
is  ofteti  marked  with  ink  2/.  is.  The  number  of 
each  ticket  was  to  have  been  inferted  on  the  fcroU 
hanging  down  from  the  knee  of  the  principal  figure. 
Perhaps  none  of  them  were  ever  difpofed  of.    This 

plate. 


[  437  ] 
plate,  however,  mud  have  been  engraved  abouf 
L762  or  3.  Had  I  not  fecn  many  copies  of  ic 
marked  by  the  hand  of  Hogarth,  \  fiiould  have  fup- 
pofcd  it  to  have  been  only  a  ticket  for  a  concert  or 
mufic-mceting. 

39.  Four  heads  from  the  cartoons  at  lianiptcn- 
Court.     An  etching. 

Mr.  IFatpolc,  in  his  Anccdoits  of  Painting,  &c. 
vol.  IV.  p.  22.  fpeaking  of  Sir  "James  ThornhilCs 
attention  to  thefe  celebrated  pidturcs,  has  the  follow- 
ing remark  :  "  He  made  copious  ftudies  of  the 
"  heads,  hands,  and  feet,  and  intended  to  publiJh 
"  an  exaft  account  of  the  whole,  for  the  ufe  of 
"  ftudents  :  but  his  work  never  appeared." 

As  this  plate  was  found  among  others  engraved 
by  Hognrtb)  it  might  probably  have  been  one  of  his 
early  performances.  His  widow  has  dlrcdicd,  a  few 
imprellions  to  be  taken  from  It,  and  they  arc  fold  at 
her  houfe  in  Leic-cfler-frjuarc. 

40.  A  Scene  in  a  Pantomime  Entertainment  lately 
exhibited  ;  defigned  by  a  Knight  of  Malia.  A  fatirc 
on  the  Royal  Incorporated  Irociety  of  Artifls  of 
Grtiit  Biitiiin.     No  name. 

This  defign  is  difficult  to  be  explained,  as  it  al- 
ludes to  fonie  forgotten  diilentions  among  the  artifts 
before  the  Royal  Academy  was  founded.  Sir  WV/- 
liam  Ci'iiDihir,  Kirh,  Rcoker  the  Engraver  and  Har- 
lequin, Liotard,  remarkable  for  having  adopted  tlic 
Turii/h  drcfs,  and  others,  are  introduced  in  it.  The 
hat  aud  head  of //o^<vr/i  alfo  appear  on  one  of  the 
Ff3  necks 


i 

I 


ftccfes  of  a  Hydra.  It  is  havdly  credible,  therefore, 
tfaat  he  ftiould  have  rendered  himll-lf  an  objefl:  of 
his  own  faiire.  A  mere  etched  outline  of  the  fame 
dclign,  with  aiiditions,  was  afterwards  jniblilhed,  and 
is  marked  plate  II.  It  is  larger  than  the  i 
plate,  and  muft  be  confidcred  as  a  flight  tempoi 
Ikctch,  of  which  the  author  is  uncertain. 

41.  A  Ticket-porter  carrying  a  load  of  chamber-7 
pots  to  fonic  place  of  public  refort,  from  the  en- 
trance of  which  three  grenadiers  are  keeping  off  the 
crowd.     At  the  bottom  is  written. 
**  Jack  in  an  Office,  or  Peter  l^eeeffary,  with  Cboio 
"  of  Chamber-pots. 
*'  A  Ticket  for  the Price  bd." 

Of  the  following  articles  the  4Qth,  and  .3d, 
the  undoubted    productions  of  Hngarlb,     Some   of 
the  reft  may  admit  of  difpure.     1  hofe  marked  *  I 
have  not  yet  feen  in  any  colleiflion  but  that  of  ] 
S.  Inland. 

*  42.  Arms  of  George  Lambari  \^LamheTt1  the 
painter,  an  intimate  friend  of  our  artift. 

*  43.  Arms  of  Gort,  engraved  on  a  filvcr  waiter. 

*  44.  Arms  of  a  Duke  of  Kendal.  N.  B.  There 
never  was  a  Duke  of  Kendal,  but  an  infant  Ton  of 
yanies  II.  The  arms  mentioned  are  certainly  thoffr 
of  the  Diitchcfs  of  Kendal.  The  male  fhield  muft 
be  a  miltake. 

*  45.  Anns  of  Cbudhigb;  motto  "  Aut  vincai 
"  aut  pcribo."     Done   for  Major  L'Ejnery,   wbilll 
Hogarth  was  apprentice. 

•  46.  The 


:a,  ana 

poran^H 

"  "iber-- 
en- 

"■^^ 

M 

c  of 

*  I 

1  fi,r^H 


[    439    ] 

♦  ^6.  The  Great  Seal  o(  England,  from  a  large  fiU 
ver  table.  This  was  given  to  Mr.  S.  Ireland  by  a  Mr. 
Bonneau,  who  took  off  the  inipreffioQ  before  the 
year  1740. 

^7.  Twenty-fix  figures,  on  two  large  flicets,  en- 
graved for  "  A  Compendiutn  of  Military  Difcipline, 
*'  as  it  is  praiSifed  by  the  Honourable  the  Artillery 
"  Company  of  the  City  of  London,  for  the  initiating 
*'  and  inftruiSing  Officers  of  the  Trained  Bands  of 
**  the  faidCity,  &c.  Moft  humbly  dedicated  to  hit 
('  Royal  Highncfs  George  Prince  of  Wa/eSf  Captai 
"  General  of  the  Honourable  the  Artillery  Compa! 
•'  ny.  By  John  Blackwelly  Adjutant  and  Clerk  to 
"  the  faid  Company. 

*•  London.  Printed  for  the  Author;  and  are  to  be 
•'  fold  at  liis  houfe  in  Well-Court  in  ^een-Strtel, 
"  near  Cheapfide,   1726." 

48.  Fariaelli,  Cuzzoni,  and  Heydegger.  Cuzzotd 
and  Farinelti  are  finging  a  duet.  The  latter  is  in  the 
charafter  of  a  prifoner,  being  chained  by  his  little 
finger.  Htydegger  fits  behind,  and  is  fuppofed  to 
utter  the  eight  following  lines,  which  are  engraved 
under  the  plate ; 

Thou  tuneful  fcarecrow,  and  thou  warbling  biri^ 

No  Ihelter  for  your  notes  thefe  lands  afford. 

This  town  protefts  no  more  the  fiogfong  drain, 

"Whilft  Balls  and  Mafquerades  triumphant  reign, 

Sooner  than  midnight  revels  ere  fiiould  fail. 

And  ore  Ridottos  Harmony  prevail; 

Ff4  TW! 


C     f40     1 

The  cap  (a  refuge  once)  my  heau  fiiail  grace. 

And  favc  i'rom  ruin  this  harmonious  face  *. 

I  am  Io!J,  however,  that  this  |)late  was  dffign» 
C(l  by  the  laft  Countefs  of  Burl'nigton,  and  ctcbed 
by  Geupy.  1  may  add,  that  the  figures  in 
though  flightly  done  on  the  whole,  confift  of 
more  than  a  iinglc  ftrokc,  being  retouched  aiid 
heightened  by  the  bi^rln  in  fcveial  places.  On  ' 
the  contrary,  HogaTth'i  plate,  intituled  I'be  Char- 
mers of  the  Age,  only  offers  an  etched  outline^ 
which  at  once  afforded  the  extent  of  his  dcfign, 
leaving  no  room  for  improvement.  The  former 
print  exhibits  traces  of  perfcvcrance  and  affiduity  \ 
the  latter  is  an  effort  of  genius  that  completes  it« 
purpofe  without  elaboration. 

49.  The  Difcovery.  This  fcarcc  plate  is  acknowsij 
ledged  as  genuine  by  Mrs.  Hogarth.  The  fubjeift  is  a  1 
black  woman  in  bed  ;  her  eyes  archly  turned  on  hcri 
gallant  juil  rifrn,  who  expreffcs  his  aflonllhmcDt  oif  i 
the  entrance  of  three  laughing  friends,  one  of  them  J 
with  a  candle  in  his  hand.  Underneath  the  print  ill 
this  appofite  motto  ; 

^j  color  aHitis  erat  nunc  cjl  contr.jrius  alho. 

A  fimilar  circumftance  occurs  \n  Fletcher's  Mon- 
Jititr  Tlotnaiy  and  in  FoUi's  CoieaLis. 

I  know  nut  of  any  among  our  artill's  works  ihac  | 
difplays  fo  little  chantdcr.  It  mud  have  been  one  * 
of  his  early  performances. 

*  He  liad  once  entJUoci  ns  a  pnVaic  foltlier  in  ihe  CuanJt, 
firr  3  pioiciflioii.     bcc  p.  1  ji. 

u ; 


[    44»     ] 

It  Ihould  be  obferved  that,  being  founded  oik  « 
jirivate  occurrence,  this  print  was  never  dcfigned  fof 
general  circulation.     Mr.  Wghmore  the  manager  of 
Druij-Lane,  who  bought  Giber's  fliarc  in  the  pa- 
tent, is  the   Hero  of  it.     A  few  copies  only   were 
diftnbutcd  among  Hogarth's  parricuKir  friends,  and  " 
the  gentlemen  whofe  portraits  it  contains.     At  the  I 
boitoin  of  the  plate  there  is  no  defcriptive  title. 
Difiovery  was  that  by  which  Mrs.  Ho^jur/ /j  mentioned 
it  when  Ihe  recolle<Sed  the  very  laughable  circum«l 
llance  here  cominemorarcd  by  her  hulband's  pencil. 

*  50.  The  Cottage.  An  iinpreflion  from  a  breeches- 
button,  the  fize  of  a  crown-piece  ;  a  iketch  made  for 
Mr.  Canifidii^  a  furgeon,  on  a  fubjett  that  will  not  bear 
explanation.  There  is  a  copy  of  this  little  pUte  by 
Mr.  S.  Ireland. 

51.  Pug  the  Painter,  This  has  been  iiAially 
underftood  as  a  fatire  on  Hogarth,  rather  than  a  dc- 
figo  by  him.  Mr.  Ireland  once  told  me  it  was  etched 
hy  D^zveSt  and  that  our  arcift  gave  a  copy  of  it,  as 
his  own  defign,  to  Mr.  IZirby.  But  1  am  a0ured 
with  fupcrior  confidence  by  another  gentieman,  that 
the  true  author  of  it  is  v-t  be  fought  among  thofe  ar- 
lifts  whom  Hogarth  had  provoked  by  his  contemp- 
tuous treatment  of  their  works.  If  Pu^  was  not  de- 
signed as  his  rcpreftntative,  why  is  the  animal  exhi- 
bited in  the  Z&.  of  painting  the  ridiculous  figure  of 
the  Privji  in  Ihe  Good  Sanuriian  f 

53.  A  Head! 


E    44X    ] 

$ZfA  Head  in  an  oval,  coarffly  «}grave( 
fiibfcribcd  "  Samuel  ButUr  Author  oi  Hudibrat.'* 
Several  coctio'ilTeurs,  befide  Mr,  Tha7ie  who  poflcf- 
fcs  [he  plate,  conceive  it  to  be  an  undoubted  work 
of  Hogarlh.  For  what  purpofc  Jr  was  executed^ 
and  why  fupprcfied  (for  no  one  has  hitherto  met 
ttitb  even  a  proof  from  it)  it  is  vain  to  cnquircjij 
1  am  filcnt  on  the  fubjeft,  heartily  wifhing  that 
throuohout  this  work  I  had  had  the  opinions  of  more 
ftieods  to  record,  and  had  offered  fewer  fentimcntj 
of  my  own. 

53.  "  A  very  rare  hieroglyphic  print,  reprefeorii 
*'  Royalty,  Epifcopacy,  and  Law,  compofed  of  em* 
"  bleniatic  attributes,  and  no  human  features  or 
"  limbs  ;  with  attendants  of  fimilar  ingredients.  Be* 
•*  neaih  is  this  infcripiion.  Some  of  the  principal; 
*'  mbabitants  of  the  Moon,  as  rhey  were  difcovered' 
*'  by  a  tclefcope,  brought  10  the  greateft  perfection 
**  lince  the  laft  eclipfc ;  exaftly  engraved  from  the 
'*  objeifti,  whereby  the  Curious  may  gucis  at  their 
*'  Religion,  Manners,  &c.     Price  Six-pence." 

A  kind  of  fcaffold  above  the  clouds  is  the  theatre 
of  this  reprefcntation.  Monarchy,  Epifcopacy,  and 
X-aw,  appear  charaderitlicaliy  feated.  'Iheir  faces 
are — a  Crown-piece — a  Jc^'i  Harp,  and  — a  Mallet* 
The  monarch  holds  a  globe  and  fceptre,  with  ere-' 
fcents  on  the  tops  of  them.  Inftead  of  a  collar  of 
tjfes,  he  wears  a  firing  of  bubbles ;  his  fide  is  or- 
namemcd  wllh  a  pointed  liar  ;  and  a  circle,  the  em- 

blcov.^ 


cnts 1 

i 


C     443    ] 

blfm  of  perpetuity,  is  embroidered  on  the  cIotK  ub- 
der  his  throne.  Epifcopacy  is  working  at  a  pump 
(a  type  I  fuppofe  of  the  Church)  by  the  ailiftancc  of 
a  bellrope.  The  Bible  is  fattened  to  the  handle  of 
the  pump,  and  out  of  the  nofc  of  it  ilTues  money 
that  falls  into  a  cheft  difcriminated  by  an  armorial 
efcuccheon,  containing  a  knife  and  fork,  properly 
emblazoned,  with  a  mitre  by  way  of  crcft.  The 
lid  of  the  coffer  leans  againlt  a  pillar,  that  ferves  alfo 
to  fupport  a  triple  pile  of  cufhions.  Over  the  top  of 
the  pump  (which  is  fafhioned  much  like  a  ftecple)  is  a 
weathercock  on  a  fmall  pyramid  fupported  by  balls ; 
and  below  it,  throLigh  a  circular  opening,  a  little  bell 
appears  to  niig.  Under  the  facerdotal  robe,  a  cloven 
foot  peeps  out.  Law  fuftains  a  f-vord  ■,  and  behind 
him  appears  a  dagger  ihruft  through  the  bottoni  of 
a  fieve.  The  attendants  on  Monarchy  are  of  various 
materials.  The  bodies  and  legs  of  fuch  as  fecm  de- 
figncd  for  foldiers,  are  compofcd  of  circular  firc- 
fcieensrefemblingfliields.  The  trunks  of  the  courtiers 
arc  large  looking  glafles,  the  fconccs  with  candles  in 
them  lerving  for  hands  and  arms.  The  face  of  the 
chief  of  thefe  is  the  reverfc  of  a  fixpence ;  and  a  key 
fignificantly  appended  to  his  fafh,  at  oncedtnotes  his 
fex  and  office.  Under  the  figure  of  law  are  a  male  and 
female  modilhly  drcft.  Her  head  is  a  tea-pot,  her 
neck  a  drinking  giafs,  and  her  body  a  fan  half  fprcad. 
On  the  oval  that  forms  the  countenance  of  her  para- 
mour, is  a  coat  of  arms  with  fupponcrs.  His  right 
honourable  legs  arc  fan-fticks,  and  he  fccms  in  the 
7  aft 


I 


c  444  ;i 

«ft  of  courrihip.  How  this  couple  are  immediately 
conneded  with  Law,  is  not  very  clearly  pointed  out. 
Hogarlhy  however,  we  may  fuppofe,  had  planned 
fbme  explanation  of  his  hieroglyphics,  as  the  letters 
a,  ^>  c,  </,  e,f,  gy  are  placed  over  fome  of  them,  and 
beneath  others.  j 

From  the  form  of  the  perukes  exhibited  in  this  ' 
defign,  I  fliould  fuppofe  it  was  made  above  forty  J 
years  ago.  Other  circumftances  in  it  need  no  decy-  ' 
phering. 

*  54.  The  Mafter  of  the  Vineyard.     St.  Mattbsw 
chap.  xxi.  V.  28.  "  Son,  go  work  to-day    in   my 

**  Viueyard."  j 

*  55'  The  London  Infirmary  for  charitably  rclicv-  1 
ing  fick  and  difeafed  Manufacturers  and  Seamen  in  j 
ihe  Merchants'  fervice,  their  Wives  and  Children.  \ 
A  blank  certificate  for  Pupils  in  Surgery  and  Anato-  1 
my,  printed  on  a  half  fheet,  folio.  1 

56.  A  ticket  for  the  benefit  of  Spil/er  the  player,  \ 
He  died  in  the  year  17:9.  I 

In  the  plate  before  us,  which  poflcflcs  no  fmall  1 
fhare  of  humour,  poor  Spiller  is  rcprefcntcd  in  a  mc-  ' 
lanchoJy    pofturc.       His  finances  are    weighed    a-  '' 
gainil   his  debts,    and  outweighed  by  them.     His 
taylot'sbill  appears  to  be  of  great  length,  and  many 
others  Jor  ale,  gin,  &c.  arc  on  the  ground  nciirhim. 
A  bailift  is  clapping  him  on  the  fiiouldcr — a  prifon  is 
ill  fightr— ladies  and  gentlemen  are  taking  tickets,  &c. 
'Ihis  very  uncommon  and  beautiful  little  print  is, 
atptcfcrt,  found  only  in  the  collciflion  of  Mr.  Irelantf,' 

S;.St.    ■ 


L     445     - 

jy.  St.  Mary's  Chapel.  Five  at  night.  'Several  peT 
formers  playing  on  different  iaftrumcnts.  tyilliam 
Hogarth  inv.     G.  Vander^cbt  fculpt, 

Tliis  was  certainly  an  ornament  at  the  top  of  a 
ticket  for  a  mufic- meeting.  The  name  of  Hogarib  is 
afilxed  to  it,  and  the  whole  dcfign  migbl  have  beea 
his,  I  do  not,  however,  believe  it  was  fo.  A  few 
of  the  6gutes  appear  to  have  been  collected 
from  his  works  by  fome  other  hand,  rather  than 
grouped  by  his  own.  Vandcrgucbt  too  was  fb  th(|- 
roughly  a  mannerill,  and  efpecially  in  fmall  ful 
jefts,  that  he  was  rarely  faithful  to  the  exprefliom! 
of  countenance  he  undertook  to  trace  on  copper. 
■There  is  no  humour,  and  indeed  little  merit  of  any 
kind,  in  this  performance.  Ic  has  not  hitherto  been 
met  with  on  the  entire  piece  of  paper  to  which  ic 
mull  originally  have  belonged. 

A  print  called  7he  Scotch  Congregation,  by  Hogailb, 
is  almoft  unique,  on  account  of  its  extreme  inde- 
cency. One  copy  of  it  was  in  a  colledion  of  hii, 
works  belonging  to  Mr.  Alexander  of  Edinburgbfi 
He  isfaid  to  have  had  it  from  Mrs.  Hogarlh.  A  fecon4 
copy  is  reported  to  exift  in  the  polfeflion  of  another 
gentleman.     No  more  impreflions  of  it  are  known. 


:w 

m 

I 


A  correfpondent  at  Dublin  informs  me,  that  ia 
the  collcflion  of  Dr.  Hopkins  of  that  city  arc  the  fol- 
lowing feven  prints  by  Hogarth  : 

1.  fhe  Hijlory  cf  Witchcraft.     Humbly  dcdicai 
tp  the  Wife,    Allegorically  modernized.    Part  the 

Fitft, 


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[  446  ] 

jliflied  according  to  aft  of  Parliament. 
arlh  irtv.  it  fculft. 
Halt  iheet  print.     At  one  eiid,  Witches  attcnd'iig 
the  puniflliiient  of  two  human  figures  ;  at  the  other,  * 
fevcra!  at  tht-lr  tiiflcrcnt  occupations. 

2.  The  Hijfory  a/  Witchcraft.     Part  the   Second. 
PublifticJ  3ccording  to  aft  of  Parliament.     Hogarth  \ 
irtv.  el/tulpt. 

Same  fize  as  ths  former.  Witches  dancing  H 
others  at  various  amufcments.  "There  two  prints  J 
contain  a  great  variety  of  diflortcd  figures. 

3.  A  Suit  of  Law  ^ts  me  belter  ihanaSu't  of  Clot  her.  i 
Invxnted  and  engraved  by  W.  H.  and  publKhed  pur- 
fuant  to  an  A€t  of  Parliament,   1  740. 

An  upright  half-lhect.     A    Man  in  embroidered  j 
clothes,  his  hat  under  his  arm.    A  fcroU  in  his  left  j 
hand,    infcribed,  "  I'll  go    to    Law."     Huntfrneii, 
dogs,  and  horfes  in  the  back  ground.     Four  lines  in  \ 
verfc  underneath. 

Ufcful  in  all  families.  Invented  and  engraved  byj 
W.  H.  and  publilhed  purfuant  to  an  Ad  of  Parliament  J 
1740. 

4.  The  fame  man  in  a  tattered  garment  in  a  wild  J 
country  ;  a  fiaff  In  his  right  hand,  and  a  fcroll  in  his 
left,  infcribed,  "  To  flic w  that  I  went  to  law,  and 
got  the  better."     Four  lines  at  the  bottom. 

Thefc  two  may  be  claflcd  among  his  indifferent 
prints. 

5.  The  Caledonian  March  and  Embarkation.  Hogarth 
invent.     London,  printed  for  T.  Baldwin. 

A  number 


[    Ml    ] 
A  number  of  ScHtbmfn  embarking  in  the 

w«  TranfjTOrt.     Labels  Ifluing  from  (heir  inouthn,^ 
The   Laird  of  the  Ptjtu  f  '**   Baunits   exalttiL 

Printed  for  T.  BMUhotn,  Lmdtn,     fft^rtt  imv> 

6.  A  Scslcb  S'tifltman  and  bis  Fritndi  tatin^  j>t^ 
fiffim  of  feveral  pojis^  bttving  kiek'd  dfysm  thr  f^r^tt 
PojpJWs.  Lubels  from  their  inoutli*  too  iwliom  t6 
copy.  A  Lion  on  the  fure  ground^  huotl'wuikcd  bft 
a  Scotch  pUid. 

Suppofed  to  be  primed  for  Tte  London  M-igneh 

7,  The  Lion  entran^fd.    Printed  for  T,  BM 
London,     hiogartb  iav.  176a.  ^j 

A  Lion  in  a  C-offin.  A  plate  on  the  cover, 
fcribed,  "  Leo  Drilanicui,  Ob.  An.  ijiSi.  lU-tiuicf- 
cat  in  pace."  Attended  by  flatc  moiirnen  with  la- 
bels as  above.  In  one  corner  Uiiiernia  fupplicatii^, 
for  her  Sifter's  intercft. 

A  refped  for  the  obliging  coiniiuinicBtor  has 
duccii  me  to  publlfh  xWxiJuppofed  udditiun  to  the  ft 
going  catalogue  of  Hogarth'i  works.  But,  wiihi 
ocular  proof,  I  cannot  receive  »  genuine  nay 
of  the  plj[(s  enumerated.  The  name  of  our  Arfll 
has  more  than  once  been  fubfcribcd  10  the  wrctchril 
produdions  of  othcn ;  and  a  cultedi>r  at  Dub/in 
mull  have  had  finguLir  good  foriunc  indeed,  iflu 
has  met  with  fcvcn  authentic  cutioCiici  unknown 
the  moil  confidcncial  friends  of  H"gartb,  and 
moft  induQrious  connoiUcurs  about  London.  I 
add,  that  two,  :f  not  three,  of  the  abovc-mcni 
aoti-miciAcial  pieces,    appeared  iu  j;6i,  the  vefy 

yeax 


I 
I 


C   448   J 

year  in  which  our  artift  was  appointed  Serjeant  Pain- 
ter. Till  that  period  he  is  unfufpcfted  of  having 
engaged  his  pencil  in  the  fervice  of  poliiicks;  and 
T.  Baldwin  (perhaps  a  fiiftitious  name)  is  not  knowtt 
to  have  been  on  any  former  occafion  his  publifher-; 
So  much  for  the  probability  of  Hogarlh's  havia] 
ufliered  performances  like  ihefc  into  the  world, 

Chance,  and  the  kindnefs  of  mj'  friends,  havi* 
not  enabled  me  to  form  a  more  accurate  feries  of 
Ho^artb'j  labours.  Thol'e  of  the  colleftor,  however, 
are  flill  incomplete,  unlefs  he  can  furnifh  htmfetf 
with  a  fpecimen  of  fcveral  other  pieces,  faid,  I  thinfc, 
to  have  been  produced  a  little  before  our  attift's 
maaiage.  I  forbear  to  keep  my  readers  in  fufpcnfe 
on  the  occafion.  Hogarth  once  taking  up  fome  plain 
iTory  fifties  that  lay  on  his  future  wife's  card-cable, 
obfcrvcd  how  much  was  wanting  to  render  them  na- 
tural reprefcntations.  Having  delivered  this  remark 
with  becoming  gravity,  he  proceeded  to  engrave 
fcalcs,  fins,  Sec.  on  each  of  them,  A  few  impref- 
fions  have  been  taken  from  thefe  curiofitie*,  which 
remain  in  Mrs.  Hogarib'f  pofleflion.  As  a  iuftonAe- 
corated  by  her  hufband  has  been  received  into  the 
foregoing  calalogue  of  his  works,  it  can  hardly  be^ 
difgraccd  by  this  brief  mention  of  the  oiname«». 
he  bellowed  on  a  (ouniti\ 

There  are  three,  large  vbUimes  in  quarto  b^  t^ 

vattr,  a  minifter  at  Zurich  (with  great  numbers  of 

plates),  oa  Ehyfiognomy,     Among  rlrefe- arc    ivvo 

containing  feveral  groups  of  figures  from  different 

3  prints 


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.        C.   449     1 
■  •■;(' 

priats  of  ffcgarlb,  together  with  the  portraits  of  f-ord 
Levai  and  Wilkes,  For  what  particular  purpofe  they 
ate  introduced,  remains  to  mc  a  fecrct  '. 

In  '*  An  Addrefs  of  Thanlcs  to  the  Broad  Dot- 
"  toms,  for  the  good  things  they  have  done,  and 
"the  evil  things  they  have  not  done,  fince  their 
**  elevation,  i7<)5,"  is  what  the  author  calls  •'  A 
"  curious  emblematic  Frontifpiece,  taken  from  an 

"  original  painting  of  the  ingenious  Mr.  H tb ;" 

a  palpable  impolition. 

Mr.  Walpoltt  Antedates  of  Painting,  Vol.  IV.  6j, 
obfervfs,  that  "  Hogarth  drew  the  fuppofed  funeral  of 
*'  VoMakntf  attended  by  the  painters  he  worked  for» 
**  difcovcring  every  mark  of  grief  and  defpair."  To 
explain  this  paffage,  it  Ihould  be  added,  that  "  hi 
"  was  employed  by  feverai  confiderable  artifts  here, 
"  to  draw  the  attitudes,  and  drefs  the  figures  in  ^ 
"  their  piftures." 

The  merits  of  Hogarib,  as  an  engraver,  are  incon. 
lidcrable.  His  hand  was  faithful  to  charafter,  but 
had  little  acqLiainlance  with  the  powers  of  light  and 
fliade.  In  fome  of  his  early  prints  he  was  an  aOidu- 
ous  imitator  of  Caiiot,  but  deviated  at  laft  into  i 
manner  of  his  own,  which  futfers  much  by  compa* 
rifon  with  that  of  his  coadjutors,  Ravt-net  and  Sul- 
livan. In  the  pieces  finilhed  by  thefe  makers  of 
their  art,  there  Is  a  clcarnefs  that  Hogarth  could 
never  reach.  His  ftrokcs  fometimcs  look  as  if  fortul- 
toufly  difpoled,  and  fomeiimes  confufedly  thwart 
*   This  book,  I  arn  told.  Is  ouw  iraoflaicd  iolo  Fre»tti. 

G  g  each 


C    4iP    ] 
each  other  in  almoll  every  poflibic  diredtion.  .  \^bilM(^ ' 
he  wanted  in  ikill,  he  flrove  to  make  up, in  labour  i 
but  the  refuh  of  it  was  a  untverlal  haze  and  iruli(f>, 
tinftncfs,  that,  by  excluding  force  and  tranrparenc|^^J 
has  rendered  feveral  ot'  his  larger  plates  Icfs  capthi^^H 
vating  than  they  %vould  have  been,  had  beentrufiect        ' 
the  folc  execution  of  thetn  to  either  of  the  artifls 
already   mentioned.     His  fmalUr  etchings,  indeetji 
fuch  as  The  Laagbing  Pit,  &c.  cannot  receive 
much  commendauon. 

Mr.  Walpele  has  juflly  obferved,  that  "  man^ 
"  wretched  prints  came  out  to  ridicule"  the  Analyfti 
if  Beauty.  He  might  have  added,  that  no  fmall 
number  of  the  fame  quality  were  produced  imtnejl 
ately  after  the  Times  made  its  appearance.  I  \ 
it  had  been  in  my  power  to  have  afforded  my  Tea<]- 
ers  a  complete  lift  of  thcfc  performances,  that  as 
little  as  poflibic  might  have  been  wanting  to  the 
hiftory  of  poor  Hogarth's  firft  and  fccond  perl'ecution. 
Such  a  catalogue,  however,  not  being  necefliry  to 
the  explanation  of  his  works,  it  is  with  the  lefs  re- 
gret omitted  *. 

The  fcarcenefs  of  the  good  impreflions  of  Hogarth's 
larger  works  is  in  great  mcafure  owing  to  their  hav- 
ing been  parted  on  canvas  or  boards,  to  be  framed 

*  Oncof  tbcfeprodiiflions,  however,  fliould  be  finglerfiVom 
tbcrcft.     The  print,  cntiilcdT/jr  Ciin^ifeMri,  wai  ful{>c^od  to 
be  a  nurk  ol  Ihganh  hinifclf.      It  is  placed  with  fome  gf  bi| 
other  iindit puled  deiigri'  in  ihc  lijck-ground  of  7Jf  A**""- 
Mad[\\\t\t\i  UkDovni  1.1  be  one  oiMr.Saxiihy^i ptrfatmaa 
apct  hai  the fellowing  rclcrencc— *'  A.  \u* own  Oui^jed" 


C   -isi    ]     • 

ind  gtased  for  furniture.  Thctc'wcrc  few  peoptS 
who  coUcfted  his  ptints  for  any  other  purpole  aC 
their  firft  appearance.  The  majorit>'  of  thcie  feti 
being  hung  up  in  London  houf^,  have  been  utterly 
fpoilcd  by  fmoke.  Since  foreigners  have  learned 
the  value  of  the  fame  performances,  they  have  alfo 
been  exported  in  confidcrable  nuniben.  Vv  hcrevcr 
a  tafte  for  the  fine  arts  has  prevailed,  the  works  of. 
this  great  mailer  are  to  be  found.  Mefficurs  Tvrr^^ 
have  frequent  commiflions  to  fend  thcni  into  Ita!yj 
I  sm  credibly  intornied  that  (he  Emprel's  of  Rujpa 
has  exprefTed  uncommon  plcafure  in  exanuningfuch 
genuine  reprcfentations  of  ^n^/z/A  manners;  and  1  have' 
feen  a  fet  of  cups  and  faucets  with  Tee  HarUt^t  Pro-^ 
grefi  painted  on  them  in  China  about  the  year  1739* 
Of  all  fuch  engravings  as  are  Mrs.  Ihgarth's 
property,  the  later  imprcflions  continue  felling  oa 
terms  fpecified  many  years  ago  in  her  printed  cata- 
logue, which  the  reader  will  find  at  the  end  of  thi| 
pamphlet.  The  few  elder  proofs  that  rcmaib  un» 
difpofed  of,  may  be  likewifc  had  from  her  agent  at 
an  advance  of  price.  As  to  the  plates  which  our 
artift  had  not  retained  as  his  own  property,  when  any 
of  thefe  defidcrata  are  found  (perhaps  in  a  ftatc  of 
corrofion),  they  arc  immediately  vamped  up,  and  im- 
prefHons  from  them  are  offered  to  fale,  at  three,  four, 
or  five  times  their  origmal  value.  They  are  alfo 
flained  to  give  them  the  appearance  of  age  ;  and  on 
thefe  occafions  we  are  conridently  affured,  that  only 
a  few  copies,  which  had  lurked  in  forfic  obfcifrr 
'  G  ^  a  warehouf^ 


C  45«'  3- 

t'i>rnegleded  port-feuillt,  bail  been'^rt 
difcovcred.  This  information  is  ufually  accomp 
Di<d  by  fobrr  advice  to  buy  while  we  may,  ig  i 
Tended  has  fcarce  2.  moment  free  from  it 
loncitatioDS  o(  the  nobility  and  gentry,  w 
ways  wHfaes  to  oblige,  ftill  afibrding  that  preference 
to  the  connoiflcur  which  he  withholds  from  the  k6 
enlightened  purchafer.  It  is  fcarce  needful  to  ob> 
iierve,  that  no  man  ever  vifited  the  ihops  of  thefe  po- 
lite dealers,  without  foon  fancying  himfelf  entitled 
to  the  more  creditable  of  the  aforefaid  diftii 
Thus  becoming  a  dupe  to  his  own  vanity,  as  vrtU. 
to  the  artifice  of  the  tradefman,  he  has  fpcedily 
mortification  to  find  his  fnppoTed  rarities  arc  to  be 
met  with  in  every  collediwi,  and  not  long  afterwardt 
on  every  ftall.  The  caution  may  not  pro\'e  ufclefs 
io  thofe  who  a«  ambitious  to  aflemblc  the  works  of 
ihgarlb.  Such  a  purfutt  needs  no  apology;  for/ 
litre,  of  aH  his  fraternity,  whether  ancient  or 
dcrri,  he  bent  the  keencft  eye  on  the  follies  and  vicet 
fA  mankind,  and  exprcffed  them  with  a  degree  of 
%aiiety  and  force,  which  it  would  be  vain  to  feck 
among  the  fatiric  compofitions  of  any  other  painters. 
In  ftiort,  what  is  obferved  by  Hamlet  concerning  a 
player's  office,  may,  with  lome  few  exceptions,  be 
applied  to  the  defigits  of-  He^artbi-**  Thdr  end, 
"  both  at  the  Ijift,  and'  rimv,  was,  arid  .'is,  to  hold 
•*  as  'twe«  the  mirror  up  to  nature  j  to  4bew  virtue 
■•*  her  own  feature,  fcorn  her  own  image,  ajid  rite 
«  very  age  and  body  of  the  time  hi?  owa  form  aod 
"  preflure." 


vicet  ■   I 


C    «3    ] 

I  may  add,  that,  fincc  the  appearance  of  Mr.  0"^' 
pole's  Otaiogue,  a  dtfj^ofitlori  to  attribute  feveral 
anonymous  plates  on  ludicrous  fubjeds,  to  Hogarth, 
has  Iirtr:i;'cd  itfelf  in  more  than  a  fingle  inlUncc** 
A  fuppoJition  h:is  alio  prevailed  that  there  was  a  time 
when  Hogarth  had  the  whole  field  of  fatire  tei'him- 
felf,  and  we  could  boaft  of  no  defigners  whdfe  per- 
formances could  be  miftaken  for  his  own*  The  Isttct 
notion  is  undoubtedly  true,  if  real  judges  are  to' de- 
cide ;  and  yet  many  prints,  very  flightly  impreg- 
nated with  humour,  continue  to  be  afcribed  to  him. 
It  fhould  therefore  be  obferved,  ^hat,  at  the  fame  pe- 
riod, Bickbam^  Vanderguckt^  Boitdrd,  Gravclot,  La- 
guerre  the  younger^&c.  were  occafionally  publifliing 
fatirical  Sketches,  and  engraviftg  laughable  frontif- 
pieces  for  books  and  pamphlets.  To  many  of  thefe, 
for  various  rcafons,  they  forbore  to  fet  their  names; 
and  we  have  at  prcfent  coUeflors,  who,  to  obtain  the 
credit  of  having  made  difcoveries,  are  willing  to 
adopt  fuch  performances  as  the  genuine  efTulions  of 
Hogarth,  although  every  way  beneath  his  talents,  and 
repugnant  to  hU  ftyle  of  engraving.  Perhaps  alfo  the 
names  of  other  painters  and  defigners  have  been  oc- 
cafionally obliterated,  to  countenance  the  fame  fallacy. 

*  Thui  l1ie  fffMiiifpiece  to  Taftt,  deligned,  if  not  cichcd 
ty  Werjdalt  (Ivr  whofc  bencfil  ibti  dramatic  piece  wat  pcr> 
fonnetl),  and  Savney  ia  ih  Bog-haafc,  an  anonymous  fatire 
on  the  ScBlth,  that  made  iii  appearBnce  near  fotty  yean  ago, 
and  was  revived  during  the  ad minill ration  oi  Lord  Baif,  are  at 
prcfent  imputed  to  our  artiA,  whofc  name  u  already  engraved 
ai  ilie  bottom  of  the  latter. 

G  g  3  Copies 


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[    454    ] 

Copies  liVcwifc  have  been  palmed  on  the  imwaty 
for  originals.  "  Therefore"  (gentle  reader)  for  once 
be  content  to  follow  the  advice  of  Piflol,  '•  Go  clear 
"  thy  chryftals,  and  Caveto  be  rhy  counfellor."  For  if 
all  fuch  fa'heriefs  engravings,  as  the  vanity  of  fome, 
and  the  intereft,  or  the  ignorance,  of  others,  would 
hitroduce  among  the  works  of  our  arrift,  were  to  be 
^tJmitred,  when  would  the  collector's  labour  and  e: 
jK-nce  be  at  end? 

Among  other  anonymous*  plates  afcribed  to 
garth,  but  ohiittfd  in  the  prefcnt  catalogue,  ia  the  fol- 
lowing, A  h-L'inj^  Dog  h  httUr  than  a  dead  Lion,  or. 
The  Vanin  tf  human  Gkry  ;  a  defignfor  the  Monument 
of  G.n-ral  Wolfe,  1760.      A  medallion  of  our  hero 
appears  on  the  fide  of  3  pyramid.     On  the  bafc  of  ic 
is  the  well-known  fjieech  of  Shakefpearc'i BrutuSy 
Set  Honour  in  out  hand,  and  D(aih  in  t'  otbeTf 
And  I  v.-ill  look  on  belh  indifferent : 
And  let  the  Gods  fo  /peed  me,  as  I  love 
The  name  »/  Honour  more  than  1  fear  Death. 
At  the  bottom  a  dying  Lion  is  extended,  while  a 
Dog  (with  Mitidtn  on   his  eoUar,    and  Honour 't    a 
jtft,  i<?c.  ifliiing  from  hi^  niouih)  is  at  once  lifting 
up  his  leg  agaiiift  the  noble  brure,  and  treading  on  a 
wreath  of  laurel,     line  lies  Huncnr,  is  alfo  written 
on  ihc  fide  of   the  c^xpiring  animal.    W  have  fiiice 
been  aiFured  that  this  print  was  by  another  artill, 
tvliofe  name  f  omit  to  meniion,  becaufe  perhaps  he 
would  wiih  it,  on  the  prefent  occafion,  fuppreffcd. 


ic 

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C    455    ] 


THE  Author  of  this  pamphlet,  being  convinced 
that,  ia  Cpitc  of  all  his  care  and  attention,  fonie- . 
errors  may  ftill  be  found  in  his  catalogue,  lift  of  va- 
riations, &c.  will  think  himfclf  highly  obliged  by. 
any  gentlemen  who  will  point  them  out,  and  enable- 
him  to  correft  ihcni.  Such  favours  fliall  be  grate- 
fully acknowledged,  if  the  prefent  rude  Eflay  lo*. 
wards  an  account  of  //<ifdJi/''j  different  performances 
Ihould  happen  to  reach  another  edition. 

As  in  eonfcquencc  of  the  extraordinary  prices. 
lately  paid  for  the  collected  works  of  this  great  mafr 
ter,  certain  dealers,  &c.  arc  fuppolcdto  be  affembling 
as  many  of  his  prints  as  they  can  meet  with, — bind- 
mg  thenl  up  in  pompous  volumes, — writing  "  fine 
*•  old  impreffions'*  either  over  or  under  them — fpeci- 
fying  the  precife  lums  pretended  to  have  been  dif- 
bUrfcil  for  Icvcral  of  them  (perhaps  a  guinea  for  a 
-  thr«e  Shilling  article) — preparing  to  offer  a  few  rare 
trifles  to  falc,  overloaded  with  a  heap  of  wretched 
proofs  from  our  artift's  more  capital  performances  i — 
exhibiting  imperfeft  fuites  ot  fuch  as  arc  cut  out  of 
bonks ;  and  intending  to  ftjiion  puffers  at  future  auc- 
tions, whole  office  will  be  to  intimate  they  have  re-' 
ceivcd  cummiHions  to  bid  up  as  tar  as  fuch  oi  fuch 
G  g  4  an 


[    45«    ] 


] 


an  amount  (i.f.  the  fum  under  which  the.  concealed 
proprietor  refolves  not  to  part  with  his  ware),  &c.  &c- 
it  is  hoped  the  reader  will  excufe  a  few  parting 
word^  or  sdmonition.  Perhaps  it  may  be  in  ch* 
power  of  Mrs.  Hogarth  to  feleft  a  few  fcts  fr< 
fuch  of  her  hiifb-md's  pieces  as  have  renuimd  m 
own  cultody  Iroinche  hour  of  their  publication, 
the  maUitudc,  who  of  courfc  cannot  be  fuppHi 
with  thefe,  become  (heir  own  collcdors.  Even 
rorance  is  a  niore  trufty  guide  than  profcffional  arti- 
fice. '.I  may  be  urged,  indeed,  that  the  propom 
nare  value  of  imprtffions*  can  be  afcertained  only  by 
thofe  who  h.ive  examined  many  of  thtm  in  their  va. 
rious  rtalos,  with  diligence  and  acutenefs.  But  furely 
to.*iuali(y  outfclvcs  for  eftimating  the  merit  of  the  , 
curiofiiiL'S  we  are  ambitious  to  purchafe,  is  ftifcr 
thiD  u>  rely  altogether  on  the  information  of  people 
whofc  inrerett  is  commonly  the  reverfe  of  our  own. 
Let  it  alfo  be  remembered,  that  the  Icaft  precious  of 

•  rrint!  biivc,  of  lalf  veari,  bren  jtidkioufly  rated  accord- 
ing to  ibc  (lualiiy  ol  their  mfrt£ians.  But  rh«  fery  term  jW- 
ffej^,  a>!  .ipvitid  lo  eftppef  pliio,  perhaps  i;  i  navdty  among 
us..  If  we  iiUci'to  ih«  earllcH  and  moft  viil'table  attttnh\»ge  af 
jiorirai  s  (lucii  as  that  caialogued  hy  Jma,  thermrAi  pvr. 
ch*fcd  I*  Dr.  Fcihergill,  nnd  Inicl/  luld  ro  Mr.  V-aitt),  we 
fllJll  hav«  liti!eii-iatr>il  (o  dippofe  any  regard  wai  ontc  pjid  lo  , 
a  p^itiv^ar  u(  fo  much  im^onance.  A;  fall  as  hea>ii  were 
jrir'  witli,"Tf.[:y  *crf  indilcnminiKly  receWiti »"""''  'l"^  biinert 
pieiita  d*«ii/ii  .l;i(K-Jr  to  h.ivu  been  excluded  at  a  time  when 
tbr  (tq'ii^A  iiii^tit  cRlily  have  titai  prortircd.  In  conlequencs 
«l  kn  Hill.:  {'I  tartkllly  ferine  J,  ihc  voluinei  already  mcniiuncd 
weie '''iTind  to  Uii;jla>- ahern-'itlj' :hc  mort  bcauiUul  sad  Che 
luoft  de*fiW»!^«uno««"of  the  grsjihic  i\rt. 


1 


I 


r  457  1 

t  productions  are  by  far  the  fcarccft 
that  when,  at  an  immoderate  expeace,  we  have  pro- 
cured impreflions  from  tankards  omamcDted  by  him, 
or  armorial  enfig;:*  engraved  for  the  boots  of  his  cuf- 
tomerg,  we  fiiall  be  found  at  lad  to  have  added  no- 
thing to  his  fame,  or  the  entertaining  quafity  of  our 
own  colledions.     By  fuch  means,  however,  we  may 
open  a  door  to  impofition.     A  work  like  T/je  Har- 
iot'i  Pregrefs  will  certainly  remain  unimitated  as  well 
as  inimitable  ;  but  it  is  in  the  power  of  every  bungler 
to  create  freih  coats  of  arms,  or  fliopbilis  with  our 
artift's  name  fubfcribed  to  them  :    and  wherein  will 
the  Lion  or  Griffin  of  Hogarth  be  difcovered  to  ex- 
Cell  the  fame  reprefentalion  by  a  meaner  hand  ?     A 
crafty  feleftion  of  paper,  and  a  flight  attention  to 
chronology  and  choice  of  fubjefls,  with  the  aid  of 
the  hot-prefs,  may,  in  the  end,  prove  an  overmatch 
for  the  fagacity  of  the  ableft  connoiffeur.     A  llngle 
detedion  of  fuch  a  forgery  would  at  leaft  give  rife 
to  fufpicions  that  miglft  operate  even  where  no  faU 
lacy  had  been  defigned.    How  many  fraudulent  imi- 
tations of  the  fraaller  works  of  Rembrandt  are  known 
to  have  been  circulated  with  fuccefs  I — But  it  may 
be  aflced,  perhaps,  from  what  fource  the  author  of 
this  pamphlet  derives  his  knowledge  of  fuch  tranf- 
aftions.     His  anfwer  is,  from  the  majority  of  col« 
leftors  whom  he  has  talked  with  in  confequencc  of 
his  prefent  undertaking. 

He  ought  not,  however,  to  conclude  without  ob- 
ferving,  that  feveral  genuine  works  of  Hogarth  yet 

remala 


I 


[    45?    3 

renujn  to  be  engraved.  He  ii  happy  alfo  to  add. 
that  a  young  artill,  every  way  qualified  for  fiich  a 
ia&,  has.,  already  published  a  few  of  tbefe  by  fub- 
fcripttOQ. 


7.  N.  bad  cHicc  thoughts  of  adding  a  Itft 
coj>ies  made  from  ihc  works  of  Hogarth ;  but  finding 
ibcm  to  be  numerous,  beyond  expeaation,  has  de- 
filed from  a  talk,  he  could  not  eafiiy  accomplUfa. 
'fbis  purfuit,  however,  has  enabled  him  to  fugged 
jet  another  caution  to  his  readers.  Some  of  the  early 
invaders  of  Hogarth's  propcny  were  lets  audacious 
[ban  the  red;  and,  forbearing  to  make  cxaift  itnita- 
tions  of  his  plates,  were  content  with  only  borrowing 
particular  circumftanccs  fronkcachof  them,  which 
ihey  worked  up  into  a  fimilar  fable.  A  fct  of  The 
Rake'i  Pregrsfs,  in  which  the  figures  were  thus  dif- 
guifed  and  differently  grouped,  has  been  lately  found. 
But  fince  the  rage  of  coltcctlon  broke  out  with  its 
prefcnt  vchenience,  thofe  dealers  who  have  met 
with  any  fuch  diverfi^d  copies,  have  been  dcGrous 
of  putting  them  off  either  as  the  firll  thoughts  of 
Ht^arthf  or  as  the  inferior  produfftions  of  eider  ar» 
tills  on  whofc  dcfigns  he  had  iinproved..  There  is 
alfo  a  very  fmall  fet  of  Tl:e  Rukc'i  /'ra^t-^/i,  comrlvwi 
and  executed  with  the  varieties  already  mentioaed^i^ 


[    459    J 

and  even  this  has  been  offered  to  fale  under  tKc  for- 
mer o{  thefe  defcriptions.  Thus,  as  Shtikfpcare  iays. 
While  we  fl;ut  the  gate  upon  owf  impoficion,  another 
knocks  at  the  door. 

Ic  may  not  be  impertinent  to  conclude  thcfc  cau- 
tions with  another  notice  for  the  benefit  of  unexpe- 
rienced colleflors,  who  in  their  choice  of  prints  ufu*  i 
ally  prefer  tha  blackcft.  The  earlieft  copies  of  iftwl 
gartl/s  works  are  often  fainter  than  fuch  as  haveb 
retouched.  The  excellence  of  rhe  former  confifta 
in  ciearnefs  as  well  as  ftrcngth  ;  Uut  ftrcngth  only  is 
the  charadteriftic  of  the  latter.  The  firft  arid  third 
copies  of  The  Harlet's  Progrcfs  will  abundantly  illuf- 
irate  my  remark,  which,  however,  is  confined  to  good 
impreffions  of  the  plates  in  either  ftate ;  for  forac 
are  now  to  be  met  with' that  no  more  poITcfs  the  re- 
commendation of  tranfparency  than  that  of  force.  I 
may  add,  that  when  plates  arc  much  worn,  ic  is  cuf- 
tomary  to  load  them,  with  a  double  quantity  of  co- 
lour, that  their  wcaknefs,  as  far  as  poflible,  may  ef- 
cape  the  eye  of  the  purchaler.  This  pradice  the 
copper-plate  printers  faceiioLifly  entitle  —  coaxing  ; 
and,  by  the  aid  of  it,  the  deeper  Ilrokes  of  the  graver 
tthich  are  not  wholly  obliterated,  become  clogged 
with  ink,  while  every  finer  trace,  which  was  of  a  na- 
ture lefs  permanent,  is  no  longer  vifible.  Thus  in 
the  modern  proofs  of  Garrick  in  King  Richard  HI. 
the  armour,  tent,  and  habit,  continue  to  have  confi- 
derable  ftrength,  though  the  delicate  markings  in 
the  face,  and  the  fhadows  on  the  ir.fide  of  the  hand, 

have 


I 


C  4.60   3 

fcave  1(Ag  fince  difa^peared.  Yet  this  print,  even  in 
its  fainteft  ftate,  is  ftill  preferaljle  tofuch  fmutiy  im- 
pofitions  as  have  been  recently  defcribed.  The  mo- 
dero  imprcHions  of  7he  Fair,  and  7he  March  to  Finch- 
Ir/y  will  yet  more  forcibly  illuftrate  the  fame  remark. 

To  the  •rig'nal  paintings  o( Hogarth  already  eniK 
mcrated  may  be  added  a  Breakfaft-piecc^  preferved 
in  Bill-Streit,  Derkeiey Square,  in  the  pofTclEoD  of 
WiBiam  Strode,  Efq;  of  NartbaWt  Herts.  It  contains 
portraits  of  his  fajher  the  late  H'tlliam  Strode^  Efq-, 
Itis  isQCher  Lady  Anne  (who  was  fifter  -to  the  lat^ 
Earl  of  Salijbury),  Colonel  Strode^  aotj  Dr.  AtIi 
Smith  (afterwards  AjrchbtOiop  of  DubSn). 


n 


ADDITION. 


.  jirtbiq^^M 


Fear  7im«  of  the  Day,  p»  250. 

It  fhould  have  beeo  obferved,  chat  the 
thefe  plates  was  engraved  by  Baron,  the  figure  of  the 
girl  excepted,  which,  being  an  after-chougbt,  was 
added  by  our  arttfl's  own  hand. 


(r   ^1    ] 


APPENDIX. 


N'*  I.     [See  p.  23.] 

