f* \mmtamk £^-«Ch-^o A. I V U^ /<(* BIO GRAPHICAL . ANECDOTES __ OF WILLIAM Publifhed as the Act directs . Ear* 10, 17 8 j . B I O G R A P H I C A L ANECDOTES O F WILLIAM HOGARTH; 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 DCC LXXXV. ARTS C a 3 -{s MEMORANDUM, Respect and gratitude having en- gaged me to compile a memoir of my deceafed Matter and Patron Mr. Bowyer, in the fame performance I included anec- s dotes of all the eminent perfons any way v connected with him. A note of about a A page's length was allotted to Hogarth. While it was printing, Mr. Walpole's Fourth Volume on the fubjecr. of Englilh , Painters came out, and was followed by an immediate rage for collecting every fcrap of our ArtiiVs defigns. Perfever- ing in my enquiries among my friends, ^ I had now am ailed ib much intelligence ^ relative to thefe engravings, that it could no longer be crowded into the iituation originally meant for it. I was therefore advifed to publifh it in the form of a iix- penny pamphlet. This intended publi- cation, however, grew up by degrees into a three-fhilling book, and, within a year a %. and C iv ] and a half afterwards, was fwelled into almoit its prefent bulk, at the price of fix fhil'ings. Such was the origin and pro- grefs of the following meets, which, with many corrections, 8cc. have now reached a Third Edition. J> No Nov. io, 1785, ADVER. [ v ] ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE author of thefe imperfect meets cannot prefent them a iecoiid time to the world, before he has expreffed his gratitude for the extreme candour with which they have been treated by the Monthly Reviewers. If 'J. N. has not availed himfelf of all the corrections defigned for his fervice, it is becaufe the able critic who propofes them has been deluded by intelligence manifeftly erroneous. J. N. received each particular he has mentioned, in refpedt to the affiilance beflowed on Hcgarth while his Anahjis was preparing, from Dr. Morel/, a gentleman who on that fubjcct could not eafily miflake. Implicit confidence ought rather to be repofcd in a literary coadjutor to the deceafed, than in any coniiftory of females that ever ct mumbled their vvifdom over a goffip's bowl." Authors rarely acquaint domeflic women with the progrcfs of their writings, or the proportion of aid they folicit from their friends. If it were needful that Dr. Morell mould tranflate a Greek paifage * for Hogarth, how chanced it that our srtift mould want to apply what he did not previously underftand ? I mud add, that the fentiments, publimed by the * Whereabouts is this tranflation of a Greek paffage to be found in the Analyds ? It may have efcaped my Iiailv re- (carches. a 3 Reviewer^ [ vi ] T&eviewer concerning thefe Anecdotes, bear no refem- blance to the opinion circulated by the cavillers with whom he appears to have had a remote connection. The parties who furnifhed every circumftance on which he founds his reiterated charges of error and mifinformation, are not unknown. Ever fince this little work was edited, the people about Mrs. Ho- garth have paid their court to her by decrying it as <{ low, flupid, or falfe," without the flighteft ac- knowledgement for the fums of money it has con- dueled to The Golden Head in Leicejler Fields. While the talents of the writer alone were queftioned by fuch inadequate judges of literary merit, a defence on his part was quite unneceffary. He has waited, however, with impatience for an opportunity of making fome reply to their groundlefs reflections 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 affertion mall be ready (as they are at this moment) for the Reviewer's infpection. J. N. cannot indeed difmifs his prefent advertifement without obferving, that though the amiable partialities of a wife may apologize for any contradiction fuggefled by Mrs. Hogarth herfelf, the Englijh language is not ftrong enough to exprefs the contempt he feels in regard to the accumulated cenfure both of her male and her female Parafnes. J* ZV. Nov. I, 1782. [ vii ] Advertisement to the first Edition. WHEN this pamphlet was undertaken, the Author had no thought of fuelling it to it's prefent bulk -, but communicating; his defip-n 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 fuppofed to have had any, but others were more intractable. Still aware of the value even of disjointed materials, which, his proieflion would not afford him leifure to com- pact into a regular narrative, and confeious that thefe fheets, rude and imperfect as they are, may ferve to promote a publication lefs unworthy of its fubject, he difmiffes his prefent work without any laboured apology for the errors that may be detected 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, becaufe the poffefTors 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 Hate as thefe are offered to the world. May 9, 1781. a 4 The [ viii } The ingenious Mr. Crayen of Leipzig hav- ing tranflated theFirft Edition of thefe Anec- dotes, &c. into the German Language, dif- fatched a copy of his work to J. N. attended by the obliging letter here fubjoined : SIR, THOUGH I have not the honour of being acquainted with yon, I hope your goodnefs will ex- cufe the liberty I take of fending you a German tranflation of the Biographical Anecdotes of Mr. Ho- garth you publiflied. Being convinced of the merits of your production, and its ufefulnefs to fuch col- lectors of prints and connohTeurs in our country as don't underftand the Englijh language, I undertook this tranflation, and flatter myfelf you will be pleafed to accept of it as a proof of my real efleem for you. You will find, that I did not always adhere lite- rally to the original, but made fome 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 palfages, poems, anecdotes, C i* ] anecdotes, &c. &c. as would have been entirely un- interefting to them, and have fwelled the volume to no purpofe. As to the typographical performance, I think you will be tolerably iatisfied of it. Though the noble art of printing is of German origin, your nation has improved and brought it to the higheft pitch of perfection in point of neatnefs, elegance, and cor- rectnefs. I remain, with all poffible efleem, S I R, ' Your moil obedient and moft humble fervant, Leipzig in Saxony, A. CRAYEN. the 29th Jan, 1783. THE [ * ] THE following are Tranflations, by a Friend; from the Dedication and Preface to' Mr. Crayen's performance- DEDICATION. To Mr. Gottfried Winkler, in Leipzig; Honoured and Worthy Friend, PARDON my prefumption in offering you the (lender 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 the intention of its Author, whofe moil: zealous wifh has long been to find an opportunity of publickly offering you, how- ever fbnall, a memorial of his refpect and friend- fhip. 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 Connoiffeur, I lhall feel myfelf completely rewarded. Receive C *' ] Receive at the fame time my fincereft thanks for the obliging communication of your Copy of Ho- garth's prints, of which, in my tranflation, 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 the enjoyment of thofe treafures of the Arts you have collected with fuch diftinguifhed tafte. Remain alfo a friend of Yours, 8cc. The Translator. PREFACE, C *ii ] PREFACE, To the German Reader. COLLECTORS of the Fine Arts were already poffefTed of Catalogues and Memolres Raifonnees of the engravings of many great matters, for which their acknowledgements are due to the induftry of a Ger -faint, a Jombert, a. Hecqusi, a Vertue, a de IVinter, &c. &c. But a fimilar illuftration of LIogarth's copper- plates was Hill wanting ; though it may be afked what works have a juiter claim to a diftinguifhed place in a compieat collection, than thofe of this inftrucYive moral painter, this creative genius ? On this account, it is prefumed that the German Lover of the Arts will deem himfelf indebted to the Tranflator, for giving him, in his own tongue, a concife and faithful vcrfion of a book that has lately made its appearance in London, under the title of " Biographical Anecdotes of W. Hogarth, " and a Catalogue of his Works chronologically ar- " ranged." 7 The [ xiii 3 The Compiler as well as Editor of this work is Mr. John Nichols, a Printer and Bookfeikr in London, who, by much reading, and an intimate ac- quaintance with the Arts and Literature of his Country, has honourably dillinguifhed himfelf a- mOng his profefiional brethren. How modeflly he himfelf judges of this his ufeful performance, ap- pears from his preface to the work. It is true, Mr. Horace Walpole, who pofTefTes * perhaps the compleateft collection of the prints of this Mailer, fome years ago publifhed a Catalogue of them ; but this is only to be found in his work, intituled, C( Anecdotes of Painting in England colletled fi by G. Vertue, and publifhed by H. Walpole" a per- formance confining of four volumes in 4to, too coftly for many collectors, and inconvenient fo r others. Moreover all that is to be found there re- lative to Hogarth, is not only included in Mr. Nichols's publication, but is alfo improved by confi- derable additions, fo that the curious reader has WaU pole's Catalogue incorporated with the prefent work. The liberty of abridgement, as mentioned in the title, is ventured only in regard to fuch diffufe illus- trations, repetitions, anecdotes, and local Itories, as would be alone interelling to an Englifhnian, in a word, in fuch parts as do not immediately contribute to the iliufrration of Hogarth's plates, and would have tired the patience of the German reader. Of the verfe s affixed to each copper-plate the firft and lafl words only are given, as thofe afford fufficient indication for [ xiv ] for a collector who wilhes to become acquainted with any particular print. How far fome remarks of the Tranflator are ufeful, or otherwife, is left to the indulgent decifion of Judges in the Arts. He mult not however forget it is his duty to ac- knowledge the goodnefs of old Mr. Hansen of Leipjig. This gentleman's readinefs in permitting him to examine his excellent collection of the en- gravings of Britijh artifts, for the purpofe of com- paring and illuftrati ig feveral paffages in the origi- nal of this work, claims his warmeft thanks, and a public acknowledgement. Leipjig, February 1783. The Translator, Lift C *v 1 Lift of Gentlemen, Artifts, &c. who furnifherl in? cidental intelligence to the Author of this Work. Mr. Ajhby. Mr. Bafire. Mr. Baynes. Mr. Belchier — dead. Mr. Bindley. Mr. Birch. Mr 'owle. Mr. Braithwaite^ Mr. 5r^t wi/zg. Lord £■■'■•#/ -;«f. Mr. Charlton. Mr. 6cA? — dead. Mr. Co /wan. Mr. C aa, carried off the affrighted f* veomah and his fiddle, over hedge and ditch, till he arrived ** at his own field. Tliis accident rather inflamed than de- *' preffed the good humour arifing from the proceffion ; and *' the clown, or jack-pudding of the piece, availed himfelf " fo well of the incident, that the lungs and ribs of the fpec- *' tators were in nfiafiifef! danger. This character was the " moft important perfonage in. tne whole play : for his office *' was to turn the moll ferious parts of the drama into bur- *' lefque and ridicule; he was a compound of Harlequin and <( the Merry Andrew, of rather the Arch-fool of our ancient ii kings. His drefs was a white jacket, covered with bulls,, *' bears, birds, fifii, &c. cut in various coloured cloth. His " trowfers were decorated in like manner, and hung round il with fmall bells ; and his cap was that of Folly, decorated " with bells, and an otter's bruih impending. The lath fword " muft be of great antiquity in this ifiand, for it has been *' the appendage of a jack-pudding in the mountains of IFeji- " mor eland time out of mind. " The ptay was opened by this character with 4. fong, " which anfwered the double pvirpofe of a play-bill and a a prologue, for his ditty gave the audience a foretafte of the " rueful incidents they Were about to behold ; and it called '* out the actors, one by one,' to make the fpe£bt6rfc ac- il quainted with their names and characters, walking round " and round till the whole Dramatis Perfons made one great fi Circle on the ftage. Tie audience being thus become ac-' M z " ijuaiffted I 4 3 Ship Court in The Old Bailey, and was occasionally employed as a corrector of the prefs. A Latin let- ter, from Mr. Richard Hogarth, in 1697 (preferved among the MSS. in The Britijh Mufeum, N° 4277. 