THE  following  letter,  printed  in  The  Fuktie  jtiH 
litrtijer  foon  after  the  firft  edition  of"  the 
fent  work  made  its  appearance,  may  poflibly  coDMu_ 
fome  authentic  particulars  of  the  early  life  cf  th^ 
fatnous  MonJieur  St.  Andre.  Mr.  iVoodfalPs  ingo^ 
tuous  correfpondent  does  not,  however,  difpofe  mtT 
to  retcad:  a  fyllable  of  what  is  advanced  in  the  cextj 
for  he  fails  throughout  in  his  attempts  to  excutpatB 
our  hero  fron>  any  one  of  the  charges  allc4ged  againft 
him.  Oa  the  contrary,  he  conBrms,  with  addiiioa^ 
a  conliderable  part  of  them,  and  flrives  only  t* 
eVade  or  overwhelm  the  rcfl  by  ftudied  ampli&catioiB 
of  the  little-  good  which  induflrious  partiality  couUl 
pick  out  of  its  favourite  charaAer.  I  fluU  now  fuU 
join  his  epiftle,  with  a  few  unconnedled  remark;  a^ 
pended  to  it.  A  rambling  performance  muA  apol^. 
gize  for  a  defultory  refutation.  1 


"THE  entertaining  author  of  the  laft  biognUi 
**  phy  of  the  admirable  Hogarth,    in  the  exccfs  < 
"  commendation  of  a  particular  rifible  fubjeft  for 

"his 


t    4<i    } 

"  his  pencil,  has  written  too  difadvantageoufly  of' 
'  the  late  Mr.  St.  Aadrf.  One  who  knew  him  inti- 
'mately(but  was  never  under  the  ImaUcft  obiiga- 
'  tion  to  him)  for  the  laft  tw»cnty  yeari  of  his  life, 
'  and  has  learned  the  tradition  of  his  earlier  con- 
'*  dudl  feemingly  better  than  the  editor  of  the  article 

*  in  qucftion,    takes  the  liberty    to    give    a    more 

*  favourable  idea  of  him,  and  without  intending  to 

*  enter  into  a  controverfy  with  this  agreeable  Col- 
'  leflor  of  Anecdote^,  to  vindicate  this  notorious 
'*  man,   who  muft  be  allowed  to  have  been  fuch ; 

*  but  it  is  to  be  hoped  in  the  milder  fenfe  Lord 
^  Clarendon  often  or  always  ufes  the  epithet.     The 

*  making  a  fiibjed  of  Mr.  Si.  /.ndre  is  therefore 
'*  merely  accidental.  The  writer  cxpcfts  to  derive 
■'  no  praife  from  exhibiting  that  perfon  as  the  Hero 

*  of  a  page.  He  thinks  it  is  only  doing  juftice  (for 
'*  the  Dead  defcrve  juftice  as  well  as  the  Living) 
■'  when  he  draws  his  pen  againfl  fome  very  inju- 
'"  rious  infinua:ions,  thrown  out  with  more  inad- 
'•  vcnence  and  :it  a  venture  than  in  malice,  againft 
■*  the  memory  of  an  acquaintance  and  of  a  foreigner 
"  (to  whom  perhaps  more  mercy  is  due  than  to  a 
"  nativt),  who  is  more  roughly  handled  than  fac 
'*  appears  to  defcrve. 

**  Mr.  NatbaniH  St.  Andre  came  over,  or  rather 
"  was  brought  over,  very  early  from  SzuitztHand, 
'*  bis  native  country,  in  the  train  pf  a  hUndrz^  or 
'*  Sahadore,  or  lome  Jewifly  family.  Next  to  his 
'*  couutrymaa  Heidegger,  YiC  became  the  moll^<;aDfi- 
"dcrablej 


C  4<53   3 

"  dcraUe  perfon  that  has  been  ini]>orrpd  from  thence? 
"  He  probably  arrived  m  Engiaml  in  no  hur'cr  than 
'*  a  menial  ftatlon.      Poflibly  his    family  was  not 
"  originally  obfcure,  for  he  has  been  heard  to  tle- 
"  dare,  that  he  had  a  rightful  claim  to  a  title,  but 
'*  it  was  not  worth  while  to  take  It  up  fo  late  in  life. 
*•  He  had  undoubtedly  all  the  qualifications  of  a    ] 
*•  Swifs.     He   talked  French  in    all    its    provincial    j 
"  diatedts,  and  fuperintcnded  the  prcfs,  if  the  in-  J 
'' formation  is  to  be  depended  upon,  and  pethapl*! 
•*  taught  it,  as  his  lifter  did  at  Cbdfea  bo.itding-*! 
**'fch6o5.    He  was  early  initiated  in  mulTc,  for  hd' I 
"  played  upon  fome  muGcal  inftrument  as  foon"  aS  \ 
"  he  was  old  enough  to  handle  one,  to  entertain  hii* 
'*  benefaftors.      He  had   the    good  fortune  to   be    j 
**  plated  by  them  with  a  furgcon  of  eminence,  anri^    \ 
•*  became  very  fkilful  in   hia  profeffion.     His  dutjri  ' 
"  and  gratitude  to  his  father,  whom   he  maintained    '• 
*•  when  he  was  nd  longer  able  lO  maintain  himfclf,     ■ 
"  was'CXemplary  and  deferving  of  high  commcnda-'  J 
**  tion.     Let  this  charity  cover  a  rtiultitude  of  hi<'  1 
"  fins !     His  great  thlrft  for  anatomical  knowledge'  I 
**  (for  which  he  became  afterwards  fo  faiiious  as  to'  \ 
**  have  books  dedicated  to  him  on  that  fubjc£t),  and    , 
"  his  unwearied  application,  fojn  made  him  fo  CQm*' J 
"pleat  an    anatomift,    that    he    undertook  to  read  I 
"public  lefturcs   (and    he  was  the  firft  in  Londotl't 
**  who  read  any),  which  gave  general  fatisfa'Sioa.'  I 
**  The  moft  ingenious  and  confiderable  men  in  the' I 
•*  kingdom  became  his  pupil%     Dr.  Hunter,  now  atf  1 
'•W.  "  the  I 


t  464  ]  ^ 

"  tte  fteati  of  his  profcQion,  fpeats  highly  of'  bis 
**  predeceflbrt  and  confiJers  bim  (if  the  information 
•*  u  genuine)  as  the  wonder  of  his  time.  He  con- 
**  itnued  his  love  of  anatomy  10  the  lad,  and  left 
*'  Doble  preparations  beiiind  him^  which  he  wa» 
**  coDtinudlly  improving.  The  tinic  of  his  btro- 
*'  du<dIon  into  Mr.  Molyntux'i  family  i>  not  known 
••  to  the  writer  of  this  account.  W'hetber  anatomy, 
"  furgcry,  loowlcdge,  ur  mufic,  or  his  performatire 
*'  Da  the  Viot  dt  Gamlo,  on  >a  hicb  he  was  the  greateft 
"  mafler,  got  him  the  intimacy  with  Mr.  MiljHiux, 
"  is  not  cafy  to  determine.  Certain  it  is^  that  he 
"  attended  his  friend  in  his  la(l  illnefs,  who  died  of 
**  a  dangerous  diforder  (but  not  under  his  hands), 
"  which  Mr.  Motynaix  is  0id  to  have  pronounced, 
**  from  the  firft,  would  be  fatul.  Scandal,  and  Mr. 
••  Pope's  fatirical  half-line,  talked  afterwards  of 
«  *  The  Poifoning  Wife.*  She,  perhaps,  was  in 
**  too  great  a  hurry,  as  the  report  ran,  in  marrying 
•'  when  flic  did,  according  to  the  pradlifed  delicacy 
"  of  her  fcx,  and  her  very  high  quality.  The  un- 
•*  lucky  buCnefs  in  which  one  Hozvard,  a  furgeon  at 
**  Guildford,  involved  him,  who  was  the  projedlor, 
"  or  acceflkry  of  the  impudent  imponurc  of  NUry 
•*  Tefts,  alias  the  Rabbit-woman  of  Goilalmin,  occa- 
•*  fioned  him  to  become  the  talk  and  ridicule  of  the 
•*  whole  kingdom.  The  report  made  by  Si.  Jndri, 
•*  and  others,  induced  many  inconfiderately  to  take 
*•  it  for  a  reality.  The  public  horror  was  (o  great, 
"  dat  the  rest  of  rabbit-warrens  funk  to  nothiitg; 
1  "  and 


[    4«S    ] 
*<  ahi  nobodv,  till. the  delufion  was  ovc-r,  prefiJraed 
'*  to  eaj  a  raUbij-t    The  credulous  Wbijion  believed 
**  thcftory  (for  to  fptpe  pceple  eifery  thing  is  credible 
'*  thar  comes  from  a  crediWe-witacfs),  and  wrote  a 
*', pamphlet,  to  p^ove  this /«o«/?r««j  ionc^thn  to  be 
*'  the  exa^  a^mtiletion  of  an  o^tj. prophecy  in  £)t/r.)j, '* 
"  The  paft  5/|4j^p(f?y'  afte^in.  this  affair  ruined  >bi8  ■' 
*' inte,reft  .at- C»un^  where   he  had  befoce'Jjeen  fo  ' 
"  great  a  favourite  with  King  Gfor^e  I.  thtc  he -pre-  ' 
"  fentc^.him  >^ith  a  fword   which  he  wore  lijmielf. 
••  Ncjw,  ,on  his  return -out  of  the  country,  he  "met  ' 
"  ^ith,a  perfoiial  afTront,  and  never  went  to  Gdutc" 
"-agab.  ,  ¥ut  he  continued  anatomift  to  the  Royal" 
*'  Houfljold.to  his  dying  day,  though  he  never  Jook 
*' the,, (alary. ^    ,He  probably  was  impofed -'upon  in 
"  this  matter.     -And  has  it  not  been  the  lot  of  men,' 
".in  intelledtaal  accompHfliments  vaftly  above  his, 
*'  fuch  as  ^-jy/f,  fpr  inftance,  a.  man  infinitely  his  fu- 
"  potior,  to  b^over-reached  and  milled  ?     He  took 
",  up  (be  pen  on.  the  occafion  (and  it  was  not  the  firft  ' 
**  time,  for  he  wrote  fome  years  before  a  bantering 
"  pamphlet  on  Dr.  Meadjt  which  could  at  befl  but 
*'  demonflratc  his  fincerity,  but  expofed  the  weak- 
"  D(ife  of  his  judgement,  on  that  cafe.     It  had  beert* 
**  infinuated  he  adopted  this  fchetnc,  to  ruin  fome' 
"  perfons,  of  his  own  profeffion.     If  he  had  a  mtnd" 
*'-,_to  make  an  expeiimcut  upon  the  national  belief, 
**aiwl  to  tawper,  with  their  willingnefs  -to  fwallow 
".joy^abfurdity  (which  a  certain  nobleman  [Dukeof 
**  Iilp7itagu\  ventured  ;o.  do,  in  the  affair  of  a  fib  l 
II  h  "  who 


I 


'who  tindertook  to  jump  into  a  quart  bottle),  fie" 
'  was  defervedly  ininiflied  with  contempt.      Sivift 

*  (according  to  Whifton),  and  perhaps  Arbuthms,  ex- 
■*  ercifed  their  pens  upon  him.     The  cheat  was  foon 

*  difcovered,  and  rabbits  began  to   make  their  ap 

*  pearance  again  at  table  as  ufual.     But  they  wci 
■'  not  at  liis  own  table,  nor  made  a  difh,  in  any  for: 

"  of  cookery,  at  that  of  his  friends.  Perhaps 
"  they  imagined  that  the  name  or  fight  of  that  aDimal 
'*  might  be  as  ofFcnfive  to  hlni,  «s  the  mention  of 
"  Formofa  is  faid  to  hare  been  to  Pfaimmazar.  Ic 
•*  is  told,  that,  on  his  alking  for  fome  parfly  of  a 
"  market-woman  of  Southampton,  and  demanding 
'*  why  fhc  had  not  more  to  fell,  flie,  in  a  banter,  af- 
"  lured  him,  *  That  his  rabbits  had  cat  it  up.' 
**  The  fortune  he  acquired  by  marrying  into  a  no- 
"  ble  family  (though  it  fet  all  the  lady's  relations 
'*  againfl  him,  and  occalioned  her  being  difmifled 
**  from  her  attendance  on  Queen  Caroline)  was  a  fuffi- 
*'  cicnt  conipcnfation  for  the  laughter  or  cenfure 
"  of  the  publick.  His  high  fplrit  and  confidence 
'*  in  himfelf  made  him  fuperior  to  all  clamor.  So> 
"  that  people  did  but  talk  about  him,  he  feldom 
**  fcenied  to  care  what  they  talked  againft  him.  And 
"  yet  he  had  the  fortitude  to  bring  an  aftion  for  dc- 
"  famation  m  Wejlminjler-Holl  againft  a  certain  doc- 
*'  tor  in  divinity,  and  got  the  better  of  his  advcr- 
**  fary.  He  was  not  fuppofed,  in  the  judgement  of 
•'  the  wifer  and  more  candid  pare  of  mankind,  to 
"  have  contributed)  by  any  chirurgical  adminiftra- 

"  tioiv 


t  467  ]■ 

•'  tion,  to  the  death  of  his  friend  Mr.  MJynet/Xt  not 
*'  to  have  fet  up  the  imiiofture  at  GedJinin.  Though 
*'  he  was  difgraccd  at  Court,  he  was  not  abandoned 
"  by  all  his  noble  friends.  The  great  Lord  Peler^ 
"  boToiigb,  who  was  his  patron  and  patient  long  be» 
*'  fore  he  went  to  Li/l'on,  enttrtained  a  very  high 
"  opinion  of  him  to  the  laft.  His  capacity  in  all 
*'  kinds,  the  reception  he  gave  to  his  table  and  hU.^J 
"  garden,  with  his  liberality  to  the  infirm  and  dU^M 
"  treffed,  made  him  vifited  by  perfons  of  the  highe^ 
"  quality,  and  by  all  ftrangrrs  and  foreigners. 
•'  did  not  continue  to  enjoy  the  great  fortune  h»" 
"  marriage  is  fuppofed  to  have  brought  him,  to  tin: 
*'  end  of  his  life,  for  a  great  part  went  from  him  on 
"  the  death  of  Lady  Bi'ltj,  He  by  no  means  left  fo 
"  much  property  behind  hiitj  as  to  have  it  faid,  he 
*'  died  rich.  His  profcllion  as  a  furgeoti,  in  a  rca- 
**  fonable  terms  of  years,  would  probably  have  put 
•'  more  money  into  his  pocket  than  fell  in  the  golden 
*'  fhower  fo  inaufpicioufly  into  his  lap,  and  have 
*'  given  him  plenty,  without  envy  or  blame.  He 
"  was  turned  of  nincty-fix  when  he  died ;  and 
*'  though  fubjeft  to  the  gout,  of  which  he  ufed  to 
"  get  the  better  by  blifters  upon  his  knees,  and  by 
"  rigid  abftinence,  yet,  when  he  took  to  his  bed 
*'  (where  he  faid  he  Ihould  not  He  long),  and  per- 
**  mitted  a  phyfician  to  be  called  in  to  hira,  he 
*'  cannot  be  faid  to  have'  died  of  any  diftafe.  In 
"  one  fum  of  generofiiy,  he  gave  the  celebrated  Cc- 
*'  miniani  three  hundred  pounds,  to  help  him  to  dif- 
H  h  2  "  charge 


C  468-  J 
"  cliargc  his  incumbrances,  and  to  end  his  days  \n 
"*  comfort.  The  ftrength  and  agility  of  his  body 
"  were  greit,  and  are  well  known.  He  was  famous- 
*'  for  his  Ikill  in  fencing,  in  riding  the  great  horfe»  j 
"  and  for  rvmninp  and  jumping,  in  his  younger  days^ 
"  He,  at  dne  rime,  was  able  to  piay  the  game  zz 
*'  chefs  with  the  beft  mailers.  After  a  flight  in- 
"  ftruftion  at  Slaughier's  coffee- houfe,  he  did  not 
**  reft  till,  in  the  courfe  of  two  nights  fitting  up,  he 
"  was  able  to  vanquifti  his  inflructor.  He  was  fo 
"  carnclt  in  acquiring  knowledge,  that  he  vvhimfi- 
"  Cally,  as  he  told  the  ftorv,  cut  off  his  eyc-laflics^ 
*'  that  he  might  not  ilccp  till  he  arrived  at  what  ho 
*'  wanted.  His  face  was  mufcular  and  fierce.  Om 
**  of  his  eyes,  to  cxtcrnril  appearance,  fecmcd  to  be 
'*  a  mafs  of  obfcurity  (js  he  cxprefled  it  of  HandePs^ 
**  when  he  became  ftark-blind),  at  Icaft  it  had  not 
*'  rhc  onconmion  vivacity  of  the  other.  His  lan- 
"  g'-'-^g'^  "'^s  full  of  energy,  but  loaded  with  foreign 
'*  idioms.  His  converfation  was  feafoned  fufficiently 
"  with  fatire  and  irony,  which  he  was  not  afraid  to 
■'  difplay,  thdiigh  he  ought  never  tj  have  forgot 
**  that  he  was  once  a  proper  fubjeft  for  it.  He 
"built;  he  planted;  he  had  almoft  'from  the' 
"  Cedar  of  Lebanon  to  the  hyffbp  that  growcth 
"  upon  the  wall,'  in  his  hoc-boufc,  green-houfe, 
"  and  garden.  If  he  was  not  deep  in  every  art  and 
"  fcicnce  (for  even  bis  long  life  was  not  fufficient 
"  for  univcrfal  attainment),  he  cannot  be  reckoned 
"  to  hare  been  ignorant  of  any  thing.  He  was  ad- 
"  mired 


I 


I 


[    4«9     ] 

"  mired  for  his  knowledge  in  arcbitcSure,  Jo  gar- 
"  dening,  and  in  botany,  by  there  who  ll.ojid  have  . 
"  been  above  flattery.     But  praife,  from  whatever. 

f  ■     •  ^\ 

"  quarter  it  comes,    is    oi    an    in'oxicaiing  nsiurc.  j 

*  Thole  who  found  out  that  he  loved  praife  tookJ 
'*  care  he  fhould  have  enough  oF  it.  He  kept  j  Vvi^ 
"  of  the  wretched  and  the  indigent,  whcm  iic  toi 
"  ftantly  maiotaitied ;  and  ihetr  names  in'cht  bfej 
**  written  alpbabeiically.     The  [.-oor  of  SiutbftmftM 

'^  know  ihev  have  loft  their  beft  friend,  tallii^ 
'■*  reader,  oftemation  or  vaotly,  if  you  wiU  ;  but  till 
"  you  know  it  did  not  proceed  from  1-js  goodneul 
™  of  heart,  this  tiibutary  jien  conCiic.-s  His  giving 
■*  away  his  money  to  rericve  the  necetEious.  a*  a 
'*  fpark  of  the  fpiiit  of  the  Man  ofRrfs.fii  tne  ^Tao 
'  of  Batb.  He  was  all  his  life  too  much  addiScd 
■*  to  amours,  and  fometiraes  with  the  lower  [>ait  of 
'thefcx.  His  coaverfation,  which  he  was  atwf.i\"«  J 
'  able  to  make  entertaining  and  inflniAive,  was  too  3 
'  often  t'mdured  with  dsuhU  entendrt  (a  vice 
'  incrcafcs  with  age),  but    hatiily  ever   with  pro^*] 

*  phanenefs.     He  may  be  thought  to  have  copietl 

*  Hermppm,  and  to  have  confidcrcd  women  as  the 
'  prolongcrs  of  life.     Ho.v  lar  he  was  made  a  dupe 

*  by  any  of  ihem  at  laft,  is  not  neceflary  for  relation. 
'*  He  died,  as  he  lived,  without  fear;     for  to  his 

*  flanders-by  he  gave  no  fign  of  a  f  ufflcd  mind,  or 
■  a  difturbed  coofcietice^  in  bis  laft  monicnts. 

*'  Impartial." 


C    47°    3 


**  If  the  preceding  memoir  of  St.  Andre  had  not 
**  been  compofcd  entirely  from  memory  (a  faculty 
*'  which,  like  the  ficve  of  the  DanaidSf  is  apt  (o  lofe 
•*  as  much  as  it  receives),  and  had  not  been  convejt^ 
•*  to  the  prefs  with  l*o  niuch  precipitancy,  the  writer,  j 
**  by  a  fecond  recollection,  might  have  made  fup-,  J 
f  plemcmary  anecdotes  id's  neceflary.  Whilft  S/^l 
•'  Jni/re  was  b.iiking  in  the  fun-fhinc  of  public  fa-- 
'*  vour  in  I\oribuiub(rlanJ-C''Url ,  near  Charing-Crofs. 
^'  under  pretence  of  being  wanted  in  his  profcOioa 
**  at  fome  houfc  in  the  neigh l)oi:rhood,  he  was  hur- 
*'  ried  through  fo  many  p^li'agfs,  and  up  and  down 
**  fo  many  f^air-cafes,  that  he  did  not  know  where  he 
•*  was,  nor  what  the  untoward  fcene  was  to  end  in.  i 
"  till  the  horrid  conclufion  prefented  itfelf,  of  whict  1 
"  he  publiflicd  an  extraordinary  account  in  The  Ga- 
^'  zette  of  Felf.  23,  1724,5,  no  icfs  than  of  his  being 
'*  poifoncd,  and  of  his  more  extraordinary  recovery. 
**  Such  uncommon  men  muft  be  vifiied  through  life 
*'  with  uncommon  incidents.  The  bowl  of  poifon 
*'  muft  have  been  for  ever  prefent  to  his  imagina-. 
"  tion.  Socrates  himfetf  could  not  expeft  mort; 
"certain  deftruftion  from  the  noxious  draught  he 
**  was  forced  to  tnke  down,  than  fcemed  inevitable 
*'  to  St.  Andre.  Nay,  a  double  death  fccms  to  have 
**  threatened  him.  Probably  it  was  not  any  public  or 
5*  private  virtue,  for  which  Socrates  was  famous,  and 
*•  which  occafioned  him  to  fuflVr,  that  endangered 
*' our  heios  life.  His  conflitution  was  fo  good, 
f5  that  he  got  the  better  of  the  infernal  potion,  Thf 
«'  truth- 


1 


C     47>     ] 

*  truth  and  circiimftanccs  of  the  (lory  could  onl;^ 
'  be  known  to  himfelf,  who  autheniicaced  it  upon 

*  oalh.  His  narrative  partakes  of  the  marvellous; 
'  and  the  reader  oi  July^  1781,  is  left  in  total  igno- 
'  ranee  of  the  aitor,  and  the  provocation  to  fuch  a 
'  barbarous  termination.  His  cafe  was  reported, 
■*  and  he  was  attended,  by  the  ableft  of  the  faculty  : 
"  and  the  Privy  Council  itlued  a  reward  of  two  hun- 
"  dred  pounds  towards  a  difcovery.  A  not«  in  the 
"  ficond  fupplcmental  vokmie  ,of  Swift  infarmcd. 
"  the  writer  of  this  (kciclv,  a  day  or  two  ago  (■ 
"  takes  to  himfflf  tl-vc  reproof  of  Prior,  '  AutborS^^ 
"  before  they  write,  fhould  read  !"),  that  St.  AndN 
"  was  convinced  be  had  been  impol'ed  upon  refpeft- 
"  ing  the  woman  of  Codalm'tn,  and  that  ,he  apolo- 
"  gifcd  handfomely  to  the  pubhc  in  an  advertifc- 
*'  nient,  dated  Dec.  8,  J726. — '  He's  half  abfolv'd, 
"  who  has  -confeft.' — In  the  autumn,  before  rhe  heat 
*'  of  the  towTi-talk  on  this  affair  was  over,  he  was 
*'  fent  for  to  attend  Mr.  Pipe,  who,  on  his  return 
"  home  from  DawUy  iii  Lord  Bolingiroke's  coach 
*•  and  fix,  was  overturned  in  a  river,  and  loft  the  ufc 
*'  of  two  fingers  of  his  Ictt-hand  (happy  for  the 
*'  lovers  of  poetry  chcy  were  not  the  fetvants  of  the 
*'  right  one'),  and  gave  him  afiiirance,  that  notie  of 
*'  the  broken  glafs  was  likely  10  be  fatal  to  him.  It 
"  is  highly  improbable,  that  Fupe  and  Bo/in^dreke 
■"  would  have  fuffered  St.  Andre  to  have  come  near 
*'  them,  if  he  had  been  branded  as  a  cheat  and  ao 
"  impollor.     He  died  in  A/iTiri-,  1776,  having  fur- 

11  h  4  "  vivcd 


J  - 

'"■    %£1 


C  47'   3 

"  vived  all  his  contemporary  enemies,  and,  which  la 
**  the  coDfequence  of  living  long,  moft  of  his  ancient 
**  friends.  Such  men  do  not  arife  cvfsy  day  for  our 
'*  cenfure  or  our  applaufe ;  to  gratify  the  pen  or  the 
**  pencil  of  charaOer  or  caricature.  He  may  be 
"  confidered,  as  Voltaire  pronounces  of  Charles  tho 
•*  Twelfth,  an  extraordinary,  rather  than  a  great 
"  man,  and  fitter  to  be  admired  than  imitated. 

"  Impartial." 

Id  the  firft  place,  I  avow  that  the  epithet  noterioas 
was  not  meant  to  be  employed  in  the  milder  fenfc  of 
Lord  Clarendon.  Had  I  undertaken  to  compile  the 
life  of  a  man  eminent  for  virtue,  I  fhould  have  been 
happy  to  have  borrowed  the  fofter  application  of  the 
aforefaid  term  from  our  noble  hiHorian.  But  having 
engaged  to  delineate  a  mere  impotlor's  charafler, 
there  is  greater  propriety  in  adopting  the  difputcd 
word  with  that  conftant  fignification  affixed  to  it  by 
the  biographers  of  Bet  Cannings  or  Fanriv  the  Phan- 
tom of  Cock  Lane. — I  ihall  abfolve  myfelf  no  farther 
from  the  charge  of  "  malice,"  than  by  obferving 
that  there  are  always  people  who  think  fomewhat 
much  too  rough  has  been  /aid  of  Chartres. 

The  dead,  declares  our  apologifl:,  deferve  juftice 
'  •  as  well  as  their  furvivors.  This  is  an  uncontefled 
truth  ;  nor  will  the  precept  be  violated  by  me.  I 
may  obferve  however,  with  impunity,  that  the  intc- 
refls  of  the  living,  for  whofe  fake  a  line  of  fL-para- 
tion  between  good  and  bad  cbara^crs  is  drawn,  Ibould 


I 


r    473     ] 

te  confulted,  rather  iban  the  memories  of  the  fiagR 
.tious,  who  can  no  longer  be  affefled  by  human  praife 
or  ceofure,  flioiild  be  fparcd. 

Our  apologift  next  aflures  lis,  that  perhaps  more 
tenderners  is  due  to  a  foreigner  than  to  a  native. 
The  boafted  amor  patria  is  not  very  conCpicuous  in 
this  remark,  which  indeed  was  dropped,  to  as  Uttle 
purpofc,  by  a  learned  counfel  on  the  trial  of  the 
Fiencb  Spy  who  was  lately  executed. 

"  Next  to  his  countryman  Heidegger"  adds  our 
apologift,  **  Mr.  Si.  Andre  becanK  the  moft  conjider^ 
•*  able  perfou  that  has  been  imparted  from  SzuUzer~ 
'*  land,"  To  judge  of  the  comparative  vaUie  of  the 
latter,  we  miin:  cftimate  the  merits  of  the  former. 
Hddeg^er  is  known  to  us  only  bj'  the  uncommon  ug- 
linefs  of  his  vifage,  and  his  adroitncfs  in  conducing 
.  Operas  and  Mafqucrades.  If  St.  Andre  is  to  be  re- 
garded as  a  pcrfon  ftill  kfs  confideruble  than  Heidegger, 
can  his  confequence  be  rated  very  high  ? 

That  St.  Andre  arrived  here  in  a  menial  ftition,  is 
not  improbable.  The  fervility  of  his  youth  afforded 
a  natural  inrroduitlon  to  the  infolence  of  his  riper 
years.  He  was  indeed  (if  I  am  no:  mis-informed) 
of  the  fame  farfiily  with  the  fencing  and  dancing- 
raafter  whom  Drydcn  has  immortalized  in  Alfaf- 
rUcknoe; 

*'  Si.  Andre's  feet  ne'er  kept  more  equal  time  *  ;" 
-and  was  intended  for  the  fame  profelllons  ;  a  clrcmn- 
ftance  often  hinted  at  by  his  opponents  during  the 

*   Sec  alfj  Drydcn' i  Limbtrham,  er  the  ICnJ  Ketfer,   Afl  III. 

Kabbic 


[  474  ] 
felt  coatroverfy.  Having  been  thus  early  lo- 
ftrudted  in  the  management  of  the  foil  and  kitt,  no 
marvtl  that  he  fo  otten  prated  about  tke  art  of  de- 
fence, or  that  "  his  gratitude  to  his  bcncfaftors" 
broke  out  in  the  language  of  a  minuet  or  a  rtgadoon. 
That  he  became  famous  enough  in  his  profcfljon 
to  have  anatomical  works  occafionally  dedicated  to 
him,  will  eafily  obtain  credit  among  our  apologift's 
readers ;  for  many  of  them  muft  have  feen  a  book. 
on  furgcry  infcribed  to  Dr.  Rock,  a  political  poem 
addreiTed  to  Buckborfcj  and  a  treaiife  on  religion 
Iheltering  itfelf  under  the  patronage  of  the  late  Lord 
Baltimore.  St.  Andr^,  however,  was  not  the  earlieft 
reader  of  anatomical  leftures  in  London.  Buffterc, 
the  furgeon  who  attended  Cuifcard  (the  alTaflia  of 
HarUy),  was  our  hero's  predeceffbr  in  this  office,  and 
I  am  told  even  he  was  not  the  firft  who  offered  public 
inftruftions  to  the  ftudents  at  our  hofpitals.  Dr. 
Hunter,  who  has  been  applied  to  for  intelligence  on 
this  occaCon,  declares  that  he  never  defcribed  St. 
Andre  as  "  the  wonder  of  his  time,"  but  as  a  man 
who  had  paflcd  through  no  regular  courfe  of  (ludy, 
and  was  competent  only  in  the  article  of  Injections, 
a  taJk  as  happily  fuitcd  to  minute  abilities  as  to 
thofe  of  a  larger  grafp.  ^_ 

jEm'fUum  circa  tudum  faber  tmus  ct  ungues         ^H 
Exprimat,  el  molles  imitabitur  are  capiilos.         ^| 
The  art  of  pufliing  fluids  through  the  veflcis  was 
^t  that  period  a  fecret  moil  fcrupuloufly  kept  by  the 
few  who  were  in  poITclTion  of  it,  fo  that  a  great  fhow 

might 


[    475     J 

might  be  made  at  the  cxpcnce  of  I'lifle  real  know- 
ledge. I  am  alfo  informed,  ihdt  St.  J  ui't^,  like  the 
workman  delcribcd  by  Hifdce^  had  no  general  com- 
prehenfion  of  any  fubjcd,  but  was  unable  to  have 
put  two  propofirions  together  : — that  he  neither  ex- 
teoded  the  bounds  of  the  chlrurgical  art  by  dtfoo- 
verics,  nor  performed  any  extraordinary  curci;  and, 
boalling  fomewhere  rhat  he  h;id  deiedeii  vcflcU  ia 
the  cuticle  or  fcarf-ft.in,  a  foreigner  of  eminence  m 
the  fan^e  profclTioti  offered  (through  tlie  medium  of 
3  printed  book)  to  lay  him  a  wager  of  it,  a  ch.illrnge 
which  he  prudently  declined.  I  am  alfo  told,  liiaC 
when  folicitcd  to  exhibit  his  preparations,  !ic  aUvayi 
declared  the  majority  of  them  to  have  biicn  diliroyed 
in  a  fire.  What  remain,  1  am  inrtruftcd  to  add,  dc- 
ferve  little  or  no  commendation.  Thus,  on  enquiry, 
finks  our  "  enthufiaft  in  an.itomy"  down  to  a  frigid 
dabbler  in  the  fcisncc  ;  while  his  "  noble  prcpara- 
*'  tions,  which  he  was  continually  improving,"  dwin- 
dle into  mtnutia:  of  fcarce  any  value. 

Though  the  dreadful  crime,  which  is  indiftinflly 
mentioned  in  the  text  of  the  foregoing  pamplilcl,  has 
been  alluded  to  with  lefs  rekrve  by  the  apologid  of 
St.  Jndie,  it  Ihall  be  explained  no  furthtr  on  the 
prefent  occaCon.  Many  arc  xixe  common  avenues  to 
death  ;  and  why  {hould.we  point  out  with  minutencfi 
fuch  as  we  hope  will  never  be  explored  again  ?  Till 
I  pcrufed  the  defence  fo  often  referred  to,  I  bad  not 
even  fufpedcd  that  the  "  poifoniog  wife"  »  bore  the 

*  The  wordi  of  Pppt  arc  the  poi^Mung  damt."  See  Epi- 
logoc  lo  tm  Satires,  DUI.  IL.  v.  jt. 


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teaft  alluSoD  to  any  particular  clrcumAance  on  tbc 
record)  of  criminal  ^lUrtryj  nor,  uiihout  fironger 
proofs  than  arc  lurniflied  by  this  cxpreflion  (perhaps 
a  ranJtxn  onc^,  flull  I  be  willing  to  allot  the  (inallcft 
ihare  of  blame  lo  the  Lady,  fuch  alone  excepted  as 
mull  unavoidably  aril'e  from  her  orer-hafty  marriage, 
which  Aas  folemnlzed  at  Hi^ffin  near  HaunJIvu^  in  ABd- 
dUjfXj  on  the  27thof  JW^r,  1730.  This  set,  how* 
ever,  as  well  a?  litr  derogation  from  rank,  being 
mere  offmccs  againft  human  cufloms,  arc  cognizable 
only  upon  earth. —  By  "  the  wifer  and  more  candid 
**  part  of  mankind,"  who  fofpcficd  no  hann 
throughout  St.  Andre's  condyft  in  this  affair,  I  fup- 
pofc  our  apologift  means  any  fct  of  people  who  had 
imbibed  prejudices  finiibr  to  his  oi\n,  and  ihoughl 
and  f[X)ke  about  his  hero  with  equal  partiality  and 
tcndcrmTs.  But  the  Memoir  on  which  thefe  remarks 
are-  founded,  prove?  at  Icaft  that  what  J.  N.  had 
hinted  concerning  the  dtath  of  Mr.  Molymux  *,  wa« 

of 

•  Whilft  the  above  psge  wa(  prcpaiia^  far  the  fecond  edt- 
lion  of  thii  worV,  the  foilowiag  paniculart  of  this  gentleman"* 
family  appeared  in  rhc  public  prime  :  "  .Mr.  3/i^«n"r,  wbo 
wai  equally  llie  friend  of  liberty  and  liceraiiire,  was  founilev 
of  a  locieiy  in  Inland,  in  imitation  of  the  Roy^l  (as  »»  hit 
nephew,  the  Rev.  Dr.  3£>/^,  r,i  \\ic  Dablm  Society].  Hii 
geniua  was  celebtated  by  Le^h,  and  other  iiget  of  ihofe  days; 
and  his  patriotifm  was  rewarded  with  the  fucceflive  rcprcfen- 
Ution  of  the  City  and  Uoiverfity  of  Oailin,  with  other  pofi« 
of  great  iruft,  from  the  Revolution  to  bit  death.  He  married 
the  diiughtcr  of  Sir  IflUiam  Dtmviffe,  attorney -genera  I  of  ire- 
lanJ  in  the  reign  of  CharUi  the  Second,  and  niece  of  Sir  fbtm^t 
heaki,  of  CiJindflj  in  MlJMe/ex,  by  whom  he  hid  an  only  Ibn, 
Sattuel Meffseux,  Eft);  fccictary  to  hii  latcMajelly  when  Prince 


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[    477     ] 

of  no  recent  invention.  So  far  from  it  indeed,  tbaf 
Sf.  Mdre  was  openly  taxed  with  having  been  the 
fole  caufe  of  It,  in  a  public  news-paper  (I  think  one  * 
of  tbe  Gazetteers),  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Madden^  the 
celebrated  hip  patriot,  who  fubfcribed  his  name  to 
his  advertifem^nt.  It  is  related  (I  know  not  how 
truly)  that  on  this  account  our  hero  profecuted  and 
"  got  the  better  of  his  adverfary,"  whofe  accufaiion 
was  unfupporied  by  fuch  procafs  as  the  ftriiftnefs  of 
law  requires.  How  many  culprits,  about  whofe  guilt 
neither  judge  nor  jury  entertains  the  fmallefl  fcruple, 
efcape  with  equal  triumph  through  a  fimilar  defeft 
of  evidence !  1  may  add,  that  fo  ferious  a  charge 
would  never  have  been  lightly  made  by  a  divine  of 
Dr.  Madden's  rank  and  character. 

All  that  is  faid  on  the  fubjeft  of  family  honours 
to  which  St.  Andre  was  entitled,  his  gratitude  to  his 

of  H'aUit  a  lord  of  the  Admiralty,  and  mcmiier  of  parliament 
both  in  Gnal- Britain  nuA /rcland,  whj  rcfembled"his  iUuIlriooi 
father  in  his  purfuits  of  philofophical  knowledge,  which  he 
many  yiar»,  until  engaged  in  political  bufineft,  profecuted 
*  wicli  great  applicaiion  at  his  feat  at  Kav,  now  his  Majefly'*, 
and  prefcnted  a  lelel'cope  of  his  own  conftrudion  to  ihe  King 
oi  Pariugal;  h\i  fcrliafi  fatal  acquaintance  with  and  patro- 
nage of  Hi.  Aaiiri  vi\\\  make  his  name  long  remembered. 
Leaving  no  ilTue  by  his  wife,  who  married  St.  j^aJri,  and  lived 
many  years,  the  ellaie  of  Mr,  MolyncHx  fell  at  her  death  to 
his  coufin-geriTian  and  her  god-fon,  the  right  honourable  Sir 
C^el  Moljutux,  memlter  at  prefent  of  the  /'tA  parliament, 
and  a  privy-counfellor,  only  furviving  fon  of  Mr.  MalyHtux 
falher's  next  brother,  Sir  Thomas  Malymur,  barr,  vihom, 
through  regard  for  hii  nephew,  his  late  Majefty  created  rhc- 
fitft  Iiijl<  baronet  upon  his  accefflon  to  tlic  throne."  * 

fathi 


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I  V   gi  If.ufcw^      SBK  Xf  1 


C    479     ] 

Gafionally  niifled,  his  errors  were  foon  abforbed  io' 
the  blaze  of  his  moral  and  literarj;  excellence.  Si, 
Jndre'i  blunder,  alas  !  had  no  fuch  happy  means  of 
redemption.  His  credulity  indeed  was  not  confined 
to  this  fingle  tranfai^ion.  The  following  is  a  well- 
attefted  ftory — Two  gentlemen  at  Southampton,  who 
felt  an  inclination  to  banter  him,  broke  a  nutfhell 
afqnder,  filled  the  cavity  with  a  large  fwan-ihot,  and 
clofed  up  the  whole  with  glue  fo  nicely  that  no 
marks  of  reparation  could  be  detcdcd.  This  curio- 
fity,  as  they  were  walking  with  St.  Audi/,  one  oF- 
them  pretended  to  pick  up,  admiring  it  as  a  niif 
ancommonly  heavy  as  well  as  beautiful.  Our  hero 
fwallowed  the  bait,  diflefted  the  fubjett,  difcovercd 
the  lead,  but  not  the  impofition,  and  then  proceeded 
to  account  philofophically  for  fo  ftrange  a  phjcnome- 
non.  The  merry -wags  could  fcarce  reftrain  their 
laughter,  and  foon  quitted  his  company  to  enjoy  the 
fuccefs  of  a  ftratagem  they  had  fo  adroitly  pra&ifed 
on  his  ignorance  and  culiibility. 

Were  there  any  colour  for  fuppofing  he  bad  pa- 
tronized the  fraud  relative  to  Mar^  Tofts,  with  defigft 
to  ruin  others  of  his  profeflion  (an  infinuation  to  ht» 
difcredit,  which  the  foregoing  pamphlet  had  not  fur- 
riflied),  it  was  but  jufl:  that  he  Ihould  fall  by  his 
own  malevolence  and  treachery.  From  the  imputa- 
tion of  a  fcheme  refembling  tiiat  contrived  by  the 
Duke  of  Montagu,  his  want  of  equal  wit  will  fufS< 
cicntly  abfolve  him.  ., 

5  Tl 


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mfobte  wfacpc  be  <fiied,  a  «  Srai 
aUMam  gmd  to  Urn  tr^  lasaaaaiaea. 
far  fiatUr  nafixHy  had  be  bcEs  fazed  widi  ais  Irf 
ttlorft  is  Laidm  (due  bis  ov^ds  of  aesn^  ad^c 
deape  an  equal  iiodc),  lua  jmawjamj  woold  ode 
have  uiled  aof  phyfican  mmed  9*077x1  m  {us  bed- 
ftfe,  rummoaed  an  attorne^r  hota  Ctm^  Omrt  Gan 
Inn  CO  tnvc  made  his  vtU,  ac  icac  for  tbe  Re?.  Mc 
Bmmf  xo  pny  by  btau  Tbe  bgtrflimenr  oi  aboit^ 
bowerer,  from  a  acighbourbood  cbar  aSwds  tboa 
m  rbe  b^eft  perfe&oa,  wsi  a  dramifiaace  tktt 
mtgbc  as  juAIy  bavc  been  oxnplamcd  of,  as  i^fi;^^ 
f«//  prohibition  of  beans,  bad  n  been  pubGibed  ia 
S^afitrjkiri.  I  hcarril;  wiih  that  tbe  cnprnifannal 
sutbor  of  the  precediag  eptfile,  to  iciieve  anjr  'jq^^hr^ 
bjr  obich  futurity  nuf  be  perplexed,  b^  mfonned 
m  wbctber  St.  Andri  was  aa  eater  of  toaficd  cbede, 
or  not  i  and  '\i  it  was  never  afked  for  by  its  furnrry^ 
title  of  2  Welch  Rabbit  wiihta  bis  hearing. 

That  be  wrote  207  thing,  unlcft  by  proxy,  or  wkfc 
macb  alljdacce,  may  reaJbnabty  be  floubtcd ;  for  the 
patnpblcti  that  pafs  under  bis  nanic  arc  diTcfted  cf 
ihole  foreign  idioms  that  marked  his  coarcriadoa. 
Indeed,  if  I  may  beliere  Ibme  fpecimens  of  his  pri- 
vaK  corrcfpondcnce,  be  was  unacquainted  with  tbe 
very  otihography  of  our  language.  The  infolence 
*f  this  fliallov/  Swifxefi  attempt  to  banter  \ffaj,  we 
may  imagine,  was  treated  with  coniempt,  as  the 
Vorlt  dcfcribcd  has  not  been  handed  down  to  us ;  and 

feif 


[    48i     ] 
few  trails  are  permitted  to  be  fcarce  for  any  other 
rcafon  than  becaiife  they  are  worthlefs. 

It  is  next  remarked  by  our  apologifl,  that  St.  An- 
dre's "  confidence,  &c.  made  him  fuperior  to  all 
"  clamour  ;  and  fo  that  people  did  but  talk  about 
"  him,  he  did  not  feem  to  care  what  they  talked. 
•'  againft  him."  This  is  no  more,  in  other  language, 
than  to  declare  that  his  impudence  and  vanity  were 
well  proportioned  to  each  other,  and  that  a  bad  cha- 
racter was  to  him  as  welcome  as  a  good  one.  He 
did  not,  it  feems,  join  in  the  Poet's  prayer. 

Grant  me  an  honeft  fame,  or  grant  mc  none! 
but  was  of  opinion,  as  his  apologift  likewife  admits, 
that  wealth  was  an  ample  counterbalance  to  the  lofs 
of  reputation. — That  he  might;  evade  accufation  (as 
I  have  already  oblerved)  in  one  particular  inllance, 
and  therefore  recover  damages,  is  no  proof  of  his 
innocence,  that  his  general  condudt  would  admit  of 
defence,  or  that  much  of  the  manifold  cenfure 
palTed  upon  him  had  no  foundation. 

How  Lord  Pf/crioroH^/j  happened  to  become  his 
patron,  &c.  may  be  accounted  for  without  any  great 
degree  of  credit  to  cither  party.  His  lordfliip  (as 
lord  Orrery  obfcrvcs)  '*  in  his  private  life  and  con- 
'■  duft  differed  from  mod  men  ;"  and,  having  often 
capricious  dlfputes  with  the  court,  was  furc  to  favour 
thofe  who,  like  St.  Andre,  had  been  difmifled  from 
its  fervicc.  Our  hero's  mufical  talents,  indeed,  if 
they  were  fuch  as  they  have  been  rcprcfented,  might 
procure  him  acccfs  to  his  lordfhip  and  many  other 
I  i  noble 


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Sb  JfKwJff  jddb^  dot  Ik  was  iifiud  b^  mK 
tniin^ii  jod  faeyen.  fc  wiB  befappoteJ  tbm 
fwc  bw  fcoBfc  ms  acvcr  ftu  Hum  confMif .  Iti^ 
«e  Mc  mbcr  tbiL,  dw  tf  be  aas  X  Mf  DOK  fiK^c 
afirr  bf  thdc  fcxegpac  wortUrs  &c.  k  «ss  lirtrft 
the  fccepcn  of  nmaid  mifcf  fc»  of  bcenfipg-houfa 
had  been  inflrnded  to  tSfeniBue  mraffire  cils  of 
hi*  **  capacity  in  all  kiodf,"  his  cariuGrin  aod  good 
dtnocn  ?  BcSdcs,  all  forrigiicrs  who  bave  arriTcd  m 
Enflaad  bare  not  travelled  to  Sca:baaipttMy  and  ooo- 
iirqtiently  could  not  bare  fecn  St.  Mdre^  wfao  far 
upwards  of  the  la(i  tweotr  years  of  bis  lilie  bad  ic- 
ftded  on))'  there.  Jt  is  nearer  the  innh  lo  ^y,  ibac 
not  a  6ngle  Frerubmanf  i^c.  ia  &hy  iboaland,  crcr 
beard  of  bis  name. 

That  "  his  profeflion  as  a  furgeon,  in  a  reafooable 
"  term  of  years,  would  probably  have  put  more 
"  money  in  hit  pocket"  than  be  gaineJ  by  bit  union 
with  Lady  Belly  Melyneux  (i.  c.  >  30,000.  a  fum  that 
elevated  him  iolo  a  (bic  litilc  fhort  of  madnef^),  I 
cannot  believe.  The  blaft  his  reputation  had  received 
rcfpcdtng  the  bufincfs  at  Godalming^  being  fecoaded  . 


C   483    ] 

by  his  expulfion  from  court,  he  muft  have  felt  his 
bufinefs  on  the  decline.  Indeed,  I  am  told  that  he 
ftaid  long  enough  in  town  to  try  the  experiment. 
Marriage  therefore  might  liavc  been  his  dernier  rtjort. 

The  exaggerations  of  this  impoflor's  genetofity  and 
accompliniments,  which  are  next  brought  forward 
by  his  pancgyrill  with  no  fmall  degree  of  pomp,  are 
fuch  as  we  may  fuppofe  himfelf  would  have  furnifti- 
ed,  had  he  undertaken,  like  the  Chevalier  TayioTj  to 
compile  his  own  memoirs.  The  majority  of  cir- 
cumftanccs  collected  for  the  purpofe  of  proving  him 
to  have  been 

Grammalktts,  rhetor,  geometresy  pi£}or,  al'tptiSf 

Augur,  fchanohales,  medicus,  viagus, 
could  only  have  been  derived  from  thofe  very  flatter- 
ing tcftimonials  to  his  merits  which  he  was  always 
ready  to  exhibit  on  the  flighteft  encouragement. 
Thofe  who  were  content  to  admit  fo  partial  an  efti« 
mate  of  his  abilities,  &c.  found  it  neceffary  to  exprefa 
their  belief  that  he  could  have  beaten  tlereuUs  at 
quoits,  played  a  better  fiddle  than  Apollo,  out-wit- 
ted  Mercury,  difarmed  the  God  of  IVar,  and  forged 
fuch  cheniic  thunders,  that,  compared  with  the  pro- 
duce of  our  hero's  laboratory,  the  bolts  oi  Jove 
were  no  louder  than  a  pot-gun.  So  far  was  he  from 
being  deficient  in  commendation  of  his  own  talents, 
that  he  thought  his  very  furniture  might  claim  a 
proportionable  extravagance  of  praife.  He  was  pof- 
fefled  of  fome  foreign  tapeftry  which  he  was  proud 
on  all  occafions  to  difplay.  But  the  eulogiums  of 
I  i  2  others. 


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fcsd^a^  taw  <■ 


hni  j>rftefcaa«i 

fawdici9nv«f Ai^fa^/ibnm.    NoMsva 

wri  li^mcr.  iif  TT  fa^.nrmtrff  iif  ilibIiw. 
U  am  ti  imtya  mat  t*'ttabaf9bScatkf  (mm- 
vidiAjwfiiie  dK  fltbcx^  like  tkK  of  Ljdr  Ftmmm- 
sWi  Gceac  Aoar,  m^K.  be  a  pimxr),  periupa  ke 
00^  to  IttTc  beta  fjpaniE  of  bit  fiMire  od  die  pcr- 
lowl  di&draacagn  of  ha  argmiwancfc  Teiv  Ac 
lift  time  oif  iafonntoc  law  btm  vas  ic  tbe  Tbeacre 
at  SMabm^UBf  vhoe,  finiag  aear  a  gCDlleiiiaa  and 
Uij  DOC  fcmarkabk  ibr  baocUbaie  £kcs,  be  bad  ibc 
modrftjr  to  expre£i  a  doubt  (snd  in  a  voice  frfficwuriy 
audible)  wbUh  of  the  two  woold  funiHb  the  soft, 
cocnkouik. 


[    485    ]■ 

Mr.  5/.  Andri's  apologift  obferves,  that  "  he  can* 
*'  not  be  reckoned  to  have  been  ignorant  of  any 
*'  thing."  But  the  contrary  may  juftly  be  fufpedted', 
and  for  no  inconclufive  reafon.  I  aver,  that  on 
whatever  fubjeft  he  was  haranguing,  the  moment  he 
difcovered  any  of  the  company  prefent  underftood  it 
as  well  33  himfelf,  he  became  filent,  never  choofing 
to  dcfcanc  on  art  or  fcience  but  before  people  whom 
he  fuppofed  to  be  utter  ftrangcrs  to  all  their  princi- 
ples. For  this  reafon,  he  would  have  entertained  Sir 
Jojhua  Reynolds  with  remarks  on  the  genera  and  cul- 
tivation of  plants,  and  talked  to  Linn(SUi  about  the 
outline  and  colouring  of  pJtSurcs. 