50.) relates to a book which had been printed with great expedition. But the letter fhall fpeak for itfelf*. A Di&io- *.* quainted with the a&ors, the play opened with Paris run- " ningaway with Helen, and Menelaus fcarapering after them; *' then followed the death of Patroclus, the rage of Achilles, * c the perfuafions of Ulyffes, &c. &c. and the whole interlarded " with apt fongs, both ferious and comic, all the production " of Aid Hogart. The bard, however, at this time had been *' dead fome years, and I believe this Fete 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 Windermere. Was it " any improvement, think you, to introduce feveral hulls into *' the proceffion inftead 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 ruftic audience, his poems of a different form are every way contemptible. Want of grammar, metre, fenfe, and decency, are their invariable characteriftics. This opinion is founded on a thorough examination of a whole bundle of them, tranfmitted by a friend ftnee the firfl publi- cation of this work. * " Vir Clariffime, ExcufTo Malpigbio intra fex vel pluri- *' mumfeptemfeptimanas te tamen per totuminconfulto, culpa *' eft in Bibliopolam conferenda, qui adeo feftinanter urgebat '* opus nt moras neclere nequivimus. Ututfit, tamen mihimet " .idulor me fatis recle authoris Sc verba & mentem cepiffe *' (diligenter enim noctes atque dies opere incubui ne tibi vel " ulii regiorum tuorum fodalium moleiTus forem). Rudiora " tamen quorum fpecimen infra exhibere placuit) &c Italico- " Lafina, juxta praeceptum tuum, fmilia feci aliter fi fecif- *' fern, torus fere liber mutationem fnl iiflet. Authorem tarn '* pueiiiicer & ba. bare loquentem nunquam antehac evolvi quod " meminerim; [ 5 ] A Dictionary in Latin and Englijh, which he compofed for the ufe of fchools *, ftill exifls in MS. He married in London ; and our Hero, and his fitters Mary and Anne, are believed to have been the only product of the marriage. William Hogarth «f- is faid (under the article Thornhill in the Biograpbia Brltannica) to have been '* meminerim ; faciat ergo lector, ut folent nauta?, qui dura M ferret aqua, narcs piliflando comprimunt, fpretis enim verbis *' fenfum, fi quis eft, attendat. Multa (infinita pcene dixerim) u authoris errata emendavi, quasdam tamen non animadverfa " vereor; Attgete enim ftabulum non nifi Hercules repurgavit. " Partem Italico fermone conferiptam praetermitto, iftam enim " provinciam adornare fufcepit Doctor Pragejlee Italus ; quam " bene rem geffit, ipfe viderit. Menda Typographica, fpero, " aut nulla, aut levia apparebunt. Tuam tamen & Regia; •' Societatis cenfuram exoptat facilem, Tibi omni ftudio ad- •' diciiffimus, *' Richardus Hogarth, Preli Curator." * He publiflied " Grammar Difputations ; or, an Exami- M nation of the eight parts of fpeech by way of queftion and *' anfvver, Englijl) 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 fhort Chronological in- *' dex of men and things of the greateft note, alphabetically " digefted, chiefly relating to the Sacred and Roman Hiitory, " from the beginning of the World to the Year of Chrift " 1C40, and downwards. Written for the ufe of fchools of " Great-Britain, by Richard Hogarth Schoolmafter, 171 2." This little book has alfo a Latin title-page to the fame pur- pofe, " Difputationes Grammaticales, &c." and is dedicated, " Scholarchis, Ludimagiftris, et Hypodidafcalis Magna Brita?i~ " nla." \ Hogart was the family name, probably a corruption of Hogherdy for the latter is more like the local pronunciation than the firfh This name difgufted Mrs. Hogart ; and before the birth of her fon, fhe prevailed upon her hufband to liquify B 3 H C 6 ] teen born in 1698, in the parim of St, Bartbo!o-> mew *, London, to which parim, it is added, h"e was afterwards a benefactor. The outfet of his life, however, was unprpmifing. Cf He was bound," fays Mr. Walpole, " to a mean engraver of arms on plate.'* Hogarth probably chqfe this occupation, as it re- quired fome fkill in drawing, to which his geniuS was particularly turned, and which he contrived zffidupufly to cultivate. His matter, it fince ap- pears, was Mf. Ellis Gamble, a filverfmith of emi- nence, who refided in Cranbcurn-Jlreet, Leicefter -fields. In this profeflion it is not unufual to bind appren- tices to the fingle branch of engraving arms and cyphers on every fpecies of metal ; and in that par*- ticular department of the bufinefs young Hogarth was placed j ; I' but, before his time was expired, it into Hogarth, This circumflance was told to me by Mr. WaU ier, who is a native of Wefc7>joreland. By Dr. Morell, I was informed that his real name was Haggard, or Hogard, which, iimfelf altered, by changing d into %, the Saxon th. * On what authority this is faid, I am yet to learn. The Tegiflers of St. Bartholomew tee Great, and of St. Bartholomew, the Left, have both Leeja fearched for the fame information, with fruitless folicitude. The fchool of Hogarth's father, in 2712, was in the parifh of St. Martin's Ludgate. In the regirler. of that parifh, therefore, the births of his children, and hi§ own death, may probably be found J. •f This circumflance has, fince it was fir ft written, been verified by a gentleman who has often heard a fimilar account from one of the lajl Head Affay-Maftcrs at Goldfmiibs-Hall, who was apprentice to a filverfmith in the fame ftreet with Hogarth, and intimate with him during the greateft part of his life. + Tlie regifter of St. Martin's Ludgate, ha,s alfp been fearched tq C 7 ] u he felt the impulfe of genius, and that it directed " him to painting." During his apprenticeship, he fet out one Sunday, with two or three companions, on an excurfion to Highgate. The weather being hot, they went into a public-houfe, where they had not been long, be- fore a quarrel arofe between fome perfons in the fame room. One of the difputants {truck the other on the head with a quart pot, and cut hisa very much. The blood running down the man's face, together with the agony of the wound, which had diftorted his features into a mod hideous grin, pre- fented Hogarth, who mewed himfelf thus early ** apprifed of the mode Nature had intended he * c fhould purfue," with too laughable a fubject to be overlooked. He drew out his pencil, and pro- duced on the fpot one of the moll ludicrous figures that ever was feen. What rendered this piece the more valuable was, that it exhibited an exacl: like- nefs of the man, with the portrait of his antagonift, and the figures in caricature of the principal perfons gathered round him. This anecdote was furnifhed by one of his fellow apprentices then prefent, a perfon of indifputable character, and who continued his intimacy with Hogarth long after they l)oth grew up into manhood. " His apprenticeship was no fooner expired, , ' fays Mr. Walpolc, Ci than he entered into the academy in " St. Martin s La?ie, and ftudied drawing from the (i life, in which he never attained to great excel- B 4 " lence. C 3 ] <( lence. It was character, the paflions, the foul, " that his genius was given him to copy. In co- " louring lie proved no greater a mailer : his force Ci lay in expreffion, not in tints and chiaro fcuro." To a man who by indefatigable induftry and un- common ftrenpth of o-enius 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 b^n afierted , and we believe with good founda- tion, that the ikill and affiduity of Hogarth were, even in his fervitude, a lingular afnilance to his own family, and to that of his mailer. It happened, however, that when he was fir ft out of his time, he certainly was poor. The ambition of indigence is ever productive of diftrefs. So it fared with Hv~ garth, who, while he was fnrniming himfelf with materials for fubfequent perfection, felt all the con- tempt which penury could produce. Being one day diftreffed to raife fo trifling a Aim as twenty millings, in order to be revenged of his landlady, who ft rove to compel him to payment, he drew her as ugly as poffible, and in that fmgle portrait gave marks of the dawn of fuperior genius *. This ftory I had once fuppofed to be founded on certainty ; but fince, on other authority, have been affured, that had fuch an accident ever happened to him, he would not have failed to talk of it afterwards, as he was always *: Univerfal Mnfeum, 1764. p. 549. 'The fame kind of revenge, however, was taken by Verrio, who, on the eieling of St. George's Hall at Wind/or, borrowed the face of Mrs. Marriott the housekeeper, for one of the Furies. fond t t 9 3 fond of contrafting the necefiities of his youth with the affluence of his maturer age. He has been heard to fay of himfelf, " I remember the time when I ¥ have gone moping into the city with fcarce a ihil- M ling in my pocket ; but as foon as I had received if ten guineas there for a plate, I have returned tl home, put on my fword, and fallied out again, ?' with all the confidence of a man who had ten " thoufand pounds in his pocket," Let n.w add, that my firft authority may be to the full as good as my fecond. How long he continued in obfeurity we cannot exactly learn ; but the firft piece in which he diftin- guifhed himfelf as a painter, is fuppofed to have been a reprefentation of Wanjleqd Affembly'K In this are introduced portraits of the firft earl Tylney, his lady, their children, tenants, &c. The faces were faid to be extremely like, and the colouring is rather bet- ter than in fome of his late and more highly finiilied performances. From the date of the earlieft plate that can be af- certained to be the work of Hogarth, it may be pre- * This picture is noticed in the article Thorxhlll, in the Bio- graphia Britannica, where, inftead of Wanfiead, it is called the Wandfvjprtk affembly. There feems to be a reference to it in "A Poetical Epiflle to Mr. Hogarth, an eminent HiMory " and Converfation Painter," written \njune 1730, and pub- 1 idled by the author (Mr. Mitchell) , with two other epiiUes, in 1 73 1, 4to. " Large families obey your hand ; " AJfemblies rife at your command." Mr, Hogarth defigned that year the frontifpiece to Mr. Mil- chit's Opera, The Highland Clans. fumed r 10 ] fumed that he began bufinefs, on his own account, at lean 1 as early as the year 1720. His firft employment feems to have been the en* graving of arms and fhop-bills. The next ftep was to defign and furniih plates for bookfellers ; and here we are fortunately fupplied with dates *. Thir- teen folio prints, with his name to each, appeared in " Aubry de la Motraye's Travels," in 1723; feven ^mailer prints for " Apuleius* Golden Afs" jn 1724 ; fifteen head-pieces to " Beaver's Military w Puniihments of the Ancients,'' and five frontif- pieces for the tranflation oiCaJfandra, in five volumes, 12°, 1725; feventeen cuts for a duodecimo edition of Hudibras (with Butler's head) in 1726; two for " Perfeus and Andromeda," in 1730; two for Milton [the date uncertain]; and a variety of others be- tween 1726 and 1733. " No fymptom of genius," fays Mr. Walpole, * ( dawned in thofe plates. His Hudibras was the firft *' of his works that marked him as a man above the w common ; yet, what made him then noticed, now f ( furprifes us, to find fo little humour in an under- ? c taking fo congenial to his talents." — It is certain that he often lamented to his friends the having parted lyitb his property in the prints of the large Hudibras, without ever having had an opportunity to improve them. They were purchafedby Mr. Philip Overtonf, at * Of all thefe a more particular account will be given in the Catalogue annexed. f Brother to Henry Overton, the well-known w publifher of ordinary prints, who lived over againft St, Sepulchre's Churchy and C « ] at The Golden Buck, near St. Dunjlarfs Church in Fleet' Street ; and ftill remain in the poffeflion of his fuc-p cefTor Mr. Sayer. Mr. Bowles at the i?/tfc£ i&r/£ in Cornbill was one of his earlicft patrons. I had been told that he bought many a plate from Hogarth by the weight of the copper; but am only certain that this occurrence happened in a fingle inftance, when the elder Mr. Bowles of St. Paul's Church-yard offered'' over a bottle, half a crown a pound for a plate juft then completed. This circumftance was within the know- ledge of Dr. Ducarel. — Our artift's next friend in that line was Mr. Philip Overton, who paid him a fome- what better price for his labour and ingenuity. When Mr. Walpole fpeaks of Hogarth's early per- formances, he obferves, that they rofe not above the labours of the people who are generally employed by bookfellers. Left any reader fhould inadvertently fuppofe this candid writer defigned the miautefl re~ flection on thofe artifts to whom the decoration of modern volumes is confided, it is neceffary to ob* ferve, that his account of Hogarth, Sic. was printed off above ten years ago, before the names of Cipriani, Angelica, Bartolozzi, Sherivin, and Mortimer were found at the bottom of any plates defigned for the Ornament of poems, or dramatic pieces. " On the fuccefs, however, of thofe plates," Mr. Walpole fays, M he commenced painter, a painter cf and fold many of Hogarth's early pieces coarfely copied, as has fince been, done by Dicey in Bow Churchyard. " portraits; [ 12 ] cc portraits ; the moll ill-fuited employment imagi- *' liable to a man whofe turn certainly was not flat- €t tery, nor his talent adapted to look on vanity " without a ihcer. Yet his facility in catching a 44 likenefs, and the method he chole of painting fa- " milies and converfations in fmall, then a novelty, i( drew him prodigious bufincfs for fome time. It u did not laft\ either from his applying to the real •' bent u»£ his difpofiticxn, or from his cuftomers ap- ic prehending that a fatirift was too formidable a "• confeffor for the devotees of felf-love." Ther c are flill many family pictures by Mr. Hogarth exilt- ingj in the ftyle of ferious converfation-pieces. He was not however lucky in all his refemblances, and has fometimes failed where a crowd of other artifts have fucceeded. The whole-length of Mr. Garrick fitting at a table, with his wife behind him taking the pen out of his hand *, confers no honour on the painter or the perions reprefented -f. He has cer- tainly miffed the character of our late Rofcius's coun- tenance while undifturbed by paflion ; but was more lucky in feizing his features when aggravated by terror, as in the tent fcene of King Richard III. It is by no means aftonifliing, that the elegant fymmetry of Mrs. Garrick' } s form fhould have evaded the efforts * This conceit is borrowed from Vanho's picture of Colley Cibber, whofe daughter has the fame employment. t It appears that Mr. G. was diflatisficd with his likenefs, or that fome difpute arofe between him and the painter, who then ftruck his pencil acrofs the face, and damaged it. The pidlurewas unpaid for at the time of his death. His widow- then fent it home to Mv^Garrick t without any demand. Of of one to whofe ideas la bajfe nature was more fami- liar than the grace inseparable -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 ftrove in vain to difcover ; but fufpect they were ori- ginally very low, as the people who are beft ac- quainted with them chufe to be filent on that fubject, In the Bee, vol. V. p. 552. and alfo in thrc Gen- tleman's Magazine, vol. IV. p. 269. are the following verfes to Mr. Hogarth, on Mifs Fs picture, 1734. " To Cbloe's picture you fuch likenefs give, The animated canvas feems to live ; The tender breails with wanton heavings move, And the foft fparkling eyes infpire with love : While I furvey each feature o'er and o'er, 1 turn Idolater, and paint adore ; Fondly I here can gaze without a fear, That, Chloe, to my love you'd grow fevere ; That in your PiSture, 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 languishing on me. While, Chloe, this I boaft, with fcornful heart Nor rafhly cenfure Hogarth, or his art, Who all your Charms in frrongeft Light has laid, And kindlv thrown your Pride and Scom mfbadeP At Rivenball, in EJfcx, the feat of Mr. Weftern, is a family picture, by Hogarth, of Mr, Wejlern and his mother (who was a daughter of Sir Anthony Shirley), C »4 1 Shirley), Chancellor Hcadly, Archdeacon Charlei Plumptre, the Rev. Mr. Cole of Milton near Cam- bridge, and Mr. Henry Taylor the Curate there *, 1736. In the gallery of the late Mr. Cok of Mdton, was alio a ffnall whole-length picture of Mr. Wtjtern\, by Hogarth , a {Inking refemblance. He is drawn fitting- in his Fellow-Commoner's habit, and fquare cap with a gold taflel, in his chamber at Clare Hall; over t^ ajjch towards the river ; and our artift, as the chimney could not be expreffed, has drawn a cat fitting near rtj agreeable to his humour, to fhew the fituation* " When I fat to him," fays Mr. Cole, " near fifty u years ago, the cullom of giving vails to fervants *' was not difcontinued. On my taking leave of our te painter at the door, and his fervant's opening it ei or the coach door^ I cannot tell which, I offered " him a fmall gratuity ; but the man very politely '* refufed it, telling me it would be as much as the >. note of Oldys, cited in Britijh Topography, vol. I. p. 636, that Bambridge cut his throat 20 years after. I William Huggins, efq. of He .idly Park, Hants, well-known by his tranilaticn of the Orlando Furiofo of Ariojlo. Being in- C 2 tended C *> ] painting from this Sketch, and alio of a fcene in the Beggar's Opera ; both of them full of real portraits. On the difperfion of his effedb, the latter was pur- chafed by the Rev. Dr. Monkhoufe of Queen's College, Oxford. It is in a gilt frame, with a bud of Gay at the top. It's companion, whofe prefent pofTeffor I have not been able to trace out, had, in like man- ner, that of Sir Francis P^ge, one of the judges, re* markable for his feverity * - s with a halter round his neck. The tended for holy orders, he was fent to Magdalen College, Ox- ford, where he took the degree of M. A. April 30, 1761 ; but, 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 tranflation ol 'Dante , of which a fpecimen was publifhed in the Brhijh Maga- zine, 1760. Some flattering verfes were addreffed to him in 1757, on his veriion of Ariqfio ; which are preferved in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. XXVII. p. 180; but are not worth copying. The lad Mr. Huggiits left an eltate of 2000I. a year to his two fons-in-law Thomas Gatehoufe, Eiq; and Dr. Mrfgrai'e of ( humor. * Sir Frjinci s Page'* lt - Character," by Savage, thus gibbets him to public deteftation : " Fair Truth, in courts where Juftice ftiould prefide, " Alike the Judge and Advocate would guide ; " And thefe would vie each dubious point to clear, " To (lop the widow's and the orphan's tear ; " Were all, like Yorkc % , of delicate addrefs, ** Strength to difcern, and fweetnefs to exprefs, " LJearn'd, j aft, polite, born every heart to gain, *■' Like Comyns f mild ; like Forte/cue \ humane, * Sir Philip Yurie, chief juftice of the King's Bench, afterwards lord- chancellor am! earl Hardivicke. f Sir John Comyns, chief baron of the Exchequer. J Hon. William Forte/cue, then one of the juftices of the court of Com- mon Pleas, afterwards mailer of the Rolls. " All- C H 1 The Duke of Leeds has alfo an original fcene in the Beggar's Opera, painted by Hogarth. It is that in which " All-eloquent of truth, divinely known, *' So deep, i'o dear, all Science is his own. " Of heart impure, and impotent of head, il Tn hiftory, rhetoric, ethics, law*, unread ; *-' How far unlike fuch worthie 1 ), once a drudge, *? From floundering in low cafes, rofe a Judge. •** Form'd to make pleaders laugh, his nonfenfe thunders,, " And on low juries breathes contagious blunders. " His brothers blufh, becaufe no bhuh he knows, -*' Nor e'er ' one uncorrupted finger (hows *.' *' See, drunk with power, the circuit-lord exprel ! ** Full, in his eye, his betters ftand confeft ; *' Whole wealth, birth, virtue, from a tongue fo loofe, ** 'Scape not provincial, vile, buffoon abufe. " Still to what circuit is affign^d his name, " There, fwift before him, Aids the warner — Fame. " Conteft ftops fhort, Confertt yields every caufe " To Coil ; Delay endures them, and withdraws. " But how 'fcape prifoners ? To their trial chain'd, *' All, ail fhall ftand condemn'd, who ftand arraign'd, *' Dire guilt, which elfe would deteftation caufe, " Prejudged with infidt, wondrous pity draws. " But 'fcapes e'en Innocence his harfu harangue? " Alas ! — e*en Innocence irfelf muft hang; *' Muft hang to pleafe him, when of fpleen poffeft, " Muft hang to bring forth an abortive jeft. '* Why hv'd he not ere Star-chambers had fail'd, s< When fine, tax, cenfure, all but law prevail'd ; " Or law, lubfervient to fome murderous will,. 1735. Died Mrs. Hogarth, mother to the u celebrated painter, of a fright from the fire which " happened on the 9th, in Cecil Court, St. Martin's " Lane, and burnt thirteen houfes * ; amongft others, " one belonging to John Huggins, efq. late Warden (t of The Fleet, was greatly damaged." The " Rake's Progrefs" (published in the fame year, and fold at Hogarth's houfe, the Golden Head in Leicefter Fields), though " perhaps fuperior, had " not," as Mr. Walpole obfervcs, " lb much fuccefs, ft from want of novelty ; nor is the print of the * c arreft equal in merit to the others -j*. u The curtain, however," fays he, tc was now " drawn afide, and his genius flood difplayed in its " full luftre. From time to time our artift continued (C to give thofe works that mould be immortal, if " the nature of his art will allow it. Even the re- " ceipts for his fubfcriptions had wit in them. Many " of his plates he engraved himfeif, and often ex- te punged faces etched by his affiltants, when they M had not done juftice to his ideas. Not content " with Alining in a path untrodden before, he was u ambitious of diftinguifhing himfeif as a painter of * The fire began at the houfe of Mrs. Calloway, who kept a brandy-fli ^p. This woman was committed to Newgate^ it appearing among other circum fiances, that flie had threat- ened " to be even with the landlord for h.