That  he  died  poor  (for  fuch  was  really  the  cafe), 
ihould  excite  no  aftoniihment.  His  fortune,  like  his 
good  qualities,  was  chiefly  in  fuppoficion.  Much  of 
his  wealth  he  had  expended  on  buildings,  which  he 
never  long  inhabited,  and  afterwards  fold  to  difad- 
vantage.  His  firft  eflays  in  arcliitefture  were  made 
at  Cbepflozv  on  the  Severn,  an  eftate  purchaUd  by 
Lady  Betty  Molyneux  Immedia'cty  after  thj  deatli  of 
her  hufband.  In  ftiort,  our  hero  was  a  fugitive  in- 
habitant of  I'everal  counties,  and  never  fettled  till  he 
reached  Seuthampton ;  for  in  no  other  place  did  he 
meet  with  that  proportion  of  flattery  which  was  need- 
ful  to  his  happinefs,  if  not  to  his  exiflence. — About 
a  mile  from  hence  he  erefted  the  whimfical  baby- 
houfe  dignified  by  him  with  the  title  of  BcU  Vue, 
a  receptacle  every  way  inconvenient  for  the  purpofea 
of  a  family.  Being  once  afkcd  if  this  was  not  a  very 
I  i  3  fliiguUr 


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1^  C  ^  J 

■  fapiix  ■iifiii.-'-Sie't'?'  ("*«=•  *>) ' 

■  "«?— Ili»fi»»,«rl— ^«yJk<w'       iT 

^B  OCT  xoBcenK^r  nw  iBeKi  dcay  ib  niBiyiaMfeCGasBB 

crer  be  *  adaurad  ibr  bb  Laovledge  is  «cfaiBoS»^~ 
escrpc  bf  focb  ai  kaew  ooc  vhona  ks  cxcrOaBdcs 

COBliBCo^  lie  Bad, oiMiCTa'f  aBoncrilvciBiE  vibm 
ibc  valb  of  die  torn  akcxlj  MtariotJ.  Hetc  he 
ivetendeil  that  Ini  upper  apanments  «nc  liimhIbI 

mfa  rark kf»  which  be  ooIt  wanted  fpaee  to  rafaJhir, 
BoCy  alas !  after  his  deceaie,  Mr.  CbrU^*  anfiioa- 
room  bore  Auodaiit  winic&  u>  the  frivoKry  «f  hot 
colkdioiK.  What  became  of  his  boofied  Bbnry  of 
book*,  which  he  always  ^d  was  packed  up  in  boxes, 
I  am  yet  to  learn.  Perhaps  it  exited  aoly  in  his 
defcription  *. 

**  Tbofe  who  found  out  be  loved  praifc  (iii\s  bis 
apologil^  took  care  fac  ihould  have  mougfa  of  it.** 
I  (Jifcover  little  caufc  for  difputing  this  aflenioo, 
and  Oiall  only  obten'e  on  ii,  that  adulitioo  is  a  com- 
modity which  weak  old  roco,  reputed  rich,  and  with- 
out oflenfible  heirs,  are  feldotn  in  danger  of  wanting, 

*  I  am  affurcd,  on  unr|ucfUonnb1e  auihonty,  that  Mr.  St. 
AUri  had  a  nluabic  library  in  the  clatfef  of  Natnnl  Uif- 
tory  and  Mcdicbc.  A  caiaioguc  trf  ii,  drjwa  up  bj  Mr. 
B.  WhUt,  it  now  in  the  poffcffion  of  Mr.  Si.  A^iiCt  executor, 
lijr  whnRi  it  it  rcfetvcd  for  the  benefit  ot  miaori, 

3  though 


[    487    3 

though  they  may  not  enjoy  (o  much  of  it  as  fell  to 
St.  /fuJre's  fhare. 

His  dilbiirfcnicnrs  to  the  poor  might  he  iiropor- 
tioned  to  the  real  flate  of  his  fortune ;   but  yet  they 
were  condudtcci  with  excefs  of  oftentatlon.     He  may 
be  faid  to  have  given  ihillings  away  with  more  parade 
than  many  other  men  would  have  fhown  in  the  dif- 
tribution  of    as  many  guineas. — What  honour  his 
apologifl:  means  to  confer  oh  him    by   faying  that  ' 
"  the  names  of  thofe  whom  he  maintained  might  be  . 
"  written  alphabetically,"  is  to  me  a  fecret,  becaule  I 
names  of  every  kind  may  be  arranged  according  to  ^ 
the  feries  of  the  letters. — Sufpedted  characters,  how- 
ever, often  ftrive  to  redeem  themfelvesby  afll'ftation 
of  liberality.     Few  are  more  generous  than  opulent 
wantons  toward  their  decline  of  lite,  who  thus  at- 
tempt to  recover  that  refpcdt  which  they  are  confci- 
ous  of  having  forfeited   by  the  mil'deeds  of  their 
youth.     The  benefaiftions  of  fuch  people    may  in   , 
truth  be  confidered  as  expiatory  facrlfices  for  pall 
offences,  having  no  Ibundation  in  a  natural  propen- 
fity  to  relieve  the  indigent,  or  indulge  the  heart  in 
the  nobleft  luxury,  that  of  doing  good. 

5/.  Andre  was  accufed  in  J.  JV'j  pamphlet  of  hav- 
ing frequently  larded  his  pleafantry  with  obfcene  ex- 
preffions.  This  is  a  truth  which  his  defender  makes 
not  the  flightcft  effort  to  deny  j  but  adds,  that  his 
converfation  was  hardly  ever  tintSurcd  with  prophane-,1 
nefs.  We  hence  at  leaft  may  infer  that  our  hero's  I 
humour  had  fometimcs  this  imperfeftlon,  which  in- 
I  i  4  deed  \ 


Mud  «irfi  Em  nbddfr*  1>»  « 

fitrfbofc  IriiB,  aor  had  bee  -mKdtaa£rii  cxbo^ 

(ion  of  btf  oiaier.    B^  ItSoLiuam.  bs  soes  tioai 

.  tiK  fiwni  of  fieadv  vijme  cxxild  3«e  das  -'obp^Kp- 
^  >fnfKHkw^  liaa  filcnee.  N<Kwgfaftiniii«^  viBc 
llM  been  already  laiil  coocennng  dnc  iadiieiEacc  fio 
CcnAire  -which  appeared  in  him  amanii  the  sxl  qf 
hi*  life,  I  am  mif^nformed,  if  at  sn  csritcr  fv 
he  imt  able  to  brave  die  ridicule  o(  the  place  3 
be  had  been  once  employed  and  carcflcd. 
(he  impucalifMit  conrrqiimr  on  bb  marriage,  &c.  ] 
fcfld^rM  him  ftill  left  an  objc3  of  refprfi,  hen 
with  h)«  bride,  and  amafcd  himtelf  ac  a  Ji£ 
IjOndtm  with  additMMis  to  bis  hcuie,  ami  knpi 
menu  m  hn  garden  ;  nor  did  he  appear  in  | 
apfii  rill  what  was  known  atul  fur'pcdcd  of  him  li 
ceafed  to  be  ihc  ohjcd  of  general  ciujulry  anJ  i 
msdverfion. 

It  i»  difficult  for  a  pro/Iigare  man  of  an  i 
eAnflitinion    to  grow   old    wiib    dtxcncy.      7- 
pamf'hict   had  taxed   5r.  ^Ti/r/  with    lafcivioufii 
'unbecoming  hi*  vear*.    This  is  lilcntl)-  admiitcd  I 
hli  flpoIoRin,  who  adds,  that  the  inirigucs  of  hi»' 

hero 


C  4S9  ] 

hero  were  "  fometimes  with  the  lower  part  of  the 
"  fex."  He  gives  us  reafon  alio  to  fiiifport  thit  our 
antiquated  enamorato  was  a  dupe  to  IcniaL-s  iti  the 
very  Uft  ftage  of  a  life  fo  unufually  protratftcd,  Is 
iSl.  Andre's  memory  much  honoured  by  fuch  revela- 
tions ?  Do  not  circumftauces  liKc  thcfe  incre;ifc  that 
ftock  of  "  injurious  infinuations"  which  our  apolo- 
gill  profcfles  to-diminitti  ? 

Our  panegyrlft,  more  than  once  in  the  courfc  of 
his  letter,  has  cxprefled  himl'elf  in  favourable  terms 
of  Si.  Andrfs  colloquial  talents.  Now,  as  the  me- 
mory of  my  entertaining  opponent  in  rcfp^ift  to  cif-' 
cumllances  is  remaikably  tenacious,  'tis  pity  he  has 
prefervcd  no  fplendid  chullicion  of  his  hero's  wit,  no 
fample  of  that  falire  and  irony  that  feafoncd  his  con- 
verfation,  or  of  that  wifdom  which  fo  often  rendered 
it  inftruftive.  I  flatter  myfelf,  that  if  any  fpecimcns 
of  thcle  dillinft  excellencies  could  have  been  recol- 
Icftcd,  they  would  certainly  have  been  arranged  and 
recorded. 

That  S/.  AndiJ  zji^\T€A  without  figns  of  terror, 
but  a  doubtful  proof  of  his  innocence.  Being,  at 
bcft,  a  trec-thinkcr,  he  might  regard  death  as  anni- 
hilation, might  have  been  infenfible  to  its  immediatft' 
approaches,  or  have  encountered  it  with  a  conftitu- 
tional  firmnefs  that  was  rather  tiic  gift  of  nature  than 
the  refult  of  confcience  undifturbed.  He  who  is 
become  indifferent  to  the  vaiue  of  reputation,  will 
not  eafily  be  inclined  to  fuppofe  that  a  want  of  the 
virtues  on  which  it  is  founded  wil}  be  puoiflied  in 
a  future  Aate. 

7  .  THE 


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t    490     3 


.  wfaolc  oarradve,  pnfaUitcri  by  St.  Atfg'  or 
•jx^  9KB  confidcTed   b^  Itts  cooiEmpofahis  as  an 

^1kapitiimtm.Mfrh^aA^   tmaOEdaBfaf    CD    tEnkr   UiB. 

be  temeoibcTaiv  dac  (ra  ^yofciMW  were  aft  liid^ 
^^)^q  <Hl-  Q8CB  f  3ilil  ?^ff-  DcnifF  iruirftt  wtci  faCii^  B^ 
ttify  itttyrohahte  (br  bis  3f6iaff&  aUann  **■  thcf 
*  KMCita!  af  dlB  marveikHO,  obcumi  m  ciafic 
fas  ^  woddf  a  (ii&iiinir  pcooc  of  dw  effimxaoa. 
■twftadfc  fcii— otc&aiaftn- wa  bddbv  the  people 

pemki  (fer  ifcc  cablia  i^n  bod  doc  jm  dcdided  an 
■t}  ne  pdBEKn  ■ifer  witt  uusiclt  as 
e  flivj-CDUEKii  in  bis 
caofc  Tb^  pt'Wily  caa>^^  aunfaiicJ  ed  ofier  & 
tun  libicfc  they  angbi  bote  becB  isc  soold  Dcver 
be  dnBandea.  AD  cbc  poiin  be  ns  ever  fiipp^d 
■>b*ve  fiAzcdboDia  «as  fiicb  as  b  caa^HO^  aA- 
V  aaBpOBg  TcUck  tboH  ■  ghfc  af 


*  Twas  cbjc  wbkb  cms  ibe  linciEft 
*  And  n  ^  Aapc  of  Lenc  ddbofs.' 
Tbcbore  intorion  of  Siffate  is  i  iiihim| 
»  pfctcDtfad  Tidia  as  Sr.  AaU^  < 
dK  nader  6n3e. 

Bat "  He's  batf  iUblvM  wboks  cnrftftM,* 
s  bis  adnicaiB^  IpcakiBgaf  ibe 


C    49»     ] 

Andre  made  by  public  advertifement.  Yet,  what 
didheconfcfs?  Why,  what  all  the  world  concurred 
to  believe,  that  he  had  been  grofsly  impofed  on ;  or 
perhaps  that,  out  of  two  evils  choofing  the  leaft,  he 
allowed  himfelf  to  be  a  fool,  that  he  might  efcape 
the  imputation  of  having  proved  a  knave.  His  ab- 
folution  therefore  was  not  obtained  on  the  moft  cre- 
ditable terms.  He  adds,  however,  on  this  emer- 
gency, a  frelh  proof  of  his  difpofition  to  deceivt. 
"  I  think  myfelf  obliged  (fays  he)  in  JiriB  regard 
*'  to  truth,  to  acquaint  the  public  that  I  intend,  in  a 
*' Jhort  time,  to  publlfh  a  full  account  of  the  difco- 
"  very,  with  fome  con  ([derations  on  the  extraordU 
*'  nary  circuniftances  of  this  cafe,  which  mifled  me 
**  in  my  apprehenfions  thereof;  and  which,  as  1  hope 
"  they  will,  in  feme  mcafure,  excufe  the  miftafces 
"made  by  myfelf  and  others  who  have  vificcd  the 
"  woman  concerned  therein,  will  aifo  be  acceptable 
"  to  the  world,  in  feparating  the  innocent  from  thofe 
**  who  have  been  guilty  actors  in  the  fraud."  This 
work  was  never  publlftied,  though  St,  Andre  fur- 
vived  his  promife  by  the  long  term  of  fifty  years.  So 
much  for  the  faith  thus  folemnly  pledged  by  an  im- 
poftor  to  the  public. 

After  the  accident  had  befallen  Mr.  Pope,  on  his 
return  from  Dawley  in  Lord  Bo/irrgiroie's  coach, 
St.  Andri  was  called  In,  becaufe  he  hap]  cned  to  be 
the  furgeon  neareft  at  hand.  No  man  chooles  to  be 
fcrupulous  in  the  rhoment  of  danger.  It  might  be 
urged  that  our  hero  had  little  to  boaft  on  the  oc- 

cafjon. 


t  «'  1 


:mt&.Jt*i-i 


^^c 


^i«te  mmKAim  Ik, 

T»D  iililr,  I  Cfc  sKikaM 
l||lllHJtj»*c  OtktHm  tfmt 


An  iBkc*. 


k 


VIL    [See  pu  137.1 


ItiE  fciodne6  of  3  6ieBd  hts  cnfakd  bc  »  I7 


More  tlK  leader  fane  cxtzafis  frooi  dte  feanx 
pw^kt  meiifiof  J  k  [b  137.  T^  fellowk<^ 
tt  die  cxjd  tkk  of  k :  "  A  Leorr  liniai  s  ^- 
**  nAioorr  of  Si.  Cmea  Dmaa,  to  tbe  Sj^ 
**  Reremul  FmIw  b  God  Edmaml,  Locd  BiAop 
«  of  tenjtfif  occafioncd  b]r  kis  Lordfiiip's  cnifiag 
**tbe  Pidnre  otct  the  Altar  to  be  akcD  down. 
•^  With 


[    493     ] 
"  With  fome  Obfervations  on  the  Ufe  and  Abufc 
"  of  Church    Paintings   in   Greneral,    and  of  that 
*'  Pifturc  in  particular. 

"  Exodus,  Chap,  xxxii.  Ver.  20.  And  he  took 
"  the  Calf  which  they  had  made,  and  burnt  it  in 
"  the  Fire,  and  ground  it  to  powder,  and  ftrawed  it 
"  upon  the  Water,  and  made  the  Children  o£  1/raei, 
"  drink  of  it.  ^ 

"  LondcH,  printed  and  fold  by  J.  Roberts,  in  H^at^-^^M 
"  zuick-Lane ;  A.  Dad,  without  Temple-Bar;  and  £«.^^n 
**  Nut,  at  the  Royal-Excbange.   1725.     Price  6rf.'* 

After  fome  introduftory  compliments  to  Eiftiop 
Gibforif  the  Letter-writer  thus  proceeds :  "  Of  all 
*'  the  abufes  your  Lordfliiphas  redreffed,  none  more 
**  timely,  none  more  acceptable  to  all  true  Protcft- 
"  ants,  than  your  laft  injunifHon  to  remove  that  ri- 
*'  diculous,  fupcrftitious  piece  of  PopiJh  foppery 
"  from  over  our  communion-table ;  this  has  gained. 
"  you  the  applaufe  and  good  will  of  all  honed  men, 
<*  who  were  fcandalized  to  fee  that  holy  place  de- 
*'  filed  with  fo  vile  and  impertinent  a  reprefentation. 
"  To  what  end  or  purpofe  was  it  put  there,  but 
"  to  affront  our  mofl  gracious  Sovereign,  by  placing 
*'  at  our  very  altar  the  known  refemblance  of  a 
"  perfon,  who  Is  the  wife  of  his  utter  enemy,  and 
"  pcnfioner  to  the  Whore  of  Babylon  ? 

"  When  I  fay  the  known  refemblance,  1  fpeak 
"  not  only  according  to  my  own  knowledge ;  but 
*'  appeal  to  all  mankind  who  have  ittn  the  Princefs 
*•  Sebiefii,    or  any  pifture  or  refemblance  of  her, 

"if 


i    494    1  J 

*  if  the  piSurc  of  that   angel    in   the    white  gar- 

*  roent  and  blue  mantle,  which  is  there  fuppofed  to 

*  be  beating  time  to  the  mufick,  is  not  ilirei^y  a 

*  great  likenefs  of  that  princcfs.     This  I  infift  on, 
'  and  will  (land  and  fall  by  my  aflertion,  provided 

*  they  do  not  play  any  tricks  with  the  pi^re,  or 

*  alter  it  for  contradiftion  fake  now  it  is  down. 

"  Whether  it  was  done  by  chance,  or  on  purpofc, 

*  I  fhall  not  determine ;  but  be  it  which  it  will,  it 

*  has  given  great  oHence,  and  your  Lordfliip  has 
<  afljcd  the  part  of  a  wife  and  good  prelate  to  oidcr 

*  its  removal. 

"  For  furcly,  fuch  a  pidurc  is  far  unfit  for  fo  (a- 

*  cred  a  place;   a  place  loo  folemn  for  luch  levities^ 
'*  too  awful  to  be  made  the  receptacle  of  fuch  trum- 

*  pcry ;  nay,  admit  it  were  not  the  rel'emblancc  of 

*  fuch  a  perfon,  can  any  thing  be  more  abfurd,  tban 

*  fuch  a  pifturc  in  fuch  a  place  ! 
**  But  if  it  be  the  pifture  of  that  perfon,  what  c 

'  be  more  facriiegious,  more  impudently  facrUen*n 
'  ous,  than  to  have  our  fani^uary  defiled  by  tbofe 
'  who  make  a  mock   of  us  and  our  holy  religion  ? 

*  I  mean,  our  inveterate  enemies  the  Papifts,  who 

*  would  fcruple  to  prophane  no  place,  lb  they  might 

*  Ihow  their  implacable  hatred  to  our  God,  and  our 

'  King.  1 

"  To  our  God,  by  making  his  holy   altar  th^j,' 

*  fcenc  of  their  ribaldry,    to   be   approached  with 

*  wantonnefs  and   curiofity,  by  the  (bns  of  Beltal^ 
■*  who  coaic  there  to  decypher  the  dumb  Ubcl,  and 

"  fiieer 


fl 


C     495    ] 


**  {hecr    at    the   piflured    lampoon,    which    lacitly 
*'  mocks  the  church,  and  openly  affronts  the  flare. 

*'  To  our  King,  by  placing  the  refemblance  of 
"  an  avowed  enemy  to  him  and  his  religion,  at  the 
*'  very  altar,  to  ftand  in  view  of  a  whole  congrega- 
'*  tion  ;  a  thing,  in  my  opinion,  much  more  audaci- 
**  ous,  than  the  fctting  up  her  ftatue  in  the  public 
*'  ftreets. 

"  No  wonder  our  church  has  been  thronged  with 
*'  fpeftatois,  to  the  great  hindrance  of  divine  wor- 
**  fliip,  and  annoyance  of  the  parifliioncrs,  when  tho(e 
*'  crouds  of  irrevcrcnd  perfons,  which  were  ever 
*'  pouring  in,  came  not  there  to  join  in  prayer  with 
**  the  reft  of  the  congregation,  but  to  worfliip  their 
"  Popifli  faint,  and  hug  themfelves  with  the  conceit 
"  of  being  alone  in  the  fecret. 

"  But  at  laft  the  watch-word  was  blown,  and  the 
"  true  intent  of  their  coming  difcovercd.  Then  was 
*'  it  high  time  to  complain  to  your  l.ordfljip,  when 
"  difturbances  became  fo  frequent,  and  the  peace  of 
"  the  church  was  fo  manifeftly  broken  :  that  you, 
"  like  another  Mofes,  commanded  the  tinftured  abo- 
"  mination  to  be  taken  down,  and  no  doubt  but  your 
**  Lordftjip  will  call  them  to  account  who  fet  it  up. 

"  When  your  Lordfliip  ftiall  examine,  who  is  the 
"  painter,  and  of  what  principle  ?  how  long  he 
"  had  been  from  the  Court  of  RonUy  before  he  painted 
"  that  pifture  ?  and  whether  he  brought  no  pi 
"  turc,  or  refemblance,  of  the  Princtfs  Soblejli  ov 
"  with  hira  ?  you  will  not  repent  of  what  you  ha' 
*'  doK. 


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k;  •<:,  «  ^  I 


•fr  wife  3  SOB  «a  dD»  hmm  faca   iimiwim^ 


'  fOM  iMdftip'*  nev,  sd  pn  ;«■  m  apyw 

"  bwoCB  It  HW  l^niKS  ^MCr,  OHI  pC0RH  IB  b>M|* 

"im  t»  OMKCc&if  and  Wiiijwui  cxpeaea  6v 


«*  liK  rig|K  poi0n'»  door,  aad  be  iktt  (a  tfeaa  a* 
**  wmkaa^^mptff  iScm;  far,  nmr  haBUeof*- 
•*  aiDaftbcidKe needed  aoakcndoa:  kwaidecai^  ' 
'*  epatvauan,  *od  indeed  trnmatmal  caoug^  bHoae-; 
"  tbcfc  wM  no  taorc  figo,  or  fcv  of  ds  bi&ig,  doa 
**  diete  was  occafioa  to  talL£  it  flown,  tad  depciic 
M  the  panib  of  a  cooraueocy  now  very  much  ■■■ 
*'  cd,  1  mean  a  little  vefbyfoom,  which  was  bchiad 
**  the  old  commuaioa  table,  where  the  books,  vcf- 
*•  feb,  aod  Tcflmcutt  of^  the  church,  were  readf  tt 


±,  were  readf  <■  \^^ 

-I 


C    497    3 

*'iand,  arid  juft  at  the  very  altar;  whertas  tww 
**  every  thing  is  brought  quite  through  the  body  of 
"  the  church,  which  in  cafe  of  a  croud  (as  of  late 
*•  has  been  but  too  frequent)  is  both  tedious  and  in* 
"  convenient  to  the  laft  degree, 

"  But,  notwith Handing  this,  it  was  refolutely  taken 
"  down,  to  gratify  the  pride    and  malice  of  fonje 
**  perfons,  who  thirfted  to  eternize  their  names,  and  ( 
*'  affront  the  government.    What  have  been  the  con- i 
•*  fequences  of  all  this,  but  an  eje-forc  and  heart-  J 
*'  burning  to  the  honeft  and  loyal  part  of  the  inha*  j 
"  bitants,  and  a  continual  hurly-burly  of  loiterer^  \ 
*'  from  all  parts  of  the  town,  to  fee  our  Popifli  raree- 
•*  fliow  ?" 

After  a  digreflion  on  the  famous  altar  at  While' 
(Aapei,  in  which  Dean  Rennet  was  fald  to  be  fati- 
rlzed,  and  feme  general  dbfetvations  on  piAiires 
in  churches,  rhc  Lcttcr^writer  adds,  "  Never  before 
'*  was  any  Popifti  faint  put  over  the  communion-table 
**  in  a  Proteftant  church.  The  Laft  Supper,  the 
•*  Paflion,  Crucifixion,  or  fome  other  incidents  of  \ 
"  our  BlelTed  Saviour's  life,  are  the  general  fubje<fbi 
"  given  to  painters  on  thefe  occafions ;  but  to  have 
*'  a  concert  of  mufick,  &c,  (fuppofe  it  were  not  the 
"  Pretender's  fpOufe,  and  probably  fome  more  of  his 
"  family,  under  the  form  of  angels)  is  the  nioft  ab- 
*'  rupt  and  foreign  that  I  ever  faw  or  heard  of. 

*'  Whatfurprizes  membftis,  that  any  of  my  fellorf  J 
**  parishioners  (hould  not  only  difpute  your  Lord-' 
**  ftiip's  commands,  delay  the  execution  of  your  juft 
K  fc  "injunction, 


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*^mb4  aad  opprcned,  or  jvarljtt^bf  d 
*e^  Tha  araA  be  tfae  nafai  ;  ornvfac  jpsfo^ 
«A<  cbef  tn«B  wiifc  »i  cnnft  ymm  I  ii  jftiti^ 
"•RfcaKT?  Ibc  jvBatenDJaftaaHm^BeHy- 
'fiaBOKrbaE  die  ooft  aBpaaaiy  aid  a»  ^ai^  to 
*  ^*e  np  JBf  pOBK,  wfaetetke  poce  of  ifac  CfcwUfc 
**  utitmc  kos^BVOC  CDC  Kn^  s  t  im'n neg. 

"inacvcr  manuBs  x  in  haBg  Bfcea  iluw» 
'iripEi  diepHt  of  Adc  ivfao  fitk  np;  »d  «&■- 
'cvir  ofcadkir  p>R^  mathadm  theiiifeNa»  sid 

"  OB  9^  ulyo  jgnnt  fi  King  iBDOvea  ?  Wbk 
"  CM  thej  otfer  fee  haviag  k  icsaio  ?  Bur  wk^X 
"  aod  wbr  doc's-  As,  Why  Jboold  k  be  mnammit 
•*  Wbff  lun  (fid  k  do  ?  WI17  fbcNdd  fe  i»xb 
**  laaaef  be  Aiovn  2ir^  ?  And,  why  cnigiit  doc 
"  due  pfAnre  be  there  as  well  as  307  achcr  ?  Wlif 
**  doei  TOUT  Lordfiiip  toterfere  to  the  maiter  ?  TUk 
**  wkh  a  glance  of  complaint  at  jroar  Lordflip,  and 
**  feverc  iarcftiTCT  ^atoft  thofe  «bo  foCckcd  i^iK 
« iscerpoficion,  calling  ihan  iofanDen,  bufjr.  for- 
**  ward,  nuichief-oiakiiig  fellows,  who  bad  better 
**  mind  their  ova  bofinds,  and  fuch  like  nbaldry* 
*<  ta  all  tbey  cm  lajr  for  tbcmtclTc^.  But  tbeie  ut 
**  the  wor0  realboi  ia  ibe  woritl.  acd  invidious  que- 
**  rie*  only  to  evade  10  argument,  uid  art  not  to  be 
**  idoitticd  in  adeb*ie<tf  tkb  aaiute,  where  a  direft 
-rate 


I    499    ] 

*'  reafbn  for,  or  againftj  is  required.  But  give  m« 
•*  leave,  my  Lord,  and  I  will,  in  a  few  words,  anfwer 
*'  all  their  queries,  which  fecm  Co  weighty  and  for- 
**  midable  to  the  vulgar  and  ignorant. 

*'  Why  Ihould  it  be  removed  ?  may  be  anfwered 
*•  by  another  queftion,  What  buiinefs  had  it  there  ? 
"  But  as  I  fcorn  fuch  quibbling  ways  of  reafoning, 
*'  I  fliall  anfwer  them,  becaufe  it  is  unfit  for  that 
*'  facred  place.  If  it  is  the  Princefs  Sobie^-Vs  image, 
'*  it  is  facrilegious  and  traitcrous,  and  therefore  ought 
*'  to  be  removed.  If  it  is,  as  they  fay,  a  choir  of 
*'  heavenly  angels  at  a  pra£tice  of  muiick,  playing 
*'  on  earthly  inftruments,  it  is  impertinent  and  abfurd 
*•  to  the  laft  degree,  and  therefore  ought  to  be  re- 
*'  moved  from  a  place  where  the  utmoft  decorum 
**  fljould  be  kept. 

"  What  hurt  does  it,  fay  they  ?  To  which  I  an* 
*'  fwer,  it  hurted  or  difturbed  the  peace  of  the 
**  church,  and  was  fo  far  hurtful,  as  we  were  hin- 
"  dered  or  annoyed  in  our  devotions ;  it  made  a  di- 
"  vilion  in  the  parilh,  and  was  fo  fat  hurtful,  as  ic 
"  tended  to  the  breach  of  peace  and  good  neigh- 
**  bourhood ;  and  therefore  I  think  it  ought  to  be 
"  removed,  fince,  not  to  anfwer  them  with  a  qucf- 
*'  tion,  but  a  common  faying,  it  did  hurt  enough. 

"  Why  (hould  fo  much  money  be  thtown  away  ? 
•^'  Ay,  there's  the  grievance  ;  but  I  {hall  tell  them, 
••  they  may  thank  themfelves,  it  was  the  aft  and 
«  ijecd  of  their  own  cabal ;  and  though  they  might 
*'  triumph  and  laugh  in  their  fleeves  for  a  while, 
K  t  a  "yet 


1 


*  wm  AoB  JMf  weuSkf  «f  fr  ft 
"pircc,  or  af  <b«  piC 
"fesRHhioaa^MriBKpfidBKecai^vhic&yiy  dhr 
•byc^aworiAieCMi*  CiW  ^    Hill,  »— Km 

'nR^,  «adb»beeacaft  ■»  TtrTfc— ti  ;  ob^  m 
*iieTiiff0\BmK*,  dtoMnt dvwB  cbe  bEHKL 

'bwaaftt  «p  jpmft  thewgtrfihe  ■iijiir  yr 
•*  of  the  porift,  od  Boc  widMoc  MDcb  anBa^nd 
<*  caa)pl»c  t  dmc  waa  jet  a  msdi  gicMcr  anivfey 
"  for  pi.<rmg  it  do^m  >  is  cfacrefocK  fe  BtKh  ■■■ef 
*■  is  throfm  tmnj,  it  is  {nc^-cba  porift  fiwali'pqf  k; 
"  and,  DO  doubr.  «bea  foor  f  '■■*#!  ^['  caoKS  ib  fft- 
**  quire  by  wbai  auiooriry  a  fct  of  Bxa  ixi  dtt  pa- 
**  lilb  fo  much  tn  debc  fee  cheir  own  vbins^  ttd 
"  vitlicKJt  any  maoixr  of  occafian,  yon  w31  da  w 
'*  juAicc,  and  teacii  fueh  perlboa  for  die  fatace  id 
■  '**  confult  ibc  bidtop^  and  have  die  genenl  < 
■^•' of  the  parilb,  before  diey  nm  mm  fuch  i 
*gat»tics. 

*'  The  tradeftnes  met  their  money,  and  ibepuilh 
"  cannoT  pay  them:  your  Lordfbtp  therefore  wtU  do 
'very  wall  to  adjuft  diis  maoer,  tfaat  cbcy-oByft 
'  whffic  10  go  for  cbeir  money. 


4 


C   501   3 

••  Their  delaying  to  take  down  their  idol,  was  a 

*  tacit  difputing  your  Lordfhip's  conimands,  irreli- 
'  giGUs  and  contumacious  to  the  laft  degree  :  and  in- 
'  deed  I  cannot  fay  but  fome  of  the  public  prints* 

*  gave  me  great  anxiety,  when  they  bad  the  impa- 
'  dence  to  aflure  the  world  it  was  not  to  be  t..ken 
'  down  :  b(«:  that  anxiety  was  of  flwrtcontinu-mce; 

*  for  I  had  the  fatisfadion  the  next  morning  to  find 

*  it  removed,  and  whole  crowds  of  idle  perfons  who 

*  came  to  fee  it  difappointed ;  then  1  found,  to  my 

*  great  comfort,  that  you  were  not  to  be  bialTed  j 
'  but,  as  you  had  begun  the  good  work,  you  bad 
'gone  through  with  it,  and  made    ihcm  take  ic 

*  down  with  a  witnefs." 

#   pie  PeJI-Jliy  and  Hail^Jaumal  ctSamrtiay^  Seftmhr  4, 


C  j=«   3 


»j»»t««fcr  Ti   - 


h^z^^mmO-Sm^tjOi^B 


[     S°3     ] 


Bat  harlt !  tlie  Watctiman  criei  "  Paft  one  !' 
'Ti»  lime  that  wc  on  board  were  gone. 
Cle^n  flraw  wc  find  laid  fur  our  bcd^ 
A  tUc  for  ftielter  over  head. 
The  boat  ii  foon  got  under  fail. 
Wind  near  S.  E.  a  mackrel  gale. 
Attended  by  a  heavy  rain  j 
Wc  try  to  deep,  but  try  in  vain. 
So  fing  a  fong,  and  then  begin 
To  fcaft  on  bifcuii,  beef,  and  gin. 

Al  Purflett  find  three  men  of  war. 
The  Darjlty  galley,  GUraliar, 
And  Tartar  pink,  and  of  this  laft 
The  pilot  begg'd  of  ui  a  caft 
To  Gra'vrftnd,  which  he  greatly  wanted, 
And  readily  by  us  wat  granted. 
The  grateful  man,  to  make  amends, 
Told  how  the  oflicers  and  friends 
Of  Englatd  were  by  Spaniards  treated. 
And  lliamcful  inHanccB  repeated. 

While  he  thefe  infults  was  deploring, 
Ilngarih,  like  Premier,  fell  to  fnoring, 
But  waking  crj'd,  "  I  dream'd" — and  then 
Fall  fall  afleep,  and  fnor'd  again. 

The  nii>rn  clear'd  up,  and  after  five 
At  port  of  Gravt/eHd  we  arrive, 
But  found  it  hard  to  get  on  fhore  ; 
Hii  boat  a  young  fon  of  a  whore 
Had  fix'd  jull  at  our  landing- place. 
And  fwore  ue  Aiould  not  o'er  it  pafi ; 
Bur,  fpite  of  all  the  rafcal's  tricks. 
We  made  a  (liift  to  land  by  fix, 
And  up  to  Mrt.  BramBU'i  go 
[A  houfe  that  we  Qiall  better  know], 
There  get  a  barber  for  our  wigi, 
Wadi  liandi  and  faces,  firetch  our  legs, 
Had  loall  and  butter,  and  a  pot 
Of  coffee  (our  third  breakfart)  got  s 
Then,  paying  what  we  had  to  pay, 
*"    For  Roclicfttr  wc  took  our  way. 

Viewing  the  new  church  as  wc  went, 
And  th'  unknown  petfon't  moaiuneitt. 


Th. 


w^mliif^S^aA^tiltt 


bli>r-»»«W«xr>lU« 


tpmt^,  fi»««<M<«r7»; 


I  Jh>tf  [kis  otr  tea  «•&■«<■ 


%  «e  ffZ  aer, 

w  dpjffb  new  offKMtt  Bft  nlc^ 

I^V  ftsMfir  Vn^rlhMt  fib  n  fide, 

c  rwriag  irtftnA  at  rfie  nde, 
I  Jtafai  onr  ew,  «aif  dttra  ear  {^>(v 
I  Jbd  urrHy  «hil*  iber  dWi^B. 
1 9lwfr  *B  f«<*  Mer  DO  ifac  Tawn, 

i  ^  whifli  rhrCaiNc  w  fe  aor, 
I  *thjrt  •■«  »I1  in  »  hnrqp  iren 
r  IPlw  gr»oH  remain*  ow'i  n»  be  «i 


[     JOS     ] 

Small  holes  cut  ia  on  every  fide 
Some  hold  for  hands  and  feet  provide, 
By  which  a  liitle  boy  we  faw 
Go  down,  and  bring  up  a  jaclt-daw. 
All  round  about  us  ihen  wc  gaze, 
Obferving,  not  without  amaze. 
How  towns  here  undiltJDguifh'd  join. 
And  one  vaft  One  to  form  combine, 
Chatham  with  Rocbtfier  fecms  but  one, 
Unlel's  we're  Diewn  the  boundary -ftonc. 
That  and  its  Yards  contiguous  lie 
To  plcafaot  Brampton  Handing  high  ; 
The  Bridge  acrol's  the  raging  flood 
Which  RilthiJIir  divides  from  SirocJ, 
Extcufive  SireoJ,  on  t'other  (ide, 
To  Frindjhury  quite  clofe  ally'd ; 
The  country  round,  and  riwer  fair. 
Our  profpeits  made  beyond  compare, 
Which  quite  in  raptures  we  admire  ; 
Then  down  to  lace  of  earth  retire. 

Up  the  Street  walking,  firft  of  all 
We  take  a  view  of  ihe  Town-Hall, 
Proceeding  farther  on,  we  fpy 
A  houfe,  dellgn'd  to  eatch  the  eye. 
With  front  fo  rich,  by  plailick  (kiil. 
As  made  us  for  i  while  ftand  ftill : 
Four  huge  Hobgoblins  grace  the  wall, 
Which  we  four.Bae  Relievo's  call ; 
They  the  four  Seafons  reprefcnt. 
At  lead  were  form'd  for  that  intent. 

Then  Watn^  Hn/pUat  we  fee 
(No  common  curiolity)  : 
Bndow'd  (ai  on  the  froat  appears) 
In  favour  of  poor  travellers  ; 
Six  fuch  it  every  night  receives,  \ 
Supper  and  lodging  ^«f/j  gives, 
And  to  each  maa  next  morn  does  pay 
A  groat,  to  keep  him  on  his  way  i 
Bui  the  contagionlly  infefted. 
And  ro^'uet  and  proftors,  are  rejefled. 

It  gave  uf  too  fome  eniertainment 
To  find  out  what  this  bounteous  man  meant, 


1 


■  dMi^t^KS 


r««1lMKrAtfl(ft>w. 
»  j>*  elM^4t  ^ir  tkrax  o'clock, 
B  let**  mrtf  m  Ottimm  ptLJ ; 
r  IhMt  pEC  dKR  nM  ifaaA  (on-, 
f  T«l«c'i  «iO  ofec  ar  ka«  «  hiv: 
|;f«t  faw  Md  Ibpm  a  I— ih  — *  fcp 

'  1i  the  OMR-Biii  w  ^«r*M*  hv- 

T«  Cimitm  for,  Bnrfifcw  ««  eicu 

tWidi  MiriMpt,  which  m  ■«  walk  we  cau 


I  Jlc  knph  reach  Ac  ItMff'*  rx*  and  dBcfa, 
cthcfetptbmoBihBiDBkiV 


P^nrf  MOMM  gnjfcoowJ  of  nno*t 
I SW  h«re  I  wrf  mk  be  ptoKz, 
I  f  Of  we  wtm  hoKc  *gaia  ai  fix, 

*  Tit  **f«i  SmfnifM  md 


[    5°7     ] 

There  fmoaVM  our  pipeS)  and  drant  our  wloc,  ' 
And  comfortably  fat  lilt  nine, 
Then,  with  our  travels  much  improv'd. 
To  our  refpcflivc  beds  we  mov'd. 
Sail/ay  at  feven  we  rub  our  eyes, 
But  are  loo  lazy  yet  to  rife : 
Hogarth  and  Tbt»uibi!l u\\  iheir  dreams. 
And,  reafoning  deeply  on  thofe  themes, 
After  much  learned  fpeculation. 
Quite  fuitable  to  thcoccafion. 
Left  otr  as  wife  as  they  begun. 
Which  made  for  us  in  bed  good  fun. 
Bui  by  and  by,  when  up  we  got, 
Sam  Scon  was  milling,  "  Where's  SamScMtf" 
"  Oh  !   here  he  comes.  Well !  whence  come 
"  Why  from  the  bridge,  taking  a  view  * 
"  Of  fomething  thai  did  highly  pleafe  me, 
"  But  people  pstling  by  would  Icaze  me 
"  With  '  Do  you  work  on  SunJa^s,  friend  i' 
"  So  that  1  could  not  make  an  end." 

At  thii  we  laugh'd,  for  'twas  our  will 
Like  men  of  taile  thai  day  to  kill. 
So  after  breakfaA  we  ihougfit  good 
To  crofs  the  bridge  again  to  SiregJ: 
Thenge  callward  we  refolve  lo  go, 
And  through  the  Hundred  m.irch  of  //a#, 
Wafli'd  on  the  nonh  fide  by  the  9Jjamr., 
And  on  the  fouth  by  Mtituafs  ftrcamt. 
Which  to  each  other  here  incline. 
Till  at  fbt  NfTi  in  one  they  join.  { 
Before  we  Friiiiijbaiy  could  gain. 
There  fell  a  heavy  lliowcr  of  rain. 
When  crafty  &vtt  a  flielter  found 
Under  a  hedge  upon  the  ground. 
There  of  his  fiiends  a  joke  he  made. 
But  rofe  moft  woefully  bcwray'd  ; 
How  againil  him  the  laugh  was  tum'd. 
And  he  the  vile  diiafter  mourn'd! 
We  work,  all  hands,  to  make  htm  clean, 
Ai^d  fitter  to  be  fmelt  and  feeu. 

''  Drawing  li. 


J 


'7" 


"K 


That  one  of  us  would  buy  a  few. 
For  they  were  very  frdb  and  new. 

Ididfo,  and'cwaschirityj 
He  was  quilc  blind,  anil  half  blind  {lie. 
'  Now  growing  fcolichfome  and  gay, 
Like  boys,  we,  after  dinner,  play, 
But,  33  the  fcene  lay  in  a  fort, 
Something  like  war  miift  be  our  fport : 
Slicks,  ftoncs,  and  hogs-dung,  were  our  weapons, 
Aod,  as  in  fuch  frays  oft  it  happens, 
yoor  TeihaWs  cloaih)  here  went  to  pot. 
So  that  he  could  aot  iaugh  at  Stan. 
From  hence  all  corejuerors  we  go 
To  vifit  the  church -yard  at  Hub. 
At  Hon  we  found  an  Epitaph, 
Which  made  us  (as  *t*ill  make  you)  laugh  i 
A  fervant  maid,  ttirn'd  poeiaAer, 
Wrote  it  intonour  of  her  mailer  ; 
I  therefore  give  you  (and  1  hope  you 
Will  like  it  well)  a  r,m  Cofia .-  i8 

"  And  .  wHen  ■  he  ,  Died  .  Yoti  plainly  .  fee 
Hee  .  freely  ■  gave  .  al  .  to  ■  Sarn  .  pafTaWee. 
And  .  in  .  Doing  .  fo  .  it  DoTh  .  prevail  . 
that  .  Ion  .  him  .  can  .  well  .  bti  .  Tow  .  this  Rayd 
On  .  Year .  fan-ed  .  him  .  it  i«  well  .  none . 
BuT  Thanks  .  beio  .  God  .  it  .  is  .  ^11  my  .  Ooe. 
While  here  among  the  Graves  we  ftumble, 
Our  Hogarth's  guts  began  to  grumble, 
Which  he  to  cafe,  tiirn'd  up  hi*  tail 
Over  n  monumental  rail ; 
Torball,  for  this  indecent  aftion, 
Beftowing  on  him  jufl  correAbn 
With  nettles,  as  there  was  no  hhch, 
He  fled  for  refuge  to  the  church. 
And  fliamefuUy  the  door  beQi — t ; 
O  filthy  dauber  1   filthy  wit ! 

Long  at  one  place  we  niuft  not  ftay, 
Tis  alrooft  four,  let 's  haiie  away. 
But  here  's  a  fign  ;  'tis  rafli  we  think. 
To  leave  the  place  before  ive  drink. 
We  meet  with  liquor  to  our  mind. 
Our  hoAcft  complaifant  and  kiad ; 


I 


go 


'9i 


I 


a.^^ 


'JK 


,  IIIW   )f  liiip- 


«!**«»»»<  Illl|l  I, 


i^'fe' 


..1  dm  UM, 


tui  uki:  'iuii«i| 


[  J»  ] 


I  by  imjc; 
r  *rMmf4  wn  im  hce,  bock  ma  kia  b<ad  j 

i  Bk  floarff  our  wip,  and  trisi*  onr  face*, 
Aad  the  top  barber  of  tbe  piace  is. 
The  cloih  w  for  our  breaUxi  iprad  ; 
A  bovl  of  milk  and  toaOed  bnad 
Arc  brmighi,  of  which  wbik  F^mfi  ett, 
To  dnw  onr  ptdofet  HtgarA  fiu  *  ; 
rhtrtlnll  ii  ID  the  barber"*  handa. 
Shaving  bimfclf  /fW  TiiMii  tiaiitlti 
While  &f/(  it  tn  a  corner  biting. 
And  an  unfiritfb'd  piece  completing. 
Our  reckoamg  about  eight  we  p^. 
And  takt  fur  ICle  of  Crtaat  oar  way  j 
To  keep  ihe  road  we  were  dire&ed. 
Bat,  31  'tura*  bad,  tbii  tnle  negleicled  ; 
A  tempting  path  over  a  flile 
Let  ui  allray  ab&re  a  milei 
Yet  the  right  road  at  laft  we  gain. 
And  joy  to  find  ourfclves  at  Grtaiu  : 
Where  my  Pane  HMjtanJi,  at  Tht  Cbtqiur, 
Rcfrelh'd  ui  with  fome  good  malt  Hquor; 
Into  her  hrder  then  flic  runi, 
BrJDgi  out  fait  pork,  butter  and  bunt, 
And  coarfe  black  bread;  but  thai**  no  ma: 
'Twill  fortify  uf  for  ihc  water. 
Here  Sr»t  fo  carefully  laid  down 
Hii  penknife  ivhich  bad  cod  a  crown, 
Thai  all  in  vain  we  fought  to  find  it, 
And,  for  hi)  comfort,  fay,  "  Ne'er  nlad  it ;' 
For  to  Sbiernr/i  we  now  muft  go  : 
To  thii  the  ferryman  fayi,  "  No." 
We  to  another  man  rcpair'd  : 
lie  too  f;iy»,  "  No — it  hlowi  too  hard." 
But,  while  we  Hudy  how  to  get  there 
In  fpite  of  thii  tcmpcfluuug  weather, 
Our  landlady  a  fchcme  propoi'd. 
With  which  we  fortunately  cloi'd, 
Wai  to  the  fliorc  to  go,  and  try 
To  bail  ihc  Diipi  in  ordinary, 

•  Drawing  iV. 


[    5.3    ] 

« 

So  we  might  get,  for  no  great  matter, 

A  boat  to  take  us  o'er  the  water. 

^^^^^^^^1 

We  hafle,  and  foon  the  (hore  wc  tread, 

^^^H 

With  various  kinds  of  Ihclls  befpread. 

"sW 

And  in  a  little  time  we  fpvM 

A  boat  approaching  on  our  fide; 

■ 

The  man  to  take  us  in  agreed. 

^H 

fiut  that  was  difficult  indeed. 

^^1 

Till,  holding  in  each  hand  an  oar. 

440     ^1 

He  made  a  ibrt  of  bridge  to  ihore. 

■ 

O'er  which  on  hands  and  knees  we  crawl  ' 

■ 

And  fo  get  fafe  on  board  the  yawl. 

■ 

In  little  time  we-feaied  were, 

And  now  to  Sbeftj'i  coaft  draw  near; 

"    1 

When  fuddenly,  with  loud  report. 

The  cannons  roar  from  fliips  and  fort, 

And,  like  tail  fellows,  we  impute 

.  I 

To  our  approach  this  grand  faliiie: 

But  foon,  alas !  our  pride  was  humbled, 

1 

And  from  this  fancy'd  height  we  tumbled, 

On  rccoUefting  that  the  day 

H 

The  nine  and  cweniieth  was  of  May. 

^^1 

The  iiiing  had  not  long  been  ended, 

^^1 

Before  at  Shcenrfs  we  were  landed, 

455 

Where  on  the  battery  while  we  walk, 

And  of  the  charming  profpeift  talk, 

Bioii  from  ua  in  a  hurry  runs. 

And,  getting  to  the  new-fir'd  guns. 

Unto  their  io\ich-holes  clapp'd  his  nofe; 

^fao 

Hogarth  fits  down,  and  trims  his  toes  ; 

Thefe  whims  when  wc  had  made  our  fport. 

Our  turn  we  finifli  round  the  fort, 

And  are  at  one  for  ^unh^rough  going! 

lileak  was  the  walk,  the  wind  fierce  blowir 

'g.            46s 

And  driving  o'er  our  heads  the  fpray  ; 

On  loofe  beach  ftones,  our  pebbly  way. 

But  7iBrBi,//oniygot  afall. 

Which  hurt  him  little,  if  at  all : 

^H 

So  merrily  along  we  go. 

470        ^1 

And  reach  that  famous  town  by  two. 

■ 

1 

L  1 

Si-i^'mtt      ^H 

t    P4    J 


'What  osc  «  bft,  e/  pydnld  ijlc 
(Tlkmil^  grave  ilMfa%a)  swfamfaSc: 
Tcfliflc  <M  titf  m  itmtik  profa. 
1^   ••  TbM  Mnvy  JCt^  dotb  here  rep«fe, 
'•*  A  Gr»alMmJ  Trader  mice  twdve  for, 
**  At  nufter  nd  u  turpoofMcr  ;** 
TbCB,  ia  a*  humble  tetfe,  we  read 
(At  bf  binifelf  ia  perioa  £ud) 

"  In  CrunlmJ  \  Mbslet,  fea-borfe,  aod  bcus  (fid  fl^, 
••  Tbcni^  no«  a-y  botly  ii  iacombcd  id  cl*jt." 

The  boDtt  at  ivbkli  «c  were  ut  qmner 
Ii  cali'd  72r  &teani  i  iliia  ras'd  our  Unghui, 
Bcciulc  the  Cga  it  Tht  RiJLitm, 
So  firanfc  a  blunder  mc  ety  *<  Pie  oo  V 
Bot,  going  in,  allDcatwerce 
And  clean  ;  fo  wat  our  landlady  : 
Wiih  great  civiliry  flie  mid  ui. 
She  hid  not  bcdt  etuMigb  lo  hold  u>, 
Bui  a  good  neighbour  badjuft  by, 
Whrrc  fome  of  ui  perhaps  might  be. 
She  fcndi  to  aflc.    The  merry  dame 
Away  to  ^X^  dircdly  came, 

•  Drawiog  VI. 


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Qyite  ready  our  Retire*  to  grant, 
Aud  fumlfh  lis  with  what  v/c  Want. 

Back  lo  the  chur.ch  agiin  wlt'go; 
Which  is  bm  fmill,   il!  built;  find  low,, 
View'd  the  infide,  but  flill  fee  iTC 
Nothing  of  curiOli[y 

UqIcTs  we  fuffcr  (he  grave-'digger,  „''''     '  ','' 
In  this  our  work  |o  maVe  a  li^iiri;'^  ' '' 

Whom  juft  beiide  «s  now.'we'fi.ive,  ' 

Employ'd  in  opening  of  a  grave. 

A  prnting  fpark  mcTeed  he  iv'i5, 
Knew  all  ihc  ri-aLnf-irVf  the  place, 
And  often  rcltcff  from  his  hliours. 
To  give  tlie  hilioey  of  his  neighbours  ; 
Told  who  was  who,  and  what  was  what , 
Til!  OD  him  wc  beftjwM  a  pot, 
(For  he  foigot  not, 'you  may  fhinlc, 
"  Mafters,  I  hope,  you'l!  mikV  me  drink  !"), 
At  this  his  fcurriloua  tongue  run  farter, 
Till  "  a  fad  dug"  he'tatlM  bi«  maflcr, 
Told  us  the  woilhliifijl  the  Mayor 
Wag  but  a  cuftom-Iioule  officer  ; 
Still  rattli(\g'oii  ifl!  we  depuricd. 
Not  only  with  hisTsl.-s  diverted, 
But  fo  miich  wifdo'm  wc  had  got, 
Wc  treated  him  wiih*  t'other  pOt. 

Return  we  now  to  the" town-hsll. 
That,  like  the  borough,  19  but  fmall, 
Under  its'  purtico's  a  Ipacc, 
Which  you  may  c^ill  the  m^irkct-place, 
Juft  big  enough  to  hold  the  ft.Kks, 
And  one,  il'noftivo,  butcher's  blotki. 
Emblems  of  plemy  and  exctfs. 
Though  you  cm  ng  where  meet  with  lefs': 
For  though  'tis  call'd  a  mirliL't-town 
(As  they  are  not  a(hjm'd  ro  own) 
eithtr  bu! 