-iving given her '* warning, and tint fhe would have a bonfire on the 20th of " June, that fhould warm all h-r rafcaliy neighbours. " ■f- Hogartb attempted to improve it, but without much fuccefs. The additional figures are quite epifodical. See the Catalogue. D 2 " hiflojy; [ 3« 3 €x hiftory ; and in 1736 preferred to the hofpital of " St. Bartholomew, of which he had been appointed " a governor*, a painting of the Pool of Bethefda, tl and another of the Good Samaritan. But the ge- (i nius that had entered fo feelingly into the calami- " ties and crimes of familiar life, deferted him in a " walk that called for dignity and grace. The (l burlefque turn of his mind mixed itfelf with the "moil ferious fubjedts. In the Pool of Bethefda, a * f ferv'ant of a rich ulcerated lady beats back a poor * c man that fought the fame celeflial remedy ; and " in his Banae [for which the Duke of Ancafer " paid 60 guineas] the old nurfe tries a coin of the " golden fhowcr 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 Banae herfelf is a mere nymph of cl Brury. He feems to have conceived no higher " degree of beauty." Dr. Parfons alfo, in his Lec- tures on Phyfiognomy, 4:0. p. 58, fays, " Thus cc yielded Banae to the Golden Shower, and thus " was her pamon painted 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. II. p. 883. is the following notice of our artift : " Among the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, was " lately chofen Mr. William Hogarth the celebrated printer, " who, we are told, defigns to paint the ftair-caie of the faid " hofpital, and thereby become a benefactor to it, by giving " his labour gratis.'* dealer C 37 ] dealer to avail themfelves of his defigns *, and rob him of the advantages which he was entitled to de- rive from them. This was particularly the cafe with the " Midnight Conversation," the " Harlot's" and " Rake's" ProgrcfTes -)-, and the reft of his early works. 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. Walpole obferves, he applied to the legiflature, and obtained an ac~t of parliament, 8 George II. chap. 3'', to veft an cxclufive right in designers and engravers, and to reftrain the multiplying of copies of their works without the confent of the artiit j. This * He bought up great quantities of the copies of his works | and they il ill remain in pofieiTion of his widow. The " Har* <' lot's" and the " Rake's" Progrefs, in a fmaller fize the original, were publifiied, with his permiffion, by Thomas BakcvseUy a printfcller, near the Horn Tavern, Flcct-ftrcet. f Of the Hanoi's Progrefs I have feen no Ids than eight piratical imitations. i Lord Garden/ton, one of the lords of fell: on in Scot on delivering his opinion in the court of fellion upon th< ftion of literary propei fy, in the caufe of Htnton and Dc and others, all bookieliers, in July 1773, thus introdi c e works of Hogarth : " There is nothing can be more fimil ir " than the work of engraving is to liter iry compria " will illuftrate this proportion by the works of Mi i' '* who, in my humbie opinion, is the only rrue original " which this age has produced in England. 1 hen " any chara&er of an excellent author, v\hich is n " plicabie to his works. What compolition, what *' what fentiment, .what fancy, invention, and h *' difcover in all his performances ! In every or.-. •* entertaining hiftory, a natural defcription of ch ** an excellent moral, lean read his works ov: D 3 " I: C 38 ] This flatute was drawn by his friend Mr* Huggins *, who took for his model the eighth of Queen Anne y in favour of literary property ; but it was not fo ac- curately executed as entirely to remedy the evil • for, in a caufe founded on it, which came before Lord Hardwicke in Chancery, that excellent Lawyer deter- * c Horace's characteristic of excellency in writing, d-cies refetita " placebif, and every time I perufe them, 1 diicover new " beauties, and feel freih entertainment : can I fay more in *' commendation of the literary compoiitions of a Butler or a *' Swift? There is great authority for this parallel ; the le- *' giflature has confidered the works of authors and engravers " in the fame light; they have granted the i\me protection to *< both; and it is remarkable, that the aft of parliament for the ** protection of thrfe who invent new engravings, or prints, ** is almoft in the fame words with the aft for the protection *' and encouragement of literary compofiricn-." This is taken from a 4to pamphlet, pnblifhedin 1 7 7 \ by James E 'oj "well, efq. advocate, one of the counfel in the caufe. * " That Hug'Ans penned the flatute, I was told by Mr. Ho- tl garth himfelf. The determination of Lord Hard-xuke was " thus cccauoned. Jfffc>'y s > 'he printfeller at the corner of " St. Martins Lake, had employed an artift to draw and en- *' grave a print reprefenting the Britijl? Herring Fifhery; and, " having paid him for it; took an alignment of the right to *' the p'r.'periy in it accruing to the artifl by the act of parlia- '* ment. The proprietors of one of the magazines pirated " it in a fimila? fizre, :>nd Jffferys brought his bill for an in- " junction, to which the def ndants' demurred : and, upon " argun ent of the demurrer, the fame was allowed, for the " re-^isn abovemenuoned, and the bill difmifTed. Hogcrth " attended the heaiing ; and lamented to me that he had em- " ployed Huggins to draw the aft, ad ling, that, when he firft " projected it, lie hoped it would be inch an encouragement " to engraving and printfelling, 'that printiellers' would foon ♦'become as numerous us bakers' fliops ; which hope, not- •* withllanding the above check, does at this time feem to be *' pretty nearly gratified." For this note nty readers are indebted to Sir John Hawkins. mined C 39 ] mined that no aflignee, claiming under an align- ment from the original inventor, could take any be- nefit by it. Hogarth, immediately after the pairing the act, publifhed a fmall print, with emblematical devices, and the following infcription cxpreffing his gratitude to the three branches of the legillature : * l In humble and grateful acknowledgment Of the grace and goodnefs of the LEGISLATURE, Manifefted In the ACT of PARLIAMENT for the Encouragement Of the Arts of Defigning, Engraving, &c. Obtained By the Endeavours, and almoft at the fole Expence, Of the Defigner of this Print in the Year 1735 ; By which Not only the Profeflbrs of thofc Arts were refcued From the Tyranny, Frauds, and Piracies Of Monopolizing Dealers, And legally entitled to the Fruits of their own Labours ; But Genius and Induftry were alio prompted Ey the moll noble and generous Inducement s to exert themfelves j Emulation was excited, Ornamental Compofitions were better underftood; And every Manufacture, where Fancy has any concern, Was gradually raifed to a Pitch of Perfection before unknown ; Infomuch, that thofe of Great-Britain Are at preisnt the molt Elegant And the moll in Efteem of any in Europe." This plate he afterwards made to ferve for a receipt for fubferiptions, firft to a print of an " Election M Entertainment ;" and afterwards for three prints D 4 more, [ 4° ] more, reprefenting the " polling for members for " parliament, canvaffing for votes, and chairing the (( members." The royal crown at the top of this receipt is darting its rays on mitres, coronets, the Chancellor's great feal, the Speaker's hat, &c. he. and on a fcroll is written, " An Act for the Encou- " ragement of the Arts of Defigning, Engraving, " and Etching, by veiling the Properties thereof in e( the Inventors and Engravers, during the Time " therein mentioned." It was " Defigned, etched, (C and published as the Ad: directs, by W. Hogarth, " March 20, 1754." After Hogarth's death, the legiilature, by Stat. 7 Geo. III. chap. 38. granted to his widow a further exclufive term of twenty years in the property of herhufband's works. In 1756 he had the honour of being diftinguiihed in a mafterly poem of a congenial HumouriiT:. The Dean of St. Patrick's, in his " Defcription of the " Legion Club/' after pourtraying many characters with all the feverity of the moll pointed fatire, ex- claims, „ / " How I want thee, humorous Hogarth ! " Thou, I hear, a plealant rogue art ! " Were but you and I acquainted, ,{ Every monfter mould be painted : " You mould 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 [ 41 3 " Draw them like, for I allure ye, " him. ' Neither the comic pencil, nor the ferious " pen of our ingenious countrymen (fo the Efti- alcrdo:i;an ; (p. 65.) nuckles for knuckles ; (p. 97.) IrifA-ftiteh for Iris- ftitch, &c. &x. In 'the fheets that contain thefe errors, it is eafy to conceive that Hogarth mufl have been his own corrector of the prefs. f It is 10 extraordinary for an illiterate perfon to ridicule inaccuracy of ipelling, that this might probably be a real blunder. The [ 57 3 The following authenticated ftory of our artift will alfo ferve to mew how much more eafy it is to detect ill-placed or hyperbolical adulation refpecfting Others, than when applied to ourfelves. Hogarth being at dinner with the great Chcfeldcn, and fomc other company, was told that Mr. John Freke, fur- geon of St. Bartholomew's Ho/pit a I, a few evenings before at Dick's Cojfee-houfe, had afferted, that Greene was as eminent in compofition as Handel. (i That " fellow Freke" replied Hogarth, t( is always mooting " his bolt abfurdly one way or another ! Handel is a t( giant in mufic ; Greene only a light Florimel kind of " a coinpofer." — " Ay," fays our artift's informant, " but at the fame time Mr. Freke declared you were u as good a portrait-painter as Vandyck" — " Therehc 11 was in the right," adds Hogarth ; " and fo by G — 1 " am, give me my time, and let me choofe my fub- "jedt!" With Dr. Hoadly, the late Chancellor of Winehejlcr, Mr. Hogarth was always on terms of the firiclcft friendihip, and frequently vifited him at Winehejlcr^ St. Crojs, and Alresjcrd. It is well known, that Dr. Hoadly's fondnefs for theatrical exhibitions was fo great, that few vifitors 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 Cafar, where the Ghofi appears to Brutus. Hogarth perfonated the fpe&re ; but fo un- retentive was his memory, that, although Mi fpeech confided J t J» ) confifled only of two lines, he was unable to get them by heart. At laft they hit on the following expedient in his favour. The verfes he was to de- liver were written in fuch large letters, on the outfide of an illuminated paper-lanthorn, that he could read them when he entered with it in his hand on the ftage. Hogarth painted a fcene on this occafion^ re* prefenting a futling booth, with the Duck of Cumber- land's head by way of fign. He alfo prepared the play-bill, with charadteriftic ornaments. The ori- ginal drawing is ftill preferved, and we could wilh it were engraved ; as the ilighteft Sketch from the defign of fo grotefque a painter would be welcome to the numerous collectors of his works. Hogarth was alfo the mofl abfent of men. At table he would fometimes turn round his chair as if he had fmifhed eating, and as fuddenly would return, it, and fall to his meal again. I may add, that he pnee directed a letter to Dr. Hoadly, thus, — "To " the Doctor at Chelfca." This epiftle, however, by good luck, did not mifcarry ; and was preferved by