Nor  fifh,  nor  fo-,vl, 
Once  in  feuen  years 
When  ilrangcri  con 
Hard  at  TheSv^a, 
But  that  fome  Mar^^ 


lor  aught  tn  eat. 
they  lay,  thereVplcnty, 
:  to  reprel'cQt  ye.- 
!  had  teen  our  fare, 
kh  men  were  there, 


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O'oi'nkiO);  aU  rberujuuffr  rrraai; 
On  «teeli  Tlwic  OMUMitf  tns  beoi 

In  cbc  •tmd  EJutard,  u  dwjr  tetl, 

am  on  *C  bnt  i.  w«d]  : 
Ibir'tu  ftooi  ItEBcev  'sf'   ^■"■"it  ramr 


*•  WfeM  bro^  7«  hcn^ !»' ladi  i'  err  K 

*  ThinV.  pfaaic  j^r-  [laaaMn,  is  yo9  i 

*  for  («ddi  (telpatafieu)   «eai«itcR 

*  Waiiagfar  aaryp— gafcei, 

*^  il  -~**"p—'—  on  bomi  77*  i7^ 

*  (ParGenenTJ ':  awiic  ;7«a> ; 

*  We  tut  oar  tBrSnatea,  &x  lo  at, 

*  And  «Wa,  M  we  had  ^mta  cnsimo^ed^ 

*  "IjiiTi ""-'-  —- '  frj  --  liilhwi  liiiif 

*  Bjr  nuniag  (rf  bff  &d  apamd 

■  Aindeitfebfa,  heqnck^nnDd 

■  So  brae  Ik  Idi  u>  pennficA, 

*  To  toA  an  .^ccaiivMifA  nr  and  wster. 

*  Or  fUrve,  ts  hiiB  'tit  na  grt»  anncr  ^ 

*  WUe  he  amoa^  ia  fneiek  at  ode  U, 

*  Aad  wiH  rem  jos  nben  be  pieafei  j 

■  Perta^  lie  nar  come  back  to^-daj ; 

*  IfnoT.  be  kaowf  cluiwc  muA  £z]r.* 
So  oat  ot  u  gne  bam  a  u^ct. 

When  ^mh  cried  out,  **  GodUcAjrvo,  i 
Tlien  nn  »>  rxmie  dnr  flteptog  ^{lowt, 
Ta  llnie  ;Iku-  foctune  tt  ibc  aktiowle. 
Hcaecwtbecnck-fide,  oneaadaU, 
Wc  gn  lo  fee  fltfl^'i  jawi. 
And  Amod  bcr  bedded  ib  ihc  mad, 
"b  edi  tidaof  Aao(L 


[     5'7     )             ™ 

■ 

1 

The  failors  here  \ttA  cocllc*  gat. 

; 

Which  grstefally  to  in  they  bronghl. 

'Twai  all  u-ith  which  ihcj-  could  irgale  m  j 

too 

Thii  i'  other  fixpcoce  fcoi  to  d»*  aldKyafe : 

So  merrily  they  went  ifaeir  w^. 

And  we  irere  no  left  plc^rd  Amb  they. 

At  fcTta  «l»om  the  town  ire  w«Ik, 

A:]d  with  feme  pretry  damleU  talk. 

te; 

Beauiiful  nymphs  itidee<d.  I  wees. 

Who  came  lo  fee.  and  lo  be  (ecB. 

.  J, 

Then  to  our  Somu  reituning,  there 

is 

Wc  borrow'd  a  great  wooden  cbAir, 

And  plac'd  it  in  the  open  firect. 

61I1 

^^H 

Where,  inmuehflatc,  dldift^-rrifit 

^^H 

,    To  draw  ihe  to"nhotiJ"e.  church,  and  ftn-plc  •, 

Hj 

Surrounded  by  a  crowd  of  people  ; 

Tag,  rag,  and  bobiaii,  flood  qutie  thick  there. 

^^ 

And  cry 'd,  "  What  a  ftreel  pretty  j»idure!** 

615 

This  was  not  fiaifh'd  long,  before 

We  taw,  about  the  Mayor'*  fore-door. 

Our  honcft  (aitors  in  a  throng  ; 

We  call'd  one  of  them  from  among 

The  reft,  to  icll  m  the  occafioo  j 

«>o 

Of  which  he  gave  us  this  relation  : 

And  chanc'd  to  meet  or  o\-enake 

A  faiJor  walking  with  a  woman 

(May  be,  flie't  boneit,  may  be,  common) : 

6.5 

ad 

He  thought  her  handfoinc,  fo  hii  honour 

■ 

Would  needs  be  very  fwect  upon  her  : 

But  this  the  fcaman  would  ootfuf- 

-ter,  and  this  put  bim  in  a  huff. 

*•  Lubber,  avaii,"  £i)»  ihirJy  J*tm, 

'JO 

"  Avaft,  Ifiy.  let  her  alone; 

^^^ 

"  You  fljall  not  board  her.  (he's  my  wife. 

^^1 

"  Sheer  off.  Sir,  if  j-ou  lo\-c  your  life  : 

^^1 

•'  I've  a  great  mind  your  back  to  Ink ;"         , 

^^1 

And  up  he  held  his  oaken  flick. 

'1 

^^H 

"  Our  midfhip  hero  this  did  fcare  ; 

^^1 

"  I'll  fwear  the  peace  before  the  Mayor," 

^^1 

Says  he ,-  (o  to  the  Mayor's  they  trudge : 

^^1 

Horn  iijci\  ■  cafeby  fucb  ajudge 

■ 

•  Drawing  VI. 

■ 

L 1 J         *                   Detcrmia'd 

1 

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I 

«  Scoit-i  landlady  is  below  ftain.                             ji 

"  And  roundly  the  good  nonan  fweitrt,                  ^ 

^^^H 

*'  That  for  his  lodging  he  fliall  pay. 

IPi 

(Where  his  lir'd  boaea  he  fcorn'd  to  Isy) 

ftf'^ 

"  Or  he  ihoiild  go  before  the  Mayor," 

She's  in  the  right  on't,  we  declare. 

For  this  would  cut  the  mailer  ftiort. 

(At  leaft  'twould  make  us  fpecia!  fport)  ; 

But  here  flic  balk'd  us,  and,  no  doubt. 

t,0 

Had  wit  enough  to  find  us  out. 

Our  mark  thus  mifs'd,  we  kindly  go, 

To  fee  how  he  and  Tetball  do. 

We  find  the  doors  all  open  were. 

(It  fecms  that  's  not  UDufual  here)  : 

t^S 

They're  very  well,  but&o//  lail  night 

H-id  been  in  a  moll  dreadful  fright : 

"  When  to  bis  room  he  got,"  he  (aid, 

"  Andjuft  was  flapping  into  bed. 

"  He  thought  he  faw  the  bed-cloaths  ftir, 

,00 

*'  So  back  he  flew  in  mortal  fear  j 

*•  But  taking  heart  of  grace,  he  try'd 

•'  To  feel  what  'twas,  when  out  it  cry'd  ; 

"  Again  he  flani,  but  to  his  joy, 

"  It  prov'd  a  little  harmlefs  boy, 

70s 

*'  Who  by  miftakc  had  ihiiher  trept. 

**  And  fouadjy   (till  be  wak'd  him)   (lept. 

"  So  iVom  his  fears  recuver'd  t|iiitc 

"  He  got  to  fleep,  and  flcpl  nil  iiiglit."j 

We  laugh  al  this,  and  he  langhs  too. 

;i» 

For,  pray,  what  better  could  he  do  ? 

At  ten  we  leave  our  LhaSwaJu, 

And  to  the  higher  lands  adtiance. 

Call  on  our  laundref*  by  the  way. 

For  (he  led  (bins  left  ycfterday 

J'S 

To  watti ;   "  She'i  forry,  they're  not  yet 

♦*  Quite  dry  !" — •'  Why  then  we'll  take  them  wet  i 

•'  They'll  dry  and  iron'd  be,  we  hope, 

"  At  Mincer,  where  we  next  fliall  Hop." 

The  way  was  good,  the  weather  fair. 

710 

The  prolpects  moft  delightful  were. 

To  MmJltT  got,  with  latMJur  hard 

We  cluau'd  the  hill  to  the  church-rardj 

Li4 

Bit 

m 

[  J*.  ]     ^1 

jH 

His  cafe  fhe  reads ;  her  royal  breaft 

TfiT^H 

li  imov'd  to  grant  him  his  lequcft. 

His  pardon  thankfully  he  takes. 

^^1 

Aod,  fwimming  Hill,  to  land  he  makes : 

^^H 

But,  on  his  riding  up  the  beach, 

^H 

He  an  old  woman  met,  a  wiich  : 

7^1      ^1 

f  This  horfc,  which  now  your  life  doth  fave," 

Says  ftie,  '*  will  bring  you  lo  the  grave." 

^^1 

*  You'll  prove  a  Her,' fays  ray  lord, 

^^1 

'  You  ugly  hag  '.'  and  with  his  (Word 

^^H 

(Afting  a  moft  ungrateful  part) 

770  ^H 

Hia  panting  fteed  ftabb'd  to  the  heart. 

It  liappcti'd,  after  many  a  day, 

^^1 

That  with  fomc  friends  he  ftroll'd  that  way. 

^^1 

And  thi*  ftrange  flory,  as  they  walk, 

^H 

Became  the  fuhjeft  of  their  talk  : 

77!      ^H 

When,  "  There  the  carcafe  lies,"  he  cry'i^ 

"  Upon  the  beach  by  ihe  fea-fide." 

^^1 

As  'twas  not  far,  he  led  them  co'i. 

^^^1 

And  kick'd  the  (kuU  up  with  his  foot, 

'^^H 

When  a  Iharp  bone  pierc'd  through  his  (hoe. 

;to     ^ 

And  wounded  gricvoufly  his  toe. 

Which  morti^'d  ;  fo  he  was  kill'd. 

And  the  hag's  prophecy  fulfill'd. 

^^ 

See  there  his  crofs-legg'd  (igiue  laid. 

M 

And  near  his  feet  the  horfe  3  head*  ! 

78s  ■ 

The  tomb  t  is  of  too  old  a  fafhion 

/■ 

To  tally  well  with  this  narration  ; 

■ 

But  of  the  truth  we  would  not  doubt^ 

■ 

Nor  put  our  Cicerant  out  : 

■ 

It  gives  a  moral  hint  at  Icaft, 

7^  ■ 

That  gratitude's  due  to  a  beaft. 

■ 

So  far  it's  good,  whoever  made  it. 

■ 

And  that  it  may  not  fail  of  credit. 

■ 

A  horfchead  vane  adorns  the  fteeple. 

■ 

And  it's  H„rfi.chur(b  eall'd  by  the  people. 

79>      ■ 

'  DrawingVllI. 

^ 

t  A  erofs-legg-d  figure  in  armour,  with  a  fliicld  over  hii 

lUfi.™, 

like  that  ofa  Knight  Templar,  faid  to  rcpiercnt  Sir  Rthin 

1  dt  Sbnr- 

land,  who  by  Eitw«rd  1.  wai  created  a  Knight  bmnnerel  for  1 

his  gallant 

behaviour  at  the  fiege   of  CarlavtrKk  in  Scttlamd.     He  li< 

:i  under  a 

Coibic  arch  in  the  fuuth-wall,  having  an  armed  page  at  hi(  f«i,  mil         ^^m 

on  hii  right  fide  the  head  of  a  horle  emerging  out  ut  iha  wi 

...snCtbn      ^m 

li.,  ..  in  th.  .aion  of  hlmtomj.    G«o.e. 

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t    i'3    3 

Bui  Iben  be  ma^  bu  nfit  fbon. 
And  «bcn  a  f  jp  cf  pood)  Wd  got. 
Swnc  Ni^ted  match  co  tn  be  bimclit, 
A  fbvemgD  cofdial  thn,  no  doubt. 
To  Bxa  wbole  p^Kt  hid  hwg  bcoi  oat. 

Br  icres  o'clock  odi  fick  recoter. 
And  all  mre  glad  ifaii  tiWtlc**  over. 
Nov  jornily  vc  ^  >lMtb 
Oor  cocUkaiB  siviag  fiwg  ftir  Cong. 
But  (ban  osr  DOiei  arc  chang'd  ;  vc  iboad 
Oor  bom  w»i  on  Stf/.mJ  aground. 
Jail  ia  the  nuddle  of  ibe  rirsr ; 
HcK  Tp.-?^!' IheKt'd  hioafelf  qotie  clerer: 
And,  kmnring  wc  isuft  cUe  abide 
Titl  lifted  br  tile  flowing  lide, 
Work'd  siib  oor  lkip{K:rs^  HI)  lbs  boat 
Wat  once  n^re  happrif  liBoai. 
Wc  all  applaud  hit  care  and  Ifcill, 
So  do  the  bojimen  his  good-wilU 

Ere  long  <bc  tide  made  upward,  lb 
Wiih  thai  before  the  wind  we  go. 
And,  diltmbirking  about  ten. 
Our  CraTf.'riJ  quariert  reach  agwa, 

HtreMsdam,  fir.iliag,  coir^»  to  tell 
HoK  glad  Ihc  n  to  fee  us  well: 
Thtt  kind  Rtepricqi  we  commended. 
And  DOW  clion^i  all  oor  trouUes  ended ; 
Bm,  when  for  nhii  we  want  wc  c^II, 
Somelhingunluckj-  did  bclall. 

Whea  BK  our  tra»Ll(  firii  began 
Scat  (who's  a  very  prudcDi  loanj 
Thought  a  great  cojt  could  do  do  harm. 
And  in  the  boat  might  keep  him  warm; 
So  fjr  pcrh.tp;  you  think  htm  n^t, 
As  we  took  water  in  the  oight : 
But  when  from  lieoce  we  took  our  nay 
On  foot,  ihc  latter  cod  oi  iUr^, 
He,  quite  at  realbnably,  thought 
*T would  be  too  heavy  or  too  hot : 
•■  I'll  leave  it  here,"  fays  he,  "  and  take 
*■  It  with  me  at  our  cooling  back.^ 


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i    For  he's  a  Cftecman  bf  tndep;j-'  r-.      t 

He  flourrour  wigt^  juid  ttiiMLXMirlfiaycisiy^^  "[*  - "  ^» 
And  the  top  bui)ef  of  the  f^iM  iK^    ,.  -  •  ;   ^^ 

The  cloth  is  for  ou^jMftUblr  ^inad  ;* 
Abowlof  finUk  aod^toaAodihxaid  '  •-      •  i         « 
Are  brought,  of' which  whibi9pRr{|Matt,  ?       •  ' 
To  draw^nir  fndoijfis  Jfi|p(H»iHkfr%?l:  <.  ••    "^ 

Tbambill  is  in  tjbe. barber Vhaads^  U  '  ,  '  ^  "^   400 

Shaving  bimfelf  mumMiAadidint  .     r..    ' 
While Scctt  is^-mAdfimfT fitclng^  . 
And  an  unfipiftiU  piece  eo&ipletisig>  :  " 

Our  reckoi^g.  about  eighiiprepagp^'^        ? 
And  take  for  Ifle  of  <€Vittnir  onr.^jT^  -  '  •    40J 

To  keep  the  jcoad  wewers  diioOed^  *.  ^''  ,  *- 

But,  as  '(vrattbad^Tthii  )«^4KglsAed::|. 
A  tempting  path'toter  a  ^l|ii .     .*:  ;  '•1  * 
Let  us  9fin^  V)«t0  ^  mile.). .  .     -- '   •< 
Yet  the  right  ^al4>«tJaft..wer^oy*  <  *•   «         410 

And  joy  to  fi^uittirfelves  at  Gnam  ;*      • 
Where  my  DfNaitir4[^4niir,at  7&r£'i^pi^9*   " 
Refrefh'd  us  with  ftme  |[Qod  inalt  H^oor^ 
Into  her  larder  tbta  flic  runs,     *    -  » 

Brings  out  fait  porik,  butter  and  buns^  41$ 

And  coarfe  black  bread ;  but  tbat^s  no  matteri  ^ 
'Twill  fortify  v.s  for  the  water.  5 

Here  Scott  fo  care;fblly  laid  down       . 
His  penknife  which  b^d  cod  a  crown^ 
That  all  in  vain  we  fought  to  find  it,  ',  4^ 

And,  for  his  comfort,  £fiy,  **  NeVr  mind  k-;^' ' 
For  to  Sbeemefs  we  now  muft  go :     *  -   .•   ' 
To  this  the  ferryman  lays,  *'  No/*  -• 
We  to  another  man  repaired !  .    .     f     - 
He  too  fays,  **  No — it  blows  too  hard.*^  IJ 

But,  while  we  fiudy  how  to  get  there 
In  fpite  of  this  tempeiluous  weather,  •' 
Our  landlady  a  fchcme  proposed. 
With  which  wc  fortunately  closed. 
Was  to  the  fhore  to  go^  and  try  (ji 

To  hail  the  ihips  in  ordinaiy, 

♦  Drawing  IV. 


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TlMt  Ik  got  fawM,  m4  mly  kt^ 
TW  Urging  t^  kit  taimi  a  tWwii^t 
HavaMdi  he  «Mtc4  tlw  p«M  «••(» 
lUanr'd  Ut  mifttr  md  hi*  pief  t 
Hb  cwsM  OmgM;  the  cwt,  ind  tlucf  i 
Aad.  tin  w  ha|hi«i  hk  rtgrct. 


H<  dram  it  ooi,  and  tcM  it  ly, 
like  •  Frmh  tn&gii,  t  Jl  \i%  dry. 
Then,  cmping  tnio  lliellcr  f«ft. 
Joint  with  the  coii<)ian}'  nmt  Ukij[h, 

Notliin);  muic  liappca'd  n<vitiy  agtt  I 
At  Billi^igictt  wc  cliaugc  our  bo«t. 
And  in  aooihir  ihrou)t)i  bridge  j|it. 
By  two,  to  Stkin  nf  Smrtfitt 
AVclcorae  »ch  nthcrto  the  llior*,  » 
To  Ooemi  G^rJm  w  »lk  oncc  niore, 
A«d,  »t  from  Bi^frJ  Ar-i  wc  tUilttl, 
■Tberc  "«t  our  wlutllet  ttc  >vc  piirlvd. 

Wttb  ftlealure  I  obCcrvr,  none  idls 
'W'Crein.AurtfikKc)*,  or  cinploy'd  ill, 
■Ti'il'alt,  our  irfafurer,  »n»  jiifl, 
^no  u-orttiily  dilchnrfj'd  hii  imft ; 
4Vie  all  fign'd  hii  nccounti  a«  fnir)  ; 
Sam  5™«  and  Hegarth,  for  tlieir  fluro. 
The  profpciib  ot  the  I'oa  ud  Und  did  t 
A»  Ther«hiUoi  our  tour  the  plan  did  j 
.And  Farrtft  nrole  ihi)  true  tebiion 
-Of  our  five  d^yt  peregrin >i ion. 

This  to  itiEll,  our  nntne*  we've  wrote  ill, 
■■    Viz.  ThoTKbiU,  Hi^arih,  &ttt,  and  r#i**//. 


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GENERA 

L      I  N  D  E   X                1 

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0 

HOGARTH 

'S    P  L  A  T  E  a 

A. 

ChriO,  &:c.  fmall,  4;;.                        ^H 

•^JENEiS  in  a  Srorm,  147. 

with  £e>.A;i  Uofpital,  416.                { 

Agrieuliure  and  Ar(i,4i;. 
Aliar-piecc,  SI.  ChmimS,    ijS. 

C*.rei<//,C*flri>j,  3S7. 

— —  with  Puliticil  Print,  40a.                1 

491. 

Cckpit.  367- 

Analyfit  of  Bcautv,  3*5. 

Ctlmmim,  314. 

AtJ.us.  i»7.        ■ 

Concert,  St.  Maiy'i  Chapel,  445. 

Aims,&c.  41S  411.  4]  8. 

Confulation  of  Ph^ricinns,  ■3*. 

Co'tim,  Capcain,  160. 

B. 

'   Collage,  441. 

Battle  of  the  Piaurtt,  ;8,. 

Credulity,  Sic.  37;- 

Crowni,  &c.  Sublcription  Ticker 

Blaver'r   Military  Punifhincclt, 

forElcflions,  jji. 

Bur-Slrtti,  51=. 

—2 

Bcforeand  Afttr,  13J. 

Ml 

*Bege«r'tOpeM,  .(.4- 

Debalcion  Palmilliy,  410.       _       ^^1 

Bench,  367.  40). 

'DUeuvcrv.  4+0-                          -      ^M 

•"BtaciiutlCi  Figurei,  439. 

D'ArelTed  Poll,  13;.                              ^H 

£<>mA,  JK/i],  and  CiMrr,  .41. 

Don  ^ixele,  43  5.                             ^H 

Sdjfh/,  Lord  VifcQunt,  453, 

BuytpecpingaiNatute,  iSB.  )i9' 

^      ^1 

™*fltoBd  Buttoms.  449. 

Eleaions,  334.                                   ^B 

^BuUork.miham.^ai. 

Enraeed  Mulician,  154.                          -^" 

Burial  Ticket,  419. 

'ElaBeuPi,  Tui,-f^s''ii-*H- 

Burlington  iiM^.ii.  175. 

Bb/Zo-.  441. 

F. 

£^rwn.  Lady  Ff-««i-/i,  i)6. 

* 

.,1  Mi.U-a!p«UdeCinbe>it2,ilo. 

C. 

Fjrmer'iRemm,  374. 

""Cartoons,  Headi  from,  4J7. 

• ' Farintlli,  Cii«««ti,and  StB^fi-t, 

Cajfandra,  134 

&c.  ,38.43,. 

Catalogue,  Fromifpicc*  and  Tail- 

FliIooii. ^l.  SubliiipticHi  Ticket 

piece  w,  373- 

for  Riil/i-rJ  ni.  iBi. 

ChataScts  and  Caricaturat,  161. 

FifUiis.  Hiari,  385. 

CharU>im<il,EaT\ni.^-i. 

fwi.'^,  Ma.ih  M   »,9. 

Charmer)  uf  the  Agt,  158. 

•Fillit!  lor  Carti^34S.            ..         ■   m 

Chrift    and    hit    Difcplci,    Jic 

Felkti,  AUriu,  IC7,                         ^^H 

l*rg«.  4Ji- 

'Ak«^,^H 

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r^^r  Av  a^ito  Ih>|badt 


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1  e«  Oj/trd,  tlf. 


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Fnc  lli/ir'iii.  Ilk 


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f^Uknmx,itj. 

J/i/4r',  Ticket.  444.             '  "^^^^ 

asfirftdcfignfd.jij. 

StageCo«h,  illT                                         ' 

Perriwigs,  FiveOiden  of,  jjj. 
•fj/if/iDr.  407, 

StageiofCrueiLy,3i6-                                      ' 

Pirjiai  and  MiJu/a,  170. 

T.ck.t  for  FiochUy.  184.  '                           ■ 

f  fi/iTKj  dtlctndiog,  170. 

Staymaker,  410                                                ; 

/--«.  434- 

Strolling  Aareffe*,i5i.                                    1 

PoU.lc-dl  ClyRcr,  jji. 

•Politic  lin,  189- 

T. 

pool  of  Bt(ftf/^a,  frnal!,  189. 

Tiil.piece  to  hi)  Workl,  401. 
■Tankard.  4ig. 

_ . large,  405. 

**Pii£  the  Piinter,  441. 

Tafte  in  High  Life,  a;,. 

Tajiar,  CtO'gt,  Two  Skcichei  for          

R. 

Rabbit-breeder,  aj.  146.  461. 

rajhrs  P>.rfpe£bve,  ]7i.                      Hfl 

Rake's  Progicft,  17.  107. 

Trrr^mu..i4i.                                 ^H 

*Jl.ui4»'j  HouU-,  455. 

"Ticket  Porter,  4]8.                           ^^H 

RapcofiheLotk,  4*3. 

lime  DIackenmg  a  PiaDiv.  Sub-      ^H 

fcripiion  Ticket  for  Siji/mnn-      '^^H 

•Jlifi-*  Glory,  .61. 

373-                                              '^H 

Royalcy,  Epifcopacy,   and   Law, 

ThcTuie,.  375.                                   V 

441. 

To™  Tbnmb,   ,71.                                          ^" 

Tr-Jiram  SianJ,,  vol.  I.  370.                           ' 

S. 

vol.  11.  574. 

Saiieba,  418. 

'■T'voFigutca,  409. 

Search -night,  jS;. 

Shop-hilK,  Sec.  417. 

W.                                ^ 

Shnmp-Giil,  411 

Weighing  HomV,  401.                          ^^M 

Sletyii.g  Coogrigaiion,  IJ4. 

muti,  >£*.  Ns.  lu.                 ^H 

J'o/>//.  407. 

Woman  A^canii^   a  Lhild,  tec.        ^M 

SM/i  S^a,  101. 

H 

Tb«  sttides  marked  thus  *  aie  0 

mitled  ill  Mr.  WalfshS  Catalogue        ^H 

Thofe  marked  •»  are  likewife  or 

nilied  hy  Mr    r«Wr,   but  it  muft       ^H 

be  ack now] edited  they  are  uf  dnulitful  auihoriiv,  though  iutioduud      ^^H 

on  the  faith  ot  tliefollo>vinE  collcfl 

art  and  artillt  i                                          ^^M 

Hogarib,  rmall  circle,  Mr.  Bagrt. 
v€««o  in  a  ftorm,       Dr.  Ducwii. 

Cartoons,  Headi,     Xju,.,;,„f„       ^H 

f,om  Two  Fit'u.c.,  i  ^''^-  ^'^'/V-      ^H 

Beggar'*  Opera,           Ds.  Lerl. 

Oratory,                    7^     Af.vi,/,         ^H 
Mo:'«.,  Scene,  ic.  J  "'■  ■^'^*"''-       ^H 

Bla^t-uiiU-iFts^rtt,-. 

Cottage, 

Ru/f«-*,                '     1                               ^H 

MafleroftheVioe-     Ut.  IrtlamJ. 
yatd. 

?;■£:■         «'•«"'•   ■ 

P_*.heP,i„.er.       J 

Noctu  and  South,   •>                               ^H 

t'ariflli,   CuKHBui, 

and  HtiJtggi.;      >  Mr.  Rfgtrt. 
Cia-driukeri,          J 

^^H 

^M 

F         I         N 

1 

^^^H 

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t    5««    1 

For  he*t  m  fiihrrman  by  tnd^p 

Taon'd  tm  liis  ficcy  fliQclc  im  lUslifad  f 

He  flourrour  wigs,,  and  triaM^ourtfiaoety 

And  the  top  barber  of  the  p(«w  li;^         ~  }j| 

The  cloth  is  for  ou^  bctakfaft  ^MBStd  ;* 

A  bowl  of  fnUk  and  toafted*  bread  i 

Are  brought,  of  which  while  il3if9ig|f  .  eatt,  ^         ' 

To  draw  «tir  piduces  .il<;;»ni^jiltT^>  . 

nambili  18  in  tbcbarberVhaadt^  -^  '  '    '    400 

Shaving  bimfelf  fm  fiiiaUiixtdtP^t  -     r. 

While  Scott  ]s,-io  a  cpfTier  iitcifig^ 

And  an  unfipifli-d  piece  eoinpletiag:* : 

Our  reckoqiog  about  eight  we  paqr^  ' 
And  take  for  Ifle  ^iGr^au  our.  way  9  40J 

To  keep  the  road  we  were  diKflsd*,  -  ' 
But,  as  'twas  bad^  this  roleaegk^edj 
A  tempting  paihorer  a  1&\^ 
Let  m  aibray  abote  a  mile.). . 
Yet  the  right  raid  at  laft  we.  gainv  410 

And  joy  to  find.onrfelves  at  Gruau^  - 
Where  my  Dfm^Unlbmub^  ut  niChfmtr^    ' 
Refrefh'd  us  w^h  fome  good  malt  Kquor; 
Into  her  larder  then  flie  runs, 

Brings  out  fait  pork,  butter  and  buns^  41$ 

And  coarfe  black  bread ;  but  that's  no  matter, ' 
'Twill  fortify  us  ibr  the  water.  t 

Here  Scott  fo  carefully  laid  down 
His  penknife  which  bad  cod  a  crown^ 
That  all  in  vain  we  fought  to  find  it,  ,  4^ 

And,  for  his  comfort,  fey,  **  Ne'er  mind  it  ;•*  ' 
For  to  Sbeernefi  we  now  muft  go : 
To  this  the  ferryman  fays,  **  No/* 
We  to  another  man  repaired :  . 

He  too  fays,  **  No — it  blows  too  hard.'^  ij 

But,  while  we  fiudy  how  to  get  there 
In  fpite  of  this  tempeiluous  weather, 
Our  landlady  a  fcheme  proposed. 
With  which  we  fortunately  clos'd. 
Was  to  the  fhore  to  go,  and  try  ^ 

To  hail  the  ihips  in  ordinaiy, 

♦  Drawing  IV. 


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PREPACK 


IT  IS  not  the  intention  of  the  writer  of  this  trifling 
work,  to  trefpafs  on  any  one  performance  on  the 
fubjedt  of  Hogarth.  He  defigns  it  merely  as  an  addi- 
tion, or  fupplement,  to  the  other  publications.  It  points 
out  fome  minutiae,  which,  added  to  the  explanatory 
remarks  of  Mr.  Walfole,  Mr,  Nichols,  Mr.  Gi/pw,  and 
Dn  ^rujler,  will  form  a  full  and  complete  explana- 
tion of  the  moft  confiderable  of  Mr.  Hogarih'i  prints. 
The  excellent  pamphlet  of  Rouquet  is  transfufed  by 
an  indifferent  tranflation  into  Dr.  Trujler^s  book. 
Some  few  of  the  prints  are  treated  more  fully  in  the 
following  little  work;  which  is  liable,  however,  to 
mary  objedtions,  from  the  writer  not  being  in  pof- 

a  2  feflion 


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iv  PREFACE. 

feffioD  of  any  other  fet  tear,  thzt  publifiied  by  tnt 
widovr  of  Mr.  H'jgarti  -^except  indeed  &  le^k-  £rr 
knprefiions^' ;  of  courfe  fcmie  remarks  ii:  the  cnfuing 
p^es  may  cot  apply  to  the  old  iiupreSoii^  :  iu 
true  is  the  obfcn'ation  of  Mr.  Nicbois^  that  *•  the 
•*  collector  who  contents  himfcif  1^ith  the  later  xn>- 
**  preffions  of  his  works,  wil!  nor  confi:]:  ou-  arrii"? 


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CONTENTS. 


Page 

npHE  Harlot's  Progrefs 
X    A  Midoight  Modern  Converfation 

I 

la 

The  Rake's  Progrefs 

J3 

The  Sleeping  Congregation 

^5 

The  Diftreffed  Poet 

a6 

The  Four  Parts  of  the  Day 

27 

Strolling  AArefles  drefiing  in  a  Barn 

33 

The  Enn^^  Muiician 

40 

Marriage<l4a-Mode        ... 

42 

A  Stage  Coach        .... 

.        48 

Induftry  and  Idlenefs         ... 

49 

The  March  to  Finchley        . 

-      61 

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♦!  COsffiNTS* 


Beer  Street 
Gin  Lane 


*  *  ^  •  60 

Thfc  Staget  of  Cftidty       •**-»« 

The  Cock  Pit       •       .       .        *         ^         i, 

-floodnwnf  raf •. 7-^ — : -gy 

Appendix       --.,..        p. 


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I'he  HARLOT'S  PROGRESS. 

PLATE  L 

WE  are  tbld  in  Jofeph  Gay^s  poem,  as  well  ai 
in  "  The  Harlot's  Progrefs,  or  the  Humours 

*'  of  Drury-Lane which  is  a  Key  to  the  fix 

*«  Prints  lately  publiflied  by  Mr.  Hogarth,''  and 
printed  in  1732  (an  obfcene  and  paulrry  producflion), 
that  the  procurefs  here  reprefented  is  Mother  Bentky ; 
but  Mr.  Walpole  and  Mr.  Nichols  fay  v  is  Mother 
Needham;  and  indeed  in  the  fixth  C'cinto  of  the 
above  poem  we  are  told,  that  the  old  bawd  who  is 
there  wringing  her  hands  is  Mother  De/iiLy,  whiclt 
is  a  figure  very  different  from  Ncaliains,  whom  an 
enraged  populace  prevented  attaining  the  venerable 

B  agd 


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age  of  this  other  afflided  matroo«  And  Jofeph  Gay 
tells  us^  in  a  note^  that  the  colonel's  pimp  is  ^^  his 
•*  trufty  man  John  Gourlay^*  wbofc  attitude  is  -ex* 
preflSve  of  the  girl's  being  a  very  delicate  piece, 
which,  by  the  bye,  fhe  is  not  reprefented  to  be  in 
this  plate.  She  has  in  her  breaft  an  emblem  of  her 
innocence,  and  no  doubt  at  her  departure  from  home, 

**  her  kind  mother  Ihed  prophetick  tears/* 

The  charafter  of  the  infamous  Cbarires  may  be 
feen  in  the  note  to  the  20th  line  of  Tope's  Third 
Moral  Eflay.  And  as  we  cannot  fuppofc  the  direc* 
tion  of  the  goofe  to  have  been  written  in  this  clergy^ 
man's  houfe  ;  we  may  fuppofe  it  comes  from  fome 
good  old  woman  in  Torkjhirs — For  Afjf  Lqfin  Cojin  in 
Terns  Street  London  **  ;  nor  is  the  infcription  under 
the  bell  Icfs  curious — Parfon^s  Intter  Buit  Bear. 
The  trunk  has  the  initials  of  the  young  woman's 
name.  \Vc  arc  to  fuppofe  this  poor  curat'^  is  fent 
up  to  town  with  a  letter  of  recommendation  to  a 
bifnop,  on  the  vacancv  of  fome  living,  and  that  his 
terrified  al'pect  proceeds  from  the  dread  of  appearing 
before  lb  great  a  perfon ;  his  having  rode  up  with 
his  gown  and  calVoek  may  be  from  his  having  but 
one  coat,  and  that  lb  rufty,  that  he  is  billing  to  hide 
it  witli  the  belt  attire  he  can.     I  fear  this  realbn  is 

*  An  old  woman  feiU  a  l:tter  I\v  the  poft  with  this  ciirioiif 
8<.l;irtfs — To  7.VV  fun  John  in  London  ;  and  Mr.  Nichols  has  re- 
cordc  J  .1  j)ic;':Iint  memorial  of  H\^art'j*s  ablencc  of  mind  in 
thus  ducdlin^  a  letter  to  Dr.  lloaMy — ^othc  DvHor  at  Cht/jfa. 

far- 


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far-fetched ;  but,  however  that  may  be,  wc  cannot 
but  fympathize  with  the  diftrefs  this  unfortunate 
divine  muft  experience,  when  a  furly  waggoner  en- 
forces a  rude  payment  from  his  little  pittance  for  the 
earthen  ware  his  half-ftarved  horfe  has  thrown  down. 
The  Journal  of  a  Poor  Curate,  which  is  in  the  Ap- 
pendix (No.  7.),  is  not  inferred  there  for  the  pur- 
pofe  of  raifing  the  volume^ s  f  rice  a  Jhilling^  but  as  pof- 
feffing  the  power  of  awakening  thofe  feelings  which 
cannot  but  arife  in  each  mind  at  the  fight  of  de- 
jected poverty. 

PLATE    II. 

Pompey  with  his  tea-kettle  will  never  pafs  unno* 
ticed,  as  Mr.  ^irCs  farcafm  on  the  immortal  adtor 
(the  man  after   Shakfpeare^s  own  heart)  will  long 
contribute  to  dircd:  many  eyes  to  this  darting  and 
aghaft  Moor  of  Hogarth^.     This  joke  perhaps  fat 
not  fo  uneafy  on  Mr.  Gar  rick  (evident  from  his  reta- 
liation) as  the  difpleafure  gf  his  audience  on  account 
of  his  tramontane  drefs.     Mr.  Hill,  in  his'  edition  of 
the  Atlor  of  1755,  p.  153,  fubfcribes  to  Mr.  Garrick*s 
merit  in  Othello  in  thefe  words,  "  I  can  remember, 
*'  that  in  the  fcenes  where  the  greap  general  is  moft 
"  himfelf,  none  ever  filled  the  ftage  with  more  dig- 
^'  nity  ;    and  that  when  be  took  leave  of  his  occu- 
"  pation, 

*  So  much  this  fccne  her  black  attendant  fcar'd, 
That  ev'n  his  woolly  locks  with  horror  flar'd. 

Gay*s  Poem, 

B  2  ''  Farewell 


C   4   3 

^f  Fareivell  the  plumed  Src9f,  &c. 

^'  none  ever  felt  the  fentiment  more  nobly.  The 
f*  honour  of  his  profeffion,  and  th^  gfief  at  quitdng 
**  it,  were  fo  perfedtly  exprefled  together,  that  it  was 
f^  impoffible  to  fay  which  moft  expreffed  the  hcrQ.** 
Another  gentleman  (Mr.  Wilks)^  equally  convcrfant 
in  the  ftage,  has  the  following  words  on  Mr.  Gar^ 
rick*s  improprieties  in  ading  :  "  If  he  has  his  fiaults, 
**  they  are  like  fpots  in  the  fun,  hid  beneath  a  blaze 
**  of  majcfty  5  an  effulgence  of  beauty  that  afto- 
f*  nifhes,  while  it  dims  all  things  liabje  to  cenf^re^ 
•*  fo  that  they  become  imperceptible." 

The  mafk  on  the  toilet  belongs  to  the  miftrefs,  a$ 
it  appears  again  in  the  5th  plate.  Some  of  the  or- 
naments of  this  room  are  thus  defcribed  in  the  2i(( 
page  of  Gays  poem, 

Pourtray'd  beneath  a  Gourd  here  yonah  fatc^ 

Expcdting  Nineveh's  approaching  fate  : 
King  David,  there,  his  antic  gambols  play'd. 
When  back  the  ark  from  Jjijdodwzs  convey 'd  : 
Below  hung  IVooIJlons  head,  and  Clarke^s  above. 

The  inference  to  be  drawn  from  this  pifture  of 
David,  HKiy  be,  ihac  Mcll  ILickabout  is  playing  b^r 
gan-il)Ois,  while  back  her  lover  from  the  chamber  is 
conveyed  ;  and  Jc^ud'^  n;ay  apply  either  to  Pomf>€y^ 
as  expecting  forne  dilaftrous  fate  to  one  of  them  ; 
or  it  may  apply  to  the  young  gallant,  who  has  no 
reafon  to  expeCl  a  very  agrcjablc  fate  himfelf,  if  he 

is 


/^ 


C  5  3 

is  not  very  expert  in  dealing  down  ftairs.  From  9 
perufal  of  the  lives  of  Dr.  Clarke  and  Mr.  Wool/ton^ 
\  cannot  conjedoire  why  their  portraits  in  particular 
ftould  be  hung  up,  uplefs  indeed  frpm  thejr  being 
at  that  time  the  fubjefts  of  general  conyerfatiqo, 
and  their  portraits  of  courfe  ferving  as  prnaipen^s  to 
many  rppms.  Dr.  Clarkcj  indeed,  publifhed  ^n 
Eflay  on  Repentance;  and  Mr.  Wooljlon^  An  Apology 
for  the  Truth  of  the  Chriftian  Religion  againft  t^c 
Jews  and  Gentiles  *. 

PLATE 

*  In  order  to  explain  one  part  of  DavitPs  picture,  it  miy 
be  proper  to  read  the  following  vcrfcs  from  the  fecond  book 
oi  Samuel^  viz.  the  3dy  5thy  6ch,  ych,  14th,  and  i6th  verfes  of 
the  6th  chapter. 

3.  And  they  fet  the  ark  of  God  upon  a  new  cart,  and 
brought  it  out  of  the  houfe  oi  Ahlnadah  that  v/as  in  Glheah: 
and  Uzzab  and  Ahio  the  fons  oi  Abinadah  drave  the  new  cart. 

5.  And  David  and  all  the  houfc  of  y/r/u/ played  before  the 
Lord  on  all  manner  of  inftrumcnts  made  of  lir-wood,  even  on 
harps,  and  on  pfalteries^  and  on  timbrels,  and  on  cornets,  and 
on  cymbals, 

6.  And  when  they  came  to  Nachon^s  threfliing-floor,  Uzzab 
put  forth  hii  hand  to  the  ark  of  God,  and  took  hold  of  it : 
for  the  oxen  (hook  it. 

7.  And  the  anger  of  the  Lord  was  kindled  againft  Uzzah  .• 
and  God  fmote  him  there  for  his  error ;  and  there  he  died 
by  the  ark  of  God. 

14.  And  David  dancc^  before  the  Lord  with  all  his  might ; 
and  David  was  girded  with  a  linen  ephod. 

16.  And  as  the  ark  of  the  Lord  came  into  the  city  of 
David^  Michal  SauVs  daughter  looked  through  a  wind';.v,  and 
faw  king  David  leaping  and  dancing  before  the  Lord  ;  and 
ihe  defpifcd  him  in  her  heart. 

And  in  order  to  account  for  that  very  grum,  and  ill-tem- 
pered look  of  Jonah* s^  and  more  fully  to  comprvh<?nd  the 

different 


C    6    J 

PLATE    III. 

Very  little  can  be  added  to  Dr.  Tru/lcr^s  explaiia- 
tion  of  this  plate.  Ronquet  fays,  "  fon  logement  eft 
^*  tians  une  rue  confaci^e  a  la  debauche,  un  des  re- 
**  ceptaclcs  les  plus  abondants  en  tout  ce  qu'il  y  a 
••  dc  bas  et  dc  beborde  dans  cette  grande  ville." 
Additional  inftances  of  her  ppverty  are  viiible  iiv  the 
broken  panes  of  the  window,  the  bottle  fcrying  for 
a  candleftick,  the  bafon  for  two  different  kinds  of 
water,  and  in  her  having  no  tea-kettle.  That  Ihc  is 
peftered  with  mice  is  evident,  from  the  jumping  joy 
of  the  cat.  The  cane  in  the  condable's  hand  be- 
longs, no  doubt,  to  this  barlot-hunting  juftice  ;  and  the 

different  p?»rt8  of  thJit  pii^iirc,  it  may  be  proper  to  quote  the 
ift,  5ih,  6th,  Sine!  8rh  verfes  of  the  4th  chapter  of  the  book 
of  Jonah^  premiling,  that  the  Lord  having  commanded  'Jonah 
to  go  to  Ninr'veh  and  cry  agalnft  it,  and  to  forewarn  the 
wicVcd  inl)al)ir.»nts  of  irs  dcllrviJlion  :  in  conlcqr.cncc  it 
whi'-h  rlicy  r<.pi-n*<-(l  in  fackch^rh,  and  fjt  la  r.flie?,  v.  hic'i 
c:niiv.'d  rhe  Alir.ighty  Father  of  Mercy  to  w'uhJruW  his  tiiicat- 
encd  ven';can('r,  which  it  focois 

I difplcalcd  Jonah  exceedingly,  and  he  was  very 

ani^rv. 

5.  So  Jonah  went  out  of  :hc  cify,  and  fit  on  the  cad  fule  '-»:* 

the  ^  \*y till  he  might  fee  what  vvoiild  bccoaic  ut 

the  citv. 

6.  Anu  the  Lord  God  prepared  a  gourd,  and  made  it  ro 
come  up  over  Jonah^  that  it  niight  be  a  (hadow  yvcr  his 
he  id 

7.  H\u  (lod  prepared  a  worm  when  the  morning  rofc  ihc 
next  d'.y,  and  it  fmote  the  gourd,  that  it  withered. 

8.  And  ir  c  .nt  ro  pals  wh.n  the  fun  did  arife,  that  God 
prepared  t  veh.ir.^nt  eail  wind  ;  and  the  fun  beat  upou  the 
head  of  Jo  nab  J  that  he  fainted 

Other 


C  7   3 

Other  ornaments  of  this  room  are,  a  portrait  of  thte 
Virgin  Mary^  and  a  pifture  of  Abraham  facrificiog 
Ifaac.  Sir  John  Gonfon  is  certainly  going  IQ  facrificc 
Mifs  Hackabcul ;  fo  far  this  pid:ure  may  apply,  but 
Ihe  has  no  hovering  angel  to  proted:  her, 

PLATE    IV. 

The  dangling  effigy  of  Sir  John  in  chains  is 
fmoaking  a  pipe,  a  never  failing  joke  with  Hogarth  } 
for  not  only  the  giants  in  Guildball,  but  the  execu- 
tioner at  Tyburn,  nay,  even  Jupiter,  and  an  angel  in 
the  church,  mud  have  their  pipes  and  tobacco. 

The  pert  primnefs  of  the  dog  (who  feems  as 
watchful  after  fomething  as  his  maftcr  is),  the  odd 
look  of  the  woman  leaning  on  her  mallet,  and  the 
infernal  faces  of  the  keeper  and  his  wife,  can  fcarce 
pafs  unnoticed. 

PLATE    V. 

To  add  to  the  confufion  of  this  fcene,  a  pot  li 
boiling  over,  which  either  cannot,  or  is  not  attended 
to,  by  the  maid  and  niirfe.  The  mafk,  and  a  fan, 
are  juft  taken  out  of  the  trunk.  Is  this  to  awaken 
a  rcccrlledtion  of  her  fcrmcr  happy  ftate  when  with 
the  Jew  ? 

"  Alas  !  how  chang'd  from  him, 

"  That  life  of  pleafure  and  that  foul  of  whim.** 

I  am  at  a  lofs  to  knovv  whv  the  fan  is  put  throuirli  . 
the  eyes,  and  what  the  round  board  is  near  the  door ; 

the 


t  J  j 

Suirej  ftridteft*Virt\ife  mi^ht-'lef  fall  a  tear, 
' '  -   :Aiid  ^Mh  tlxc  fingi  ofrfolljr  lefe,  fe^ete* ,    ,  .^ ; 
Hftthi5d#i after  haying  deicribcd  her  as  in  a  hliyft- 
lion,  proeetd^^  : :    '  :  :  ■.;•'.    •,...       ;,  ,_, 

:    WhUft  thus  in-fenfeteii  itoife;.Uiey,  fpent.thcy 


.  .:       breachj      .;:::-     oj  .    .     v  , ,.| 


..:;Iitfantf  fwnk.la^;theAfihsQf.<ie«h4v  i. 

/:v;Hovr  ehaog'd  thatb^utebus  face>ihow  fwoln  the 
tongue,     ;,..;.-.'      .       .v/    •;T/-;:  ....^..^ 
.Whofe  Syr^/i  mufick  caueht  the  gay  and  young:. 
...loft  are  the  chari?is  wKich  raU'd  the.  world  taluft ; 
What  art  thou  all  ? — ^viie,"putrilFying^;^ft  *• 


(     •       *  v^ 


*'i^yn\6t(  t4ie  %«(tel^titcd  Nrfhcy 'jg/i:^/  fo(uhU,:thfi  f  grim 
**  tyrant  was  inf^wbl}^  apd^  that  /h?  ^jpujl,  p^ft/W  houni 
^^  from  ivhfttce  no  trihffllcr^  e*er  ret&rAs^ijfie  pf ep^arccf  "to  meet  her 
»*  farfe  withcotif^g^artcfrettgAation/kftei^-makihg  a  vcfjr  pro# 
**  |>cr  .wi%  by:  which  vth4  pri^plp^l.  pai^trpfj  hcf  fcytune, 
•*  amounting  to  near  ten  thoufand  pounds,  was  bequeathed 
•*ta  her  indigent  palrftitsi  and  other  ^Idtioiis.  .  As  fllo>ap-* 
•*  preached  her  endj^ihe  was  yery  folicrtous  of  iieciig  hcr-pltpr, 
**  whofe  courfc  of  Ufe  Had  not  been  ftri^tly  virtuous,  to  aelivcr 
••her  laft  advice,  and  ddmonifti  hef  to  pfoAtf'Sy  her  e««'nipfe. 
^*  Her  father,  who  'ufedi  hts  beft  .  endeavmirs .  tp  eSc£i  tbU 
**  pious  purppfc,  wj»d, » however,  tpo  |ate,  having  reached* her 
**  houfe,  in  Greek -Street,  ^gbVo-Sqiiarc,  onl}'  ^  re^  tttckiatifh 
**  before  ihe'eKpifed. 


^*  fttdk  do\l'n  in  a  fwooh,.  from  whi^h  /bovw^rlFixJi  d^4(cu|iv 
«  recovered.  Thus  lived,  thus  died,  the  beautiful,  the  KinjJ, 
«*  the  fpnfible,  the-  fraii  Naftny  £Wot.'*  Tow^  aud^Comrf^ 
Mag.  Jnnt,  1769;     ^       ■'"^''  ■'■   I  :'.' '  >  ■ '-».[  •  '    *:     ,:  • 

'    "   t  ■  •  *l 


«•    .  '        ■  I 


PLATE 


*. 


c  «  J 

the  fanie  occurs  in  the  chamber  of  the  Dijlreffed 
Fcei.  A  broken  ink-bottle,  and  a  paper  defcriptive 
of  the  Anodyne  necklaces^  lie  on  the  floor^  inti- 
mating, perhaps,  that  her  poor  boy^  who  feems  the 
child  of  mifety  baptized  in  tears,  is  inclined  to'  be 
rickety. 

The  poem  of  T/je  Harlot*s  Progrefsj  which  I  have 
before  alluded  to,  and  which  profefTes  to  be  a  key 
to  this  fct  of  prints,  gives  other  names  to  the  two 
Quacks  than  thofe  generally  received,  namely, 
Tan—Vy  and  C—m;  however,  Gay's  poem  mentions 
Dr.  Mifaubin  for  one  of  them. 

Jofeph  Gay  has  introduced  in  his  poem  many  lines 
worthy  perufal ;  he  interefts  us  more  in  the  prefent 
fufferings  of  this  unhappy  objeft,  by  fuppofing  her 
(different  from  Dr.  Tryjler)  not  to  have  plunged 
into  her  former  courfe  of  debaucheries  on  her  en- 
largement from  Bridewell. 

Mariii  wept  when  in  the  difmal  jail, 
Nor  wept  in  vain ;    ev'n  there  her  tears  prevail, 
And  purchafe  her  rclcafe  :  but  fcarcc  v/as  fhe 
From  Briiic'weirs  painful  drudgery  fct  free. 
Ere  ftran^c  difordcrs  her  fair  frame  invade  ; 
Ilcr  charms  decay,  the  boafted  rofcs  fade 
On  her  pale  cheek.-* 


fharp  pains  within 


Rack  every  joint,  and  torture  cv'ry  bone, 
What  heart,  untouched,  could  hear  her  piteous 
moan. 

Sure 


•  1 

t  ^  } 

Sure,  ftrifiteft'Virtile  mi^ht'lef  fall  a  tear, 

Arid  ^iih  the  i^ngj  ofrfolly  lc(s.feVete« 

J[iethied#:  after  having  deicribcd  her  as  in  a  faliigi* 
lion,  jn-Qcecds,     .     :      ,  .  ,   .       ....; 

:    Whilft  thus  in-ftnfctefs  eoife^tbey.  fpent  th$^ 
.  breathy     .:r:^-   .::  .   ,    r  .  .  -j^.j 

:  :  Mfiria  funk  iat^.  ;the  otitis  of  death* ,, 

.,;How  chang'd  thatbbautebus face^how  fwoln  tls& 

tongue,     .,..;.-  •  .../    •:/:;:  ■:.. 

^Whofe  Syren  mufick  caught  the  gay  and  ypung. 
.  ,^ipftare  the  eharnis  which  rais'd  the.  world  tq-luft  ; 
What  art  thou  all  ? — vile,  jputriTying^lufl:  *• 

t      •  .V. 

♦  *^«Wheft  like  tAtbfi^d  NiCncy' Eliiif  fwjhU.itte  fgrim 


*' t)er  .vill^  by:  which  tha  pri^dpal  part -9^1  bcf  fortune, 
**  amounting  to  near  ten  thourand  pounds,  was  bequeathed 
*^to  her  indigent  palrc^t^)  and  other  Telations.  As  (ho^ap- 
**  preached  her  end^flse  was  yery  folicitous  of  %ein{;  h^r^-pd^f^^ 
**  whofe  courfc.of  life  Kad  not  been  ilri^lly,  virtuous,  tp  deliver 
••'her  latt  advice,  and  ddmon-Ifti  hef  to  proAr'bJ'  her  eitampb, 
••Her  father,  who  'ufed>  his  bed  endeavours  tp  e&d  tl^^ 
•'  pious  purpofc,  waa,  however,  tpo  late^  having  reached' her 
•*  houfe,  in  6 reck- Street,,§blio- Square',  only  i  few  itrotticf/iff 
•*  before  fbe-expifetl.        **.•'',.        '.     r:..    ,  ■  -    .:-, 

••.When. her  death  WM  ajahpiuoced,  l^jfei^ed.hn  rcmtiaioff 
*•  child  by  the  hand,  ^t>d,  pointing  to  h^r  filler.?  em^cjated 
•*  b6dy,^a^he:ically  dcldtaifkied,  Look^iert)  ^d  immediately 
••  fudk  doii'ii  in  a  fwooh,  from,  which  .bov^v^rl^vi/h  dilj^cujjhr 
•*  recovered.  Thus  lived,  thus  died,  the  beautiful,  the  ItinjJ, 
••  the  fpnfible,  the  frail  Nanny  jE///>/.**  Towa  aud^Coon</y 
Mag,  Jnnt,  1769.  .'.:..  ••.' 

•  ■ »  •■• 


PLATE 


*        k 

A  MIDNIGHT  MODEJIN  CONVERSATION, 

It  is  {aid  this  print  coofifjs  cptirely  pf  perfonaUtics  ; 

fad  yet  Ox2Xox  Benley^  who' is  the  divine/ and  Ket^ 

ilfby  *,  who  wa5  a  vociferous  b^r-orator,  arc  ^hc  only 

.pimt^  we  are  yet  informed  of.     The  over£owipg  of 

'Vhe  cb^mber-pot  is  anpther  inftange  of  their  haviog 

'  4runk  bard. ,  The  geqtleipan  who  is  vonyciog  has  an 

admirjible  exprpflion^  and  the  weaknefs  pf  his  right 

'}ian.d  }s  mpQh  in  charadcr;  he  may  very  juftly  fay, 

■  I.  .#     •   ♦     .  .       *        .        .  . 

^«Ah!  pies  take  that  filthy  vile  punch  and  the 
**  negus/' 

,j,  The  pandle  is  on  the  point  of  catching  the  dU 
Vipe's  wig.  There  is  a  contented  fnugncfs  in  tbe 
pld  gentleman,  who  has  put  on  his  night-cgp  to 
bouze  away  more  comfortably ;  his  cloak,  hat,  and 
wig,  are  hung  up  near  him. 

The  confufion  that  will  very  fpon  happen  is  pretty 
evident,  fpr  the  unwieldy  politician  having  fet  fire  to 
bis  ruffle,  and  to  his  cravat,  the  flames  will  of  courfe 
communicate  to  his  face  and  wig  •,  he  then  will  ftart 
from  his  chair,  and,  in  floundering  againft  that  of 
the  unfortunate  foldier,  may  moft  likely  bring  down 
with  him  the  tottering  do^or,  whofe  chair,  catching 
that  of  the  fporer,  Joins  him  in  the  general  fall : 
thus  every  figure  aflifts  in  praifing  that  genius, 

"  Whofe  vein  of  humour  knows  no  end." 

*  A  brief  might  have  been  introduced  near  the  lawyer, 
with  the  words  of  Mr.  Foot  cndorfcd— i?/»frr  Roffcm  againft 
Sir  Solomon  Simfk^ 

The 


The  RAKE'S  PROGRESS. 

iP  L  A  T  E    I. 

Mr.  Gilpin,  in  his  Efay  on  Prints^  has  favoured  as 
v^itb  a  very  excellent  defcriptlon  of  this  fet  of  prints; 
and  from  the  judicious  obfervations  fcattered 
throughout  that  work  on  the  fubjedt  of  Ho^arth^  wc 
have  great  reafon  to  regret  his  not  having  given  ut 
a  more  exteniive  and  general  crlticifm  on  his  other 
plates.  "  Mr.  Gilpin's  remarks  are  thofe  of  nice  pene- 
tration ;  the  writer  of  this  trifle  extends  not  his  rc- 
fearches  further  than  the  dull  duty  of  pointing  out 
little  rnore  than  the  minuti^  of  each  print,  which, 
though  well  known  to  the  profeffed  admirers  of  this 
painter,  may  yet  be  pafled  over  unnoticed  by  others. 
The  baize  bag  may  denote  the  admirable  figure  be- 
hind the  youth  to  be  the  attorney,  and  not  the 
appraifer  2  if  fo,  we  may  prefume  him  to  be  one  of 
thofe 

"  Who  mifs  not.  morn,  or  evening  prayer, 
**  Unlefs  indeed  to  cheat  an  heir." 

And  Rou^uet  fays  he  is  "  un  procurer 

**  fe  payant  lui  meme."  The  piifture  over  the  chim* 
ney- piece  is  no  bad  difplay  of  HogartVs  vis-comica. 
The  old  piece  of  furniture,  on  whidh  the  black  cloth 
is  placed,  may  probably  have  been  taken  as  a  diftrefs 
for  rent  from  his  tenants.  The  window  appears  to 
be  patched  with  fomething  which  I  cannot  make 
out.  The  taylor  fccrfis  -very  glad  the  old  fellow  is 
dead|  as.  he  has  the,  ntioumFng  to  make.  It  might  be 
_!    .  from 


C     «4    ] 

from  the  widow  of  fiich  a  perfon  as'  this  taylor  that 
the  letter  which  I  have  fubjoinad  to  this  page  was 
f^ntf  requeiting  the  continuance  of  her  hufhand's 
cuftomers ;  it  is  copied  from  an  Awual  Regifter  *. 

From  the  fhoe-fgle  not  being  faftened  or  $nii|ied, 
we  may  prefunie  the  old  /ather  was  his  own  coblcr ; 
and  the  heinous,  figure  pf    the  cat  makps  one  cry 

^ame  on  the  old  n;)iferly  wretch  ;  the  poor  cat  finds 

,1  ■ 

plate  inftead  of  meat-— pearls  befope  fwine*  It  has 
been  faid,  that  in  a  mifer'g  ^  b^ufe  the  very  rats  and 
mice  go  about  with  tears  in  their  .eyes*  The  armoire 
is  as  curious  and  valuable  as  fome  of  the  other  lum* 
\>CT ;  and  his  remaining  crutch  is  another  inftance  of 
his  favingnefs ;  for,  having  broke  one,  he  makes  a 
walking-ftick  ferve  in  its  fiead,  rather  than  purchafe 
another.  His  very  fpeilacle  cafes  (fans  glafles)  are 
prcferved  ;  and  even  in  the  contrivance  of  his  can- 
dlefticks,  he  feems  willing  to  prcferve  the  glimmer- 
ing bit  to  its  laft  fpark;  and  his  fur  cap  has  for  many 
winters  warmed  hitn/ans  fire  -j-. 

•  **  Madam, 

**  My  hulband  is   dead,   but  that  is   nothing  at    all ;    for 

**  Thomas  Wild,  our  journeyman,  will  keep  M/tg  for  mc  the 

*'  fame  as  he  did  before,  and  he  can  work  a  greir  deal  better 

•*  than  he  did,  poor  man,  at  the  laft,  ^  I  have  experience  oi\ 

••  becanfe  of  his  ngc  and  ailment ;    fo  I  hope*  for  your  lady- 

**  fliip's  ciiflom.     From  your  humble  iervint,  Ann  R — •— s/* 

+  Mr.  /'W«?,  who  wag  the  HogMrtb  of  the  Drama,  has  the 

following  lines  in  his  Prologue  to  the  Kn^ghh: 

There,  whilll  the  griping  Sirr,- with  moping  care. 
Defrauds  the  worfd,  himself,': t^lCAncbiiit  bejr, 
The  pious  boy,  his  faher's  toj^^\y^dinjg, 
For  thoufands  throws  ^^^main  at*  CSventGarien. 

PLATE 


C  IS  3 

P  L  A  T  E    IL 

.'  The  fubjefl:  of  tht  middle  pidure  is,  Tbi  JuJgf^ 
tmnt  0f  Paris  %  and  tbc  young  ihcphcrd'i  fatifi  frpid^ 
and  very  unpolite  attitude,  joftly  merit  the  criticifoi 
of  Rabelais  ^.  The  attitude ;  of  yenus  is  graceful  i 
but  the  mother  in  the  waggon,  which  is  in  the  M^rih 
to  Fimbky^  is  |>erhap8  the.  molt  graceful  figure  Mr. 
Hogarth  has  given  us.  He,  has  transferred  young 
Raktweirs  name  to  hrs  horfe,  by  calling  him  Silly 
^om^  The  expreffioQ  in  the  happy  poet's  face  is  as 
finely  drawn  as  are  the  two  tradefmcn  near  the 
miUeherr 

Rouquet  obferves,  on  the  figures  of  Jiubois  the 
fencing-mafter,  and  Figg  the  prize-fighter,  that  *'  la 
-**  vhracite  de  Tun,  Ic  fang  froid  m^prifant  dc  Tautrc, 
**  dtfignent  Icurs  nations."  Old  Brid^cmans  face  will 
interefi  every  admirer  of  modern  gardening ;  and  is 
te  fcomed  the  fquart  frecifian  of  the  foregoing  age^  ke 

« 

*  **  Pranfois  I.  Roi  dc  France,  troit  \in  Tableau  t\}it  Too 
*'  dtfbit  tHt  fans  defautt ;  il  permit  a  rotit  le  moddc  de  \t 
**  venir  con&dercr,  ti  <ir&}un2  qa'oa  lai  fie  p^irlet  unn  eeiix 
"  qui  y  trouvcroicnt  d<»  cU-f-dUiv:  cc  fibjeau  rt|>rcfcma*t 
**  Junoa,  Veous,  Palais  &  J^'P.rii,  riudf«  RabUu  stj^ii^t  l'av</ii 
••  tiatrame  long-tetDpf,  dit  qu^il  7  trcmvoh  uo  grand  d^ffOt 
*^  ciriuseoicot:  00  le.  f  t  parler  au  Rci^  ij^i  hit  Byutt  d^ 
*^  maudf  <|ael  etoit  cc  <l«faut,  il  xiiyjn4;\  z  ba  l*\'4yiiLK  ifi€ 
**  pans  ctaat  au  uuiteu  dei  troif  putt  btikf  Dceffct  da  Cie!, 
*«  oe  dtvotx  pat  rtre  D^Hrefcote  <)'iNi  li  ^^od  ftfi^  frotd^ «( 
*'  que  c*cioit  ic  XTowptT  lourdciueof  'ji.e  de  ytrAtr  q'ic  c« 
^*  Phoce,  jeoat  Ic  rij^oi^rux,  fttt  ftiii6  ctiwnire^  fant  ddlufitr 
**  qudque  £gDC  qwH  etuit  b'>OAinc«  ckvjxit  (rvif  D^eCm  imiks 
*'  %ui  r>rhoifnf  a  i'ewi  as  Im  plairc«" 

lliould 
7 


t  1^  ] 

ihoulcl  have  held  ih  hts  hand  a  better  plan.  Triifief 
bicaks  dut  into  a  very  melancholy  ledtnre  tfgainft 
tfii  tff/  ii&ii/  realizes  Paintings  and  improves  NsiiHre* 
Tbe  perfon  blowing  the  French-horn  fcems  quitch 
fan  aije,  and  appears^  to  pofleis  node  of  thofe  infiemal 
gunpowder  qualities,  fo  very  confpicuous  in  this  ad- 
mirable figure  of  Mr«  William  S/^^V  acquaintance*. 

plate"  hi. 

Additional  inftances  of  the  jiot  and  cobfufioii  are 
vifible  in  the  broken  ch^ir  behind  the  rake,  fab 
broken  cane,  the  broken  glafles,  the  chamber-pot 
flowing  over  the  lemons,  and  in  ^  the  mangled  fowl 
with  its  leg  torn  off.  • 

Hogarth  feems  very  fond  of  iiitrodiicibg  King  Da^ 
vid\  he  has  in  this  plate  }>erched  him  on  the  top  of 
the  harp ;  and  in  the  fecbnd  plate  of  the  Harloi's 
J^rogrefs  has  not  made  him  appear  in  a  very  intereft- 
ing  light.  The  head  of  Pontac  may  not  improperly 
accompany  a  fet  of  dejars,  as  he  feemingly  pofleffe^ 
the  brutality  of  one  of  them,  who  amufed  himfcif 
with  prnd:ifing  on  his  violin  when  Rome  was  burning; 
and  Mr.  Hogarth  has  made  David  no  lefs  infenfible 
to  the  fate  of  I'otus  Mundus.  I  don't  know  who  this 
Fontac  was — probably  a  noted  keeper  of  fomc  noted 
and,  perhaps,  infamous  ale-houfe.     The  black  girl  is 

*  Thif  amiable  acquaintance  would  have  compofec!  a  very 
curious  "  Sentimental  Journey  through  France  and  Italy,'* — 
or  he  would  have  been  a  no  lefs  curious  camfagn^n  de  vtyage 
ioT  foor  Torick. 

archly 


E    17    ] 

archly  pointing  to  the  porter,  and  they  both  appear 
to  enjoy  a  black  joke,  which  is  playing  on  young 
RahwelL 

The  mighty  Qefar  indeed  lies  low ;  now  none  fo 
foor  to  do  him  reverence.  The  mutilation  of  Vefpqfiat^s 
head  is  made  to  refemble  a  fox's  ;  whether  this  was 
meant  fo  I  know  nor*  From  a  periilfal  of  his  life,  I. 
cannot  fjnd  that  he  pofTefTed  any  quality  peculiar  to 
that  animal,  unlefs  indeed  his  avidity  for  mone]|^ 
might  have  obliged  him  to  exert  much  cunning  In 
the  procuring  it ;  as^  notwith (landing  his  many  ex« 
cellent  and  noble  qualities,  and  the  bleffings  of  his 
reign,  he  is  well  known  to  have  defcended  to  many 
fordid  exactions,  and  indeed  to  many  firange  ones» 
of  which  his  tax  on  pifs-pots  is  not  the  lead  remark* 
able  *• 

•  •  •  ■     » 

P  L  A  T  E    I V. 

The  dog  feems  to  poifefs  the  petulant  irafcible 
temper  of  his  mafter ;  and  the  ruined  circumflances 
of  the  rake  oblige  him  to  pay  his  court  at  Si.  James^Sj 

*  Th«  fbllcwiog  anecdote  I  met  with  in  **  Fables^  Lettrcff^ 
••  ct  Varietes  HiftoriqUM,"  p.  343.  **  k'ej^jten  n'etani  cnrore 
que  fimple  particulier,  et  vivant  fort  a  I'etroit,  av'oit 
niarqu6  beaucoup  d*ividit6  pour  I'argcnt.  C'eft  ce  qui 
**  lui  fut  reproch£  par  un  vicil  cfdave,  qui  ie  voyant  devenu 
*'  enipeieur,  lui  demanda  avec  les  pricres  les  pins  vives  et  les 
*V  phif  preflantes,  d'etre  mis  gratuitement  en  libertc.  Comroe 
**  VeJPi^tH  le  refufoit,  et  exiffeoit  de  Targent :  « }e  )e  vois 
**  bien,  dit  I'efclave,  le  re/iarj chvLUgc  de  poil,  mais  non  dc 
•«  caraftirc." 

D  in 


[    i8    ] 

in  the  hopes  of  obtaining  fome  place^  or  peniion : 
his  fpiriis  arc  very  much  lowered  fince  we  faw  him 
laft.  The  little  (Irange-dreft  figure,  near  the  gate^ 
fomewhat  refembles  one  (thoujg;h  very  diftantly).  in 
the  print  of  Noon.  The  fleepy  carelefsnefs  of  the 
lamp-lighter,  and  the  particular  look  of  the  fellow 
with  his  little  finger  cocked  up,  who  is  either  ad- 
miring  the  delicate  handkerchief  hanging  out  of  the 
pocket,  or  elfe  is  going  to  put  it  into  his  own, 
with  the  indifference  and  pleafcd  unconcern  in  the 
bailiff,  who  has  a  club  in  his  hand,  a  bruife  on  his 
forehead,  and  a  quid  in  his  mouth,  are  all  admir- 
ably expreffed. 

The  blackguard  gamblers  form  a  group  truly 
curious;  the  chimney-fweep  is  peeping  over  the 
poi[lboy*s  cards,  and  with  his  two  fingers  difcovcrs  to 
his  adverfary  the  honours  he  has  in  his  hand  ;  furely 
the  exprcffion  in  this  face  equals  moft  of  thofc  Mr. 
Hogarth  has  given  us.  This  pollboy  prcfcrvcs  in  his 
cap  (which  feems  to  have  been  formerly  a  hat,  but 
fince  cut  round)  the  remnant  of  a  candidate's  letter, 
requcfting  his  vote  and  intereji:  if  fo,  we  have  the 
felicity  of  having  bis  mite  thrown  into  parliament  in 
fupport  of — perhaps  in  deftrudtion  of— the  liberty 
of  Br  it  am  *.  Few  reprefentations  of  characters  in 
this  clafs  of  life  have  given  me  more  plcafurc  than 

♦  Befides  1  am  promis'd,  by  old  Humphrey  Fotv^ohlcr^ 
The  votes  ot*  three  taylors,  two  fmiths,  and  a  coble r. 

Election  Ball,  a  Poem. 

the 


[    19    ] 

the  little  fhoe-black  politician*  The  news,  or  poll' 
ticks  of  the  day,  which  are  recorded  in  his  Fartbihg 
Cljronicle,  give  him  fuch  pleafure,  that  neither  the 
confufion  io  near  him,  nor  the  difgufting  noifc  of  the 
dog,  can,  in  the  leaft,  wean  his  attention  from  his 
dear  pleafure,  or  print  in  his  features  other  marks 
than  thofe  of  contentednefs,  and  delighted  attention ; 
he,  no  doubt,  is  very  pftcn  at  a  nonplus^  at  many 
cramp  words  which  he  muft  meet  with,  .as  well  as  m 
the  mention  of  events,  and  of  men        , 


"  mightier  far  than  he." 


At  the  finiihing  each  long  paragraph,  he  probably 
indulges  himfelf  with  a  little.  fOp:  of  bisgin^'and 

,  gives  a  peep  in  his  pipe.  He  carries  jiis  little  ibop 
with  him  (if  it  really  is  his),  trufting  moft  likely  (o 

.  fome  bulk,  or  flail,  for  his  night's  lodging ;  and  de- 
pends on  chance,  and  each  returning  day,  for  bring- 

;  ing  him.  fome  kind  cufiomer ;  the  flagged  pavement 
ferves  him  for  a  habitation  in  the  day-time,  where  he 
amufes  himfelf  in  running  through  the  little  circle  of 
bis  pleafures^  unmindful  of  the  additional  window- 
tax,  or  of  houfe^rents,  or  repairs;  and  thus  does  this 
poor  creature  fwim  down  the  gutter  of  time. 

P  L  A  T  E    V, 

Under  the  boy  in  the  gallery,  who  is  viewing  the 

fray,  arc  thefe  lines,  **  This  church  of  St.  Mary^lc-bcne 

**  was  beautified  in  the  year  1725.    T^ko.  Sice,  Tho. 

.5*  Morn^  Churchwardens."  And  as  this  print  came  out 

D  2  only 


T»r  .  •       iT 


*     "  •  . 

Rtmquet  fays,  ^  L'auteur  n'a  pas  oublie  dc  placer 
<^\ia'  grilfe  i  I'ouverture  de  la  chiminee,  precaution 
^*  ordinaire  dans  les  falcs  dc  jeu,  pour  retenir  cc  que 
^  la  rage  des.  joueurs  maihcureux  leur  fait  jetter  au 
**;feu  k  tout  mmnent;^^ .  •  .  ... 
.  The  gentleniiaD'  in  mourning  may  probably  juft 
-have  received  the  fum  he  now  lofes  from  a  deceafed 
firknd.  The  littte  innotent-Iooking  waiter,'  i^hofe 
mind  feems  calqily  at  eafe,  makes  one  enter  more 
deeply  into  the  forlorn  mifery  of  the  highwai^inan, 
who  is  fo  loft  in  the  gloomy  melancholy  of  his- foul, 
that  neither  thc;  boy's  bawlifig  earnefinefs  of  civility, 
nor  his  kind  ihake,  .c^n  in  the  leaft  awaken  or  unfix 
the  attitude  of  gloomy  defpondence.  //  was  cbd- 
railefj  the  pajftons^  the  foul^  ibat  Hogarth's  genius  uas 
given  bim  to  copy. 

PLATE    VII. 

The  poem  of  the  Rakes  Progrefs,  which  I  have 
mentioned  before,  hints  at  the  name  of  one  of  the 
chara(fters  in  this  print,  who  is  under  the  pair  ot 
wings,  which,  from  their  not  being  faftcncd  on  wirh 
wax,  are  an  improvement  of  thofe  which  Dtdalu^ 
made  for  his  unfortunate  fon  Icarus : 

His  wig  was  full  as  old  as  he, 
In  which  one  curl  you  cou'd  not  fee  ; 
His  neckcloth  loofc,  his  beard  full  grown. 
An  old  torn  night-gown  not  hijj  own. 

L . 


■  C  as  ,] 

L 1  great  fchemift,  that  .q^  jpay 

The  Nation's  debts  an  eafy  way. 

The  blunder  in  the  endorfem^nt  0f!  the  S^tc^/ment, 
in  Marriage-h-la'-modc^  may  tend  to  confirm  Mr. 
Nichols's  opinion,,  in  fupppfing  the  iniccwacy  of 
fpelling,  in  Mr*  Rich's  letter^  to  ihavi?.  beea  no  ridi- 
cule of  thstt  gentleman's  deficiency  in  that  refpeA^ 
but  to  have  been  a  real  blunder  of  Hogarth's. 

If  the  one-ey*d  woman  is  really  his  wife,  Ihe  feems 
very  little  difpofed  to  gild  the  evening  of  his  day;  -Ihe 
rather  feenis  determined  to  make,  it  fet  in  gloomy  nigbt. 
His  countenance  ihews  him  to  bp.pf  a  very  d.ifferpi^ 
opinion  from  Petruchio,  who  fuppdfed  a  woman's 
tongue  could  not  give  half  fo  great  a  blow  to  thp 

ear,  as  a  chefnut  in  a  farmer's  fire.     The  little  re- 

■  .  •  •  • 

fpedt  fliewn  by  the  manager  to  the  produce  of  his 
genius,  on  which  he  had  no  doubt  formed  high 
hopes  of  fuccefs,  added  to  the  infulting  caution  of 
the  boy,  who  prevents  him  tailing  the  refrelhing 
^pot  he  may  fo  much  long  for,  with  the  demand  of 
the  jeering  and  ^eefd  gaoler,  who  is  fo  feldom  the 
frUnd  of  man,  and  the  infernal  raging  of  his  rib,  who ' 
has  a  look  as  if  fhe  had  been  loos'd  out  of  hell  tofpeak 
of  horrors :  this  uncbmfoitable  aflemblag^  proves  too 
much  for  the  weak  fpirits  of  the  faithful  woman, 
*'  qui  s'evannouit  a  Tafpeft  d*un  homme,  pour  leqUel 
*'  elle  n*a  point  ceflc  de  s*intereffer  tcndremcnt,*' who 
has  followed  him  through  each  change  of  life,  and 
4  *       '  whofe 


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_.  •  • 

KaheweU  Is  chaining  down  to  the  floor,  to  prevent 
his  deftroying  himfelf,  as  the  wound  ihews  us  he  has 
already  made  an  attempt :  his  feems  to  be  that  kind 
of  madnefs  which  Mr.  Garrick  exhibited  in  Lear; 
from  whofe  performance,  it  is  faid,  Mr.  Gray  rook 
his  idea  of  moody  madmfs  laughing  wild.  1  he  dog  is 
finely  intraduced  :  not  to  (hew  that  faithful  attention 
to  their  mailers,  even  \ti  diftrefs  and  poverty,  which 
marks  thofe  dogs  in  Gin-Lane^  and  in  the  fixth  plate 
of  the  *Prentices\  but  t6  awaken  our  pity  in  this  rc- 
prefentation  of  the  ruins  of  human  nature,  in  feeing 
a  brute  creature  making  flight  of,  and,  perhaps,  dif- 
turbing  and  perplexing  an  unhappy  objeft  ♦•  The 
emaciated  figure,  and  the  countenance,  of  the  aftro- 
nomer,  are  horridly  fine  ;  nor  is  the  frightful  figure 
of  the  mufician  lefs  admirable,  on  whofe  fingers  are 
five  rings :  this,  furely,  has  no  allufion  to  FarinelWs 
prefents  ? 

The  SLEEPING  CONGREGATION.' 

Very  little  can  be  added  to  Dr,  TruJUr^s  explana- 
tion. This  fpfawling  angel  of  fome  country  Laguerre 
has  but  one  wing;  but  this  deficiency  is  very  amply 
made  up  by  each  leg  having  two  thighs  -,  and  the 
want  of  uniformity  in  the  window  panes,  as  well  as 
the  grofs  difproportion  in  the  windows  at  the  top, 

*  The  Poet  of  Nature  obfervcs,  that 

Naturefis  fiacin  love:  and,  where  *tis  fine. 
It  fends  forni;,pj;ep^ip^?,inftance  of  itfclf 
After  the  thmg  it^Tovci, 

E  fliew 


• 

nie«r¥eTf~  ciMfty  tb*  hand  of-  s  TiHafr 
'TEe  liofi  fceiM  more  tatae  tbsi  we  gf  in  ally  idr 
bffffi,  it  having  beeir  the  catlom,  for  tome  txxnr  pift^ 
to  pmc  him  always  in  a  monftioiw.  pafiau 

T^e  wme-cop  is  nor  improperty  placed  near-  the* 
ctcrft,  who  now  and  tbeir  venr  profaifaLy  takcLm  £0 
of  the  comoMRNQB  wine  at  other  times  than  an  tbm 
facramenr.  Tfiia  very  admiiahie  ligiR  of  fd£.im^. 
poftsmcc  difeovert  fomerhing  of  ths  gni£  IiaBgifr» 
tineft  of  furly  digpiipfovifible  iaAbel  S^mt^  txuMBi 
with  a  fbohoor twoof  ayJUagc^ehiwiBiattrr. digpiay  , 
bi»-feaMfCf  bt^ n^bra  /aarir  foftened  by  theinsa^ 
jiig.  o^jtSt  near  Unu-  TE»  other  phizzea  aae-  nor 
€0me0hm^  b«t  pne  nttore^  Old  Dmggfs  h— j^^-i 
yefliff  bia  wig^  ftiw  a  very  gieat  chmge  in.  tfaoto 
ptffi  of  the  ctarkal  dveft*  Tbe  oid  womaa  is  Akdo^ 
tbtng;^ 

•*'  I -ike  »:he  fif^re  you  fee  in  ^-onr  grandmother's 
*'  p!t>ure, 

^  Wirh  her  nc€k  in  a  nitf^  ind  her  waiA   ia  a. 
'^  girHle, 

'^  And  l^T  rhro;»r  like  a  ram^s  that  is  caught    a 
<'  a   Mffll^/' 

An  EledlonMiall,  a  poem. 

Tiir   DISTRESSILD   POET. 

An  irWirional  inftanw  ni  the  poet's  [loveity  ap^ 
p*ir3  in  rhe  CMpboard^  which  contains  nothing  bur  x 
prr  yrr^^  rWMifr ;  and  indeed  he  has:  no  iiiu£rs  "o  h:s 
r'^^.H  IcHick.    I  am  at  a  lofs  CO  find  onr  the  onxamem: 


/ 


t    it   } 

• 

Wit  l\it  etiimftey.plece,  <inkfs  if  li  a  piece  of  wood 
Vith  caftj  ift  plaifter  of  Parts  fiiied  into  it;  fome* 
thing  fimilaf  to  tiiis^  hanjgs  up  m  ttlfe  (iftK  plate  of 
the  H&rlot*sft9grefs.  The  pokef  fhay  have  formerly 
been  a  feftdng  foil.  A  cltJtheV  brufh  is  near  the 
fwofd  J  aftd  a  piptf  ^Yii!  tdbacco  (his  fohcc  tfftcr  bis 
jobs  Are  dOrtcf)  He  hi  the  window  feat.  The  porter^ 
pot  i^  put  dti  a  chaiV,  as  they  hive  but  otie  tablCi 
Mr.  Fm^  might  haVe  had  this  print  in  hisr  eye  wRen 
wrhiAg  fdthe  of  his  fcenes  in  the  Author.  In  Bancks^i 
t^iiiiy  vot.  li;  'p.  5,  this  print  is  Copied  as  a  head^ 
piete  to"  an  Epiftle ;  th^te  are  many  variations,  in- 
deed fo  many  as  atoolV  to  change  the  piece;  one 
Vacfiation,  hdv^dter,  is  the  placing  a  fpidei^V  web  bVcif 
the  flre-gfate. 

The  FOUR  PARTS  of  the  DAY. 

MORNING. 

A  farther  inftancc  of  the  propriety  of  Mu  Hogarth 
having  introduced  a  fccnc  of  riot  within  King^s  Cuffee^ 
houfcy  may  be  feen  in  an  8vp  poem,  printed  in  1738, 
entitled  "  Tom  K-^-^g's ;  or  the  Paphian  Grove**' 
In  this  print  the  cofiee-houfe  is  placed  direftly  under 
the  dial ;  whereas,  in  the  fecond  plate  of  the  above 
quoted  poem  (which  reprefents  the  watch  taking  a 
gentleman  into  cuftody))  it  is  placed  at  a  confider* 
able  diflance  from  the  church  ;  but  thefe  minutiai 
IB  Mrl  Hogartb^s  works  (even  fuppofing  he  Ihould 
be  wrong  in  this  inftance)  will  be  overlooked,    as 

E  2  ••  hil 


f    *9    3 

iimfelf.  The  pewter-ppt  fet  on;  the  pbtt  sit  the 
rxtremity  of  the  market^,  with  tihe  other  thr^e  jK>t$ 
[\x&  above^  denote  that  liquor  is  fold  at  the  hojjfe, 
IS  the  fame  iniignia  are  feen  in  the  next  plate  .'^^ .  I 
un  at  a  lofs  to  know  what  thofe  things  are  on  the 
baiket^  near  the  ihivering  fervadjt,  unlefs  they  are  the 
:ups  to  contain  the  bk>od^  which  the  dgdor  tsikic% 
from  his  patients*  •».*  ^:y  ^.]  \  »•..    • 

•  f  rr         • 

NOON. 

No  one  has  yet  given  us  the  names  of  any  p^rt  of 
;his  admirable  group  of  the  Frfnck  congregation  { 
everal  of  them  were,  no  doubt,  drawn  from  nature. 
Fbe  gentleman  in  the  black  wig  is  an  admirable  &* 
rure,  as  indeed  are  mofl  of  them.  The  womai^  wJjlq 
s  clofe  behind  the  fine  Frenchman,  feems  to  pay  par* 
icular  attention  to  fome  part  of  his  drcis^  which  has 
ilfo  moft  forcibly  ilruck  the  old  fudge,  behind  her« 
\n  old  gentleman  near  them  fmiles  complacently  on 
he  little  children  near  him ;  and  the  peruke  of  the 
>ld  gentleman  (whofe  dockings  are  rolled  at  the  top) 
bems  made  to  .keep  hb  neck  and  Ihoulders  comfort- 
ibly  warm,  very  different  from  that  of  the  French 
)eau.  Why  is  a  I^Ue  fufpended  at  tlie  top  of  the 
•hapel  ? 

The  fine  lady  feems  expatiating  on  the  accom- 
>lifhments  of   her  fon,   and  the  young  gentleman 

*  "  Taith,  thdfe  are  politic  notes  1"   See  p.  .256,  of  Mr. 

himfelf 


t    3«    J 

liiaiftif  doe*  Abt  ftem  vcff  infeinfibl^  te  thefts  {  k 
!•  19  the  ttikude  of  ftcbring  1m  own  fwcec  perfixr^ 
IMd'  is  ftidy  contvafted  Wttk  hk  opp6<ice  neigli{>owv 
who  ^poor  bof !)  diftteifts  hknfdf  very  littk  tntwe^ 
count  of  i^i^  4i«ii,  hi»  ^tef  procee^f  fram  a  mMe 
lubftantiar^  caoft  ;  Vbe  ArMfift  geMlaviaii  is  bO'  die 
poiat  of  fsf^tiog  tkis  little  pvq^^j^,  ami  probaMf  fiijpi 
to  the  lady  ^^  que  Mon6eur  eft  aimfi&feP'' 

Whoever  attentively  views  the  black  fervant^  the 
pretty  maid,  and  the  cau/e  of  th^  fudden  fpirt  of  die 
p^rff  (liFblch  may  probably  fcarld  the  already  afBified 
boy)^ill  jsiftly  term  Hogarth  a  painter  of  the  paffien^ 
ftfoft  Kkely  the  gentleman  in  the  iwmdow^  who  ft 
oageiiy  grappa  at  the  mutton  and  eollyfloweTi  wonM 
think  hi9  wife  sr  reorl  good  womartj  if  her  head  wa»  off| 
as  her  voice  (if  one  may  judge  irom  her  cownte* 
nance)'  feenw  pretty  fhriil.  There  appears  to  be  two 
mutton-chops  painted  at  the  bottom  of  the  fign, 
wbLeh  one  iho«ld  be  more  inclined  to  think  gooi^ 
94Uingi  than  ^  Baptift's  head. 

EVENING. 

The  rich  leaves  of  the  vine,  and  ftill  richer  fruif^ 
the  jaded  i])aniel;  the  fulMea\^ed  trees,  and  the  tight- 
ncfs  of  mifs's  (hoe,  all  affift  in  telling  us  the  extreme 
beat*  of  the  weather,  without  the  additional  affiftancc 
oF  madam's  embroiled  face,  and  the  big  round  dt^ 
Cfiurfing  down  her  innQcent  cheek.  Though  the  huiband 
pulls  off  hi$  hat  and  gloves,  to  enable  him  the  more 

cheerfully 


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ch<terfuUy  to  bear  the  weight  of  his  cbild^  who  holds 
tightly  by  his  neckclothi  (fo  fulcr y  an  evening !)  and 
is  further  obliged  to  fupport  the  weight  of  his  wife's 
retting  on  his  flipulder  i  yet  the  paOions  exprefled  in 
his  face  may  proceed  not  only  from  thcfc  caufcs,  but 
from  his  dire  apprehenfion  of  ofiending  his  unwieldy 
rib^  who  obliges  him  to  attend  on  her  each  Sunday 
evening  to  fome  bread  and  butter  manufactory ,  at  a 
time  when  he,  perhaps,  may  be  longing  to  attend 
his  club  al  ihe  Nag^s-Head,  with  Jemmy  Perkins  ib€ 
packer^  and  little  Tom  Simkim  the  grocer.  The  child's 
ihoe  is  fallen  off  unobferved^  which  may  occafipn 
him  a  good  cuff,  if  the  maid^^fervant  behind  does  not 
luckily  pick  it  up ;  the  heel  of  the  child's  (locking 
being  quite  wore  away,  ihews  madam  to  be  a  very 
carelefs  houfewife.  The  three  people  under  the  win^ 
dovv  appear  to  be  round  a  table  refreihing  themfelves* 
There  feems  to  be  a  goofe  painted  as  the  fign  to  the 
other  houfe ;  and  the  fubjed  which  decorates  ma^ 
d;un'$  fan  is  Venu^  and  Adonis : — ^pity  flie  has  not  one 
of  Mr.  Hall  of  Margate's  fafioral  twined  crooks  ♦^ 
The  domineering  and  tyrannic  fway  of  the  mother 
feeiQS  infufed  into  her  ilKtempercd  daughter.  Mr* 
Foote  might  have  been  indebted  to  this  print  for  the 
firft  conception  of  his  inimitable  Jerry  Sneak  and 
wife ;  and  might  have  introduced  the  major^  who  is 
as  vtctous  as  an  old  ram,  from  the  circom  dance  of  the, 
cow's  horns ;   and  Mrs.  Sneak  is  made  to  exclaim^. 

•  Sec  Mr.  KJeatt't  **  Skstchei  from  Nature,**  toU  fl.  p.  io^. 


C  j: 


NIGHT- 

Trte  09K&  br»ks  dovn  In  2  3zo£  mthsckr  i%Qt^ 
r.^  jf  the  bcrrifrr  md  hii  scgsboar  m  air 
f|utdc  in  apcaiaf^  rtc  daar^  rhc  dnffiiiua  of  tie 
fmgm  Ytii  be  SEi  nzore  wocfal,  as  '^e 
irerr  »y»i  be  dr  fir^     Wicn  dze  ucrpesr 
kf  pt^0g;reisy  br  cocnxBg  cd  the  boram  of  tbe 
k  win  ri»fce  them  dance  prcrrr  axernlr.  Tlie 
fcinrf  !)ebmd  the  coach  nuj  be  a  paffirrger^s  ;    Acre 
Si  h^  baifcec ;  pitr  we  doa'r  fee  the  cutifufiuu  or  dbe 
cotfdnmn  and  hfs  oatfide   paflengcts.     Tke  fierr 
lfghf«  wbicb  »  (een  on  the  odirr  fide  of  King  C2or&i'x 
ihme,  prnceeA%  from  a  boofire,  or  probabhr  from  a 
Iioiife  on  fir*?,  to  fhcw  rhc  danger  of  throwing  fe:3« 
i^rA   (c:T>fT.tA,  and  xhich  mav  asTc  cccaficncd   rzc 
Kor^*^^  v>  ovrr'^rim   •he  coach.     Whv  has  the   mn 
rr7-  fhe  butcher  a  v:ccdm  fxord  ?     Tbr  fig-jrrc  c: 
the  rip'^htman  (if  i:  h  a  nightman)  is  admirablv  £nc; 
h^  follov^  part  of  the  fyfiem  of  drcfs  of  the  noted 
»,Krm  lUufe  ;  Jind  he  fixes  his  bit  of  candle  with  a  dab 
r>f  cii'^     The  waiter  (with  his  fnuffcn)  appottrs  a 
r»f'}"  b'juxjj  though  not  fo  outrageous  as  the  Frce- 
mifon,>hofe  cut  on  the  forehead  is  frdh  and  bleed- 
ing ;  that  on  the  waiter's  is  an  old  bruifc  from  fbme 
former  rejoicing  night. 

The  inimitable  figure  in  the  (hop  feems  to  rcptif- 
fcni  fomc  fat  oil-man,  who  is  getting  himfelf  readv 

for 


[    S3    ] 

for  fupper ;  he  appears  a  very  fit  perfon  to  be  ad- 
mitted a  member  of  a  certain  fnug  focicty,  in  the 
pariCb  of  St.  Clement  Danes^  who  have  made  it  a 
rule  for  many  years,  regularly  every  Sunday,  the  very 
moment  <:hurch  is  over,  to  disjwrH  to  a  fixed  hpuft^ 
and  the  regulations  of  this  worjbipful  fociety  are-HC9 
remain  only  one  half  hour-r-to  have  regularly,  the 
year  through,  nothing  byt  a  fmall  fuetty  dumpling 
cachr-^and  each  perfon  to  hav^  no  more  than  pn^ 
pint  of  porter.  This  comes  top  before  their  dinner^ 
which  in  all  likelihood  is  ready  in  a  quarter  of  an 
hour  afterwards.  - 

Dr.  trufler  fays,  that  in  this  Ibpp  "  we  difcovcr 
'^  the  joint  operation  of  fliaving  and  blMling  by  a 
*'  drunken  'prentice ;  beneath  is  a  beggars'  bagnio  ;'* 
we  may  fee  the  confuiion  thefe  poor  crqatvires  will  be 
in,  by  knocking-  their  heads  againft  the  top  of  the 
bulk  when  bounced  up  by  the  fquib  of  thi^  unlucky 
lad. 

STROLLING  ACTRESSES  dreffing  in  a  Barn. 

This  admirable  piece  has  received  a  very  di(tin« 
guifhed  compliment  from  Mr.  Walpole ;  to  dwell 
then  further  on  its  general  merit  would  be  abfurd  l 
but,  as  Trujler  has  not  particularly  direded  the  atteQ« 
tion  to  the  places  where  many  of  the  allufions  arc  to 
be  difcovered,  I  will,  in  order;  to  favc  my  readeri 
the  trouble^  point  tlrem  out  astilearly  as  I-ihIh.         : 

J  >--  F  ''  Us 


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beef.flejiks ;  and  whether  the  cggson  the  bed  are  for 
their  fuppers  (one  of  which  is  quaihed),  or  whether^ 

«... 

to  render  the ^/yr^/iV  voice  ftill.  more  clear  and  ^^^ 

chanting,  J  know,  not.     1j*hc  two  .p^ay-^blills  arc  ;w§ttj 

worth  reading  * ;   and  the  refp^  they  fl^w  tl^e  A^j 

which  declared  them  vagrants  is  yifible  from  its  being; 

foiled  with  the  pap-cup;    nor  is  lefs  regard  ihewaj 

to  the  crown^  near  which  is  a  chamber-pot,     Ther 

poor  little  child,  in  cocking  up  its  eye  at  its  mother 

(for  the  bill  gives  the  part  of  the  eagle  to  a  womaRaii 

and  indeed  this  bird's  iho^s  are  of  .thefeipalelqincl)*: 

is ,  terrified  with  a  moft  frightful  and  angry  afpc^jf 

and  throws  up  its  pap,  which  the  provident  mamma^ 

(wanting  to  put  the  child  to  bed)  would  willingly/ 

thruft  back,     jiurora  (not  Guidons)  is  doing  a  very, 

kind  office  for  an  intoxicated  Jfyrerif  in  cracking  a 

loufe ;    and  this  fyren  is  very  comfortably  cheering 

up  the  fpirits,  or  endeavouring  to  abate  the  tooth-ach^ 

of  a  female,  whofe  tears  can  fcarce  proceed  from  her 

being  obliged  to  appear  in  men*s  cloaths  (there  bcr. 

ing  but  one  man,  a  Mr.  Bilkvillage^  in  the  company)^ 

unlefs,  indeed,  ihe  has  been  but  a  very  ifaort  time 

With  this  abJiraB  and  brief  chronic li  of  the  times :  her 

*  "  The  tragedy  of  Jafie  Share  has  been  preicntcd  here  thif 
*'  week,  when  Mrs.  Cibber  exerted  thofe  powers  which  have 
**  juftly  procured  her  the  reputation  of  a  great  a^trefs ;  and  ia 
*'  the  mad  fcene,  the  expreffion  in  her  countenance,  and  the 
*•  irrcfiftible  magic  of  her  voice,  thrilled  to  the  very  foul  of 
**  the  audience  j  after  which  they  were  entertained  with  the 
^^'furprizing  phaenomenon  of  Rope-Daucing.'*  Gray's  Ina 
Journal,  voLL  33. 

F  2  tears 


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tears  maj  proceed  from  (crerc  pain ;  and  Mr.  H^ 
gartb  by  thts  nurf  infianate,  thar^  from  the  (carcicf 
of  performert,  no  pain,  diftemper,  or  fufferings  \%  hat- 
ever,  will  excufc  them  from  frstting  their  bo\ir  upoa 
tke  ftage ;  flffe  female^  and  the  monkey  (^ho  Icems 
tO'be  afflided'  neitfa  the  gravel,  and  Loth  of  whom 
have  ftrange  dippanel  for  7«]p//«^i  coun)  are 'to  reprt- 
fent  the  attieodants,  as  every  other  parr  of  this  diabo- 
lical drama  is  exaffiy  filled  up.  One  fet  of  the  up- 
right waves  IS  leaning  on  the  feftooned  column  ;  and  a 
bto  and  het  two  little  chickens  are  qfieef  on  the  other 
fct.  If  there  had' been  no  roof  to  the  barn,  I  Oiould 
have/uppc^d  the  dram,  trumpet,  and  bcibir:,  were 
placed  6n  the  roof  of  a  pig- (lye.  Cupkfs  tTxatrical 
wings  not  nermltcing  htm  to  fly,  he  is  obliged  to 
rhount  a  ladder,  in  order  to  rtach  Jupit€r*s  llockings, 
tb  which  his  majcfty  is  pointir.p,  having  borrowed 
Cupid's  bow,  and  they  arc  hangirg  to  dry  on  the 
cionds  ♦. 

Diana,  who  is  trcadinp;  on  her  hop,  feems   not 
quire  fc  chaftc  as  the  ijide  (from  punjl  fr.czc;)  that 

•  Ppomi'ter. 
H^rkcc;  Sauiri/en ^>^thc  managers  have  oHcrcd  mc  to   dif. 
c^'ifi-;  -  th^  inRii  .4t  the  lighmiiig  ;    be  was  1u  drunk   the  Utl 
time  lu*  tiiiHicd,  that  he  has  f.  ^cd  all  the  clouds  on  that  fide 
the  Aagc.      \^i  uimin^^  to  the  iumJs,] 

^AUNDLRS. 

Yes,  }c«,  I  fee  it ;   and  haikce — he  has  burnt  a  hole  in  the 
Dcw  cafcade,  and  let  fiie  to  the  (bower  of  rain — but  mum 

Prompter, 

The  deuce he  muil  be  difchnrged  dire<fily. 

Mr.  CanUk's  "  Peep  l)ehind  the  Curtain,"  p.  10. 

gcneraljy 


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£    37    3 

gcQ^rally  hangs  on  her  roajc^'s  t(^rftpk•  The  heat 
pi  Medyfa^  on  the  target,  it  certigiiilf  pot  improperljr 
placed  near  this  rantd^  repreieptatiYe  of  the  pale 
ipopn^  but  it  would  have  been  Oiore  .ptoperljr  placed 
near  the  female  tumbler •  The  bowl  or  gpbbt  tf 
poifon  is  on  the  point  of  tumbling  00  Malufiifs  kui^ 
beipg  iuiihed  off  the  ^tqr  by  the  deyil's,  paw.  Ott 
of  the  cats  is  very  f^ugly  employed  in  rolling  about 
f he  gl9l^e  of  royalty  (neither  of  whofe  tails  haveycfc 
b€;en  bled  )j;  while  the  pthf  r  iji  pacing  the  lyre  ofi^pott^ 
which  has  s(  rppe  or  haltfHr  (I  thiidl)  thxown  Boroftl^ 
I  api  at  a  lofs  to  find  o^it  the  nfoLofthe  oups  i|id  baited 
pplefs  they  are  foi;  coojwiog;  if  fd^  tibey  aad  tiM 
-dfirk  lantern  pay  but  a  vffry  poor  compUment  to  tht 
lights  of  the  churchy  who^fe  mitre,  ittftead  pf  being 
^led  with  tbofe  qualities  wiiii  whicb^^fii/^/v  bii 
icnmprtaliaxd  the  good  old  Cr/inmir^  is  iiese  ftutfbd 
with,  ajid  fervea  as  a  bftikct  for  j^ys.  T3m  accuser 
oi^  Crflnmer  wa»  certainljf  a  dark  idntera  to  reUgtotf 
rrhe  "Hon  few  Jirayjtng  fmk  vnih  mmit^  sgahu 

A  cufhion,  old  wigs,  and  a  monkey  piiSng  ioijtor^ 
ander's  helmet^,  are  ot^er  objeifts  in  this  com^« 
Night  J  fable  Goddefs  !  {very  pr/operly  reprefented  by 
^biufiik  girl)  havipg  j\)ft  defcended  frcm  her  ebM 
throne,  and  9n  whom  the  fiar  ^f  evening  fkines  Vfsrf 
confpicuouily  (being  a  ihuiU  brafs  inftrument  ufed* 

♦  To  what  bafe  ufes  may  we  returo^  Horatio!  Why  may 
not  imagination  trace  tba  iiobJe  daft  oi  JhsmttJer^  ^till  he  find 
it  ftopping  a  bung-hi^]^  I    JHMh* 

in 


iarj^miSog  if^ttff '  lAkfi^^Misetf  k  belongs'  to  m 
ipnwcr  in  the  tatde)^  is^  ^itK  m,  '^cry  prettj  twirl  m 
Her  Uttk  fiagtr^  drftWii^  upa  Ik^  m  the  &ickii^  of 
tte.wifc  ^JMc  *^titio,  fitting  bar -» tnTcitcd  wfatel- 
knronr, is  prt^ring  to^rcKvn  fhe'JfUtge  in  tem$^  and 
jMtfife.prefent  timnc  tnay  occafionalfy  ferye  for  that 
flfPoMMTil^'or  (filled  with  iodes  and  brick-liats) 
fiekridiethindfirin^  machine  df  iierhuflMmd^  ^bofe 
jbolt  rddi  xtvf  qoieriy  near  the  ^  dnder*box,  and 
ivhidiy  together  ^imh  a   folliiigf-pin  and  fidt-hox 

(^  imrlu  on  which  I  oannot  gueis  the  meanii^  of), 
me  all  placed  upon  a  •  fumed-up  trunk.    The  pale 

ilMciaffd  g^oftX^"^  ^^  ^)  ^  ^^^  preienied  to 
mr  vfew,  whofeitigger  is  fttick  in  the  doak,  out  of 
i^'WEf^  OusLiat  miynimeii/M  mfi  cajoy  her 'plea- 
Alt -pafliiMv  in  cnniddng  >W  a  poor  cac^ 

tail,  for  fiMhe^  of  the  Uoodf  fcencs  in  this  tragedj. 
The  fqualling  of  thas  onfortuiiate  animal/  as  wcH  as 
that  c^the  child  (who  is  throwing  up  its  pap)  will 
not  much  aflift  the  infpiration  of  Jtmc,  and  may  pro- 
bably ycry  foon '  draw  forth  her  majejtfs  wrath  ;  the 
cat's  wrath  has  caufcd  the  female  tumbler  to  have 
iifiracliou  in  her  ajpeil^  apd  from  the  great  fcarcity  of 
men  in  this  company,  Ihe  ftrikes  one  as  being  admir- 
ably calculated  to  flay  En/es  rarely^  or  i  part  io  te^r 
M  cat  in.  Jupiter  feems  (asibon  as  he  has  put  on  his 
dean  (lockings)  to  be  thinking  of  a  bit  of  fuppcr^ 


•High  queen  of  ftatc. 


Great  Jmio ; 1  koow  her  by  her  gaiu 

TcmfeJ. 

6  or 


t    39    3 

or  rather  a  luncheon,  or  way-bait  before,  having  juft, 
left  on  the  tf//tfr,  his  pot  of  porter*,,  a  two-penny- 
loaf,  fome  tobacco  in  a  paper,  and  a  pipe  full  of  it^ 
fmoking  on  this  alur,  and  will  then  probably  remove^ 
the  cruft  of  Chejbire  .icheefe  from  Flora's  toilet.    Twa 
young  devils  with  horns  Juft  budded  are  taking  thoi 
liberty  of  rafting  this  porter  before  Jt4piter  returns  ; 
and,  if  oae  may  judge  from  both  their  countenances^ 
it  feems  to  be  a  very  favourite  liquor  with  them ; 
the  attitude  and  expreflion  of  impatience  in  the  oiiej|. 
who  has  a  hole  in  his  arm-pit,  is  admirably  fine; 
but  the  exuberant  relilh  of  the  other  can  never  fail, 
of  drawing  fome  handfome  compliment  to  the  pqin^ 
ter's  genius.   A  bafe-viol  is  leaning  againft  the  altar  5, 
and  behind  the  female  tumbler  are  fome  old  fcenes. 
fuch  as  that  of  a  tree,  or  a  wood  ;  with  fome  linen 
drying ;    a  paint- pot  and  pallet  on  a  bench;   Romam 
ftandards  occafionally  ferving  for  every  nation  under, 
heaven,  and  from  the  pofition  of  one  of  thefe  ftandards, 
the  fenate  and  Roman  people  are  fupported  from  falU. 
ing  by  a  rope-dancer*s  cord.     A  little  above,  appears 
a  fcene  painted  for  the  reprefentation  o(  Lee^s  Oedipus ; 
the  flag  and  triumphal  car  will  grace  their  proceflions ; 
and  the  latter,  filled  with  ftones,  and  rolled  along  the' 

*  **  Ladies,  you  can*t  poffibly  have  any  thunder  and  light- 
**  ning  this  morning ;  one  of  the  planks  of  the  thunder-trunk 
*'  darted  the  other  night ;  and,  had  not  Jupiter  ftepp'd  afide  to 
'^  drink  a  pot  of  porter,  he  had  been  knock'd  in  the  head 
**  with  his  own  thunderbolt,*'  Mr,  GarrUk^t  **  Peep  behind 
•*  .the  Curtain,"  p.  2i,   - 

.      ■    ■-  -■       claftSc 


t    4b    3 

^iMe  plaoks)  w3l  make  mdl  jdmirabTe  Aunda  *• 
Ihe  dragoDS  afc  ccrtamlT  not  Jkeprng  on  the  cfocads: 
tbqr  i^m  pv'C^T  watchful ;  and  ftould  the  c9o«rti^ 
eye  pop  opoQ  thtm,  he  will,  na  doubt,  qukklr  re* 
move  his  qoaiters,  and  may  get  a  very  fevere  toaiMe 
fer  bis  peepiDg-f. 