the late Chancellor of Winchejler, as a pleafant memorial of his friend's extraordinary inattention, Another remarkable inflance of Hogarth's abfence was told me, after the firfr. edition of this work, by one of his intimate friends. Soon after he fet up his carriage, he had occasion to pay a vifit to the lord- mayor (I believe it was Mr. Beckford). When he went, the weather was fine; but bufinefs detained him till a violent fhower of rain came on. He was 7 let [ 59 ] let out of the Manfion-houfe by a different door from that at which he entered ; and, feeing the rain, be- gan immediately ro call for a hackney-coach. Not one was to be met with on any of the neighbouring {lands i and our artift fallied forth to brave the florm, and a&ually reached Leicejler-fields without beftowing a thought on his own carriage, till Mrs. Hogarth (lurprized to fee him fo wet and fplaihed) afked where he had left it. Mr. Walpole, in the following note, p. 69, is willing to expofe the indelicacy of the F/emiJIj pain- ters, by comparing it with the purity of Hcgarth, f When they attempt humour," fays our author, u it is by making a drunkard vomit; they take eva- < s cuations for jokes ; and when they make us fick, * c think they make us laugh. A boor hugging a f* frightful frow is a frequent incident, even in the f 1 works of Tenters,*' Shall we proceed to examine whether the fcenes painted by our countryman are wholly free from the fame indelicacies ? In one plate of Hudibras, where he encounters a Skimmington, a man is making water againil the end of a houfe, while a taylor's "wife is mofl iignificantly attending to the dirty procefs. In another plate to the fame work, a boy is pifling into the fhoe of Ralpho, while the widow is {landing by. Another boy in the En- raged Muftcian is earing nature by the fame mode ; and a little mifs is looking earneflly on the operation. In the March to Finchley, a difeafed foldier has no better employment j and a ivoman is likewife flaring at [ 6o ] at him out of a window. This circumftance did not *fcape the obfervation of Rouquet the enameller, whofe remarks * on the plates of our artift I (hall have more than once occafion to introduce. " II y a," fays he, " dans qnelqnes endroits de cet excellent ta- •' blean, des objets peut etre plus propres a pcindre " qu'a decrire. D bu vient que lcs oreilies font plus ** chafte que les yeux ? Ne feroit ce pas parce qu'on tc peut regarder certains objets dans un tableau, et " feindre de ne pas les voir ; et qu'il n'elt pas 11 11 aise d'entendre une obfcenite, et de feindre de ne " l'entendre pas ! L'objet, dont je veux parler, eft '* tcutefois peuconfiderable; il s'agit feulement d'un 4t foldat a qui le voyage de Mor.tpelier conviendroit s< mieux que celui d'Eccjfe. L 'amour lui a fait une *' blcffure, &c." Was this occurrence delicate or pre- cious enough to deferve fuch frequency of repetition? In the burlefque Paul before Felix, when the High Pricfl applies his fingers to his nole, we have reafon to imagine that his manoeuvre was in confequence of ibme offcnlive efcape during the terrors of the pro- cpnful of Judea, who, as he is here reprefented, conveys no imperfect image of a late Lord Mayor, at the time of the riots in London, In this laft in- ilance, indeed, I ought to have obferved that Hogarth mean to fatirize, not to imitate, the painters of Hol- land and Flanders. But I forbear to dwell any longer on fuch difgufting circumftances; begging leave only to atk, whether the canvas of Centers exhibits naftier * Some account of this work will be given in a future page. objects [ 6t ] obj efts than thofe of the woman cracking a loufc between her nails in the fourth plate of the Harlot's Progrefs ; a Scotch bag. piper catching another in his neck while he is performing at the Election feaft ; Aurora doing the fame kind office for a Syren or Nereid, in the Strollers, he. ; the old toothlefs French bel- dams, fiobbering (Venus forbid we mould call it kif- 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 clyftcr to Gulliver? In fome of thefe inftances, how- ever, the humour may compenfate for the indelicacy* which is rarely the cafe with fuch Dutch pictures as have juftly incurred the cenfure of Mr. IValpole. Let us now try how far fome of the compositions of Hogarth have befriended the caufe of modefly. In the Harlot's Progrefs, Piate VI. we meet with a hand by no means bufied in manner fuitable to the pu- rity of its owner's function. 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 whorem after, who (I borrow R.ouquet's words) " eft plus occupe de fa voiiine que u . de fon vin, qu'il repand par une detraction qu' " clle lui caufe." He who, in the eyes of the vul- gar, would degrade our profeflbrs of religion, de- ferves few thanks from fociety. In the Rake's Pro- grefs, Plate the laft, how is the hand of the ideal potentate employed, while he is gazing with no very -model! afpect on a couple of young women who paf 9 a before C 62 ] before his cell numbered 5$ ? and to what particu- lar objecl: are the eyes of the faid females fuppofed to be directed * ? Nay, in what purfuit is the grenadier engaged who Hands with his faee toward the wall in Plate 9. of Induftry and Idknefs ? May we addrefs an- other queftion to the reader ? Is the "fmile of Socrates,** or the " benevolence of the defigner," very diftinguifh- able in the half dozen lafl instances ? It has been ob- ferved indeed by phyfiognomifls, that the Jmile of the real Socrates refembled the grin of a fatyr ; and perhaps a few of the particulars here alluded to,- as well as the prints entitled Before and After, ought to be confidered as a benevolence to fpeculative old maids, or miffes not yet enfranchifed from a boarding fchool. Had this truly fenfible critic, and elegant writer, been content to obferve, that fuch grofs cir- cumftances as form the chief fubject of Flemijh pictures, are only incidental and fubordinate in thofe of our artifl, the remark might have efcaped repre- henfion. But perhaps he who has told us that " St, te Paul's hand was once improperly placed before the " wife of Felix" mould not have fuffered more glaring infults on decency to pafs without a cenfure. On this occafion, though I may be found to differ from Mr. Walpole, I am ready to confefs how much * See a note on Marriage- a-la-Mode (under the year 1745) ', from whence it fufficiently appears, that indelicacies, Sec. had been imputed to Hogarth's performances, and that, therefore, when he advertifed the fix plates of Marriagn-a-la-Mode, he thought it necefTary to affure the public that no indelicacy, in- decency , or personality , would be found in any of thele repre- fentations. regard C 63 3 regard is due to the opinions of a gentleman whofe mind has been long exercifed on a fubjedt which is almoft new to me; efpecially when I recoiled: that my prefent refearches would have had no guide, but for the lights held out in the laft volume of the Anecdotes of Painting in England, Hogarth boafted that he could draw a Serjeant with his pike, going into an alehoufe, and his Dog fol- lowing him, with only three ftrokes ; — which he ex- ecuted thus : / B A A. The perfpecYive line of the door. B. 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 Caraccu A fpecimen of Hogarth's propenfity to merriment, on the moft trivial occafions, is obfervable in one of his cards requefting the company of Dr. Arnold King to dine with him at the Mitre *. Within a circle, to * The exigence of this card having been doubted, it is engraved in our title-page, from the original now in Cbarlts Street^ Crofvenor Square, in the poffeffion of Dr. Wright, which C 64 ] which a knife and fork are the fupporters, the written part is contained. In the center is drawn a pye, with a mitre on the top of it ; and the invita- tion of our artift concludes with the following fport on three of the Greek letters — to Eta Beta Pi*. The reft of the infeription is not very accurately fpelt. A quibble by Hogarth is furely as refpectable 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 ftrokes of the ridiculous difcernible, which " fuit not with the dignity of his fubject. In his " preaching of St. Paul, a dog marling at a cat-}*; u and in his Pharaoh's Daughter, the figure of " the infant Mofes, who exprefTes rather archnefs " than timidity ; are alledged as instances, that. this " artift, unrivalled in his own walk, could not refift " the impulfe of his imagination towards drollery. fi His picture, however, of Richard III. is pure and " unmixed, without any ridiculous circumftances, ■* This pun remind? us of a fknilar one from Garth to Ro-zve, who making repeated ufe of his {huff-box, the DcHor at laft fent it to him with the two Greek letters written on the lid, [ 69 ] Yc fair, if happinefs ye prize, Regard this rule, Be timely wife." In the " Mifer's Feaft," Mr. Hogarth thought proper to pillory Sir Ifaac Shard, a gentleman pro- verbially avaricious. Hearing this, the fon of Sir Ifaac, the late Ifaac Pacatus Shard *, efq. a young man of fpirit, juft returned from his travels, called at the painter's to fee the picture ; and, among the reft, afking the Cicerone " whether that odd figure M was intended for any particular perfon ;" on his replying, " that it was thought to be very like one " Sir Ifaac Shard ;" he immediately drew his fword, and flafhed the canvas, Hogarth appeared inftantly in great wrath ; to whom Mr. Shard calmly juftified what he had done, faying, " that this was a very M npur, who has (hewn a thorough difintereftcdnefs, a great ft love of liberty, and a fteady attachment to the public, in it every part of his conduft through life. It was impoftible tc fuch a character could be miffed by the poifonous fhafts of " envy, which we fee pointed at all fut/:rior virtue ♦' Mr. Hogarth's wit on this noble lord is confined to the *' wretched conceits of the Temple Coffee -houfc y and a J "quirt to. *' fignify the, playing on the miniftry. I really believe this wit W is all Mr. Hogatttfs own. " When a man of parts dedicates his talents to the fervice " of his country, he deferves the higheft rewards : when he f* makes them fubfervierrt to bafe purpofes, he merits execra- <{ tion and punifhment. Among the Spartans^ mufic and poer f* try were made to ferve the nobleft purpofes of the Lacedc- *' monian itate. A manly courage* and great contempt of M death were infpired by tfiem • and the poet, nmfician, fol- ■ ' defpifed the low mechanic lucre of the profeffion, and was *' zealous only for the glory of his country. In the year *' 1746, when the Guards were ordered to march to Fi/ichley, *' on the moft important fervice they could be employed in, V the extinguishing a Scottijh rebellion, which threatened the f* intire ruin of the illufrrious family on the throne, and, in " confequence, of our liberties, Mr. Hogarth came out with *' a print to make them ridiculous to their countrymen and tq M all Europe; or perhaps it rather was to tell the Scots in his •"• way how little the Guards were to be feared, and that they *' might lately advance. That the ridicule might not imp *' here, and that it might be as often five as poffible to his own \f fovcrcign, he dedicated the print to the kjngof Pru[s"]ia *, f* as an encourager of arts. Is this patriotifm ! In old Rome t f? or in any of the Grecian ftates, he would have been pu- f This is the orthography of Mr. Hozartb* £cc the print. t' nifhed. C *7 1 " When Mr. Wilkes was the fecond time brought w from the Tozucr to WeJlminfter-haU, Mr. Hogarth " fkulked behind in a corner of the gallery of the *' Court of Common Picas; and while the Chief Juf- " tice Pratt *, with the eloquence and courage of old " nilhed as a profligate citizen, totally devoid of all principle. M In England he is rewarded, and made ferjeant painter to **■ that very king's grandfon. I think the term means the " fame as what is vulgarlv called /We-painter ; and indeed *' he has not been fuffered to caricature the royal family. The " poft of portrait-painter is given to a ScotJman y one Ram fay. *' Mr. Hogarth is only to paint the wainfcot of the rooms, or, ** in the phiv.ie of the art, may be caMed their pannri-pahiter. " But how have the Guards offended Mr. Hogarth, for he is " again attacking them in The Times f Lord Harringtons fe- " cond troop of grenadier guards is allowed to be very perfect M in every part of military difcipline ; and Hogarth's friend, t$ the kiijg of Prujia, could have fhewn him the real impor- M tance of it. He had heard them much applauded, and M therefore muft abufe them. The ridicule ends however in " airs compofed by Harrington, and in a piece ot dock-work ; 'J but he ought to have known, that though Fhomme machine "■ is not io\m<\ philofophy, it is the true doctrine of tactics. " The Militia has received fo many ju it teitirnonies 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 jefler will have Mr. George To-ivn/hend's free confent ** to vent his fpleen upon him and the gentlemen of Norfolk. " 1 believe he may ever go on in this way almoft unnoticed ; " at one time ridiculing the Guards for a diforderly* and at " another the Militia for an exact and orderly march. Mr. ** Townjhend wUl hull have the warm applauie of his country, " and the truelt faticfaction, that of an honett heart, for his " patriot labours in eftablifhing this great plan of Internal de- '* fence, a Militia, which h.a9 delivered us from the ignominy " of foreign hirelings, and the ridiculous fears of invafion, by " a brave and well-diicipliued body or Englijhmc.-:, at all time9 '* ready and zealous for the defence of their country, and ci ** its laws and conlHtution." * The prefent Lord Camden, G 4 ■" Romey [ S8 ] u Rome, was enforcing the great principles of Magna Ci Charta, and the Englijh con flit ution, while every " breaft from him caught the holy flame of liberty, u the painter was wholly employed in caricaturing " the perfon of the man ; while all the reft of his " fellow citizens were animated in his caufe, 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 fentence of the " judges of that court, and they were all prefent. ;ri-heads, the phyficians-arms, and fome " of his other pieces, are exprefsly of this humorous kind. '* They are truly comic ; though ill-natured effufions of " mirth: more entertaining tha.n Spagniokt's, as they are pure y *' nature; but lefs innocent, as they contain ill-directed ridi- €< cule. — But the fpecies of expreffion, in which this mafter " perhaps moit excels, is that happy art of catching thofe pe^ *' culiarjties of air, and gefUire, which the ridiculous part of V every prpfeflipn contrail ; and which, for that reafon, be- " come charactcriltics of the whole. His counfellors, his un- *' dertakers, his lawyers, his ufurers, are all confpicuous at " fight. In a word, almoft every profeffion may fee, in his ** works, tkat particular fpecies of affectation which they M fiiould [ *°9 ] Hogarth's labours, I hope that I fhall not be blamed if, by including Mr. Walpole's catalogue, I have en- deavoured from later difcoveries of our artifVs prints in other collections, to arrange them in chronologi- cal order. It may not be unamufing to trace the rife and progrefs of a Genius fo Itrikingly original. Hogarth gave firft impreffions of all his plates to his late friends the Rev. Mr. Tozvnley and Dr. Ifaac Schomberg *. Both fets were fold fince the death of thefe gentlemen. That which was Dr. Sthomberg's '* fhould moft endeavour to avoid. The execution of this " mailer is well-fuited to hisfubjects, and manner of treating *' them. He etches with great fpirit ; and never gives one f V unneceffary ftroke. For myfelf, I greatly more value the *' works of his own needle, than thole high-finifhed prints on " which he employed other engravers. For as the production ** of an effect is not his talent ; and as this is the chief excel- " lence 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, (truck *' off at once, warm from the imagination, than in all the •' cold correctnefs of an elaborate engraving. If all his works * c 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 collection of " prints than they are. The Rake'? Progrefs, and fome of " his other works, are both etched and engraved by himfelf: *' they are well done ; but it is plain he meant them as furni- " ture. 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 effect too " would have been lefs confpicuous, which in his higheft- *' finifhed prints is dilagreeably ftriking." Gilpin, Ejjay e% JFrints, p. 165. * To whom Hogarth bequeathed ten guineas for a ring. 6 became C m 3 became the property of the late Sir John Chapman, ba- ronet; and parTed after his death into the hands of his brother, the late Sir William Chapman. I fliould add, indeed, that our artift never forted his impreffions, felecting the flight from the flrong ones : fo that they who wifh to poffefs any equal feries of his prints, muft pick it out of different fets. A portrait of Samuel Martin, efq. the antagonift of Mr. Wilkes, which Mr. Hogarth had painted for his own ufe, he gave as a legacy to Mr. Martin* Mrs. Baynes, of Kneeton-Hall, near Richmond, York* /hire, has an original picture by Hogarth, four feet two inches long, by two feet four inches wide. It is a landfcape, with feveral figures ; a man driving fheep ; a boat upon a piece of water, and a diftant view of a town. This picture was bought in London, by her father, many years ago. At Lord E flex's fale, in January 1777, Mr. Garrick bought a picture by Hogarth, being the examination of the recruits before the juflices Shallow and Silence. For this, it was faid in the news-papers, he gave 350 guineas. I have fince 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 thefe fums, though in the public prints he did not think fuch a confeflion neceflary. It was in reality an indifferent performance, as thofe of Hogarth commonly were, when he flrove to paint lip to the ideas of others. Mr. Browning, of King's College, Cambridge, has a fmall picture by Hogarth, reprefenting Clare-Market. It «« ] It feem9 to have been one of our artifl's early per- formances. There are three large pictures by Hogarth, over the altar in the church of St. Mary RedcliffsX. Briftol ; the fegling of the facred Sepulchre, the Afcenfion, and the three Maries, &c. A fum of money was reft to defray the expence of thefe ornaments, and it found its way into Hogarth's pocket. The original Iketches in oil for thefe performances, are now at Mrs. Hogarth's houfe in Leicefter-fields. In Lord Grofvenor's houfe, at Milbank, Wejlminjler, is a fmall painting by our artift on the following fubjedt. A boy's paper-kite iri falling become en- tangled with furze : the boy arrives juft as a crow is : coring it in pieces. The expreffion in his face is worthy of Hogarth. Hoga-i th was alfo fuppofed to have had fome hand in the exhibition of figns *, projected above 20 years ago by Bonnet Thornton, of feftive memory ; but I am informed, that he contributed no otherwife to- wards this difplay, than by a few touches of chalk. Among the heads of diftinguifhed perfonages, finding * It having been requeued in the Catalogue of this exhibi- tion (which was in Bozv-ftreet, Covent-Garden) that all remarks on the artifts, or their performances, might be fent to TJjc &. Jatnefs Chronicle ; the compiler of thefe Anecdotes tranfmitted a few hafly lines, which were printed in that paper April 29, 1762. They are not worth tranferibing : but a fliort extract will preferve the assumed names of fome of the artifts — y tl And Mafmore, Lr/rcr's, Ward'., and Fift)iourne*s name, " With thine, VJMyck, fiiall live to endleis fame; " In your collection Wit and Skill combine, " And Humour flews in every vvell-choie Sign." thofe [ it* 3 thofe of the King of Prujfia and the Emprefs of Hungary, he changed the cart of their eyes fo as to make them leer fignificantly at each other. This is related on the authority of Mr. Cohnan, Mr. Richardfon (" now," as Dr. John/on fays, *' better known by his books than his pictures," though his colouring is allowed to be mafterly) hav- ing accounted for fome clafficai quotations in his notes on Milton, unlearned as he was, by his fon's afiifting him as a telefcope does the eye in aftrono*- my ; Hogarth mewed him with a telefcope looking through his^fon (in no very decent attitude) at a Virgil aloft on a flielf ; but afterwards deftroyed the plate, and recalled the prints. Qu. if any remain, and what date? — I mtfch queflion whether this fubject was ever thrown upon copper, or meant for the public eye. In the " Nouveau Dictionnaire Hiftorique, Caen, " 1783," our artiffc is thus characterized: " Ses " compofitions font mal deffinees & foiblement colo- t( ries ; mais ce font des tableaux parlans de diverfes *' fcenes comiques ou morales de la vie. II avoit " neglige le mechanifme de fon art, c'efr a-dire, les t( traits du pinceau, le rapport des parties entr'elles, f e l'effet du clare obfcure, l'harmonie du colons, &c. u pour s'elever jufqua la perfection de ce raecha- " nifme, c'eft a-dire, au poetique & au moral de la (( peinture. ' Je reconnois,' difoit-il, ' tout le monde " pour juge competent de mes tableaux, exceptc les " connoifleurs de profefiion." Un feul exemple prou- " vera combien ftuffit. 