The   ENRAGED  MUSICIAN. 

We  yet  want  to  know  what  game  the  little  girl 
fias  been  playing  at  with  her  ball,  and  the  Tprigs^  cr 
ftmething  like  them,  which  arc  fiuck  in  the  grouod. 
The  little  boy  moft  probably  made  the  hole  to  piddk 
in,  '^  and  the  little  mifs  is  looking  camcftly  on  the 
••  operation ;''  her  Httlc  eyes  wondering  that  her  bro- 
ther fhould  perform  that  operation  in  a  diflferect 
manner  from  what  ihe  docs.  The  (harp  and  fierr 
rage  of  the  almoft  diflraded  mufician  might  per- 
haps have  been  a  little  foftened,  had  his  eyes  been 
fixed  direilly  on  the  face  of  the  merry  milkmaid  ; 
but  unfortunately  rivetting  them  on  the  poor  Jew, 
his  difcordant  notes,  and  the  ferene  and  happy  con- 
tentednefs  of  his  features,  ferve  to  increafe  his  rage 
almoft  to  madnefs.   The  cxpreffion  in  the  fowgcldcr^s 

♦   **  Yon  ftars,  yon  funi,  he  rears  at  pleafure  higher, 
•'  Illumes  their  light,  and  fcts  their  flames  on  fire. 
••  Immortal  Richf  how  cnim  he  fits  at  eafe, 
••  'Mid  fnowf  of  paper,  and  fierce  hail  of  pcafc  ; 
•'  And,  prond  his  mirtreft*  orders  to  perform, 
•*  Ridet  IB  the  whirlwind,  and  dircfts  the  ftorm.** 

Dunciad,  B.  III.  1.  3-^.' 

f  Set  Appendix,  N^  9. 

face 


C  4*   3 

face  cannot  be  overlooked.  It  would  6e  no  very 
eafy  qu^ftion  to  determine  which  of  the  many  noifes 
in  this  Babel  of  favage  founds  would  be  the  moft  tor- 
inerttmg,  fuppofing  a  mufician,  or  indeed  any  other 
perfon  who  had  his  hearing,  was  obliged  to  fupport 
6ne  of  them — ^it  is  very  eafy  to  fay  which  would  be? 
preferred. 

As  Mr.  Nichols  has  givert  us  the  very  excellent 
remarks  of  Dr.  Beattie^  I  cannot  refill  introducing 
the  following  humane    and    generous  compliment 
which  Mr.  Murphy  pays  to  Cervettiy  as  he  is  the 
mufician  generally  fuppofed  to  be  introduced  ;  he  w 
lately  dead  (fince  Mr.  Nicholses  laft  edition  of  his 
Work),  and,  as  I  have  been  informed,  was  decently 
buried  by  means  of  a  contribution  -  among  the  per- 
formers of  Drury-lane^  among  whom  Mr.  King  was 
a  very  liberal  dontributot. .  "  The  perfon  here  in- 
**  tended  is  Monf.  Cervetli,  who  has  been  a  (landing 
"  joke  with  the  upper  gallery  for  a  long  time  paft^ 
"  on  account  of  the  length  of  his  nofe ;    but  as  I 
^*  am  informed  that  no  featute  of  his  mind  is  out  of 
^^  proportion,  unlefs  it  be  that  his  good  qualities  are 
*^  extraordinary,  I  take  this  opportunity  to  mention 
*'  that  it  is  cruel  to  render  him  uneafy  in  the  bufincfs 
*^  in  which  he  is  eminent,  and  by  which  he  mud  get 
"  a  livelihood.'*   Cray VInn  Journal,  Vol.  II.  p.  i8. 


G  MARRIAGE 


C    A^    3 

MARRIAGE-A-LA^MODE. 

PLATE     I. 

Not  only  the  crutches  are  marked  with  a  digni-* 
fying  coronet,  but  the  bed,  the  chandelier,  the  look- 
ing-glafs,  the  fide-board,  the  chairs,  the  footltool, 
and  the  very  dogs.  Rouquet  and  Urujler  mention  one 
of  the  lawyers  as  viewing  with  admiration  the  beauty 
of  the  edifice ;  but  it  was  referved  for  Mr.  TValpole^s 
eye  to  difcover  the  blunders  in  the  architecture* 

The  nobleman  is  probably  faying — that  though  the 
mortgage  certainly  takes  off  fo  much  from  the  eftate* 
^^^ei  coYifidttj  fir^  my  hlood^l  apd  the  thief  in  the 
tandle  is  cmblematick  of  the  noblcmah^s  efiiate  being 
fun  to  wade  by  negligence.  From  Mr.  Nicholses 
happy  explanation  of  one  of  the  pictures  in  this 
apartment,  we  have  to  regret  his  not  proceeding  in 
the  fame  clear  and  pleafing  manner  with  the  others, 
as  well  as  with  that  of  Neptune  on  the  cicling ; — 
there  arc,  no  doubt,  covert  allufions  in  each  of  them. 

PLATE    II. 

•^  Cettc  figure  du  mari,"  hys  Rcuquety  '*  par  la 
'^  nouveauce  du  tour,  la  fincflc,  Ic  detail,  et  la  verire 
••  de  rexprcflion,  eft  a  mon  gout  une  figure  extreme- 

*  **  Though  my  cftatc  is  certainly  much  incumbered  (faid 
a  nobleman  to  a  rich  citizen  when  met  to  fettle  terms  for  his 
marriage  with   the   daughter),    yet,    conlider,   my  dear    Sir^ 

there's  my  blood  I'' "Oh  !  d  —  n  your  blood,  faid  the  oM 

gcmlcjnan,  my  daiit^hter  can't  live  upon  your  blood^whca  you 
have  fpont  all  her  i^nufic." 

"  meat 


i:  Ai  1 

*'  mcnt  heureufe."  This  methodiftical  fteward  may 
not  have  thok  faithful  and  feeling  qualities  for  the 
family  which  Rouquet  and  Dr.  Tnj^^r  fuppofc  him  to 
have ;  he  may  be  one  of  thofe  who  are  more  inclined 
to  fweat  an  efiate. 

"  The  crafty  fte ward's  bills  are  pafl:, 
^^  Yet  Ihrugs  becaufe  it  cannot  laft/' 

From  the  candles  in  the  chandelier  being  almoU 

all  burnt  to  the  focket,  Hogarth  may  infinuate,  that 

the  hymeneal  torch  or  candle  is  very  near,  if  not 

quite,  extinguiflied ;    and  by  the  piAure  over  the  . 

chimney-piece,  of  Cupid  playing  on  the  bag-pipes, 

and  the  pillars  or  columns  of  fome  edifice  tumbling 

to  pieces,  as  well  as  from  his  bow  being  unftrung, 

he  may  hint,  that,  from  their  love  being  unftrung, 

the  harmony  of  their  houfe  or  edifice  is  tumbling  to 

pieces  :    but  I  am  diiTatisfied  with  this  explanation, 

and  wilh  pauch  to  fee  another.    The  heterogeneous 

mixture  of  ornaments  round  the  clock,  as  well  as 

thofe  ftrangc  and  frightful  ones  on  the  chimney-piece, 

arc  a  ftrong  fatire  and  ridicule  on  the  rage  for  fuch 

diahlcries  at  the  time  when  thefe  prints  firft  came  out. 

The  difpofition  of  the  pictures  in  placing  two  of  the 

Apoftles,  and  the  Virgin  Mary,  near  one  which  is 

very  properly  concealed,  ftrongly  indicates  his  lord- 

{hip's  principles^     I  am  at  a  lofs  to  make  out  what 

the  Virgin  Mary  has  in  her  hand ;  and  who  is  repre-* 

fcnted  behind  the  chandelier  with  a  dagger  in  his 

hand.     The  flcepy  yawn  of  the  fervant,  with  no  hat 

G  2  upon 


C    44    3 

Upon  bis  bead  (but  rather  a  night-cap),  ungariend^ 
and  down-gyved  to  bis  ancle,  makes  him  very  inat<« 
tentive  to  the  candle  on  one  of  the  tea-tables,  which 
has  fet  fire  to  the  back  of  a  chair,  ^vhile  he  has  been 
taking  a  (landing  nap  on  another ;  and  I  hope  the 
lines  which  I  have  fubjoined  as  a  note  will  not  be 
deemed  improperly  defcriptive  of  a  very  difgufting 
objtft  at  entering  many  parlours  *,  and  which  is 
very  vifible  in  this, 

PLATE    III. 

As  four  differing  explanations  have  been  given  of 
this  print,  I  will  hazard  a  fifth ;  or  it  is  rather  indeed 
(in  part)  a  coincidence  with  Mr.  NickoL^s,  as  I  fhould 
be  extremely  loath,  and  very  cautious,  in  difiering 
from  that  gentleman. 

Wc  may  fuppofe  his  lordfliip  has  communicated 
the  infcdlion  to  the  girl,  and  that  he  is  now  faying 
to  Monf.  de  la  nilulj,  **  Were  thcfe  the  pills, 
"  you  dirty  rafcal,  that  were  to  cure  the  girl  ?     yo\i 

*   Hnvc  you  not  fern  a  do;^  call'd  Pu^^ 
FcrchM  on  a  culliion  or  a  ru"  ? 
Or  iiiounted  in  an  cafy  chair, 
Witli  nofc  erec>.  and  Imucv  air  ? 
Go  when  yon  will,  this  lirilc  fnarlcr 
Reigns  the  curd  tyrant  ot  the  pailour. 
No  overtures  ot  peace  can  plcalc  him  ; 
Your  forc'd  civilities  but  teazc  him. 
TrelVnt  your  hand,  he  bites  your  knuckle*?  ; 
Put  forth  your  toor,  he  fnups  yonr  bucklci?. 
His  yelping  wounds  your  tortur*d  ears  ; 
His  iharling  tricks  alarm  )our  tears. 

Huphrofync,  Vo'.  I.  p.  SS. 

^*  dwTcrvc 


C    45    3 

^^  dcfcrve  a  fevere  caning — they  have  had  no  efFeft— • 

•*  Ihe  is  worfe  inftead  of  better.*' <«  Ma  foi !  c'eft 

'*  bien  drole  cela — vy  den,  you  leetel  hufly,  did  you 
^^  noc  take  dem  regulierementi  and  all  de  tre  boxes 
^*  as  I  did  tell  you  ?"  He  is  wiping  his  fpeftacles  for 
an  examination  or  infpei^ion.  The  procurefs,  in- 
flamed with  rage,  not  only  at  his  lordfliip — **  having 
**  difeafed  her  favourite  girl,"  but  with  the  refledioii 
of  the  girl's  having  been  engaged  perhaps  to  fome 
valued  cuftomer,  as  well  as  with  the  feeming  uncon- 
cern which  the  peer  fhews  at  the  girl's  lituation; 
thefe  roufe  her  revenge,  and,  like  Sbylocky  ihe  is  feel- 
ing the  edge  of  the  knife,  and  meditating  the  ipfernal 
fcheme  of  plunging  it  ntarejl  his  heart.  Notwith* 
{landing  the  inefficacy  of  the  pills,  Ihe  apparently 
fcems  no  ways  enraged  againft  the  quack,  othcrwifc 
llie  would  conceal  the  knife  from  him  with  the  fame 
caution  (he  conceals  it  from  the  determined  victim ; 
in  all  probability  ihe  and  Pillule  have  been  long  in- 
timate :  a  mutual  intereft  may  have  long  fubfifted 
between  his  ihop  and  her  houfe.  Thofe  who  are 
inclined  to  think  his  lordfhip  would  not  exchange  the 
foft  tinjidity  of  the  girl  fpr  the  age  and  harfhnefs  of 
the  other,  may  be  unwilling  to  adopt  one  part  of  Dr. 
Trvjlcr's  explanation,  apd  indeed  of  Mr.  Rogers^s^  that 
**  he  is  reprefented  as  having  f^rought  with  him  two 
*'  females,  with  whom  he  has  been  acquainted,  that 
"  the  dodtor  might  determine  to  which  of  the  two 
^*  he  might  attribute  his  difordcr." 

The 


^am^^  ^^i^f/i  *^^^^%l  ikif  iUi(xt:uauiite  ;:    aiiC   cxs  1*''- 

^  ^1^;*  4^A«l^i^t»;^;  it%  ^^ft:uii^Aiu%  u(  h»  ir*rxhauttibk 
^^^^;f.  W^  iH^y  i^r^c-fuiiU!  the  \»tTUf(\  to  have  been 
A^i  ^im  htuuni^  o^iicfl  the  ikull ;  and  the  barbcr^s 
)44lMi«i  vvKU  llo:  iiiil  MJiiiti,  arc  no  improper  ridicule 
^(  iiiu  iftliluiit  i.(iiiltiiu  ot  iiuny  of  thci'c  repofitories  *- 

V  LATE    IV, 

T  lie  pijtuu  •>  in  ihi%  room,  however  charafteriHick 
of  die  laltc  of  ihc  nuhlc  owner,  dcfcrve  not  an  ex- 
j)Uu.iiiuiii  and.  t'lom  one  of  the  bdy*s  purchales  in 
the  balkti,  wc  uuy  i»rcri![iK-  hL*r  t:ift-':n  this  r^fped 
m  lc»4ll>  lu   bi-   jHihCtly  Li>incKle::r  with  thiit  at   Iilt 

vti*.il   lvi.:j.i..'    :i\iu:.K-  lj.v>  *"i   j-M.i.      Mow    ucm:r- 

'    .  ..      !.  ..    '.V,'   .i    vi*.  ..^.      :  *,       :     ;    ■  CIV    •.■I::-:r- 


i\. I     >t  I 


V       ■                                            ....  ...-.-■':-,        :., .      ., 

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t    41    3 

able  is  the  contrail  of  exprcifion  io  Mrs.  Lanc^  and 
her  cher  mcitii!  and  what  a  contemptible  figure 
would  Mr.  Lane^s  next  neighbour  cut  in  accprnpany^ 
ing  him,  "  apres  quelque  renard  ou  queiquc  c^rf  >" 
nor  arc  the  taper  legs  of  Monfieur  en  fapillote  lefs 
admirably  contrafted  with  the  lumbering  logs  of  Gj- 
rejlinij  on  whom  is  darted  from  the  black  fervaat  a 
look,  which  may  be  equalled,  but,  perhaps,  may 
never  be  furpaffed  ;  and  the  face  of  IVeideman  makes 
one  almoft  think  we  hear  the  very  flute  blow.  Ex* 
prcffions  fuch  a$  thefc  evince  the  truth  of  Mr.  Gilpin^s 
lines :  ^^  Of  his  expreffion,  in  which  the  force  of 
**  his  genius  lay,  wc  cannot  fpeak  in  terms  too  high, 
"  In  every  mode  of  it  he  was  truly  excellent.  The 
"  paffions  he  thoroughly  underftood ;  and  all  the 
"  effects  which  they  produce  in  every  part  of  the 
*^  human  frame.*' 

PLATE    V. 

The  dying  nobleman  is  very  fine  :  wc  Ihould  ad-' 
mire  it  much  more,  were  it  not  fo  fuddenly  con* 
trafted  with  the  conftable's  face.  St.  Luke^  with  his 
cow,  feem  both  taking  a  peep ;  and  Mr.  Hogarth 
has  difplayed  his  talents  for  hiftorick  painting,  by 
covering  the  wall  with  a  piece  of  tapeftry,  probably 
rcprefenting  I'be  Jlaugbter  of  the  Innocents.  We  can- 
not but  regret  the  faintnefs  of  fome  of  ihe  impreflion, 
as  it  almoft  obfcure's  the  fublime  majefty  of  the  aw- 
ful fovereign  who  (its  in  judgement,  as  well  as  feverat 
I  others 


C  4«  3 

Others  in  this  curious  group,  l^m  2Z  z  lois  to  find 
eut  v^hofc  portr^t  thac  is  mhich  hangs  up  at  one 
end,  and  which  panly  hides  fomc  Yery  tali  pcrlbn, 
probably  a  Judcan  conflable. 

PLATE    VI. 

The  phyfician  and  the  apothecary  Ihew  little  con- 
cern at  the  tender  fcene  of  the  expiring  mother. 
'•  Cc  qui  fcrt  a  gamir  cct  appartment,"  fays  Rauquet^ 
'^  nc  contribue  pas  ik  Tomer ;  tout  y  indique  une 
•*  economic  baflc.'*  The  cobweb  over  the  window, 
the  wooden  clock,  the  old  broken  punch-bowl  on  the 
top  of  his  l)Ook-cafe|  and  the  pidiure^  in  which  is  a 
fpit  and  ihouldcr  of  mutton,  with  the  carelefs  man- 
ner in  which  another  inftance  of  Hogarth's  puriij  in 
painting  is  hung  up,  arc  all  illuftrative  of  the  above 
remarks,  :ind  ftrongly  contrail  the  apartments  of  the 
hufbiuul,  ;uk1  of  the  wile,  with  the  fhcrilFs  parlour 
whole  i:haln  is  fccii  here  as  well  as  in  the  firil  plate, 
ami  whofe  gown  is  hanging  on  the  pegs.  The  pic- 
ture over  the  door  would  ornament  an  elegant  cham- 
ber :  one  cannot  chufe  but  fmilc  at  this  delightful 
frolick  of  Ihgarth^s  fancy. 

A     STAGE-COACH. 

Mr,  CA;/./  has  a  bib  and  tucker  under  his  chin  ; 
and  the  old  woman  in  the  bafket  fcems  heartily  to 
enjoy  the  *h\lsonnccrin^  fun :  her  happy  countenance 
fervei  a*  a  fine  conirali  to  the  forlorn  one   of  the 

French 


t    49    ] 

f^fcricli  foldicr,  whofe  gaiete  du  C(tur  hzs  fuffttrit  ll 
(helancholy  change^  and  whcfe  chop-fallen  and  dc* 
I>reffcd  fpif its  ought  to  preferVc  hitn  from  the  gibes 
df  Ben  Block  t)f  the  Centurion,  whd  is  gfitn^  to  putfi 
his  hat  6ff.  The  fpelHng  6f  xht  Old  Angk  h  f^^ 
Bates  from  Ijbndan^  h  M9  much  in  ch^ttafter  tiPurfiliii 
Intier  Sut  Bear^  lii  the  Harht^s  Prcgrefi.  The  ««?• 
l>refli<$h  df  the  ftllc?*  trfcfwitfg  tlie  FrcfJch-hotii  ik 
^dmirsrblc  j  and  his  neighbour  ftems  tin  the  poiitt  of 
diTchargiiJg  ^  load,  #hich  i^ill  Quicken  the  motionk 
df  the  gentleman  yffhb  tS  difchargiftg  hh  j[)ill^  zuA 
who,  ftom  the  aA  againfi  bribefy  and  eoitaption  in 
his  pocket,  is  probably  a  lawyer^  who  is  Mw  g6ing 
homey  the  elc^on  being  nedttly  ended  ;  he  Is  throw- 
Iftg  a  look  on  cne  of  his  compagnons  du  Voyage ^  whoni 
he  probably  thinks  a  queer  quizy  and  whcrfe  ftuflf-gut 
plumpnefs  is  admirably  contrailed  with  Deborah 
DrjbmeSi  an  afitiquated  piece  of  fiale  Hrgtnity^  whoni 
good-natuted  Fortune  may  pkce  aS  ati  oppoiite 
Neighbour  in  the  coach  to  this  laft,  and  may  indulge 
the  lawyer  iri  the  fupreme  eomfoft  of  having  as  his 
oppofite  neighbour  the  child,*  who 

'-^ — ^ •*  in  his  mtfthert  laj* 

*•  Scjua1lt<ifg^  brings  up  at  once  three  meal*  of  pap^* 

iNDVSTItY  ^d  iCLENESSi 

The  feven4^paflagcs  from  Scrrpttirc  ifc  e*ceUentlj( 
fj>|>ried,  thougKj  j^hapSy  ttre  figurel  faoitSg  you  in 

U  tfce 


j^of^^ohjcBtiqa  wjUl  be  againft  that  in  the  laft  platcw 
Sif'liVFf"^  difliabille,  the  UBklixtfpned  neck^  the 
^rmk' Ypm  out  at  die  .eltfow,.  .with  a  bit  of  hb  flarC 
Q^miqg  out  jull*aboWj  and  the  uncombed,  pace  of 
J^  idle  'prentice^  .are  at  fltrot^ traits  of  chan^^  Sis 
jdh|^'rj^1a(j).rw'ftock,  lifae  bi]ttpning  of  thit  coaty 
^^.{>ea{ly;,con)l>Qdrhur,'  aod^ tbeg^fiesail  fnu&  neac- 

jpi^'!;!w^'ffl  tete«kfi  <>f:M»(«»»<fc» 

Ui  .•jor>    ::■■;  Lv::  ••;.'Ji..'    .     -j-^    •       -  -•• 

Tin  ^preatict's  bait*  is  here,  turned  dowik  chrcriiii 
^eiicad,  whereas  in'  the  firft :  plate  it  i$  turned  up : 
but  v,kpre  fnany  beauties  fiiine^  we  mufi  tnt  cavil  at  a 
ft:uf  mjlaktj(:  in  plate  the-  fourth  hd  begins  to  wear  a 
wig. ;;  Had  he  had  ruffles  (being  Sunday)  it  would 
Jj^vc  been  mod  'prenticelike — if  in  the  year  1747  it 
was,c\|ftomary  for  'prentices  to  wear  them*  The 
figure  afleep .  iii  xhc.  very  picture  .  of '  a  greafy  thick« 
headed  tallow-chai^dleri  full  of  ideas  (if  he  has  any 
at  all)  oi  fap^^contenicd  ignorance \  blind  fortune  may 
hayc^vea  ^'.noble .  independancy  totbis  eompound 
of  *  dripping  and  fuct,  and  yet  forced  Kouffeau^  the 
fublimec  and  virtuous  kouffiau^  io  ^  fufbfift  «*  by  <ofyinf^ 
niufick.     TruJIer  obferves  /that  he  pays  not   ••  the 


/ 


IS  wf apt  up  in  the  fublimc  harmony  of  Siernbold  and 
hh  affociate  :  Ihe  feems  to  be, 

*^  Some  great  fat  wife,  of  fome  great  iat  (hop- 
•' keeper."*' 

-The  figure  oppofiteher,  and  the  content  and  jic^ 
of  the  two  women  who  are*  fitting  under  Mifs  Wift^ 
are  admirable.  •-The  old  toothlefs  pew-keeper  Js 
quite  the  thing ;  fhe  is  not  fo  polite,  perhaps,  in  tuni- 
ing  her  back  to  the  congregation*  One  cannot  but 
Tegret  that  want  of  expreflion  which  is  unavoidable 
in  many  of  the  fmall  faces  :  had  the  plates  been 
larger,  he  might  h^ve  exhibited  an  admirable  group; 
and  .even  thefe  which  are  vifible  differ  fo  much  as 
to  be  different  faces  in  the  various  impreffions.  The 
fct  of  thefe  plates  which  Sayer  publilhed  (at  lealt 
this  fecond  plate)  has  many  faces  in  it  much  fuperior 

to  thofe  in  the  fet  which  Mrs. //tfjf^r/Z>  has  printed. 
In  the  fecond  plate  by  Sayer,  the  two  women  fining 
under  the  young  hdy  are  indeed  admirable,  as  well 
as  the  clerk;  and  there  are  feveral  other  faces  in 
Sayer*s  impreffion  well  worth  looking  at,  particularly 
a  Iharp-looking  gentleman  in  the  fecond  pew  below  • 
the  two  women  behind  his  feat,  a  man's  face  in  the 
ifle,  wh'o  is  the  very  laft  but  one,  and  a  hiclancholy- 
•looking  woman  two  rows  before  him  ;  nor  can  the 
inattention  of  a  gentleman  in  the  gallery  near  to  the 
pillar,  nor  the  two  clergymen,  be  overlooked.  Mifs, 
perhaps,  is  thinking  more  of  a  hufband  than  of  the 
f^falms. 

H2  PLATE 


f  St  3 

PLATE  m. 
The  words  of  "  Here  lyeth  tbc  body  of"  are  wcQ 
applied,  a»  (he  body  of  the  'prentice  lyeth  there. 
The  fellow  with  a  black  pitch  over  bis  C)x  (kocck'd 
put  perhaps  in  fotpe  noaurnal  revel),  is  the  compgb- 
pion  of  the  idlp  'prentice  in  murder  and  rotibcry,  in 
the  ninth  phtc,  and  tprns  evidence  againft  him  in 
the  tenth  plate.  There  is  a  good  e^prtflion  ip  the 
beadle's  fafe;  but  this  print  is  difgufting,  from  iu 
indelicacy;  it  is  ceftainiy  a  copy  of  nattire,  but  it  is 
^  la  haJTe  nature."  ^^_ 


PLATE    IV.  ^B 

In  this  and  the  two  following  plates  Hogarth's  bc- 
pius  rather  fails  him  i  he  ha?,  hpwevcr,  fqr  his  tame- 
pefs  in  thefe  fcenes,  made  ample  amends  when  tbc 
plot  ihiclfetis :  perhaps  hi^  mind  was  aixious  to  ar- 
rive at  that  fccne  where  bis  genius  fhinei  dam  toaS 
Jon  jour — the  executiqn  at  2j(A«r;i,  'lie  ma|lpc*s  ^ 
gurc  is  very  jntcrefUng. 

PLATE    V, 

Mr.  Walpulf  obfervts  of  hi>  works  in  gopcraj,  thl 
sbougb  mirth  (oloured  his  pi^urcs,  ye(  bcmvalcute  <fr, 
figned  tbcm,  which  may  jcftly  he  applied  to  this  print} 
be  touches  the  pafTlons  with  a  ftrong  pencil,  and  io- 
terefls  us  feelingly  in  this  fpene  of  the  poor  mother, 
who  is  loon  to  uke  a  long,  perhaps,  a  laA,  farewell 
(^f  her  Ion,  whofc  infolent  gibing  cannot  abate  her 
j  tQ^terj 


^^ 


C  s$  1 

fnatcrnal  affe&ion*  We  are  pleafed  to  fee  the  cUf 
p'-nine-tails  fo  near  bim^  heartily  wiihing  he  nuy 
very  fpoD  experience  that  anfr/t  pencil  *• 

P  LATE    Vr. 

Beneyolence  has  fome  Ihare  in  this  print ;  the  fight 
of  the  poor  won^an  receiving  the  broken  meat  ratfet 
thofe  fentiments :  nor  can  we  over- look  the  faithfyl 
f^ttendan^ip  pf  th<:  ppor  dog,  who  deferts  not  the  poor 
and  fcanty  fare  he  muft  meet  with  by  attaching 
himfelf  to  his  crippled  mafter ,  The  aukwardnefs  of 
the  men  betting  the  drums  fhews  us  they  are  com- 
mon workmen ;  nor  pan  the  brute  of  a  butcher,  who 
is  jealou$  of  faU  own  mufipki  efcape  the  eye. 

P  L  A  T  p    VIL 

Pr.  TruJIer  ]bas  fo  fully  defpribed  this  print,  thrf 
pothing  mqrc  g^Xi  h^  addedt 

PLATE    VIII. 

Self-importance,  and  the  infoknee  of  office j  '  are 
firongly  marked  in  the  beadle.  In  Sayefs  copy 
there  arc  many  droll  faces  in  the  mufick  gallery  { 
but  in  Mr-  Hof^ofrtbU  iber^  is  not  o^e.    The  ver>  iH 

*  Ii  appears,  from  H  Advice  tq  the  qfli(:cn  of  the  Britid^ 
^*  Army^'*  that  the  drutn-major  it  termfd  firft  painter  to  th% 
refpmcQt }  that  his  pepeilt^  indeed,  are  none  of  the  ibftcft  ; 
pad  though  he  does  not  aim  at  the  grace  of  Raph^l^  or  thf^ 
gratideur  oi Michfd 4'*gf^ ,  J^t  he  mnft  not  yield  to  Tifian  \^ 
coiuiiring :  and  that  i:  is  his  office,  to  tiirnifli  ttte  pencils  f  n* 
Ihe  youqg  painters^  vul^lj  caU'd  cat«o*iiiQe^tailtv 

gendtman 


-T  •^:5 

^60tfc«»   has  oridntly  ^i«nit  Maikff^  ;   and  «i 
0tbosiif  torn  left  bis  iut  op^kt:  faoBcb  ujijuftce  tiK 
||{pittkiX2an^  to  t«iK  Jumfelf a  ioEt.  Sir  g  .^JKgJfjjw  tfi 
li^  ^w»ys  pautted  .«atb  ja  (fa|Bge^  iiaving  fenced  ^STar 
^Ifir'^  bmax  hUo^  wlm  00  fiis  point  of  ftahfaii^g 


•  «  «  -^    '«!•>> 


'    F1.ATE   IX- 

"TVeiMoootD»'xcb  apt^xf  becc,  an£  n 

'Upq^  ;  sod  tlve  fellow  wjbo  is  ikndkjiig  lu 
IblSeofibk  <if  the  dmn&cj'-i^ice  bchig  «ai 
fbc  wreccfa  chruftiBg  tht  nsbspjj  olgeA  int»  a  IkAe 
wicfa  c«'i2:  V!iccr»ccn3;  wxdi  lus  HtiJc  poi,-  and  Ins 
|)i|>c,  ii€  if  <}uitc  ^/w  4ies/^«  z%j:i^z^  io  as  liis  &orii{ 
INri^bbwr^  «d  feeoi^  &i  niucb  faoiiliinzcd  to  tkn 
(ofVrnal  fctn<rf  as  the  grenadien  The  piece  of  1 
cord  feifprffKlcd  fronj  the  beam  may  have  perfonsiji 
f  hr  I'xit  oi  i<xii«;  unh;){>{>y  wretch  tired  with  life. 

P  L  A  T  E    X. 

H^rftJliT  is  of  opinion  that  this  fcene  reprefencs  the 
fiiotnene  of  ihc  fads  having  been  inquired  into,  and 
that  hi^i  miidmus  is  now  making  out,  and  that  the 
uoiiian  who  i$  feeing  the  clerk  is  bribing  him  00 
ui  i:ounr  of  Umuc  other  trial  which  is  now  eoming 
ou  i  liur  li  II  not  more  likely  to  fuppofe  it  rcprefeoa 

♦  *•  Miifuk  hns  charms  to  foolh  a  favnge  brcaft, 
•'  Ami  tlitrt'forc  proper  at  a  ih^iff*f  fcaA.** 

the 


C  5i  i 

iiic  very  moment  of  hlsiirflt  (joming  to  the  bar  ?  andf 
that  the  unexpedied  flg^  makes  the  comfamon  (f  bis 
childhood  flirink  with ' humane  cottft*mi*it'4y not*  (as 
Tn//?/^ -^dbfervcs)  "  ih^  '^old  chuh, 'tir  fbari^t  robe;' 
"  thit  conftitutes  tho  chatadtcjr,  bHiit  the  -feelings'  ot 
^'  the  man  withiii."  The  afflifted  "motHc¥  ^is  intcf^^ 
Ceding  with  the'  fetf-important  corj^ulent'conftabK, 
ind  pleading  hard'to  giin' him  ovet/yanily  imagin- 
ing he  mfay  throw  itifdmb  fay  of -(Jotafbrt*'  Anotheir 
ionftablc  is  ^Ihewirfg  to  an  itiquh^ng' peffoii  the  fW<3T4 
iirtd  piftoK  found  ion  the' pVlf^ntfr.-*'  The  proftltute; 
Who  Wtfayed  him  fri-'thfi*  night  *c^aV^*is  bribing 
flVearing  clerk  to  bblfrlettcJ  the  bhc  tyiA  wretch,  wh4r 
has  turned Vviden'ccig^jtirift  his  companion,  .and  whif 
is"takin|;  th'e'uftfal^oithV^rtci  \Vhore  left  hand  (i* 
Triljler  6bferves)V  ifift^ad  of  his  r^h^v  is-  laid^upiMi' 
the' book;  which  th^'bl^rFs  ea&trtifefr' in* 'taking  th*^ 
nWtifeV  toafees  him'"uhbbftrvaht  bf.  ■  *£ht\  clrtk  wrf 
the  othef  fide  may 'fcebnly  dirking  mi'mritimus  in  the 
common  Tdrm  (haVilig'*ficfthing  elfe*  to  do  ^crhaps}^ 
ihat  it/tn'^y  be  the  fboner'  filled  up  when.thtf 
ma^gillratc' finds  fadte  enough  eftabKflied  on  whidx 
he  may  cottim^t  him.  rtad  thrs^utrtiapp*^ 'Vfetdlt 
teefi  'interceding  for'  rhercy*  afierWxt  faSs^diyea 
Jirov6d'*a^ainft  him,  the  yN&iA^  of  Jfamla  4ndv%rifi 
Wo^id  ttbt  be  inapplicabler* :  ^''       y^  ^''^  •N^-..yv\ 

Z^/%  Yet  Ihew  lome  pity. 
'  'i^ngM  iiievy  ic  mdft  of  all  vfhen  l-fie^'j'£iftice;^  • ' 


.^^  PLATE 


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• 


^^ 


t  i6  i 

PLATE    XL 

lo  *  tbis  fecQc  flagartb  has  given  full  fcopc  tb  {m 
ioimitable  huai^ur:  bid  tbc  plate  been  larger^  wc 
Should  bavc  bad  no  reafon  to  r«p^et  tbe  loft  of  nuni* 
griefs  cdmic^lities^  wbicb  muft  now  be  loft.  Thd 
emblematick  figures  on  eacb  fide  ^c^e  io  tbis  pUfe 
changed  to  ds^eletonSi  and  in  tbe  next  to  corniKX>|>t«^ 
or  horns  of  pknty.  This  print  is  full  of  beauiict  i 
but  as  it  is  amply  defcribed  hy  Tru/Ur^  rctj  littk 
can  be  added.  Tbe  twd  little  lads  laughiog  st  the 
ibldier  plun^i^  into  the  mud|  ate  vcfy  good  figures; 
Mr\d  the  contented  conofertablenefs  of  the  porter,  who 
is  fmoking  bis  ptpe»  and  ftanding  pretty  decpr  himfell 
ip  the  mtld^  is  a  firong  trait  of  cbafaOef.  A  child, 
ivho  is  near  (be  perfon  behind  the  eoach,  fccras  to 
be  in  a  dangerotis  fituatibn  ;  and  this  perfon ^s  face 
in  Sayeri  print  is  an  admirable  one.  The  unthink-' 
Ing  mother,  who  h  pummelling  the  fellow  uho 
pufticd  dCr.vn  her  child,  is  little  apprebenfivc  of  Its 
being  now  in  moch  more  danger,  whieh  raifes  the 
pity  of  the  perfon  felling  gin.  I  catfnot  find  out 
why  tbe  batcher  carries  a  iye  wig  on  his  flick. 

One  .of  the  fairy  or  rather  the  female  fcx,  now 
prcfcnts  hcrfelfy  to  whom  (Jo  wild  in  her  attire!) 
hoffirtb  has  done  complete  juflice-  Had  tht  thane 
of  Cawdor^  on  his  vifit  to  the  dark  and  ^oomy  cave 

fiff  the  weird  fillers,  been  faluted  by  tbis  midnight 

^  See  Appendixy  >i^  14^ 


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C    57    3 

« 

/J^i^,  he  probably  would  have  been  too  much  con- 
founded to  have  told  pale^bearted  fear  it  lied.  Our 
painter  found  himfelf  not  quite  fo  much  at  his  eafe 
with  Sigifmunda  as  with  this  figure,  who,  I  dare  fay, 
would  be  very  glad  of  a  lheep*s  heart  for  her  dinner,, 
and  whofe  amorous  warmth  iB  in  very  tittle  danger 
of  being  turned  holy  by  defpair. 

The  ragamuffin,  who.  is  near  this  woman,  looks 
with  contempt  on  the  poor  fneaking  dog  in  the  cart, 
and  is  on  the  point  of  throwing  a  half  ftarved  puppy 
between  the  unhappy  felon  and  the  preacher,  which 
will'  not  a  little  difcompofe  their  devotion,  and  may 
be  the  means  of  ftifling  the  pity  and  commiferation 
of  the  crowd,  as  much  as  a  circumftance  which  very 
lately  happened  *•  The  woman's  face,  who  is  claw- 
ing the  boy,  is  admirable ;  her  nofe  (in  Sayer*s  copy) 
is  half-eaten  away,  the  confequence  probably  of 
unholy  amorous  warmth.  The  little  girl  is  taking  a 
fly  advantage  of  Tiddy-DoPs  reciting  the  virtues  of 

*  ExtraB  of  a  Letter  from  Nottingham  ^  March  31.     "This 
**  day  came  on  the  eledion  of  reprefentatives  to  i'erve  in  par- 
**  liament  for  this  jtown,  when  Robert  Smith  and  D.  P.  Coke, 
"  Efqrs,  were  chofeo  without  any  oppofij^n.     Unfortonately 
**  two  poor  unhappy  convi6b  were  ordercU  for  execution  the 
•*  fame  day,  and,  with  a  raft  concourfe  of  people,  were  jtift 
**  paQng  the  Guildhall  as  they  were  -proceeding  to  chair  the 
**  new-eleded  members.     The  fupporters  of  the  grand  tri- 
^*  umphal  car  were  infendbly  forced  by  the  current  of  the  pco- 
•*  pie  to  attend  Jack  Ketch's  more  humble  one  quite  to  the 
'*  foot  of  the  gallows,  which  occafiope^  fo  nauch  mirth  to  the 
*•  croud,  that  the  poor  miferable  wretches  fuffered  without 
««  the  feeming  regret  of  a  fingl(p  individual/'    From  the  Bir^ 

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Snare  *.  In  the  fcafibld^  next  to  the  mllitia-meii, 
are  two  very  droll  faces,  who  fit-Hear  the  mother  and 
her  child ;  and  the  drunken  foldier  on  the  oppofitc 
fide,  who  is  tumbling  againfl  the  poft,  does  not  fecm 
to  be  much  aflBiifted  with  the  firangury.  The  office 
of  fword-bearer  might  be  inftituted  with  a  defign  to 
reprefent  the  awful  dignity  of  fupreme  juftice  :  whe- 
ther this  fword-bearer  imprefles  the  canaille  (or  in- 
deed any  other  perfons)  with  fuch  fentimcnts,  each« 
one  is  at  liberty  to  judge  for  himfelf.  The  carelefs 
and  dangeous  feats  which  fome  unthinking  fellows 
have  chofen  on  the  ridge  of  a  roof  (like  thofe  who 
are  drinking  porter  and  hallooing  in  the  fame  fright- 
ful fituation   in  Beer-Jlreei)  is  a  ftrong  trait  of  the 

*  Mr.  Nichoh  obfcrves,  that  Hogarth  did  paint  the  firft  of 
theft  fubjc£b,  which  Mr.  Gttrrick  purchafcd  at  Lord  Effes^t 
fale,  and  that  it  was  but  an  indifferent  performance.  As  the 
fccond  Hogarth  has  favoured  us  with  his  Recruiti^  we  may  yet 
hope  he  will  adorn  the  memory  of  a  poet  he  cannot  but  love, 
by  prefetiting  us  with  fome  of  the  many  admirable  fcenes  of 
old  acqtudntance  Jack — with  LaHnee  and  his  dog  Crab — the  ex- 
amination fccne  before  Dogberry  and  F'erges — the  preparation 
fbr  the  mojl  lamentable  comedy  of  Pyramus  andThiJbe — Sir  An- 
drew Aguechtek  and  Sir  Toby  BeUh — Jack  Cade  with  the  clerk 
of  Chatham : 

*•  Smith.  The  cUvk  o(  Chatham :  ho  can  write  and  read,  and 
**  call  accompt. 

"  Cade.  O  monftrous  ! 

«•  Smith.  Wc  took  him  fetting  of  boys*  copied  ;*' 
as  well  as  with  many  other  comick  ones,  from  that  rich  and 
inexhauftiblc  ftore-houfe*     And  flioold  the  gentler  and  mard 
fubiime  paffions  of  Shakjpeare  engage  his  attention,  may 
— -*'  the  Graces  all  his  figures  place, 
•*  And  breathe  an  air  divine  on  cv'ry  face." 

I  a  daring 


C    6o    1 

daring  bar dinefs  of  the  Englijh ;  and  the  crowds  who 
are  darting  their  defiring  eyes  from  every  wmdow, 
from  the  tops  of  each  houfe^  and  from  every  place 
where  they  can  poffibly  get  a  peep^  ihew  the  eager 
deiire  which  citizens  have  of  viewing  this  noted  pro- 
cefiion  ^.    It  is  dangerous  to  attempt  innovations  on 
our  admired  painter;   but^  perhaps,  it  would  have , 
had  no  bad  efTed:  to  have  introduced  ^'  a  poor  devil'' 
tumbling  down  the  roof  of  the  houfe,  and  two  droll  < 
figures  in  the  ihed  laughing  at  him^  fomething  lite 
the  two  lads  in  the  laft  plate,  or  like  the  man  under 
this  ihed  in  Sajer's  copy ;  this  unconcern  would  be  as 
true  a  ftroke  of  nature  as  if  he  had  perched  a  fellow 
on  a  chimney-top,  fitting  crofs-legged  at  his  eafe,aDd 
imoking  a  pipe  :  and,  had  the  cord  behind  the  coach 
been  half-worn  through,  the  cfFedt  would  not  have 
been  bad,  as  the  confequence  would    be  fo  eafily 
gueffed  "f. 

'■^'  In  p.  1 80,  of  the  fecond  volume,  of  JVboJ^s  Body  of  Con- 
"  veyancing,"  in  a  London  leafe^  is  a  claufe  of  exception  for 
the  landlord  and  his  friends  to  ftand  in  the  balcony  to  fee  the 
Ihows,  or  pn (limes,  upon  the  day  commonly  called  the  Lord- 
Mayor's  Day. 

t  **  it  would  be  amufing/*  (fays  Mr.  Granger,  vol.  I. 
p.  249)  **  to  trace  the  progrcfs  of  a  lord-mayor,  from  the 
'*  loom,  or  the  fifhmonger's  ilall,  to  the  chair  of  the  ma- 
*'  giftrate ;  to  be  informed  with  what  difliculty  he  got  the 
**  firft  hundred  pounds,  with  how  much  lefs  he  made  it  1 
*'  thoufand,  and  with  cafe  he  rounded  his  plumb.  Such  are, 
"  in  the  eye  of  reafon,  refpectabic  characters ;  and  the  more 
"  fo,  as  they  rofe  with  credit  from  humbler  flaiions." 


[    6x     3 

The  MARCH  to  FINCHLEY. 

The  explanation  of  this  print,  by  Mr-  Bonncl 
77)ornton,  precludes  every  other  attempt :  I  fliall 
therefore  only  add  a  few  lines  *.  We  are  told,  by 
Mr.  Nichols^  that  Hogarth  acknowledged  three  por- 
traits, that  of  the  pye*man,  the  fifer,  and  the  chim^ 
ney-fweep;  and  Mr.  Nichols  further  tells  us,  that 
the  poftriait  of  Jacob  Henriques  is  difcoverable,  though 
he  has  not  pointed  it  out ;  and  that  Lord  Albemarle 
Bei'tie  (the  prefident  of  the  Cockpit)  is  difcovcred  in 
the  crowd  round  the  bruifers ;  his  lordihip's  eyes  are 
much  better  in  this  print  than  in  the  other,  which 
came  out  nine  years  after  this.  I  am  iiiformed  by  a 
gentleman,  who,  at  the  time  when  this  4>rint  firft 
came  out,  had  an  opportunity  of  feeing  the  guards 
march  each  day  from  St.  Jameses  to  the  Tower,  that 
he  then  often  remarked  the  features  of  the  drummer 
among  them,  as  well  as  the  young  grenadier,  the 
ferjeant  behind,  the  prim  fliff  officer,  and  that  the 
drunken- foldier,  with  his  bayonet  in  his  hand,  even 
then,  had  always  a  pleafant  unthinking  careleffnefs, 

•  *'  The  aera  may  arrive,  when,  through  the  inftability  of 
**  the  Englifli  language,  the  ftyle  of  Jofvph  Andrevyi  and  Tom 
'••  Jonei  fliali  be  obliterated,  whca  the  cUaradters  {half  be  un- 
*'  iatdligible,  and  the  humour  iofe  irs  rclilli ;  but  the  mauy 
**  pcrfon ages,  which  the  manners-painting  hand  o{  Hogarth 
*'  has  called  forth  into  mimic  life,  will  not  fade  fo  fooa 
*'  from  the  canvafs  ;  and  that  ?^A\v\iix>\^  pl^urefque  comt^^  the 
**  March  to  Finchley-y  will  perhaps  divert  poftcrity  as  long  as 
'*  the  Fovndlhig  Hojf:tal  QxM  do  honour  to  the  ^r/zt/i^ nation,** 

Crayi'Inn  Journal^  Vol,  I-  N**  20« 

and 


t  «^  ] 

and  a  l6\mpng  attitude ;  and  he  has  noted  a  couth 
tenance  very  fimllar  to  that  of  tbc  difeafed  fotdicr, 
"  k  qui  le  voyage  de  MontfeUer  eonriendrott  micBX 
••  que  cclm  A'Ecqffe :"  but  the  pye-man  is  rivettcd  in 
his  memory— the  features  of  his  face  are  tnddiUe. 
-He  informs  me  Hkcwife,  that  hi!  perfedly  well  rearf- 
leds  the  features  of  the  Highlafukr  in  difguift;  and 
that  the  coblcr,  who  fo  much  enjoys  the  fight,  veot 
by  the  name  ti  J*(key  James ;  that  be  was  a  raofi 
fiequent  attendant  on  this  nnrferj  for  bniifing,  and 
always  feemed  on  the  point  of  jumping  over  tbrir 
heads  with  joy;  and  that  though  he  never  entered 
the  lifts  himfelf,  yet  he  had  a  fon  who  was  a  noted 
bruifer,  and  fought  very  often  with  Tom  Smallwoed: 
my  informant  has  feen  an  incomparable  boxing-match 
between  them. 

The  two  other  papers  of  that  infernal  Jtf,  are  iTje 
Jatobite  Journal  and  the  London  Evening  Peft  ;  and 
though  ihe  has  the  alluring  \ix>koi  Hogarth*,  yet 
we  can  fcarce  fuppofe  (with  Mr.  Tbemton)  that  flic 
u  the  young  grenadier's  wife  ;  flic  is  more  likely  the 
girl's  mother,  though  her  religion  may  differ.  She 
thunders  to  his  remembrance  ibirgt  long  forgeUei; 
and  the  poor  girl  gently  hints  to  him,  that  an  ex- 
peAant  birth  will  be  ill  fupptied  with  the  precarioui 
profit  of  ballads,  gin,  and  gingerbread.     The  fcrjeant 

•  '*  A  lock  of  hair  falling  thui  cnift  the  templei,  and  ^7 
"  that  means  brexking  the  regularity  of  the  ovat,  hat  an  cffefl 
"  too  ayuring  co  be  tttitUy  lieceiit.'   AMJjfis tf  Btmtj, p-  Jj. 

behind 


behind  (luckily  for  himfelf)  feems  a  proper  perfon 
to  oppoie  this  violent  advocate  of  injured   rights* 
The  foldier  near  him  is  too  warmly  engaged  to  attend 
to  this  hurly-burly  *  ;  and  Mr.  Nichols  tells  us,  that 
Hogarth  gave  half  a  crown  to  the  little  footerkin  to 
fit  for  his  peculiarly  roguljh  afpeS ;  and  the  fanae  fuin 
to  the  fweet  little  fifer  for  his :    pity  but  what  he 
had  extended  his  pittance  to  the  produce  of  the 
drummer's  kinder  hours ^    Mr.  Thornton  is  ,furely  mif- 
taken  in  his  opinion  of  this  drummer ;  for  the  poor 
fellow  beats  his  drum  in  order  to  drown  the  foft  en* 
treaties  pf  thofe  he  is  unwilling  to  part  from ;  to  flifle 
the  fearful  apprehenfion  of  perhaps  revifiting  them 
no  more,  and  to  difpel  the  kind  dew  that  nature  has 
planted  in  him.    The  pretty  contented  looking  child 
at  the  mother's  back,  from  its  healthy  and  innocent 
fmile,    is  a  happy  contrail  to  the  wan  and  ghaftly 
creature  on  the  other  fide,  who  eagerly  ftretches  out 
its  little  paw,  longing  to  partake  of  its  favourite,  but 
deftruftive,  liquor.     The  Adam  and  Eve  is  a  very 
proper  fign  for  a  gardener ;  and  an  enthufiafm  flaflics 
from  the  fixed  attentive  eyes  of  Jockey  James^  whofe 
foul  is  lapt  up  in  his  Etyfium,  and  whofe  arms  throw 
themfelves  into  each  attitude  of  the  battered  com- 
batants f  •     The  fellow  clinging  to  the  fign-poft  is 

an 

*  Qucep  El'tzaheth  ofteh  wiflicd  (he  was  a  milk -maid.  To 
have  been  fo  kified  by  EJJex^  (he  certainly  would  have  had  no 
objection  to  have  been  one. 

t  In  the  CQUMoiffeur^  vol.  I.N^  30,  ia  the  following  tranfla* 
Z  tioo 


C  «4  ] 
an  adminble  Bgure ;  there  gre  no  lefa  tli^  tea  wo- 
m«t  viewing  the  men  fight ;  and  the  cool  oofecl* 
ingDcfs  of  one,  who  is  before  the  nobleman,  is  indeed 
a  trait  of  nature.  The  two  fudges  in  the  wa^go 
are  a  flrong  contraft  to  the  tenderly  graceful  and  in- 
terefting  Madona :  one  is  forry  to  view  fgch  fwM 
maternal  grace  expofed  to  thofe  tempells  and  fears 
which  fte  mull  meet  with  in  this  anxious  jountey ; 
we  ardently  wi(h  the  winds  of  heaven  may  not  wjit  hir 
face  too  roughly  *,  A  tea-kettte  is  very  properly  put 
in  the  \*aggon  :  and  the  waggifli  head  of  Charles  the 
Second  may  allude  to  the  wilh  of  this  rebellion  bring 
foon  cruOied,  and  that  a  rejoration  of  peace,  and  of 
our  true  and  lawful  fovereign,  may  be  the  happy 
confequence.  The  two  Httle  ducklins,  or  chickens, 
are  expreffing  their  wilh  to  join  their  mother,  whQm 
the  fallen  foldier's  affifting  friend  has  kindly  relieved 
from  the  fatigues  of  waddling,  by  carrying  her  a  few 
miles  in  his  pocket.  How  much  more  are  we  at- 
tached to  that  joily,  carelcfs,  unthinking  fellow, 
though  with  all  his  drunken  vices  bloflbmed  upon 
him,  than  to  that  prim,  priggilh,  and  formal  officer, 

tbn  ofKirgil,  prefixed  to  an  account  of  a  bruifiag-matcb  bt- 

tvieen^/rtfiand  Pctii: 

Tliiimp!  follniving  thumps,  and  Mows  rucceedinf;  blows, 

Stt  elt  the  black  ei  c,  and  critfli  tlie  bleeding  nofc  j 

Bineatli  the  pond'rous  fift  ihe  ja<v-bon«  cracks, 

And  the  cheeks  ring  niih  their  redoubled  thwack*. 