11 avoit fait graver une *■ eftampe, C i«3 1 eftampe, dans laquelle il avoir exprime avec « energie les differens tourmens qu'on fait eprouver * aux animaux. Un ch'artier fouetto'it un jour fes • chevaux avec bcaucoup dc duret~ ; un bon hommc, 1 touche de pitie, lui dit, ' Miferable ! tu n'as done c pas vu l'eftampe d'Hogartb F II n'etoit pas feule- 1 ment peintre, il fut ecrivain. II publia en 1750 c un traite en Anglois, intitule, ' Analyfe de la BeauteJ 1 L'auteur pretend que les formes arrondies confti- c tuent la beaute du corps : principe vrai a certains ' egards, faux a plufieurs autres. Foy. fur cet ar« 1 rifle, la fecond volume du * Mercure de France,* ' Janvier, 1770." Mr. Peter Dupont, & merchant, had the drawing of Paul before Felix, which he pufchafed for 20 gui- neas, and bound up with a fet of Hogarth's prints. The whole fee was afterwards fold by auction, at Baker's, for 1 7 /. to Mr. Ballard of Little Britain, in whofe catalogue it flood fome time marked at 25 /. and was parted with for lefs than that fum. The following original drawings, by Hogarth, are now in the collection of the Rev. Dr. Lort : A coloured fketch of a Family Picture, with ten whole-length figures, mofl infipidly employed. A Head of a Sleeping Child, in colours, as large as life, &c. &c. &c. When Hogarth defigned the print intituled Morning, his idea of an Old Maid appears to have been adopted from one of that forlorn fiflerhood, when emaciated by corroding appetites, or, tc borrow Dryden's more I forcible [ "4 ] forcible language, by " agony of unaccomplished " lave. ' But there is in being, and perhaps in Leiccjier- fic!d<. a fecond portrait by our artift, exhibiting the influence of the fame misfortune on a more fieftiy carcafe. The ancient virgin * now treated of, i9 corpulent even to fhapeleflnefs. Her. neck refembles a collar of brawn ; and had her arms been admitted on the canvas, they muft have rivalled in magnitude the thighs of the Farm fun god. Her bofom, luckily for the fpe&ator, is covered ; as a difplay of it would have ferved only to provoke abhorrence* But what words can paint the excefs of malice and vulgarity predominant in her vifage ! — an inflated hide that feems binding with venom — a brow wrinkled by a. Sardonic grin that threatens all the vengeance an affronted Fury would rejoice to exe- cute. Such ideas alio of warmth does this moun- tain of quaggy flefh communicate, that, without hyperbole, one might fwear fhe would parch the earth (he trod on, thaw a frozen poft-boy, or over- heat a glafshoufe. " How dreadful," faid a by- ftand^r, " would be this creature's hatred \" " How " much more formidable," replied his companion, " would be her love !" — Such, however, was the ikill of Hogarth, that he could imprefs (miliar indi- cations of ftale virginity on features directly con- traced, and force us to acknowledge one identical character in the brim-full and exhausted reprefenta* tive of involuntary female celibacy. * She is (till living, and haj been loud in abufe of thi* work, a circumftance to which ike owes a niche in it. [ "5 ] Mr. S: Ireland has likewife a fketch in chalk, oil blue paper, of Falftaff and his companions ; two Sketches intended for the "Happy Marriage;" a iketch for a picture to mew the pernicious effects of mafquerading ; fketch of King George II. and the royal family ; fketch of his prefent Majefty, taken haftily on feeing the new coinage of 1764; portrait of Hogarth by himfelf, with a palette ; of Juftice Weijb*; of Sir James Thornbill ; of Sir Edward Walpole \ ; of his friend George Lambert, the land- fcape-paintcr ; of a boy ; of a girl's head, in the character of Diana, finimed according- to Hoparth's Idea of beauty ; of a black girl ; and of Governor Rogers and his family, a converfation-piee'e ; eleven Sketches from Nature, dciigned for Mr. Lambert j four drawings of converfations at Button's Coffee- houfe ; Cynwn and Iphigenia ; two black chalk draw- ings (landfeapes) given to Mr. Kirby in 1762; three heads, flightly drawn with a pen by Hogarth $ to ex- emplify his diuinclion between Character and Cari- cature, done at the defire of Mr. Townley, whofe fon gave them to Dr. Schomberg ; a landfeape in oil 5 tvith feveral other iketches in oil. The late Mr. Forrejl, of York Buildings^ was in poffeflion of a fketch in oil of our Saviour (defigned * Among the compliments Hogarth was difpofed to pay his Own genius, he afferted his ability to take a complete likenefs in three quarters of an hour. This head of MP. Weljh was^/ p .inted within the compals of the time prefcribed, but had afterwards the advantage of a fecond fitting. •f Mr. Walpole is now poileffecl of the portrait of his brother Sir Edward. I 2 35 [ "6 1 as a pattern for painted glafs), together with the original portrait of Tibfon the Laceman *, and feveral drawings defcriptive of the incidents that happened during a five days tour by land and water. The parties were Meffieurs Hogarth, Thomhill (fon of the late Sir James), Scott (the ingenious landfcape-painter of that name), Tothall \, and Forreft. They fet out at * This, and the preceding article, are now in the poffeffion of Peter Coxe, eiq. of College Hill, in the city, executor to Mr. Forrefi, and brother to the Rev. WiUiam Coxe, who has obliged the world with his Travels through Poland, RuJJia, &c. f The following brief Memoirs of Mr. William Tothall, F. A. S. were communicated by Dr. Ducarel, who was per- fonally acquainted with Mr. Tothall, and received the intel- ligence in a letter from the Rev. Mr. Lyon, Minifter of St, Marys at Dover, to whom the particulars in it were related by Captain Buljhode of that town. " Sir, Dover, June tx, 1781. " The following narrative of your friend Tothall may be de- " pendedupon, as Captain Bulfirode informs me he frequently '* heard it from Tothall himfelf. His father was an apothe- " cary in Fleet- ftrcet ; but dying, as Captain Buljlrode thinks, 44 while his ion was young, and in but indifferent circum- " (lances (as his mother afterwards practifed as a midwife), ** he was taken by an uncle, who was a fifhmonger. He lived *' with his uncle fome time ; but, not approving of the bufi- " neis, ran away from him, and entered 011 board a merchant- *" iliip going to The Weft Indies. He alfo went feveral times to *« Xevcfomidland. During the time of his being in T).->e Wefi ** Indies, though fo early in life, he was indefatigable in the " collecting ot fhells, and brought home feveral utterly un- " known in England. He continued at fea till he was almoft, ** 30 years of age. In one of his voyages he was taken by *' the Spaniards, and marched a confide rable way up the " country, without Ihoe or flocking, with only a woollen cap " on his head, and a brown waiitcoat on, with a large ltaff " in his hand. He had afterwards his picture drawn in this M drci's. He continued a priibner till exchanged. « When t "7 ] at midnight, at a moment's warning, from the Bed- ford Arms Tavern, with each a fhirt in his pocket. They " When he was about 30 years of age, he went as fhopman ct to a woollen draper at the coiner or Tavijrock Court, Covent *' Garden, with whom he continued fome years ; and his matter, 44 finding him a faithful iervant, told him, * as he dealt. *' c*ly in cloth, and his cuttomers were taylors, he would ** lend him meney to buy (balloons and trimmings, and re- ** commend him to his chapmen, it he liked to take the trou- 44 ble and the profit of the branch upon himfelf.' He readily *• accepted the propofal. U About the fame time an acquaintance in The Weft Indies " fent him a puncheon of rum. Before he landed it, hecon- 44 fulted his matter what he fhould do with it ; who adviied 44 him to fell it out infmall quantities, and lent him a cellar f * in his houfe. He followed this advice ; and, finding the 44 profits confiderable, wrote to his correfpondent in The Weft 44 Indies to fend him another fupply ; and from this time he " commenced rum, brandy, and (balloon merchant. 44 1 cannot learn how long he continued in this way ; but *' his matter having acquired a fortune, and being delirous of 44 retiring from bufinefs, left him in pofleiTion of his whole 44 ftock at prime coft, and he was to pay him as he fold it. 44 He now commenced woollen-draper, and continued in this 44 bulinefs till he acquired a fum fufGcient, as he thought, to 44 retire upon ; and he left his bulinefs to his fhopman, the ** late Mr. Job Ray, on the fame conditions his matter left it 44 to him. 44 During his refidence in Content Garden, he became a mem- " ber of the club at the Bedford Cofjee-boufe, and of co.urfe * 4 contracted an acquaintance with Hogarth, Lambert, and other *' men eminent in their way ; and Hogarth lived fome time in 44 his houfe on the footing of a moft intimate friend. 44 On quitting his bufinefs (being troubled with an afthma- 44 tical complaint) he came and lettied at Dover; where, foon 44 becoming connected with certain persons in the fmuggling 44 branch, he fitted out a bye-boat, which was defigned (as is " fuppofed) to promote their bufinefs ; but in this branch 44 Fortune, which had hitherto fmiled upon his endeavours, 44 now frowned upon his attempts. The veffel, in going over I 3 " with [ "8 ] They had particular departments to attend to. Ha- garth and Scott made the drawings ; Tkornbill the map i Tot hall faithfully difcharged the joint office of treafurer and caterer; and Forrejl wrote the journal. They were out five days only ; and on the fecond night after their return, the book was produced, bound, gilt, and lettered, and read at the fame ta- vern to the members of the ciub then prefent. Mr. Forrejl had alfo drawings of two of the members (Gabriel Hunt and Ben Read), remarkable fat men, in ludicrous fituations. Etchings from all thefe hav- ing been made in 1782, accompanied by the original journal in letter-prefs, an account of them will ap- pear in the Catalogue under that year. '* with horfes either to OftenJ or Fhjlnng. was loft. This, ** with fome other loffcs, fo reduced him, that he was rather *' ftraitened in his circumftances, and he could not live as he ** had done previous to the loffes he iuftained. " His refidence was near the Rope-walk at Dover (fince *' pulled down), where his old friend Hogarth frequently vi- " fited him : but being in a decline, and his ailhma increafing, *' he bought a veryfmall cottage at Weft Langdon, about three " miles from Dover, to which he ufed to go on horfeback. *' Digging in a very fmall garden belonging to this cottage, " he had the good fortune to find fome valuable foiiils ; which *' to a man of his tafte was a lingular treafure. He. died •* January 9, 1768, at the age of 70 (poUeiled of about " 1500/.), and was buried at St. Marys Church at Dover, il His collection of fliells and follils were fold by audio n at t* LangfortCs, the following year. " The foregoing is the fubftance of what I have gathered " from Capt. BulJlroJe, If there fhould be any other parti- •* cular which you are dehrous of knowing, 1 fhall be happy *' to make the inquiry, and to communicate it ; and am, Sir, M your moft obedient humble fervant, J. Lyon." C "9 1 A tranfcript of the journal was left in the hands of Mr.Go/tiing ,whovvrotean imifationot it in Hit libraflic verfe; twenty copies only of which having been printed in 1781, as a literary curio'" ty -f, I was re- queued by lome of my friends to reprint it at the 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 pre- ferve the Tour in a more agreeable drefs cannot, it is prefumed, be deemed an impropriety. See the Appendix, N° III. * Will-am Gojiling, M. A. a minor canon of Canterbury ca- thedral for fifty years, and vicar of Stone in the iile of Oxncy % Kent, well known to all lovers of antiquity bv his truly ori- ginal " Walk in an-i about Canterbury" iirft printed in 1774, of which there have been three eduions He died March 9, 1777, in the 82d year of his age Of his father, who was firft a minor canon of Canterbury , and afterwards one of the priefts of the chapel-royal and fub-dean of St. Paufs, there are feveral anecdotes, communicated by his ion, m Sir John Hawkins* i " Hithory of Mufic " To which may be added what King Charles II. is reported to have laid of him, *' You " may talk as much as you pleafe of your nightingales, but I " have a Gq/ling who excels them all." Another time, the fame merry monarch prei'ented him with a iilver egg filled with guineas, faying, *' that he had heard that eggs were * 4 good for the voice." •J- See the Catalogue, under the year 1782. I 4 CATA- [ I*° ] CATALOGUE O F HOGARTH'S PRINTS*. I AM now engaged in an undertaking, which from its nature will be imperfect. While Ho- garth was yet an apprentice, and worked on his mailer's account, we may fuppofe he was not at li- berty to affix his name to his own performances. Nay, afterwards, when he appeared as an indepen- dent artiit, he probably left many of them anony. mous, being fometimes obliged to meafure out his exertions in proportion to the fcanty prices paid for them. For reafons like thefe, we may be fure that many of his early plates mufl have eluded fearch ; and, if gradually difcovered, will ferve only to fwell the collections they will not adorn.