*  "  The  beggar  hugs  her  child,  which  (he  can  fcarcd  cow 

*'  frcm  the  wind,  as  clofcly  lo  her,  »  the  greateft  princcfi 

•''  who  has  a  crown  lo  give  it."    Jifjal  Rr^ifier,  vol.  V.  p.  A 

wb« 


r  6s  ] 

*riki  18  %eik  liith ;  w«  cannot  but  wilh  this  reeling 
Foldier  may  foon  be  able  to  c6tt\t  up  with  the  fellow 
carrying  his  gin-btnrei,  knd  undefignedly  knock  them 
both  dowttj  as  the  ftill  of  the  ftitf-neck  puppy  muil 
be  the  ccttaio  ccmfcqucncc ;  and  yet  we  are  forty 
fllmoft  to  wifh  thts>  as  it  may  occafion  the  downfall 
of  the  inofienfivc  utrthinking  pye-man.  Mother  Cole 
(in  her  own  words)  may  be  faying,  "  My  thoughts 
^  are  fixed  upon  a  better  place!*  and  it  is  worth 
while  to  view  the  carelefs  lounging  attitude  of  a 
trollop  in  one  of  the  top  windows.  There  may  be 
feme  mttt^ing  touched  in  the  blighted  tree. 

'beer. STREET. 

The  cafy  flow  of  the  Verfes  under  this  print,  and 
the  zeal  with  which  they  were  no  doubt  written, 
jj)articularly  tbofc  xxnder  Gin- Lane^  render  them  highly 
proper  to  accompany  thefe  fpirited  produftions  of 
JMr.  Hogarth.  The  porter  exhibits  a  fine  piAure  of 
enjeymcnt ;  One  is  highly  pleafed  to  fee  the  poor  fel- 
low lift  his  hand  up  in  fuch  e^ttacy  :  pity  he  (hould 
tver  want  wherewithal  to  purchafe  a  pot  of  porter. 
It  would  be  diificylt  to  fay,  whether  this  man,  or  th<; 
devil  driokiDg  the  fame  liquor  on  the  altar,  in  the 
print  of  the  Strolifrs^  has  the  moft  enjoyment*  What 
^  contraft  is  the  unhappy  objedt  in  Gin^Lane  to  this 
hearty  fellow !  The  enjoyment  of  feeling  ib  not  ill 
cxpreffed  in  the  drayman :    the  ws^nnth  from  the 

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C    66    ] 

young  woman's  palpitating  boibm  is  conveyed 
through  his  veins  to  his  eyes. 

I  know  not  what  charadcr  is  given  of  Mr.  FSITs 
book,  buC  TurnbuU  certainly  dcferves  not  this  tatt. 
Mr.  Nichols  very  juftly  obfcrvcs,  that  he  Ihould  have 
been  able  to  have  underftood  this  book  before  be 
had  ventured  to  condemn  it ;  had  he,  inftead  of  this 
laft  work,  put  Rymer's  contemptible  Refle&imi  ai 
Shakfpeare  into  the  baiket,  it  would  have  been  much 
better ;  or  the  books  mentioned  in  Swift's  Diredioos 
to  a  Governefs  would  not  have  been  amiis  *. 

From  the  broken  bricks  and  ftones  lying  fo  oer 
the  door^  we  may  fuppofe  it  has  not  been  opened  for 
fome  time,  and  that  of  courfe  he  has  but  few  cci^ 
tomers ;  his  being  in  debt  makes  him  afraid  to  opco 
the  door  :  this  is  certainly  the  front  door  to  his  fbcp, 
from  his  name  being  over,  as  well  as  the  commoc 
fign  of  pawnbrokers.  Mr.  Hogarth  from  this  mif 
infer,  that,  from  the  fpirit  of  induftry  which  reigns 
here,  and  from  each  one  fceming  "  bufy  and  merry 
"  in  their  various  trades  and  occupations,  feme  hng- 
**  ing,  fome  laughing  and  joking  among  themfelvcs, 
•*  all  with  gcod  humour  in  their  faces,  and  induftri- 
^  ous  in  their  bufinefs,'*  thatH'rom  this  their  induftrv 
(kept  up  by  a  liquor  which  deftroys  not  their  health, 
but  gives  them  hale,  robuft,  and  chearful   counte- 

•  *•  Make  the  mifTcs  read  French  and  Englifh  novels,  and 
**  French  romances,  and  all  the  comedies  writ  in  king  C^rfr.'.i 
**  the  Second  and  king  fPlUJ.i/n*!  reigns,  to  folteQ  their  nanxre, 
**  and  make  them  tender-hearted^*'  &c« 

nances, 

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C  6^  ] 

nances,  *^  and  a  refreihment  which  trickles  through 
^^  every  vein**),  they  will  have  ho  need  to  frequent 
pawnbrokers ;  and  that  Mr.  Nathaniel  Pinch  had 
much  better  remove  his  quarters  to  GIn-Laney  in  op- 
pofition  to  Gripe,  whcfe  houfc  appears  to  be  in  very 
fubftantial  repair. 

The  jolly  blackfmith  may  have  juft  bought  his 
ihoulder  of  mutton  from  the  butcher,  who  is  feated 
in  the  very  joy  of  his  heart;  and  this  blackfmith, 
after  his  prefent  flouriiH  over  the  drayman^s  head, 
may  probably  aik  him  io  fat  a  bit  of  mutton  with  hini. 
One  cannot  but  wifli  the  poor  tattered  fign-paint^r 
had  his  pot,  as  he  is  almoft  the  only  perfon  who  is 
without  one ;  and  yet  his  contented  fmilc  may  pro^ 
ceed  from  his  feeing  the  jolly  dogs  on  the  roof  of 
the  houfe  enjoying  theirs,  well  knowing,  that  ai  hij 
jobb  is  almoft  compleated,  he  will  then  b(3  entitled  to 
his  *.     One  of  the  taylors  is  reaching  out  his  pot  to 

be 

*  This  poor  .fellow*s  genius,  perhaps,  foars  no  higher  thaa 
f'  the  daubing  diabolical  angels  for  ale-hou(c8,  dogs  with 
"  chains  for  tanners  yards,  rounds  of  beef  and  roailed  pigs 
*•  for  Porridge-lfland,".     Tafte^  a  farce,  by  Mr.  Foote, 

I  (liould  l^cg  pardon  for  taking  the  liberty  of  fuppodng  Mr. 
Pope  to  have  been  a  painter  not  much  fuperior  to  this  poor 
.fellow,  if  his  own  letter  did  not  authorize  my  conjecture.*— 
♦*  You  may  gu^fs  in  how  uneafy  a  Hate  I  am,  whep  every  day 
^^  the  performances  of  others  appear  more  beautiful  and  ex- 
^^  cellent,  and  my  own  more  defpic^ble.  )  havq  thrown  away 
'•  ihree  Dr.  Swifts^  each  of  which  was  once  my  vanity ;  two 
}'  Lady  Srl^gw^Ursi  a  Dutchefs  o^  Montague;  liefides  half«a- 
^'  dozen  earls ;  and  one  knight  of  the  garter.  I  hi(ve  cruciliecl 
M  COn^  over  agaio  in  eiftgie,   and  made  a  Ma^ona  as  old  as 


t    6?    ] 

be  filUd  by  the  man  wha  wiU  fooa  come  cilowii  ibi 
ladder,  and  take  it  from  him  by  gcMng  akMUg  tbe 
bottom  of  t j^e  roof.  The  ikuation  of  tbf  omd  in  the 
warehoufe  is  very  dangerous ;  but:  he  (cea|s  9s  iafcs^ 
Able  of  it  as  thofe  carelefs  jolly  brickbyers  on  the 
roof.  The  perfon  who  is  walking  near  the  cbairiBav 
ieems  to  be  a  gentleman  (from  the  pofitioa  of  his 
ilick),  who  is  fauoterlng  carelefsly  along^  ap^  ^iiuUo| 
at  the  e^hau^ed  afpedt  of  the  chairman, 

^|r.  JSicbals  obferves  of  the  following  puhlu:^tioQ| 
'*  A  DiiTcrtation  on  Mr.  Hogarth's  Six  Priou,  &c 
^'  1 751 1  IHice  One  Shilling/'  that  it  is  eleven  peace 
three  farthiogs  too  dear :  hut  perhaps  this  Cffofiue 
may  be  too  fevere — the  print  of  Hogdrtb^s  head  pre- 
fixed to  it  is  certainly  worth  one  {billing  4  ^lui  thcMgb 
the  diflertation  on  gin  may  not  poiTeis  the  encbaaUBg 
harmony  of  Mr*  Walpol£s  pen,  and  the  abfervafiioBi 
that  jlrong  beefy  and  Us  nable  companim  roaft  heef^  were 
the  means  of  rendering  our  anccftors  wife  in  council; 
and  that  good  beer  and  wholefome  nourijhing  eatables 

*'  bcr  mother  St.  Afuu.  N^iy,  what  is  yet  more  miractiloiity  I 
^*  hare  rivalled  St.  Luke  hirolelf  iiv  pointing ;  and  a»  it  f»  iaid, 
**  an  angel  carnc  and  finilhcd  his  piece,  fo,  y^m  wrouixf  f«rcar| 
*^  a  dcfvil  put  the  lall  hand  ro  mine,  it  is  io  begrim^ti  and 
•*  rmutced.  However,  I  comfort  myWf  with  a  chrtHian 
•*  reflection,  that  I  liave  not  broken  the  conimMximent  ;  for 
**  my  piAures  arc  not  the  hkcnefs  of  any  thing  in  heaven 
**  abore,or  in  the  earth  belour,  or  in  the  water  under  the  earth. 
**  Neil  her  will  any  body  adore  or  wotOiip  them,  except  the 
*'  Indians  (hould  have  a  fight  of  them,  who,  they  tell  iw,  wnr* 
*'  fljip  certain  idols  purely  for  their  uglincfr.*'  His  third 
letter  loGay. 

aided 


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C    «9    ] 

tided  their  fiify^  ate  ccntepiptible^  yet  we  muft  «« 
knowledge  th&t  this  anonymous  writer  bath  given  U9  % 
very  dear  explanation  of  the  ^^  Stages  of  Crnelty  ;^ 
and  has  more  than  amply,  nay,  reduntfy  afoUzei 
for  tf//  its  imperfoftions^  by  that  glow  of  humanity 
which  ihines  fo  warmly  throughout  almoft  ttttf 
page  of  his  defcription  of  thefo  laft  prints^ 

G  I  N  .  L  A  M  E. 

This  print,  which  Ii|r*  Watpote  obferves  is  horridfy 
Jine^  but  dtfyiftingy  has  been  (b  fully  defcribed  by 
^Yujler^  that  very  little  can  be  added* 

The  poor  little  child  weeping  for  want  of  food, 
perhaps,  as  well  as  for  the  lofs  of  its  mother^  is  in* 
deed  painting  to  the  pai^ons.  The  woman  is  bringing 
fo  the  pawnbroker's  (among  a  few  other  things)  her 
tea-kettfei  which  is  a  (ign  flie  has  pawned  every  other 
article  in  her  haufe  for  gln^  as  a  tea-kettle  is  one  of 
(he  Very  laft  articles  which  the  generality  of  the  poor 
will  part  witht  The  two  houfes  next  to  KUmaiCs 
are  a  barber's,  and  a  carpenter's>  or  joiner's,  evident 
from  the  coffin :  this  laft  perfon  has  brought  his  coat 
and  faw  to  Gripe^  and  is  in  the  attitude  of  telling 
him  that  his  things  are  wprth  more  than  he  is  willing 
to  give.  Four  of  the  peribns  in  this  print  are  hor^ 
ridly  diignfting  indeed :  the  emaciated  wretch  (fatu 
$yes^  fiUHS  tafii^  fans  $vety  ibing)^  who  is  attended  by 
his  faithful  dog,  who  forf^kes  not  his  mafter  even  in 
\k\s  poverty — (how  different  is  the  ftarven  life  which 


C   70  ] 

this  poor  animal  leads  to  that  of  an  old  lady's  bark- 
ing fondled  lap-dog; — che  womm  raking  fnuff^thc 
ravenous  chimney-fwcep — and  the  fellow  who  has 
drunk  hin\felf  almoft  to  madnefs,  and  yet  is  taking 
bis  bellows  and  fpit  to  pawn  for  more  gin,  and  is  even 
infenfible  to  the  ihrieking  agonies  of  che  child  whom 
he  has  fpitccd.  The  cripple,  who  has  a  bandage 
over  his  eyes,  and  whofe  quarrelling  proceeds  from 
the  eifeds  of  gin,  is  throwing  a  ftool  at  his  antagonifl, 
who  has  wrelled  one  of  bis  crutches  frcai  htm  ^. 

■  .  ■  ■ 

The  STAQES  pf  CRUELTY. 

FIRST    STAGE. 

Mr.  Hogiorib  mud  have  fat  down  with  di^ufied 
feelings  when  colleding  fccnes  for  this  iohuman  tn* 
gedy ;  a  keen  fcnfe  of  the  fujTcnngs  of  unprotedcd 
animals,  and  an  anxious  w  ifh  to  root  out  fuch  dettftcc 
barbarities,  were,  no  doubt,  his  chief,  perhaps  '::':$ 
only  inducement  in  rving  us  the  ftages  of  huou". 
€n:cln\  His  accir^^Iilhcd  biographer,  warmed  bj 
the  fight  of  fuel-  ;  xertions  in  the  c^uie  of  mercy,  has 
i;iimortai:2cd  the  p::p.:cr's  ger.ius,  ar.d  has  ti«l::ci 
round  his  favc;:::tc  ii. garth's  bro.vs,  hy  rrzrcr  ji^-*. 

*  The  chiiivh  \r.  v*:  -,  •«  ?:.  C/.— ^r\  Ei^^mJ^'^ry  JC-»V^-  n 
1  i*  Criiic  t.  >.c\'t'\  «.•:  rr.:  ri.b!?c  b-jlw'.rgs,  a^c-  in  l^rrsi^^^r. 
cNfnt^,  :K::  i:  is  r.i.w  .  .5  ir.i  ib.'urd,  crz3  to  a  prc- 
%*e:S— t-^i:  *>,:  :..  "  i.r  n  :.:  .k  ^  ^'.x.  for  gcsi'js,  znd  c-;s2> 
ir.rr.:  rVr  ti::.  ;  .-. -  rhi:  'he  cx;.cra*^!c  cc-ajci:  of  6::ni^  1^ 
:hv  k  -'s:  ."  :   c  •  p  ~:  ••,   .\c:c<  nothing  bu:  liughicr  la  :rc 


l  p  ] 

With  the  penetrating  eye  of  nice  difcernment,  h* 
has  prefented  us  with  his  intelledtual  charadier,  with 
his  very  ye>«/,  and  in  language  which  it  is  almoft  cruel 
to  abflradt,  has  flood  forth  the  advocate  of  thofe 
qualities,  which  have  caufed  the  few  exceptionable 
ftrokes  of  Mr.  Hegart^s  pencil  to  fink  mlo  immedi* 
ate  oblivion. — •*  It  would  be  fupprefling  the  merits 
"  of  his  heart/*  (fays  Mr.  Walpole)  *•  to  confider  him 
"  only  as  a  promoter  of  laughter.    1  think  I  have 

Ihown  that  his  views  were  more  generous  and  ex- 

tenfive.  Mirth  coloured  his  pidures,  but  bene* 
"  volence  defigned  them." — And  "  had  he  been  too 
«*  feverc/'  (in  perfonal  ridicule)  •*  the  humanity  of 
"  endeavouring  to  root  out  cruelty  to  animals  would 
"  atone  for  many  fatires."  Mr.  H^alpole^  throughout 
all  his  writings,  glows  with  tranfport  when  an  oppor- 
tunity offers  of  adorning  the  brows  of  merit;  his 
brilliant  compliment  to  Lord  Burlington  may  juftljr 
be  applied  to  himfclf — he  had  every  quality  of  a  genius 
and  art  {ft  f  except  envy.  No  one  more  fcorns  to  ihcw 
folly  and  vice  one  favour,  and  few  would  be  fomuch 
hurt  at  concealing  one  virtue :  the  "  Virgin  Queen,** 
nor  the  "  Hiftorick  Doubts,"  (maturely  confidered) 
cannot  be  an  exception  to  this. — Whether  his  cen- 
fures  of  Raleigh,  and  of  Lord  Falkland,  are,  I  dare 
not  prefume  to  determine. 

This  firft  plate  is  fufficiently  explained  by  TruJUr. 

The  dog  licking  the  hand  of  the  brute,  who  is 
tying  a  bone  to  his  tail,  inclioes  me  to  quote  a  few 

linesy 


lUesj  iMkwever  imperfed  th^  iajmtdiate  ^^licatioii 
#f  them  may  be : 

O  i  bluih^  and  k^im  fidelity  frbm  brutes  ; 
Ddgs  hate  been  true  to  men  that  hare  been  bnttcs: 
One  knew  Ufyjf^y  when  unknown  at  hotne^ 
And  leaping  up  for  joy>  with  joy  expired. 

Sympathy^  a  Ptiedb 

SECOKC    StAOE. 

This  plate  being  fufficiently  defcribed  by  Tritfirr^ 
flhd  being  too  difgufling  to  dwell  on^  I  ihall  aniy  in- 
fcrt  a  paragraph  from  a  late  ^  General  Eirenihgr  Poft.** 

^  On  Monday  lad  a  mod^  fatage  aft  of  cruelty  wa^ 
^  perpetrated  in  Holbom.  A  man^  who  had  the 
^  appearance  of  a  (hniggler,  beat  his  hoHe  moft  un- 
^  mercifully ;  after  fome  time  beating  him  about  the 
^^  ribs^  he,  with  a  large  ftick^  fuppofed  to  be  loaded 
♦*  with  lead,  knocked  the  poor  creature  down,  and, 
**  by  repeating  the  blows,  at  laft  killed  hitn ;  he 
^'  then  took  off  the  bridle  and  faddle^  aud  walked 
^«  deliberately  away,  with  as  Ikde  concern  as  though 
•*  nothing  had  happened*** 

Ikyi^  in  p.  134,  of  bis  Poems,  has  the  following 
lines : 

'Tis  not  enough  each  mom,  on  term's  approachi 
To  club  your  legal  three- pence  for  a  coach. 


THIRD 


t  n  1 

tn  this  plate  no  one  comic  trait  is  thrown  in ;  bad 
Spelling  in  the  letter  is  even  purpofely  avoided,  that 
not  one  objeft  of  a  ludicrous  kind  might  diyert.the 
attention  from  this  cruel  fcene.  'The  folemnity  of 
the  place,  the  time  of  night,  the  hell  then  beating  one, 
the  Itartled  horror  of  the  man  with  the  lantern  at 
feeing  this  ill-^arr*d  wencb^  the  grief  of  the  gardener, 
and  tiie  fublime  paffions  exprefled  in  the  face  of  his 
hext  neighbour  (a  countenance  not  naturally  ex- 
preflive  of  fublimity),  all  forcibly  touch  the  paflions ; 
and  one  cannot  but  exclainv, 

-— ^ — •  what  pangs  his  bread  muft  feel 
When  death  his  knell  fliall  toll  I 

The  writer  of  the  pamphlet  mentioned  in  Beef- 
Jireet^  obferves,  "  What  eye  can  view  this  fcenft' 
"  without  Ihedding  a  tear ! — ^What  foul  fo  infcnfibte 
<«  as  not  to  fliudder  at  the  difmal  cataftrophe  of  the 
^*  fond  deluded  girl  !---Who,  that  has  any  humanity, 
*'  can  behold  this  melancholy  fpedtacle  without  feel* 
"  ing  in  his  bofom  a  juft  refentment  rifing  againft 
**  the  monfter  who  has  been  the  author  of  fo  horrible 
*^  a  tragedy  i** 

FOURTH    STAGE. 

The  words  of  Hamlet  may  very  well  apply  to  the 
prclident's  dignity  of  infsnjibility. 

Ham*  Has  this  fellow  no  feeKng  of  his  bufinefs } 

L  Hot. 


I    74    1 

Har.  Cuftom  hafh  made  it  m  him  a  property  of 
eafineis. 

/£ot«  Tis  eVh  fo :  the  hand  of  little  employment 

litth  the  daintier  fenfe. 

f 

'  Notwithftanding  the  acknowledged  mei'it  of  this 
laft  pla'te^  we  cannot  hot  wUh  Mr,  Ha^artb  had  gixn 
us  one  preceding  it,  and  reprefenting  Tom  Nen  uo* 
dergoing  that  puniflunrat  be  fo  richly  merits.  In 
viewing  this  phtCi  we  know  that  he  has  only  fuf- 
lered  at  Tybum,  and  we  may  reafonably  fuppofc, 
that  the  fear  and  pain  of  that  exit,  to  him^  were 
perhaps  but  little ;  but  on  cafting  our  eye  back  on 
the  three  preceding  platesj  we  cannot  bur  regret  Mr. 
HegariFs  not  having  reprefented  htm  as  expiring 
under  the  agonies  of  the  wbeil,  and  we  fbould  very 
willingly  have  overlooked  all  unity  of  place  :  and 
after  his  having  thus  received  the  puaifhment  of  that 
infernal  engine^  we  Ihould  then  have  had  the  latis- 
fadion  of  knowing  that  the  inilidker  of  the  ikrieking 
agonies  of  the  poor  dog  had  met  with  a  due  aiid 
equal  return  ^. 

*  The  divine  Sbak/peare  iays, 
■  Mine  enemy**  dog. 

Though  he  had  bit  me,  ftiould  have  fiood  ihat  xxighf 
•Agaiiift  oiy  fire. 


The 


C    75    3 
The    E  L  E  C  T  I  O  N. 

P  L  A  T  E    I, 

This  *  very  admirable  plate  being  fully  explained 
by  Trujler^  and  in  the  poem  which  Mr.  Nichols  has 
inferted*  in  hk  Work,  render  any  additiohs  unnecef- 
fary ;  and  the  extreme  drollery  of  many  of  the  fi- 
gures cannot  but  be  inftantly  noticed.  The  fmiling 
and  contented  calmnefs  of  the  barberfurgeon,  the 
expreffion  of  the  old  gentleman  who  is  affltded  with 
the  gravel  as  he  is  attempting  to  make  water,  the 
effigy  carried  in  procefiion,  the  inimitable  figure  of  a 
country  fellow  with  a  bald-pate,  with  that  of  his 
companion  (before  whom  is  a  bottle  of  burgundy)^ 
the  whole  group  behind  them  (with  the  left-handed 
fidler),  as  well  as  the  fmart  waggifli  familiarity  and 
delighted  tranfport  of  merriment  of  the  cobler  (with 
his  glafs  of  champagne),  and  the  muddled,  and  a)- 
mod  vomiting,  barber,  all  confefs  the  hand  of  Ho^ 
garth. 

As  thi^  country  owed  the  prefervation  of  its  con- 
flit  ution  to  King  William t  Hogarth  has  given  us  hts 
portrait ;  intimating,  perhaps,  by  the  galhes  in  it, 
that  the  bribery,  the  corruption,  and  the  other  modes 
of  carrying  op  this  election,  are  efifeftual  means  to 
dcftroy  and  mutilate  the  conftitution.  King  Hlliiamf 
who   vainly  imagined  that  his  fubjeHs  leved  liberty 

♦  Sec  a  very  droll  letter  on  an  ElciSlion  in  vol.  I.  of  **  John 
**  Bundc.  Junior.^* 

L  2  better 


i:  t  -3 

bitter  than  pfirt^j  has  now  befqrc  his  eyes  a  very  com- 
plete refutation  of  his  ill-grounded  notion.  The 
iandfcape  in  this  rpoip  may  xletiote  the  borough-town 

.for  which  xkn  eledion  is  held,  as  in  ^he  next  print 
the  church  is  almoft  exa^ly  the  fame,  though  it 
differs  in  the  third  print ;  and  t^ie  flag's  head  and 

Jiorns  may  only  be  the  ufual  trophy  of  country-halls. 
It  is  very  doubtful  whether  the  w/^  of  the  broken- 
headed  attorney  is  a  fure  vote.  The  lobfter  feems 
galloping  to  reach  the  mutton«chop;  and  from  t^e 
empty  fcabbard,  hat  and  gloves  ox\  th?  fea^  we  ms^ 
fgppofe  the  owner 

. —  *^  who  cfinnot  eat, 
"  No\¥  lallie4  fprth  the  foe  to  beat.'^ 


.  PLATE    II. 

;  Vyo  have  here  three  very  adi^irab].'  reprerentations 
of  eating:  the  Hon  with  his  liiv,  the  hafly  vornci- 
-oufnefs  of  one  perfon,  and  the  contraftcd  deniurcnefs 
gnd  fo  jer  folidicy  of  the  other. 

Mr.  HbgArth  has  given  us,  In  the  courfe  of  his 
works,  nine  figures  oi  jLij^impzrt.mcc :  the  beadlf, 
and  conftablc,  in  the  eighth  and  tenth  plates  of  the 
^Prentices;  the  nobleman, and  that  adiTiirable  mummv, 
«jn  the  fiift  and  third  phtt-s  ot  MarKiagc  a- 1  ^moifc ; 
the  fimperiiig  importance  of  the  dancing-niaftcr,  in 
the  fccond  place  of  Tihe  Ruhc^  P)Ogrefs"^  the  lirrir 
French-boy,  In  K>jvi  \  rrc  i.u  cook,  \•^  ihc  lail  pi.,te 
of  the  E!ci{ion\  the  coiiilMUnt,  in  Soutb:vark-yalh,i 
/  and 


J" 


[7?    3 

..  and  the  clerk,  in  the  Sleepy  Congregation ;  the  fclergy- 
man  in  the  reading  defk^  iQ  the  fecond  plate  of  the 

^  ^Prenticesy  is  too  ftnall.  to  bQ,  much  attended  to ; 
and  the  felf-important  monarch,  in  the  laft  plate  of 
the  Rake's  Frogrefs^  is  too  unfprtunate  an  obje&  to 
dwell  on.  The  features  of  Ahd  S^uait^  and  ,th6fe  t>f 
the^pimitabl^  cobler  in  (bis  plat%  are  ftiore  expreffive 

.  of  the  furly  gcuffnefs  of  downright  £n|^alen,  full 
4>f;f  roafl;  beef  and  porter  dignity  ^.  As  we  may  pine* 
fume  this  admired  cobler  is  not  ov^r^complai^anc  in 
his  general  behaviour,  nor  bien  liimtdans  fes  manierif, 
Jie  appears  then  to  us  a  little  diftruftful  of  the  barber's 
h9Defty,  in  taking  that  caution  ^with  ht3  dumpy  paw, 
>ybich  will  prevent  him  lofing  any  of  thofe  guineas 
which  he  has  juft  received  for. his  vote ;   he  admires 

^  the  dodtrine  of  meum  and  fuum.  His  ftumpy  chair, 
his  thick  and  haughty  folidity,  his  dangling  tobacco- 
Hopper,  his  peruke,  his  patch,  his  ndfe,  pimple,  and 
^bove  all  hi;  right  eye,  form  a  figure  which  Sirjcjhua 

*  Mr.  Bunljury^f  print  of  JoUmx^  and  his  phyfician  in  a 
wtfit  to  tht  campt  will  ferve  for  whole  chapters  on  the  fiibje^  of 
lelf-importance* 

This  cobler  wotsld  probably  have  aftcd  much  in  the  fartSc 
;nanner  as  one  ndiially  now  does  (or  very  lately  did)  to  a 
certain  facetious  gentleman  of  fplendid  fortune  in  the  wed  of 
England,  who  owns  every  fpot  of  ground  in  an  extenfive  pa- 
rifl),  or  townihip,  except  the  fmall  and  contemptible  cottage 
and  garden  of  a  (h9e-ipakcr,  or  cobler,  who  obfllnately  refutes 
all  oflers  of  purphafe,  though  ten  times  the  value  has  been 
•offered  him,  that  he  may  indulge  hit  felf*important  whim,  In 
telling  every  pafleuger,  whom  he  drinks  a  chance  mug  with  at 
the  alehouie,  that  the  whole  partlh  belongs  **  to  m€  and  M^. 

iould 


C  78  -3 


Ais coUer  Ieid^  »d»i(  tf 


bets  fTfhimgoi  fntMk  tkt  Fvodi 
eoUcr,  had  die  Imv  bca 
4aim!    Hid  he  becB  fiiriBg  «  die 
JnwLprhVfif  ifaelnq|fa«^  hbfiiokJt 
Ui^wiiihl9ochafebecBaBi6|  hot  he 

rhwn  AflMPft  irflligt  pops  MC  OC 

.  the  iccxiod  print  of  Ae  JZjii// iViff^ 

The  feUonr  who  is  iammg  6omn  the  €/fk  fiEde 
thinks  he  is  tmfag  domi  thevecfpen 
lefis:  ao  edmirdile  fine  00  the 
offliEiigiifliniob^.    Frmp  die  iBfli^  popnlv  %B 


•  The  Griff^ V/n  >0W,  n  the  9^  X*  of  VoL  IL  «i 

hippy  parody,  verr  adminbly  delineates  the  charaSer  of  o 
liAgiifh  nxib  ;    I  will   rrant'cribe  a  forali  part  oi  it.      ^  Ther 
**  have  many  wife  maxinos  by  which  they  govern  theiB&fTes ; 
**  fiich  as,  *  00  wooden  (hoes/ — *  liberty  and  propertr  and  » 
^^  txcift^ — •no  ¥ri9£k   danceff,'— *  no  mouniceri/  —  *lc: 
^  every  nun  toafl  his  oxo  cheefe,  &c.  Such  prudcarial  jixiocBf, 
**  foun.-ted  on  the  i«>beretl  feme,  matl  undoubtedly  coorribu-e 
**  to  render  their  ^idminitl ration  both  wife  and  protfperoos*    k 
*•  d)c$  not  appear  thit  they  hire  ir.adc  any  great  progrrft  b 
**  the  nKidcrn  t^xx  of  war ;  on  the  contrary,  there  is  neafon  to 
**  iiippol'e  ilxat  chcy  hold  rt  in  c«>nrrmp:  \  as  it  is  ecrtJiin  rhat, 
**  on  iri3ny  occi'donf,  when  our  mixed  form  of  gu^etomef! 
•*  h.ii  endeai  cured  to  oppofe  them,  by  fensHog  the  Ibldicff 
**  aipiMt  them,  they  ha^x  always  laughed  at    the   military 
**  furcc,  and  repelled  them  from  the  atfault  without  their  dar- 
*^  in^  to  fire.    Their  military  difcipiine  fecms  to  be  derived 
V  trqpi  the  R*nuuuy    they  kaow  no  ufc  of  cannoD,  fiiv-ar.-ni. 


t    79    J 

which  arc  difpcrfed  through  Ibgdtt^s  wcMrks,  it  mif 
not  be  unamufing  to  fome  of  my  readers  to  perufe 
two  very  entertaining  diiiertatbns  on  them  in  the 
third  volume  of  the  Mirror^  and  in  the  Annual  Regifter 
for  177O9  as  well  as  the  admirable  paper  in  thefiril 
volume  of  the  Speitaiar.  I  extrad  thefe  few  lines 
from  the  paper  in  t\it  Mirror^  as  applicable  td  this* 
print.  "  In  the  year  1739,  Admiral  Vernon  took 
Porto-hello  with  fix  Jhips  only.  The  public  gratitude 
to  him  was  boundlefs : — He  was  fung  in  ballads.--*^ 
^^  At  the  enfuing  general  election  in  1741,  h^  was  re« 
**  turned  for  three  different  corporations  j — but,  above 
f^  all,  his  portrait  filled  every  fignpoft :  and  he  may 
**  be  figurativdy  faid  to  have  fold  the  ale,  beer, 
•*  porter,  and  purl  of  England  for  fix  years*'^ 

PLATE    III. 

The  blind  gentleman's  conductor  is  amufing  htm* 
felf  with  viewing  the  prancing  horfes,  inftead  of 
minding  his  mailer,  who,  from  the  pofition  of  his 
cane,  is  evidently  on  the  p<nnt  of  tumbling  down« 

*^  &c.  but  proceed  to  battle  with  fticks,  bludgeons,  fetting  up 
^^  loud  (hours,  fomewhat  like  the  war*hoop  of  the/iii^£nif,  and 
*^  hurling  ilones,  brickbats,  bottles,  glaiTct,  9cc.  with  tremeod* 
«<  ous  force  on  the  adverfe  party.  They  are  total  ftrangers  to 
'^  all  refinements  of  modern  luxury ;  bread  and  cheeie,  and 
**  porter,  being  their  chief  i'uftenance  ;  gin  being  only  ufed  by 
*'  them  when  they  are  low-fpirited,  or  are  going  to  be  haaged, 
^^  They  do  not  paint  their  bodies  with  woad,  like  the  antient 
^  Britoni  \  but  generally  with  kenneUdirt,  which  lends  them  % 
'*  formidable  air  in  battle.^ 


C    9o    ] 

Hie  carelefs  attitude  of  the  clerk^  and  His  burft  df 
laughQ^F^is  si  firong  latire  dn  the  indecency  with 
wUicIl  loaths  are .  too  frequently,  adminiftered.  The 
ideot  has  a  bib  under  his  chin,  and  is  fafiened  in  hb 
chair  .by  a  piece  of  Wood  which  goes  acrofs.  The 
tobacco  fumes,  from  the  fellow's  mofuth,-  will  pieveot 
the  dying  man's  making  his* exit  as  in  m  gentle  Jleef^ 
tov  he  exprefles  much  pain  ^«     , 

^      '  PLATE 

.  «  The  humiUatiDg  filiation  of  Britanma  iq  hef  chariot  ma/ 

rend^.  the  infertipn  of  the  following,  from  a  periodical  publi: 

catiod',  not  improper :  '  • 

'.  ^^  AUdgori^al  Dcfcription  of  the  Prefeot  State  of  Grca^ 

.*^  BrltaiQ    for  Eledkioa  Mirth.     In    a  Letter    from  i 

*'  Patriot  in  Town,  to  his  Friend  in  tlic  Couatiy.  ^ 

*' Mrs.  Britain  continues  in  a  very  low,  liftgefiag, 

**  languifliing  condition.  Her  pulfe,  indeed,  fometimcs  beats 
**  high  ;  but  the  ftrongeft  cffoiits  which  (he  makes  to  keep  up 
•*  her  importance  feem  to  arife  from  a  fudden  flow  of  aninuil 
'*  fpirits,  aud>  Uk^  the  fpafms  of  a  couvi^lfion,  are  to  be  cod- 
**  fidered  as  injurious  to  the  machine  which  is  agitated  bj 
«•  them.  The  diforder  in  her  hoivehy  with  whieh  flte  has  bcca 
«*  for  ibme  years  afflicted,  gaius  ground ;  but  flie  is  nio;t 
•♦alarmed  at  the /;t/^tf/wf/ flate  of  htr  extreme  farts ;  and  indeed 
«•  fhcy  have  fo  tinpromifmg  an  afpcft,  that  it  is  doubtful  irhc- 
•*  thcr  ail  the  cooling  medicines  prefcribed  by  her  ablcft  phy- 
•*  iiciahs  will  be  able  to  profent  amptetathns.  The  good  old 
•*  lady  exhibits  the  moft  ftriking  fymptoms  of  an  inward  dc- 
«'  cay,  and  is,  evic^ently,  haftcning  to  her  dilTolutioa,  though 
*'  the  precife  moment  cannot  be  afcertained*  Towards  the 
*^*  end  of  the  laft  century,  her  conflitution  had  been  fo  much  de- 
**  bilitated  by  fevere  ihocks  of  various  kinds  (and  particular!)' 
*<  injured  by  that  dreadful  dillcmper  the  it/v^VfVfV/,  that,  if 
*•  there  had  not  been  a  miraculous  revpiution  in  iicr  Bi\t)ur,  /he 
*«  could  not  have  furvived  them.  Favourable,  however,  r.< 
•*  that  revolution  ^vas,  many  diforders,  which,  couki  not  have 


•« 


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r  L  A  T  E    IV. 

A«iidft  thr  fund  of  humour  in  this  plate,  it  m«y 
lappear  as  if  one  viewed  the  produftions  of  Hogarth 
with  a  diftempered  ey^,  to  poinr  out  fuch  trivial 
^ver-fights  as  the  fidler  playbg  »kh  his  left  handy 
the  clerk  writing  with  his  kft  hand,  or  the  gentle- 
'man  who,  in  t^e  laA  plate,  is  l|:ecching  off  onp  of 
the  cafididates  ii>  the  fame  manner :  yet  it  may  nSt 
te  improper  to  point  ,ogt  fuch  minuti^,  as  Hogarfb 
Hiay  have  couched  ibme  meaning  in  every  ftroke  of 
his  pencil,  which  may  efcape  Aany  obfervcrs-  He, 
no  doubt,  has  £>mp  crllujion  in  the  ruinous  houfe  next 
to  the  attx>mey's ;  ts  well  as  in  the  fellow  who  is 
vthrufting  his  hand  into  the  beerrbarrel :  as  he  furely 
ifcannot  he  Hcking  the  dregs  of  an  empty  caik,  ^ 
.Tri^r  fuppo&s ;  and  he  may  have  a  further  mean* 
ing  in  giirisg  us  only  diie  Jhiidow  of  the  other  jnem^ 
jbier,  Mrbo  isioot  yet  come  S9to  fight,  m  ho  may  prove 
jDo  b)s  ooofiitueots  the  mere  A^dow  of  a  repreDenta* 
tive.  The  window  affords  a  fine  group ;  and  the 
broiling  importance  of  the  cook,  the  whim  of  the 

^^  been  forefeen  by  her  friends,  ^ave  originated  from  it ;    and 

**  by  thofc  diforders  (he  is  now  fo  much  wetkened,  that  the 

^^  chances  for  a  ruovery  are  very  much  againd  her.     With  a 

**  broken  conflitutiom  and  a  bad  habit  of  body^  (he  muft  never 

^^  expert  to  do  what  flie  hat  done.     My  fentiments  concerning 

•*  her  wcovery  a-re  every  hour  more  and  more  confirmed,  when 

*'  I  think  of  tl>e  frequent  application  which  has   been  made 

*'  of  the  lancet:  for  though  phlebotomy  may  be  highly  iervice- 

^*  able  in  certain  gircumllances,  the  lloutefl  patient  in  Chrift* 

**  f  ndom  may,  like  a.dj^oted  pig,  be  blooded  to  death.** 

M  ^terkitu 


C  H  8 

£x>terktn,  the  fine  attitude  of  th^  undaunted  failof, 
and  the  tranfports  of  the  delighted  filler,,  canno^but 
inftantly  prcfent  themfclvcs. 

Mr.  Sberlocky  in  oiie  of  his  admired  letters  (to  i 
Iriend  at  Paris J^  has  thefe  word?  :  ''It  is  worth yoor 
'•  while  to  come  to  England^  were  it  only  to  fee  ao 
^  ele&ion  and  a  cock-hiatch«  There  is  a  celeflial 
^  fpirit  of  anarchy  and  enthufiafm  in  the(c  two  fccncs, 
f '  that  words  caifnot  paint,  and  of  which  no  countn* 

^*  man  of  yours  can  ever  form  an  ideal** 

■.     '<        i.i'i     »'    •     k 

w    The    g  Q  C  K  .  P  I  T. 

Mr*  Hogarth^  who  fo  faithfully  recorded  each  nm- 
ikwH  folly  (f  the  day^  has  left  us  to  regret  his  not 
giving  us  fhe  reprefentation  of  another  diver&m 
ivhich  this  country  is  noted  for — ^that  of  a  horfe^racc. 
'7^^  gentleman  who  has  favoured  us  with'^e  Qty- 
^2/»// gives  us  hopes  that  many  admirable  fcenes  of 
th^  prefeqt  ^ay  will  yet  be  cohfigned  to  future  times 
l>y  th^t  pencil  which  feems  eqUaliy  calculated  to 
j^rain  nfftis*  cheeks  to  idle  merriment,  as  to  dr^w  forth 
what  Marc  Anthony  terms  gracious  drops. 

This'print,  were  it  not  fpr  the  barbarity  attending 
this  lavage  diyerfion,  would  doubtlefs  make  us  entct 
much  imore  pleafantly  into  it;  and  the  very  admir- 
able exprefSon  in  the  woman ^s  face  i^ails  fomewhat 
of  its  comicality,  from  the  difguft  occafioned  at  her 
unfemihine  and  brutal  joy.  Thefe  unfeeling  favagcf 
$f  the  cock-pity  form  an  heterogeneous  group  of  peers 
;        -.•■       ■  ■        ■  and 

5 


ifi(J  fcick- pockets,  jockies  v^d  butchers,  cliimney* 
fwecpers  and  gentlemen,  thieve^,  poftboys,  (hoc- 
Wacks,  and  blackguards  of  every  denominatbn ;  the 
very  tag  rag  and  bob^tafil  of  the  creatioif.  The 
fccne  of  aftion  may  lie  at  Newmarket,  frofn  J^kfon, 
the  noted  huhch-ba<*k  joCkcy,  being  in  tKii  ptlni^ 
atid  who  vhs  fo  well  kribwn  at  tHat  placd;  ai  Well 
as  from  another  ufiial  attendant  on  a  race-gr(^und^* 
the  min  whd  be^rs  the  infignia  of  his  trade  down  liirf 
Ihoiildef ,  and  who  is  (taf tihg ,  at  th6  Ff fcnch  gentle^ 
lAan's  cafcleisrfefs. 

Thi  fellow  on  the  rigKf  haffd  iidd  of  the  group 
l^lbw  has  the  mark  of  the  gallows  on  his  back  i 
done  perhaps  in  feme  nigbt-cellar  by  one  of  hi^'  Com- 
panions eH  badji^fit ;  IWs  next  nSlghbou^,  by  the  ir- 
rcfiftible  force  df  hi^  at^mentum  iaculinum,  ft^nii  to^ 
have  applied  it  (6  well  ad  bmintm,  aS  tti  haVe  over- 
thrown Mm',  Which  i^  est'prcffed  by  his  hand  being" 
ftretched  (jf\iu  He  whd  fe^fns  fo  comfortably  drunk,' 
and  is  viewing'  perhaps  aii  exhaufted  puiffe,  i^  very 
likely  to  have  it  brought  to  the  ground,  by  the  po(f. 
ti6h  of  a  ti^ighbb'ur's  ftick,  v^fiofe  attitude  expreiftj 
an  eager  attention  to  the  battle — the  neighbour  on 
hfs  left  hand,  by  an  inattentive  manageriierit  of  his 
whip  (in  his  eafernefs  df  bdtting-  wftff  the  hump- 
back  jockey),  has  knoct^ed  61%  neighbour's  cap  on. 
One  fide,  who  himfelf,  with  his  elbo^^*  has  aUrioiV 
^bflicd  off  t^e  hat  of  the  foldier* 

U  i  bo 


>n  rn*;h  (:Ae  •  r     \c     it    ,  tucn  a  foot  rf- rzcr 

'  ;,  r  -..•  r.v>r,v.v    r    .  r.;.»n,  ..:rawn  un  ii:  a    : 

*    .,<•  . -f-rvTCF  (vit-r.-     -me  :.-i  raomi  to  mtroaucc  irc 

.  ■  •   ■ 

..ifi-fT-rvT  ;  .  is  ^rfllnin  '  is  Mr.  .\icboii  i.irorms  .  =  .* 
=•?>-'  /r.p?>-nr  .:?;'rM;{T  .r  nis  •.  ivrhon,  .na  i^  ci- 
vr.y^raf.u    ri     .V-    irnvvti     ouna     nc      ruii'^-rr-   in     re 

/Srf./*-^;-    ?  r*nfhlf\  I      :'.e    iUoicmbie  r.onw:  :rom  ro  .or 

>rr  '  m^i.     r   .r  .  :.-::«)wwit:i  :l  f;2ih  on  his  iowaeac. 

•  ■    '  ■      ^     ^^^    urtti* 

■    '■•-       ■  ■■■'  -■      ...w.:.::   :  ;o    1:::^.       xr*" 

■  '        "  ■■     -^     • '-"»    .  .  c-^mntc."    t 


. '      "  ■■       .■■..-•  '  ".I      I       ^ 

i  •       *-  _  •         ■    . 

» 

*     •  ■  '     .M.......      '7       **r". 

*  *    b'  I      ■ 

t 

•    ;  :   ••  -      '^-      M    ., _j 


••    ».        •  •».-,i     ....     ,ii'-- 


gtlitM^t  of  keen  attention ;  and  from  the  next  ffgar* 
behind,  who  feems  clbfely  engaged,  not  only  with 
the  cocks,  but  with  fomething  elfe,  we  may  prefumc 
his  grace  of  B  '■■.;■■  <.i.^  who  is  fo  neat  him,  will  bring 
home  to  his  aftoni&ed  family  fome  memorial  of  the 
Company  he  has  been  keeping.  Near  to  the  blind 
wian  (who  cannot  refill  the  temptation  of  at  leaft 
hearing  his  favourite  diverfion)  is  an  affeded  chtm- 
ney-fwcep,  whofe  Angularity  in  this  refpcft  is  verjr 
probably  recoMedcd  by  many  who  may  have  for- 
merly feen  him,  as  feveral  of  the  other  %ures  in  thirf' 
j^rint  were,  foon  after  its  coming  out,  well  known, 
particularly  Jackfdrty .  tbt  hunch-back  jockey  of  iVm- 
markcty  the  demure  perfon  with  a  oock  in  bis  bag^ 
he  who  has  the  gold* laced  hat,  and  he  who  13  fleallng' 
the  note  :  others?  might  be  equally  well  known  ;  but 
I  am  credibly  informed  of  thofe  I  have  mentionedj^ 
by  a  gentleman  who  has  frequently  noticcfd  each  of 
fhcm  ;  the  face  of  the  laft,  he  fays,  he  never  fhall 
forget*  The  incomparable  figure  of  the  noble  peer^ 
who  is  fwallowing,  nor  a  tailor'' s^  but  a  carpenter's 
newSy  is  bdrne  down  by  this  blackguard  heavy  brute^ 
^hofe  paw  unmercifully  mauls  the  titled  ribband  *=. 

The  expteffion  in  the  figures  immediately  under 
the  peer  are  worthy  o(  the  pencil  which  produced 
jthcm;  and  the  calm  unconcern  of  the  carpenter 
cannot  but  raife  a  fmile,  when  contrafted  with  the 
\^6k  of  him  who  is  lofing  his  wig ;    nor  can  the  im« 

Mm 

♦  •*  Wkat  a  falling  off  if  here  l'*    Hamlet, 

paffioacd 


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paHionrd  atticnde  of  the  fellonr  nen  them  eictfpe  2r« 
t^nrion.  The  fac  biucber  on  the  pre&icnrs  nair 
hand  appean  as  a  conrrall  ro  che  ddbomcft  fcilov  ca 
hi9  left ;  for  -^'irb  an  boncft  ccainrrnancg  he  is  cine:- 
ing  his  iordfhip  :o  fee  rhe  exad  nun  he  Hay  iskiz. 
The  Itecl  denotes  another  burcacr,  who  is  becizd 
two  ridmirable  Cgurcs.  TTie  French  gecdemon  s.boT^. 
a  chrjuiter  de  St.  L^mSj  is  either  on  the  point  ji 
fncczing,  or  is  CAclaiming — inutes  Jm^ioii  I  He  cauics 
the  poor  fellow  below  to  fneeze  pretty  bandibiizeiv 
as  h<r  unfortunately  drops  the  fnuff  ul  his  eves  and 
mouth  :  hU  race  and  attitude  require  no  coaucect; 
and  jierhaps  no  painter  of  the  paffions  could  have 
cx[>rcircd  deaUiiji  more  admirably,  as  the  vcrv  Seh: 
of  :he  oW  co<iger  proclaims  him  deaf,  though  no 
trumpet  ;vcrr  appiied  ro  bis  car.  If  a  biihop  w;a 
preaching  before  the  Houfc  of  Lords,  and  thcic  :wo 
itgi;"'*'-;,  with  rhc  -.voman  Selow,  ivrre  unfortur.2::lv 
:o  :>o;j  into  his  Thoughts,  he  could  icarce  refrain  rroo: 
1  !':t'/>i!>qr.  The  o<(c1  phiz  behind  :hc  French  crrinrtc- 
nr!it  '-.Jiichri  this  fccnc  as  much  as  the  pLcid  -zL-'t. 
ffCt'oviof  the  man  who  is  taking  dovn  rhe  bets  or 
r'-^r*  'I'-niurc  lii^jiirc  near  hirn  ;  and  the  next  ^ertbn 
(.*iv>  T'uf.r)  it>  -virh  cagernefs  baivllng- out  *•  Ginger 
'-  .r-r'iinft /yr/*  far  :hac  jv.ccc;  who  lays  "  Doner'' 
T;.  ■  p  ;rrr^ic  of  ^^pn  lldzulins  hangs  againlt  cne" 
u'..;!.  .vho,  a^  Mr.  KUh-As  iriforms  us,  :va5  w-.a  re- 
Ti  M,ii..cd  ar  iV<f:c??/T7rA'r/,  was  a  famous  cock-fccder, 
t  A  Uid  ehc  honour>  of  the  ^c^uLnjiens*  Ofu-iiarv   a: 


\ 


E    87    3 

Hortbampicn :    but  the  indelicacy  of  this  portrait 
defcrvcs  not  an  explanation.     The  old  contented- 
looking  fquiz,  who  is  lighting  his  pipe  with  char- 
coal,  and  the  dog,  who  (hearing  the  crow  of  cocks)  ' 
takes  a  peep,  give  a  happy  finifli  to  this  admirable- 
piece  ^.   ' 

SO  U  T  H  WAR  K-FAI  R. 

As  Mr.  F/Stor,  in  his  *'  Hiftory  of  the  Theatres,** 
Informs  us,  that  old  M//j,  John/on  f  ,  Miller^  Griffin^ 
Tiarper^  &C.  and  Mrs.  Heron^  who  was  at  that  time 
at  the  head  of  the  female  lift,  and  in  ,thc  pofTefiion  of 
"the  late  Mrs.  Oldfiel^s  parts,  that  (he  and  all  the  wo- 
/tteh  went  with  Theophilus  Cibber  and  the  other  re- 
volters  to  tht  Hay  market,  but  that  Mrs.  Horton  and 
Mrs.  Clive  remained  with  Mr.  Highmore  ;   this  may 

.  •  Wt  arie  toIc|  by  Mr..  Tjfers^  in  his"  Hiftorical  Rhapfody 
*'  on  Mr.  Pofe^**  p.  138,  *'  that  Fope^  whilft  living  with  hil 
**  father  at  ChLpwick^  before  he  went  to  B'tnfieU^  took  great 
*'  delight  in  cock-fighting.  ••••..  abd  laid  out  all  his  fchooU 
^*  boy  money,  and  little  perhaps  it  was,  in  buying  fighting 
**  cocks!  From  this  paffion,  but  furely  not  the  play  of  a  child^ 
**  his  mother  had  the  dexterity  to  wean  him.  A  judgement  is 
*^  not  to  be  formed  of  our  infant  poet's  difpofition,  from  hit 
^Vattachment  to  this  cruel,  though  not  uncommon  paflimc." 
^t— -^Had Hfl|f<fr/^  been  acquainted  with  this  circumftance,  he 
probably  rtllght  have  introduced  Mr.  Pope  in  this  print,  as  he 
ieeiips  to  have  been  fond  of  introducing  him  whenever  an  op* 
portunity  offered.. 

t  Pity  bdt  what  the  talents  and  virtues  of  Mr.  Garrick  were 
recorded  by  the  fame  mafberly  pen  which  has  fo  handfomeiy 
joined  the  mtvnovy  oi  Joh/tfon^  \ix\X\t  A/itcdota  of  FaintiHg^ 
Mnder  the  article  yan  BUcck. 

kad 


.1    90    ) 

■  •     •  ' 

Inftances  fatallf  proved,  that  his  word^  whep  fokmnlj 

^iven,  wais  fu^cienj:  for  the  performance,  thou^ 

ever  fo  injurious  to  bimfdf.    The  above  writer  fpcaks 

tbw  <>f  Bobeme:  *^  Such  of  my  reader^  a3  k^yt  been 

^  lotig  enough  in  life  tp  remeniber  an  adlor  in  li/i- 

^^  eoMs  Inn  Fields,  theatrp  by  the  name  of  BcAemc, 

^*  will  thank  me  for  reviving  fo  remarkable  a  per- 

*^  former  id  their  ipemprics ;  for  the  parural  niufic^l 

'**  piercing  tones'  of  hi$  voice,  partjpularly  adapted  to 

•'grief  and 'diftVeft,' mull' bave  touche^J  thp  heart pf 

'^^  every  feeling  avjdifof  too  fofcibly  ever  to  be  forgot 

"*'  i^T-all  jtbofe  who  were  judges  of  nature  werf  fgr- 

■  **  prized  and  charmed  with  the  rpu^cal  pat^etip  tonp 
'V  ^^  g^'^^^i  ^^^^  went  pointed  to  phe  heart  from  this 

^*  captivating  fpeajker— : — ^his  firft  appearance  was  at 

-^'  a  booth  in  Soutbwark  Fair,  whiqh,  in  thpfe  days 

^  lafted  t\^o  weeks,  and  was  much  frequented  by 

•  ^*  perfons  of  all  diftiqftions  of  both  fexcs ;    he  afte^ 
*'  the  part  of  Menelaus  in  the  bcft  droll  I  ever  faw, 

•  f'  c^Wt^  The  Siege  of  Troy,'', 

Mr.  Nichols  has  been  informed,  that  fcveral  un- 
doubted  portraits  were  difcoyerable  in  this  print,  but 

■  unluckily  he  has  npt  ppiptcd  them  out.  Kidman^  or 
'-  Cadman,  who  is  flying  from  the  ftepple,  lies  buried  in 
« the  church-yard  of  5/.  Mqrfs  Fryars  in  S/jrewJburj : 
"in  attimptin^  tp  fly  from  which  fteeplc  he  loft  his 

life;     A  fmall  monument  is  placed  in  the  church- 
wall  over  his  gfave,  with  this  infcriptipn  : 

Let  this  fmall  monument  record  the  name 
Qf  Cfdman^  and  to  futvire  times  proclaim, 
'■^     '     ■  How 


i  «9  1 

—      -▼■•■  .  -  •    "       " 

a  ta&:   this  may  acco.unt  for  the  Is^^^l  which  the 
little  monlcey  holds,  who  (as  Mr.  Nichols  informs  u0 
is  meant  to  reprcfent  Mr.  Higbmorc.    The  latfreaJcd 
Gibber  (with  his  bag  of  itioney)  has  indeed  J'cafon  jiiP 
think  himfclffuiit  anJftwg^  having  fo  ady^nt^^Quily 
'fold  his  ihare  of  the  patentj.  and  has  now  nothing 
inore  to  do  than  wijhing  the  crew  he  bai^  h^t  fn  tie 
vejffit  aj^90d  ^oyt^^i*    I  muft  refign  the  po.Utipg  (Mt 
of  the' other  ^gures  to  one  more  cQivverlant  with  ttve 
bid  a&ors,  and  aoi  only  increafing  my  ra^  cpnj^^ 
(ureSy  in  fuppoiing  the  bruih  and.palnr-ppt  may  ii- 
ftide  to  Mr.  EUis  the  painter^  who  w?s.]iVi^/.J^7/i^ 
deputy  for  her  (hare  of  the  patent^  aadth^t;  he, is 
remonftrating  wit][i  the  revolters  an  the  uppsrppri^ty 
tf  tlieir  condu&^  and  ftating  the  very  jarge  iUai 
which  Mr.  Highmore  paid  for  his  ihar.e  ^  but  the  fuBi 
which  ViSor  dates  is  difierent  from  this.     The  wee^?- 
ing  female  may  be  Mrs.  Heron  in  Andromache^  or  in 
'  Hermibne  in  the  Winter's  STale^  as  the  other  may  Jbe 
Mrs.  Clii;f.     Ho^yever   bluftering  Sir  JobB  Ful/iqff 
may  appear  in  this  print,, we  are  told^  by  the  writer 
of  Mr.  Garrick's  life,  that  Harper  was  taken  up  byya 
warrant  at  the  inftance.of  Mr.  Highmore,  and  feijt  v> 
BrideweU:   that  his  crime  was  joining  the  rcvoUet^, 
and  that  the  reafon  of  his  fixing  pn  Harper  was  in 
confequence  of  his  natural  timidity — he  was  a  man, 
however,  of  a  very  fair  chara&er,  apd  was  foon  after 
triumphantly  delivered  from  his  confinement  by  the 
King's  Bench*    TiSlor  fpeaks  of  Mr.  Higbnme  as  a 
man  of  humanity  and  ftrid  honour,  and  that  many 

N  inftances 


that  I  am  convioced  Vol$4ire  would  be  at  1 10&  to 
ihe w  where  he  h^s  beea  eqi^Uod  by  any  of  his 
countrymen." 

Gray's- Inn  Journal^  Vol.  B.  N'  67. 

»  •      ■ 

^f  A  great  original  genius^  wbofc  wovks  are  perhaps 
fuller  of  thought  and  invention  than  thofe  of  any 
other  fatirift  the  world  eyer  produced.  His  fame 
will  live  for  ever  \  but  bis  hiftoric  paiotiagi  are 
below  mediocrity."  Letters  concerning  the  Preient 
State  of  ^glandy  1 772. 

What  the  laft  work  applies  to  Mr.  Fooie  mvj  vety 
properly  be  applied  to. Mr.  Hcgarth. 
.  *^  The  trueil;  portrait- painter  which  our  country  has 
produced ;  his  pieces  arc  all  juft  tranfcripts  froni 
the  manners  of  the^  age,  caught  with  infinite  q«iick« 
nefs^  and  czpreflbd  in  the  happieft  warmth  of  na^ 
ture  and  truth.  That  he  is  an  admirable  mafter  of 
ridicule  can  never  be  denied ;  and  the  vein  of  wit 
which  rups  through  his  pieces  is  rich  and  luxuriant." 

NO  3.. 

From  the  Critical  Review  for  June,  178 J. 
*  *^  The  chief. aim  of  our  artifi  waa  to  catch^iiature  i& 
the  moft  uncommon  circumftances ;  but  her  uni- 
formity fcarcely  afforded  fufficient  gratification  to  his 
ludicrous  imagination.  The  ridiculous  purfuits  of 
mankind,  their  fears,  their  wiihes,  their  paffions,  and 

propenfities, 


I   9^  1  I 


«iM«M«ilY1I»' 


HOC  ispptf*     As  to  die  jaoDdicd  eye,  ^very  rizg. 
ID  bi^  oiicd,  chased  its  hue ;    vhit  -vas 
nrned  d  fimr ;    what  ws  difertr::^  ':ie 
doublv  iudicrocs.     His  zmad  oaSeScd  in  i 
degree  this  chcmic  power,  that  his  bed  piece;  irt     j 
efcrioauicd  mfa  laiighabie 
tlKir  own  ridKi,  deftnnr  i 

#byedty  it  is  not  ooe  finiadon,  which  von  cywi  aipfegg: 
k  it  a  groope  of  images,  cooDcdcd  imiuoi  br  ooc 
.fldioo,  but  each  poflcded  c/f  its  own  pamcHlxr  powc  ?! 
of  ezcsriog  ridicule.     It  is  not  one  picluic,  ic  is  i 
nm{%  of  hdicuiotts  and  amufing  groupes.     This  in- 
deed may  be  a  deted:  io  general  painring  ;   bur  is  H> 
gmrtb  k  adds  to  the  pleafiire,  and  we  mar  be  aflowec 
io  fuggeft^  that  it  adds  to  their  moral  effic^«     It  w?* 
BOC  difgrace  the  mod  elegant  Icdhirc  on  the  beactitr? 
of  virtue,  and  the  depravity  of  vice,  rhat   it  his  ::•:: 
been  more  beneficial  than  ibme  of  our  artilVs  r^::r:- 
ientations.     The  failings  of  the  painter  were  inc^^i 
thofe  of  genius  without  a  g^iidc,  of  abilities  imparicrt 
ot  controuL     They   were  the  rtriuft  of  his    circun:- 
ftances  and  firuation.     But  we  fhail  not  purfuc  'he 
lubjeit ;   may  they  be  '*  'u:ritun  in  water y'*  and  evcrv 
paffing  breeze  of  his  fame  contribute  to  efface  rhcni  :*• 


N 


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The  followipg  p^per.  from  fpme  old  magaainc,  is 
ji  yery  proper  aiidipion  to  the  140th  pajgp  of  Mf. 
fficRols^s  worlf.  .  .  * 

* .  Ludicrous  ./Li^cdotes  9f  the  gdebraced  Hsydeggarv 

;  Xa  jtheiie  atr^bilarious  (line?!  |l  ivould  faqrifice  a.  feir 
minutes  to  laughter  j.  aqd  the  Iwp  following  aneV* 
jdotesy  taken  from  a-  letter  of  Baroo  BS^eldUi  dated 
London^  I  hope  yoijr  readers  W)U  think,  pretty  laugb- 

iblc.  . .  ;      .  •  ?  '  '•'  •• 

"  f  his  Heydegger  is  a  very.^xtraor^inary  perfoil*; 
f^  chough  born  amid^  the  mountains  of  Switzertafti^ 
**  in  the  greatiefi  fimpiicity:  of  ru^nners^  he  badift* 
^^  tur^lly  the  ftrpngitft  propensity,  lade,  and:  uicliM* 
^^y  Uon  for  refined  and  fpk)[Hiid  diy^fio^s.  He  cattle 
.^^to  EngUpd  with  the/e.  endowments,  which  woiM 
f^  have  ruined  any  other ;  but  be  has  made  a  briUiailt 
^*  fortune  of  them.,  :|The:J£nglifli:  nation  may  ^'faid 
'^  to  have  conllitut^d-ihi^  direct  of  its  public  dK 
^'  verfions^  a  poft  which  has  oftei)  brought  him  ikr 
^^^lear  five  thouiand  pounds  a  yean  ti^  has  beeti 
^\  undertaker  of ,  the  opera,  the  ridottos,  and  the 
'^  prinpipa}  entertainments  ,at  London.  :Hc  is  Very 
^'  well  received  at  court,  and  honoured. with  the  fa- 

w 

**  miliarity  pf  the  chief  nobility.  Being  once  at 
*^  fupper  in  very  high  company,  tKe  converfation  fell 
ff  pn  the  ex^eUen^i^s  pf  the  feveral  European  natipns^ 

^*and 

7 


*•   ts»ny.  ».  lasUrv,   Jta:  «ir  ir-'oegp    ■■■■i& .       tk 


-*  tsftt^eir  It  isr  trr'.  tacmasi 

*•  irwtv,^v^nu4i     tiKi  r  muf*  L—yustti  tax;,  ir  tmc: 

•*  ifi'i.  \>'  i*»iii':i         uiiiiul    n*rn:iu.  r-tr  vr^  '-■• . 

•"*  firirm  «  \m'  ir-l    II  fOK*  fn  r     am  imm  n*   :^.. 

*  *,vi!5if/»:  .Uii*   V  Hr».*r  V'T.i    itr.   riir   rr  7 :,^ 

*  ':ih:.«   vi«    ifv     J'.    i.I      *>vir}7,   I  =iii::r  11    r.irrn::- 

'^  If.        iiif»j  *•:    v'»-  •    ;'-:ivrr.*rr.    uiir.  ir^tr    i    r— 


.**  he  appealed,  pbjefting  to  the  difference  of  their 
^'  head-dreffes,  and  put  on  the  old  dame's  pinner$, 
**  and  fitted  his  wig  on  her  head  :  this  gave  a  turn  to 
**  the  affair,  and  his  uglinefs  appeared  to  the  court  in 
*'  fuch  a  decifive  fuperiority,  that  my  lord  was  ad- 
*' judged  to  pay  the  wager.'* 

The  former  was,  to  be  fure,  a  good  jcft  of  Hey^ 
degger^Sy  and  no  more  than  a  jeft ;  but,  in  the  latter^ 
Ihould  not  the  two  objeds  have  been  viewed  inpuris 
naturalibus,  without  the  coiffures  ?  I  am,  Sir|.  your 
very  humble  fervant,  .      »    - 

The  Ctitical  Review  for  jfuney  1756,  p.  479,  fpcaks 
thus  of  fomc  pictures  of  our  art  ill : 

'*  Mr.  Hogarth  has  juft  iiniflied  three  large  pictures 
for  the  altar-piece  of  Redcliff  church  at  BriJioL  The 
middle  piece,  which  is  by  much  the  largeft,  reprc- 
fents  the  afcenfion  of  our  Saviour,  who  is  feen  high  in 
the  air.  The  emanation  of  rays  from  the  afcending 
Deity  beaming  through  the  interftices  of  the  fur- 
rounding  clouds  is  managed  with  tendernefs  and  de- 
licacy. The  point  of  time  which  the  painter  has 
chofen  is  immediately  after  He  has  difappeared  from 
the  fpeftators  below.  In  the  fore- ground,  on  tha 
right-fide  at  the  bottom,  St.  Thomas  is  reprefented  on 
one  knee,  and,  with  his  hands  lifted  up  and  clafped, 
togethcrj  is  flill  eagerly  looking  upwards  v^ith  an  ex- 

O  preffion 


r/.^l^j,  *:i'i^ry.  -'■:  ^^re  C^i,  -whir-,  uncir  tz.*  •': — :   - 
thi*  !oTr-h\-T  c'.O'i-rii,  part  o:  i  —-g:— ^-"-r"  crrr 

a  ^iiftaxi':-!',  illumir.arcd  br  i  4dh  or  iigadizre  -"'  ' 

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[    99    3 

tijh  fchool  of  painters.  In  the  mean  time  we  think  it 
would  be  a  juft  fubjedt  of  public  regret,  if  Mr.  Ho^ 
garth  (hould  abandon  a  branch  of  painting  in  which 
he  ftands  alone  unrivalled  and  inimitable,  to  purfuc 
another  in  which  fo  many  have  already  excelled.'* 

N«  6. 

The  Defcription  of  London  and  its  Environs,  by 
Vodjleyy  in  the  account  of  St.  Baribolomew's  Hofpital, 
fpeaks  thus  :  "  Here  is  a  ftaircafe  painted  and  given 
by  Mr,  Hogarih,  containing  two  pictures  with  figures 
large  as  the  life,  which  for  truth  of  colouring  and 
expreffion  may  vie  with  any  thing  of  its  kind  in' 
Europe.  The  fubjeft  of  the  one  is  the  Goo4  Sama- 
ritan ;  the  other,  the  Pool  of  Bethefd^. 

N^  7. 

For  The  Harlot* s  Progrefs. 

Journal  of  a  Wiltlhire  Curate, 
Monday.  Received  ten  pounds  from  my  reftor.  Dr. 
Snarl,  being  one  half-year's  falary.  Obliged  to  wait  a 
long  time  before  my  admittance  to  the  do&or ;  and  even 
when  admitted  was  never  once  afked  to  fit  down  or 
rcfrefh  myfelf,  though  I  had  walked  eleven  miles.— 
hetn.  The  doftor  hinted  he  could  have  the  curacy 
filled  for  fifteen  pounds  a  year. 

T^uejday.  Paid  nine  pounds  to  feven  different  peo- 
ple, but  could  not  buy  the  fecond-hand  pair  of  black 
breeches^  offered  to  me  as  a  great  bargaip,  by  Cab- 

O  2  bagc 


C     ^oo     ] 

bagd  the  Taylor,  my  wife  wanting  a  petticoat  above 
all  things^  and  neither  Betfey  nor  Polly  having  a  ihpe 
to  go  to  church  in. 

Wednefday.  My  wife  bought  a  petticoat  for  herielf, 
and  flioes  for  her  two  daughters,  but  unluckily,  in 
coming  home,  drcpped  half  a  guinea  through  a  bole, 
which  ihe  had  never  before  perceived  in  her  pocket, 
and  reduced  all  our  caih  inthe  world  to  half  a  crown. 
liem.  Chid  my  poor  woman  for  being  afBidied  at  the 
misfortune,  and  tenderly  advifed  her  to  rely  on  the 
goodnefs  of  God. 

Tburfday.  Received  a  note  from  the  alehoufe  at  the 
top  of  the  hill^  informing  me,  that  a  ge^tleInan 
begged  to  fpeak  to  me  on  preffing  bufinefs ;  went, 
and  found  it  was  an  unfortunate  member  of  a  ftroll* 
ing  company  of  players,  who  was  pledged  for  fcvcn- 
pence  half-penny.  In  a  ftruggle  what  to  do— the 
baker,  though  we  had  paid  him  but  on  Tucfday, 
quarrelled  with  us,  in  order  to  avoid  giving  any 
credit  in  future ;  and  George  Grcafy,  the  butcher, 
fcnt  us  word  that  he  heard  it  whifpered,  how  the 
rcdtor  intended  to  take  a  curate  who  would  do  parifli 
duty  at  an  inferior  price,  and  therefore,  though  he 
would  do  any  thing  to  ferve  me,  adyifed  me  to  deal 
with  Peter  Paunch,  at  the  upper  end  of  the  town : 
mortifying  reflections  thcfe  !  But  a  want  of  huma- 
nity is,  in  my  opinion,  a  want  of  juftice  ;  the  Father 
of  the  univcrfe  lends  his  bleiling  to  us,  with  a  vic-v 
th.it  we  ihould  relieve  a  brother  in  dillrcfs,  anJ  we 

conlb- 


oonfequently  do  no  more  than  pay  a  debt,  when  we 
perform  an  adt  of  benevolence. — Paid  the  ftranger^t 
reckoning  out  of  the  ihilling  in  my  pocket,  and  gave 
him  the  remainder  of  the  money  to  profccute  his 
journey. 

Friday.  A  very  fcanty  dinner,  atnd  pretended  there* 
fbre  to  be'  ill,  that  by  avoiding  to  eat  I  might  leave 
fomething  like  enough  for  my  poor  wife  and  children. 
I  told  my  wife  what  I  had  drme  with  the  Ihilling ; 
the  excellent  creature^  inftead  of  blaming  the  ifor  th^ 
adtion^  blefled  the  goodnefs  of  my  bc^rt,  and  burft 
into  tears.  Mem.  Never  to  contradid  her  as  long  as 
I  live  ;  for  the  mind  that  can  argue  like  hers,  though 
it  may. deviate  from  the  more  rigid  fcntiments  of 
prudence,  is  even  amiable  in  its  indifcretion,  and  in 
every  lapfe  from  the  fcverity  of  oeconomy  performs 
an  aft  of  virtue  fuperior  to  the  value  of  a  kingdom. 

Saturday.  Wrote  a  fermon,  which  on  Sunday  I 
prqached  at  four  diflTcrent  parifti-churches,  and  came 
home  cxceffively  hungry — no  more  money  than  two- 
pence half.penny  in  the  houfe — but  fee  the  goodnefs 
of  God  I  The  ftrolling  player  whom  I  had  relieved 
was  a  man  of  fortune,  who  accidentally  heard  that  I 
was  as  humane  as  I  was  indigent,  and,  from  a  gene- 
rous cxcentricity  of  temper,  wanted  to  do  me  an  ef- 
fential  piece  of  fervice.  I  had  not  been  an  hour  at 
home  when  he  came  in,  and,  declaring  himfelf  my 
I'riend,  put  a  fifty  pound  note  into  my  hand,  and  the 

next 


C      J02      ] 

next  day  prefented  mc  with  a  living  of  three  hupdrcd 
pounds  a  year. 

For  the  laft  fccne  of  The  Harlot^s  Progrefs. 
The  following  is  taken  from  p.  57,  Vol.  II.  of  an 
Afylum  for  Fugitives. 

The  Life  of  a  Woman  of  the  Toivn. 

Ah  !  what  jayails,  how  once  appeared  the  fair. 

When  from  gay  equipage  (he  falls  obfcure  ; 
In  vain  Ihe  moves  her  livid  lips  in  prayer^ 

What  man  fo  mean  to  recoiled  the  poor  ? 
From  place  tp  place,  by  unfeeM  baUiffs  drove. 

As  fainting  fawns  from  thirdy  blood-hounds  fly; 
See  the  fad  remnants  of  unhallow'd  love. 

In  prifons  per'ifh,  or  on  dunghills  dye. 
Pimps  and  dependants  once  her  beauties  prais'd  ; 

And  on  thofc  beauties,  vermin  like,  they  fed  ; 
From  vvretchednefs,  the  crew  her  bounty  raised. 

When  by  her  fpoils  cnrich'd  deny  her  bread. 
Through  ftrect  to  ftreet  ihe  vvcnds,  as  want  betides. 

Like  Shore's  fad  wife,  in  winter's  difmal  hours  ; 
The  bleak  winds  piercing  her  unnourifh'd  fides. 

Her  houfclefs  head  dripping  with  drizzy  fhowers. 
Sickly  (he  Iboles  amidft  the  miry  lane, 

While  dreaming  fpoutsdalh  on  her  uncloath'd  neck; 
By  famine  pin'd  ;  pinch'd  by  dilVale-brcd  pain. 

Contrition's  portrait,  and  niQi  beauty's  wreck. 

She 


C  ^03  ] 

She  dies  ;  fad  outcaft ;  heart-broke  by  remorfe ; 

Pale  ftretch'd  againft  th*  inhofpitable  doors ; 
While  gathering  goffips  taunt  the  flefhlefs  corfe. 

And  thank  their  Gods,  that  they  were  never  whores. 

For  the  Strollers,  from  Mr,  Keate's  Sketches  from 
Nature,  Vol.  II.  p.  166. 

**  Some  ladies  of  Amelia's  acquaintance,  having, 
through  humanity,  patronized  one  of  the  poor  players, 
befpoke  Hamlet, — and  exerted  their  intcreft  to  fill 
the  houfe — it  being  for  the  benefit  of  the  Ghoft  and 
his  wife. 

Clermont  and  I  were  folicited  to  be  of  the  party  ; 
— but  the  theatre  being  much  crowded,  I  found  my- 
felf  unable  to  fuftain  the  heat  of  it. — My  friend  and 
I,  therefore,  before  the  curtain  drew  up,  retired  be- 
hind the  fcenes ;  and  indeed,  when  we  got  there, 
perceived  but  little  probability  that  it  woTild  ^raw  up 
the  whole  evening, — for  furely  never  was  beheld  fuch 
a  fcene  of  confufion,  as  then  appeared,  in  what  ferved 
both  for  their  general  dreffing-room  and  green-room. 

The  centinels,  who  were  to  mount  guard  before 
the  palace  of  the  Royal  Dane,  for  want  of  having  any 
uniform  in  the  wardrobe,  had  borrowed  a  couple  of 
lailors*  jackets.— Horatio  was  ftriding  about  in  a 
niotiftrous  rage, — declaring  he  would  not  aA,  be- 
caufe  his  own  benefit  had  been  unjuftly  put  back  --^ 
Th^/n9oager,  who  was  porpulent  enough  to  have 

performed 


I  ^05  ] 

■ 

cidehtally  untied. — However,  as  his  ihirt  happened 
to  be  clean,  ne  hiiight  pafs  in  it  full  as  ^ell  for  an 
inhabitant 'of  the  other  world,  ad  he  dici  in  his  old 
leathern  armour.   .  * 

Ophelia's  ditty  filk  gbwri  had  been  deftined  for  a 
woman  far  more  flendcr  than  herfelf,-r6n  which  ac* 
count,  the  rdbings  pihhed  almoft  at  her  hips,  and 
left  her  in^^eat  difficulties  to  form  a  convenient 
itbm^cher.— Neithet  {ht  nor  tne  queeii  could'  ta'ili^  a 
bair  of  gfoves ;  and  the  latter  having  fcalcfcd.her 
arm,  by  tgkiife  off  ja  pot  fronii  tlie  fire,  was  cbftipeljed 
>o  appear  with  It  Dbuiid  ibund  with  old  finehVwhibh, 
in  truth,  but  ///  became  the  majejiy  of  DenpiarLr^Ths 
phy  was  .received  with  great  indulgence,  and  excitejfl 
Inuch  ihore  mirth  than  it  did  either  terror' or  pity". 


r  -■ 


•  « 


N°  10. 

For  xHa  StroUcts,  from  the  Weftmmftfcf  Magaziae 
ifor  Septetaber,  .1776.  •    ;  /! 

prologue:. 

As  fdnie  po6r  Candidate  for  vacant  plact. 
With  ftudy'd  words  and  looks,  foUci'fs  gracrf, 
So  I,  for  this  *  fmall  humble  boro'ugK'here, 
With  trembling  accents,  ahd  with  decent  feiai*,. 
Fain  would  f heir  feprefehtative  appear. 
Hard  ii'^he  fortune  of  a  ffrollmg  player, 
Nccc&ty'*s  rough  bijfde)i  doomed  to' bear. 


.  .-. .  I 


..   v/ 


*  Poinjtiog  beixind  the  ib^n^f. 

P  And 


t  ^06  3 

And  fcanty  is  the  pittance  he  can  earn, 

WandVing  from  town  to  town,  from  barn  to  banl. 

This  might  content  us,  but  the  contraft  great 

Adds  to  the  terrors  of  our  changeful  fate. 

He  who  to-night  is  feated  on  his  throne. 

Calls  fubjedts,  kingdoms^  empires^  all  his  own. 

Who  wears  the  diadem,  and  regal  robe. 

Next  morning  fliall  awake — as  poor  as  Job  ! 

'  Where  arci  my  forty  knights ;'  cries  frantic  Lear ; 

A  page  replies,—^*  Your  majefty,  they  Ve  here,' 

When,  lo !  two  bailiffs  and  a  writ — appear  ! 

^  Give  me  a  pound  of  flelh/ — cries  Shy  lock — well  h^ 

may, 
Tor  Shylock~^i7j  not  eat  an  ounce  to-day  ! 
Young  Harry  (hall  his  father's  crown  purloin, 
Aiid  only  weep — It  is  not  current  coin  f 

*  Where  is  my  Romeo  ?' — Juliet  crics.^— In  bed- 
Without  bis  Jhirt — replies  the  laundry  maid. 

On  the  cold  ground  Ihall  poor  Caftalio  lay  ? 
Not  till  the  curtain  drops — but  break  of  da ; ! 

*  Where  is  my  horfc?'  cries  Richard. — In  the  ilab;^. 

*  Then  bring  him  forth.' — My  Liege,  I  am  nor  able. 

*  Villain,  thou  dicft.' — My  Lord,  he  can't  be  led 
The  hungry  ftecd — hath  eaten  off  his  head! 
Brave  Pierre  fliall  laugh  upon  the  tott'ring  wheel 
And  fa  muft  we,  whatc'cr  wc  think  or  feel  : 
Whatever  we  feci,  if  here  wc  chance  to  pleafe. 
Your  fmiles  fliall  pour  the  healing  balm  of  eafe. 
Trufting  in  this,  no  private  ills  we'll  moan, 

B'lt  make  that  pleafurc  you  receivc-^-our  own* 


C    107    3  ^ 

Nmi. 

For  the  Strollers^  from  Memoirs  of  a  Wit,  in  the 
Wcftminfter  Magazine  for  1774. 

<^  As  foon  as  we  arrived  at  the  place  of  pur  defU- 
nation,  we  began  to  take  a  furvey  of  our  theatre. 
It  was  a  very  commodious  barn,  only  the  light  came 
in  a  little  too  much  through  the  tiling,  which,  how- 
ever, was  foon  remedied  by  covering  it  on  the  out  iide 
.  with  fome  draw.  A  carpenter  was  ordered  to  put  up 
fome  boards,  which,  by  the  affiftance  of  a  powerful 
imagination,  we  foon  fancied  bore  ibme  refemblance 
to  pit,  box,  and  gallery.  The  fcenes  were  our  next 
care,  which  were  fo  well  contrived  as  to  ferve  tragedy 
and  comedy  alike. — ^The  truth  is,  we  had  but  one  fett. 
The  wardrobe  was  pretty  much  like  the  fcenes;  and 
the  cloaths  that  did  for  Sir  John  Fu^/g^likewife  fervcd 
for  Majler  Slender.  Our  orcheftra  was  occupied  by 
two  excellent  performers  on  the  violin,  who  had  but 
pne  eye  betwixt  them ;  and  our  chandeliers  were  a 
couple  of  hoops  drawn  up  by  packthread,  with  clay 
fockets  for  the  candles.  So  much  for  the  houfe,  and 
novv  for  the  performers. 

Mr.  RaJit  was  the  hero.  He  was  excellent  in  every 
thing  ;  he  was  Lear  or  Alexander^  Bobadil  or  Fribble  ; 
his  powers  were  as  unbounded  as  excellent,  and  the 
Sock  was  as  familiar  to  him  as  the  Buikin :  add  to 
this,  his  name  was  always  the  frjl  and  largejl  in  the 
^  bill.  The  manager  hin^felf  was  the  next  in  confe- 
;:qucnce  as  a  performer,  but  much  m«re  fp  in  every 

?  2  thing 


thing  clfc.  To  him  followed  Mr.  Da^er^  who  wal 
what  they  term  a  very  ufeful  hand,  becaufe  he  had  \ 
good /wallow  i  that  is,  he  cpuld  undertake  any  part 
at  the  Ihorteft  notice.  Hp  was  a  very  little  fellow, 
but,  like  moft  other  little  fellows,  had  exceeding  high 
notions ;  he  often  lamented  his  figure,  declaring,  if 
he  had  been  as  tall  as  Mr.  Ranfj  he  knew  his  abilities 
were  much  fuperior.  The  females  were  the  ma- 
nager's wife  and  two  daughters,  Mrs.  Ranty  and  Mn. 
Dapper y  whofe  merits  were  indifputable.  Mrs.  Dap* 
per  was  about  five-and-twenty,  tall,  and  inclining  to 
be  fat;  (he  had  a  good  face,  and  wa;  particularly 
fond  of  Icve  parts.  In  a  little  time  Ihe  and  \  grew 
very  intimate,  and  fomething  more  fo  than  it  was  nc- 
ceffary  her  hulband  fhould  know.  We  always  ufcd 
to  walk  into  the  fields  to  rehear  ft  together,  when  the 
mo^  tender  fpecches  were  preferred. 

The  firft  week  of  our  performing  we  had  pretty 
good  luck,  and  fhared  five  (hillings  apiece.  '1  hisj 
as  it  was  confidered  extraordinary,  put  us  all  in  fpirits; 
bun  the  fccond  began  to  appear  very  indifferent ;  the 
third  was  worfe;  and  the  fourth  threatened  famipie. 
My  good  fortune  wa$  fuch,  that  I  wanted  for  nothing  . 
and  as  1  took  care  to  live  well,  they  were  all  n\y 
friends,  particularly  Mr.  Dopper  and  his  wife,  who 
dined  with  me  every  day:  indeed,  I  could  not  rcfule 
the  gentleman  on  account  of  the  lady,  whom  \  began 
to  take  a  particular  likirg  to.  They  knew  1  had 
fupplies,  but  they  knew  not  from  what  fource  ;  and 
I  it 


[     199     ] 

It  wa^  matter  of  qo  fmall  mirth  to  think  they  grew 
Jealous  who  Ihould  have  the  moft  of  my  company, 
Mr.  Rant  ufed  to  fay,  ^  Mr^  Ramble,  I  am  furprized 
you  aft  fo  much  beneath  your  dignity  to  give  that 
fellow,  Dapper y  fo  much  of  your  company ;  he  is  an 
illiterate  under-ftrapper,  only  capable  of  murdering 
good  language ;   he  has  not  an  attitude  that  is  hu- 
man, not  a  move  fuperior  to  a  monkey,  and  he  chews 
a  fentence  as  a  cow  chews  the  cud ;    the  wretch  is 
paft   all  bearing : — and  then  his  wife—'    ^  O  for 
ihame !  Mr.  Rant,  I  beg  you  will  not  rail  againft  the 
ladies/     ^  Not  I^  indeed,  fir  ^   I  was  going  to  ob* 
ferve,  the  woman  has  fome  notion ;  and  if  the  puppy 
would  but  let  me  give  her  a  leJfQn,  flie  might  come 
on  in  a  year  or  two,  and — and — and  do  fomething.* 
I  I^ad  juft  ;hat  minute  got  a  fine  beef-fteak  brought 
in  by  my  landlord,  which  will  account  for  that  fmall 
hefitation  iq  K^r.  R,ant*s  fpeech.     I  knew  the  caufe, 
and  aiked  him  to  partake,  which  he  was  not  back- 
ward in  doing,    ^  Pon  my  foul,  'tis  a  fine  fteak  !  but 
d —  it,  they  have  not  the  method  pf  cooking  in  the 
country,  as  they  have  in  tpwp  j   one  fteak  at  Dollys 
is  worth  fifty  any  where  clfc ;   fo  clean^j  fo  neat,  fo 
charming,  it  does  one  good ;  it  creates  an  appetite  if 
pne  has  none,  it  gpes  down  with  fuph  a  go^t :  then  a 
^lafs  or  two  after  it,  makes  one  fo  hearty,  fo  ftrong, 

fo  capable,  fp fo,  my  fcrvice  to  you,  Mr. 

Ranible.^ 

1  for- 


C    no    3 

I  forgot  to  obferve,  that  my  acquaintance  who  re- 
commended me  to  the  manager  did  not  come  dow 
with  us,  being  obliged  to  meet  his  father,  who  was 
cxpeftcd  to  ftay  a  month  in  town,  about  bufincfs;  { 
which  being  difpatched,  he  arrived  at  the  inftant  | 
Mr.  Rani  concluded  the  above  curious  fpcech.  He  * 
was  accompanied  by  a  young  lady,  who  came  down 
to  try  her  talents  for  the  ftage,  which  Ihe  (boo  bai 
3n  opportunity  of  doing. 

A  boarding-fchool  in  the  town  had  ordered  tb 
play  of  Jane  Shore,  for  the  entertainment  of  the 
fcholars.  The  young  lady  who  came  down  was  to 
perform  J/icia,  and  Mrs.  Dapper,  jfane  Shore ;  GU^er 
was  Mr.  Ranfs  part,  and  Dumont  mine.  The  even- 
ing came,  the  candles  were  lighted,  and  the  per- 
formers drefled.  By  the  bye,  I  fhould  have  menti- 
oned, that' we  had  but  three  fwords  in  the  compan^  ; 
two  of  them  were  rufted  in  the  fcabbards,  and  th? 
third  had  none. 

The  tragedy  began ;  and  if  murder  be  a  princinil 
ingredient  in  tragedy,  this  was  as  tragical  a  one  .-s 
any  that  ever  was  performed,  or  perhaps  ever  mav. 
'Ihc  conclufion,  indeed,  was  rather  comic  ;  for  juft  as 
the  unfortunate  heroine  of  the  piece  had  finiflied  hr: 
dying  fpeech,  and  ftrerched  her  form  in  an  elegan: 
manner  on  the  cold  earth;  ill  luck,  or  the  devil  o: 
fome  other  occult  cauie,  put  it  into  the  head  of  forr.c 
unlucky  rogue,  to  cut  the  packthread  by  which  ore 
of  rhe  chandeliers  hung  lufpcndcd;    and  one  of  rrc 

canJU'>, 


i 


[  I"  1 

.fcindlcs,  falling  on  the  dying  penitent^  fet  bfcr  hcad^ 
cloaths  on  fire,  the  lace  of  which,  as  well  as  h^r 
tuffles,  being  nothing  more  than  pinked  paper,  blazed 
up  in  an  inftant.  The  afili^ed  fair-oner fprung  up 
from  the  arms  of  deafb  with  the  adion  of  a.  bed* 
limite,  and  fled  behind  the  fcencs  for  fuccour ;  where 

.  no  water  being  at  hand|  but  fqch  as  necflQty  had 

a  little  before  compelled  from  the  jealous  if/rV/a^Mr* 

,  ...  ■         .  .  « 

Dafptr  was  confirained  to  make  ufe  of  that.  Having; 

•  •        ■  •  ... 

.poured  it  on  her  head,  the  flames  were  foon  extiR- 
guilhed,  though, the  applicatipn  ^prpduci^d .a  foetid 
fmell  not  quite  fQ  agreeable  as  a  bed  of  violets.. 

.     *  But' who  can  faint  tbi  birpine  asJhefioodV 

".1  netetf  in  my  fife  beheld  any^  thing  ifo  truly  tntg|[<« 
comical ;  her  faec  was  befniearcd'  with  the  burnt 
paper,  which  adhered  clofely  to  the  fweat  and  ftmgt^ 
through  which  the  faliK  water  had  fcrrmed  fnulll  ca* 
tara^;  whilft  her  pretty  eyes  fuflufed  with  tears, 
and  her  lengthened  vifage,  gare  her  no  finall  relem* 
blance  to  a  mad  Hbttentoc 

The  young  lady  who  performed  AUcid  itas  <xx* 
tainly  pofleflTed  of  more  requifites  for  the  ftage  tb^ 
any  other  female  in  our  company ;  her  Aaine  was 
Deane^  and  fl^  had  been  macried  fame  fliort  time 
: before  to  an  undeferVing  fellow,  wiiofe  cruel  trsa^- 
'liient  of  her  obliged  her  to  quit  biin  for  a  precarious 
dependance  upon  the  flage.  We  {boo  coBtraded.m 
very  particular  intimacy  \  and,  to  fave  the  expence  of 


a  lodgirigj  I  kindly  ftceothnioditej '  faer  with  half  tf 
mioe. 

Mrsi  Z)(i^;>fr  fooh  perceived  our  connexion,  wSidi 
rota  little  p'lcqued  her  pride,  though  affiiiflicdtD 
r^rciit  it  openly  ;  however,  to  gratify  her  rtvfng:, 
flic  had  recourfc  to  the  following  projcft.  She  jw- 
(liaded  her  hufband  that  I  was  the  pcrfdn  wlio  bid 
been  the  eaufe  of  her  difgrace,  in  fctting  fire  to  lier 
■  headdrefs.  The  little  hero  was  inftantly  fired  at  & 
ihdlgnitj' offered  to  his  loving  hclpinate  ;  and  tittt 
iamb  evening  demanded  ratisfaftioD  of  rhe.  I  rtplieA, 
I  was  igtiorahf  of  any  injury  I  had  ddne  him  ;  wVidl 
he  anfwered  by  gtvnlg  mt  the  lye,  to  which  I  as  ei* 
-pedjtioufly  rctorncd  him  a  box  on  the  ear.  Ri 
imnlcdiately  bf  hind  the  fcenes,  he  caugHt  up 
(thcL  fwords,  and  made  fiiriouHy  at  me.  Luc'ktly  k 
-one  that  was  rirtfed  in  thefcabbardi  orhervrUe 
af&ir  might  have  concluded  in  a  tragical  mai 
•faovrver,  1  eafdy  wrenched  it  from  bis  hand, 
which  I  foon  properly  correded  him, 
.TjjHcariily  tired  with  my  fituation,  1  was  refc 
iqvftt  »11  coDOedtion  with  the  ftage  j  and  Mrs.  DA 
having  an  offer  made  her  of  an  engagement 
■another  company,  i  attended  her  the  next  day, 
-pofl-chaifc,  to  tiie  place  of  rendezvous;  where  I  foon 
matter  left  her,  and  rcrurned  to  toivn,  ihoroughty  itif^ 
igofied  lltfil  the  life  of  a  play 


U  i*  1*  -  ^ 


:  i  i.''^"  *i-  ^^  *i9^.  *J^».  .'i'*»>  •  I  •  ■•'  ' 

i^on^be  Aisdlbnik^  bk  iifiBzi  of*  the  6uiirdiab^  and 
ip:;tbeiIiifd;<if^&bdfiP</iff  tUb'Comed^n^'  acpong  many 
other  ajritidesjiliaa  ihteatnry  of  theatrical  furniture^ 
arAi-ihe)ft)lbvy^ngjqb1bFiiv  blot^f/vkyMaebith^^ViaifiM 
an^^oiOBc^^for  ^'^^ttchfsiibatxiiietWTiicee  Ibottlcs 
an4  ah^iaf  ii^Dihgi4.0Deihoi«eirlof  fiidw'^  in  the 

^Lwhitf  flrFrifanb  {>apq^A  dofisenf  and- an'  half  of  Clouds 

—A  Tzlbboiif^  *  .A  >little  fade4^ A .  HniMmbOtti  ibme- 

thing    deczytd-^Otbello^j   handkerchief — Mrs.  Old* 

Jield^s  ilippefs. — lAxiWitk^s   gloves — A  ferpent  to 

. :  fltfAgl  ^fopatpai^^  \  'tilulhr d4xi)«rl  <  td  r  make  t h'dnder 
^ith — Another  of  a  bigger  fort,  made:  by:'^v'Ji)iii-» 
ii//i  &e^jo|^^{ttl^f<^^^»-^'fu'U(  of  j^loaths  for  a 

.  Tl^r  tae,  y/rflZ&rj,  being  part  ;Of  a. ^rolpg^je.fpol^fln 
by  Sir  Georee  Beaumont,  at.  Isortb  AJlon.  ana  -wjutcn 
by  WtlUani  Whitehead,  Elq; 

.  .n.!W16.  -^({j  fc7.;Th^s. pageant pQipp.jou.fqe,. 
,:i^>rr^?fc9ftfiS  J^ftoTTthc  feat^:;7i>duary  I   r  :   . » 
.;:i  ^H?W^«^yvW^e>wheRiiIUhi^€H^^ 
L.>:  ,9Cm«vgs,  Painti  apc^pJ3^^         lie: low  i  ^  .^ 


»■!> 


^^-^^^S^alcAs  Wjir  J5^^«^^^  of  making  thunder 

ib^dil>einq>artedito  Otheo^'l^thoat  h{8\:bhfen^  thaC'Mr. 
Pf«f  iiforms  us^  he  crkd^xuiL:  vehemently,  at  fome  traimdk', 
upon  pearmg  an  u;iCoipmon  burit  of  thunder,  **  By  .G-« 
•^^'illVitiyithundeh'^'.  Ui^amatic  Mifcclhinics,  Vol.  II.  p.  f;. 

'  Q^  ^      Thcfe 


«...•• 


Thefc  gorgeous  palaces,  yon  doud-capt  Tccnc, 

This  barn  itfelf,  rtAy  hb  a  barn  again  :  J 

boa  ,Alte l]}{3&Airting  dniib  i^ay-oeafe  tx>  roar^       ^| 

\r£>'n'^be.prDmptrr'swliilUeana7'be  hewd  Qomore^^l 

,  -;■  -ifiut  oaboingfoumii  of  ruftic  toil  prevmlv         '/^| 

.      '  T4ie'  wisndiN'aiig  btfs  and!  dipping  of  cile  flt3|i^| 

Hither  &B€*fi»ce  inay  unhous'd  vagrants  ttj-,  7™ 

T.0  flitlnth'  inoltsDMS  bl^  and  pelting;  Ikj; ; 

■^    Ou  Leai-'aoitm  itnm'TiAy  ^ifGit^  nA.  tfa^  hcrti 

-'jitkJ^/VBidiiniUs-iieiiiu^Mi  i>e/Ui;auatfU^iad^<  1   / -^| 

-\(tO  .--i-'i      V;:tijl-J.il;:i.;'i  ^     '^1 

«j  :c;qi  i  A-'.r.ofj,    .N".,^!*- ,!,!_.,;>  .,,,11    i",;.~ 
vjb^dr  dit<.citb;plM>iloCicltr^if'rAtfKe;^'.'<yi^3K4'AMtD 
-*aci«^apfcri'-.->.i  ,ii-l  ■i.,/.v-l  ■.  'it)  i,.,JoriA — ..:.-* 
*  Wt  !i( -.lESE-CtTTldN' 'DA'V^'^i*^  '    ' 
•'  The  following  true,   but  dreadful,   pi<2JSHr>^ 
execution  day  will,  I  hope,  be  fuflicient  10  Qiow  why 
a  thorough  reforrnation  ihould  take  place,  not  only 
'■{n'Newgifte,  biit  la  W(^  nianncriri  wjikh  th'e'-Uotiappjr 
"wrttches  art  coniluftcd  &bni  tbcQcc  tb  the.p^j^of 
execution.  '' 

Whtn  tbed*yi  arrives  i  in  wh'ich  the  CffTRlQnDcd 
criminals  are  to  fufftr,  aiid  liavetinly  that  one  l^iriit 
to  live,  one  would  «xpeft  to  fee,  -not  only  ftt  ilD< 
happy  criminals  imprcffad  with  n  deep  forrow,  and 
fliowing  the  ftrongeft  fign*  of  a.  thorough  coatritioo, 
but  that  every  pcribn  prciccc  would  appear  in:£lat 
ftdnefs.  The  reverie,  hii!)W<hTi-,  is  the  cafe !  The 
horrid  afpedh  of  turnkeys  aa^  jailors,  in  difcoiutac 
7  nod 


\  • 


t    US    ] 


-^ 


and  hurcy  ; '  the  fk^vjf  apd  dreadful  loQks  of  roguf  ^ 
that  beg  in  irons,  byt  who  wiflh  to.  rob  you  if  tb^y 
could;   the  bellowing  of  half  z  dgzeo. names  at  ^ 
time  to  cncjuire  after  one  another ;    thQ  variety  qf 
ftrong  voices,  howling  ip  one  place;  fcolding,  quar- 
relling, and  fwes^ring^  in  anothQr;    loud  byrds  pf 
laughter  in  a  third ;   the  fubdantial  bri^akfafts  th^t 
are  made  in  the  midft  of  thefe  f<;enes  pf  hprrpr ;  the 
feas  of  beer  and  gin  that  ar?  fwallowed ;.  ibe.inf:ef- 
Jfant  outcries  for  more  ;   the  bayyling  anfwers  made 
by  tapilers;    the  impudent  and  uqieafon^ble  jefl^.; 
,  their  dirty  hands^  and  general  qaftinefs^   wiih  the 
oaths  and  imprecations  echoed  from  every  quarter  of 
the  jaili  added  to  tbe  melancholy  noife  o^  chains  apd 
fetters  difiereptly  (buAding;.  woul(}  com^pofe  all  to« 
gether  one  of  the  mod  horrid  fpe^qks  the  eyes,  of 
thinking  men  can  behold !     Yet  hp^v  much  more 
terrifick  is  this  dreadful  fcene  rendered  by  the  beha* 
,  viour  of  the  men  juft  fcitting  off  for  execution,  who 
are  madly  drinking,  or  uttering  the  vileft  ribaldry, 
and  jeering  others  that  are  lefs  impenitent,  while  the 
Ordinary  buftles  among  them,  and,  fhifting  from  one 
to  another,  diibributes  fcraps  of  good  counfel  to  inat- 
tentive hearers ;  and  near  him  the  Hangman,  impa- 
tient to  be  gone,  fwears  at  their  delays  I. 

At  laft  out  they  fet,  and  with  them  a  torrent  of 
mob  burfts  through  the  gate,  among  which  are  the 
idled  of  holiday-makers,  fuch  as  'prentices  and  jour- 
neymen of  the  meaneft  trades ;  and^,  as  t^e  day  is  pub- 

^Q^Z  licly 


licly  announced  a  week  before  in  the  papers,  al)  the 
thieves  and  pick- pockets  of  both  fexes  now  meet 
with  that  feciyrity  which  large  mobs  are  a  fafeguard 
to,  fo  that  this  becomes  a  jubilee  diay  for  all  offenders 
who  dare  not  appear  on  any  other,  and  this  coni'uCon 
refembles  a  free  mart,  where  there  is  an  amncfty  for 
all  outlaws* — To  add  to  the  rudenefs  of  the  fccnc, 
two  or  three  fwceps  generally  jnount  the  horfcs  that 
draw  the  convids,  whofe  foofy  afpeds  and  ludicrous 
geftures  not  a  little  affift  in  diverting  thcif  minds  from 
the  jiwful  change  they  are  about  to  make  ;  and  thus 
the  whole  cavalpadc,  inftead  of  impreffing  thofe  ex- 
emplary fcnfations  on  the  minds  of  fpecftators  which 
it  is  alone  intended  for,  becomes  an  impious  fpefla- 
cl'e  of  laughter,  riot,  and  difordcr. 

The  way  from  Newgate  to  Tyburn  now  is  one 
continued  fair  for  whores,  rogues,  and  the  meancft 
rabble  ;  and  there  are  none  fo  lewd,  fo  vile,  or  lb 
indigent,  of  cither  fcx,  but  may  find  a  paramour. 
Where  the  crowd  is  the  thinned,  the  mob  arc  :h? 
'rudcft;  and  dead  dogs,  cars,  Sec.  fly  about,  ^nd  2:7 
.deemed  excellent  padime;  for  i!:cy  have  ::o  cncn;iL5 
to  encountLT  hut  c!c-:n!iners  and  gvood-manncrs  ;  the 
nearer  they  approach  the  gallows,  the"  m6re  the  di:- 
order  increafcs ;  blov/s  arc  ftruck,  heads  arc  brok.*, 
and  pi'xes  of  f'A^tj  g  flicks  are  hurled  abour  ;  th-jfc, 
with  the  for-v.  ;f  dlR^icnt  noifcs,  and  variety  ofo;::- 
crics  thar  nic  heap;?  on  every  fide,  make  up  a  diicord 
pot  to  be  paralleled, 

I: 


C    "7    ] 

It  is  poffible  (though  barely  fo)  that  a  man  of  ez« 
traordinary  holinefs,  by  anticipating  the  joys  of  hca* 
ven,  might  embrace  a  violent  death  in  fuch  raptures 
as  would  difpofe  him  to  the  finging  of  Pfalms ;   but 
to  require  this  cxcrcifc,  or  to  expedt  it  from  every 
wretch  that  comes  to  be  hanged,  is  wild  and  abfurd, 
frightful,  and  impertinent !     During  all  this  time 
there  is  a  poffibility  w  a  paroort  arriving,  and,  in  all 
the  criminals  opinions^  a  great  prpbability  \  .  this .  fad 
clog  hangs  upon  their  iniqds  till  then:  bodies  hang^ 
and  prevents  their  preparing  themfelves  for  dieath  (o 
well  as  they  otherwife  would.  At  length  the  Ordinary 
^nd  ch&£kecutioner,  having  both  performed  their 
different  duties,  with  little  ceremony,  and  equal  pon-^ 
cern,  feem  tired,  and  glad  it  is  over.     This  tragedy 
being  ended,  a  freih  fray  arifes  between  the  mob  and 
the  furgeons,  about  the  property  of  dead  bodies;  and 
the   morning  amufement  ends    with  broken  heads, 
bloody  nofes,  and  now  and  then  the  lofs  of  ir^ore 
Jives  than  die  by  the  hajter !" 


FINIS. 


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