— The judicious connoifleur, perhaps, would be content to pofTefs the pictures of Raffaelle, without aiming at a com- * It is proper to acknowledge, that all fuch fhort flri&ures and annotations en theie performances as are diftinguifhed by- being printed both in Italics and between inverted commas, are copied from the lift of Hogarth's works publiflied by Mr. WaU fofe, pietfj C «« 3 plete afTemblage of the Roman Fayence that pafFcs under his name. In fettling the dates of his pieces there is alfo dif- ficulty. Sometimes, indeed, they have been inferred from circurriftances almoft infallible ; as in rcfpedfc to the Rabbit-breeder ; &c. which would naturally have been *publiftied in the year 17:6. On other occafions they are determined within a certain compafs of time. Thus the Ticket Jor Mil-ward, then a player at Lin- coln {-Inn Fields, muft have preceded 1733, when he removed with Rich to Govent Gaaden; and it is equally fure, that Orator Henley cbrifter'ng an Infant, and A Girl /wearing a child to a grave citizen, came out before 1735, in which year we*fcoow that J. Y. Schley, one of Picart 9 s coadjutors, had rfcsengraved them both for the ufe of the fourth volume of the Religious Ceremonies, publifhed at Am/lerdam in 1756. But how are we to guefs at the period that produced Sancho at Dinner, or 'The Difcovery ? The merits and demerits of his performances would prove deceitful guides in our refearches. As our artift grew older, he did not regularly advance in eflimation ; for neither the frontifpieces to Trijiram Shandy, the Times, the Bathos, or the Bear, can be faid to equal many of hisearlieft productions. — Under fuch difficulties is the following chronological lid of our author's pieces attempted. The reader is likevvife entreated to obferve, that throughout the annexed catalogue of plates, varia- tions, &c* J» N. has mentioned only fuch as he has feen. C 122 ] feen. Alike unwilling to deceive or be deceived, he has fupprefTed all intelligence he could not authenti- cate from immediate infpedion. He might eafily have enlarged his work by admitting particulars of doubtful authority, fometimes imperfectly recollected by their feveral communicators, and fometimes of- fered as fportive impofitions on an author's credulity. Of this weaknefs every one potTefTes fome ; but per- haps no man more than he who anal ' 'oufly feeks op- portunities to improve on the ft of another. J, N. is fore Ik ... . I /aipole, whom none can exceed in taite and judgment, will be little con- cerned about the merits of a performance that founds its claim to notice only on the humbler pre- tences of indufi ad corrcfLnefs. 1720. ; 1. W. Hogarth, engraver, with two figures and tv/Q Qupids, April 28, 1720. 1721. i. An emblematic print on the South Sea. W. Ho- garth inv. & fc. Sold by Mrs. Chilcot in Wejlminfter- hall y and B. Caldwell, Printfeller in Newgate-Jlreet. " Perfons riding on wooden-h rfes. I'he Devil cutting cc Fortune into collops. A man broken on the wheel, &c t cc A very poor performance " Under it are the fol- lowing verfes : See here the caufes why in London So many men are made and undone j That [ 1*3 ] That arts and honefr trading drop, To ivvarm about the Devil's mop (A), Who cuts out (B) Fortune's golden haunches, Tcftppiag their ibuls with lots and chances, Sharing 'em from blue garters down To all blue aprons in the town. Here all religions flock together, Like tame and wild fowl of a feather, Leaving their ftrife religious buftle, Kneel down to play at pitch and huftle(C) : Thus when the fhepherds are at play ; Their floeks muft furely go aftray ; The woeful caufe that in thefe times (E) Honour and Honefty (D) are crimes That publickly are punifh'd by (G) Self-Intereft and (F) Vilany ; So much for mony's magic power, Guefs at the reft, you find out more. Price One Shilling *; Jt may be obferved, that London always affords a fet of itinerant poets, whofe office it is to furnifli in- fcriptions for fatirical engravings. I lately overheard one of thefe unfortunate fons of the Mule making a bargain with his employer. (i Your print," fays he, ?' is a taking one, and why won't you go to the price t: 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 considered as the author of them. * For fome further account of this defigr., fee the article Man ofTa/Ie, under the year 1732, N c 7. 1 ' ° f [ IH ] Of this print emblematic of the South Sea, there are, however, two impreffions. The fecond, printed for Bowles, has been retouched. 2. The Lottery *. W. Hogarth inv. S3 fculp. Sold hy Chi /cot and Caldwell. s y April - t , J781, for 59 guineas, to Mr. Ingham Fojler, a wealthy ironmonger, fince dead. A fet, containing only 100 prints, had been fold fome time before, at the fame place, for 47 guineas. The Hon. Topbam Beau* clerk's fet, of only 99 prints, was fold in 1781 (while this note, was printing off for the firft edition) for 34/. JO*. they [ ii 9 j they were furnifhed by an eminent Connoiffeur *. A board is likewife difplayed, with the words— " Long Room. Fawks's dexterity of hand." It ap- pears front the following advertifcment in MijVs Weekly Journal for Saturday, December 25 j 1725, that this art ift was a man of great confequence in his profeffion. " Whereas the town hath lately been " alarmed, that the famous Fazvh was robbed and {t murdered, returning from performing at the cc Dutchefs of Bucking/jam's rioule at Cbelfea ; which " report being raifed and printed by a perfon to gain " money to himfelf, and prejudice the above men- ec tioned Mr. Fawks, Whole unparalleled perfbrman- " ces have gained him fo much applaufe from the e * greateft of quality, and molt curious obfervers : M We think, both in juftice to the injured gentle- *' man, and for the fatisfa&ion of his admirers, that " we cannot plcafe our readers better than to acquaint " them he is alive, and will not only perform his " ufual furprizing dexterity of hand, pofture-mafter, " and mufical clock ; but for the greater diverfion a of the quality and gentry, has agreed with the fa- " mous Powell of 7 he Bath for the leafon, who has *' the largeft, richeft, and moft natural figures, and * It is not, indeed, inconvenient for the reputation of this famous connoiffeur, that his name continues to be a fecret. Either he r.ouid not fpell, or his copier was unable to read what he undertook to tranferibe. PqfiWon muft be a mirtake for feme other word. The whole note, in the original, ap- pears to have been the production of a male Slip-flop, perhaps of high h'.Ihion. His petulant inve&ive againii Lord Burlington is here omitted. K " fineft c 13° n " fineft machines in England, and whofe former per- " formances in Covent Garden were fo engaging to " the town, as to gain the approbation of the beft " judges? to lhow his puppet-plays along with him, " beginning in the Chrijlmas holidays next,, at the " old Tennis-court in Jamesjlreet, near The Haymar- tc ket; where any incredulous perfons maybe fatisfied r Ikiil to all other a&ors, and 44 confequently had a greater influence than tin. reft, and " could lead after them a larger number of followers It was *' by means of the incefiant clamour and oi cry that thJ'e *' mifcreants raifed, and of the lies and forgeries which they *' fcattered about the nation, that the common people were till the money he had amaffed falls out of his pocket. The fituation of the buildings, &c. on the iides, &c. has been followed by our artift. Mer- cury aloft fuftains a fcroll, on which is written " The sc Mafcarade de^troy'd." The infcription under this print is " Hei Degeror. O ! I am undone." Price One. Shilling, 1725. 1. Five fmall prints for the tranflation ofCaffandra, in five volumes duodecimo. W. Hogarth inv.&fculp. 2. Fifteen head pieces for " The Roman Military f Punimments, by John Beaver, Efq. London. From " the happy Revolution, Anno xxxvu." (i. e. 1725. Small quarto, pp. 155. From the, preface it mould feem that the author had been Judge Advocate. The book is divided into ieventeen chapters, each of which, except the fecond, third, feventh, and twelfth, have fmall head-pieces prefixed, of ancient military punimments, in the manner of Callot's Small Miferies of War. W. Hogarth inv. & fculp. In 1779, were fir ft fold by a printfeljer ten of thefe prints, together with two others not in the book, being fcenes of modern war ; a pair of drums being in one, and a foldier armed with a mufket in the other. Thus are there three prints in the book not in this fet ; viz. Chap. 9. §oldiers fold for Haves. 10. Degradation. 16. C Hs ] 16. Banifliment. There is alio in the title-page a little figure of a Roman General fitting ; probably done by Hogarth, though his name is not under it. In the year 1774, thefe plates were in the poflef- fion of a Button- manufacturer 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 Temple-Bar, their prefent proprietor. How they fell into the hands of the Birmingham manufacturer (who took off a few imprefiions from them), is un- known. Query. Does the plate engraved on both fides contain the two modern defigns ? In a Catalogue of Books fold by IV. Bat hoe , was included " Part of the Collection of the late ingeni- " ous IV. Hogarth, Efq. Serjeant Painter to his Ma- " jefty ;" in which was Beaver's " Roman Military " Puniihments," with twelve plates by Hogarth. The plate to Chap. XVII. viz. " Pay ftopt wholly, " or in part, by way of punifhment"- — " Barley given " to offenders inftead of wheat, &c." differs in many inftances from that fold with the fet. At the bottom of the former, in the book, we read, " W. Hogarth, " Invent, fculpt." The latter has t( W. Hogarth, in- " vent. &fec.'* The former has a range of tents be- hind the pay-table, Thefe are omitted in the latter ; which likewife exhibits an additional foldier atten- dant on the meafuring out of the corn, &c. K4 I do [ i3« 1 I do not mean to fay that the plate folcj with the fet is fpurious. Had it been a copy, it would natu- rally have been a fervile one. Some reafon, now un- difcoverable, mull have prevailed on our artift to re-engrave it with variations. N. B. The two " fcenes of modern war," mention- ed alfo in p. 134. were defigned for a continuation of the fame work, which was never printed, as I guefs from the conclufion of the Author's preface. " This "regularly divided my book into tvyo parts; one *« treating of the Roman, the other of the Modern Mi' " litary Punijhments. The firft I now fend into the " world, as a man going into the water dips his fool " to feel what reception he is like to meet with ; by from a picture of Sir Godfrey Knellcr. This I fup- pofe to have been the original of Hogarth's fmall Sutler. The fame defighs engraved on a larger fcale, and with fome flight variations, by J. Mynde % for Grey's edition of Hudibras j publiftied in 1744* Previous, however, to both, appeared another fet of plates, eighteen in number, for an edition in eighteen* of this celebrated poem. To thefe it is manifeft that Hogarth was indebted for his ideas of feveral of the fcenes and perfonages both in his larger and fmaller performances on the fame fubjecT. That the col- lector may know the book when he meets with it, the following is a tranfeript of the title-page. i{ Hu- " dibras. In three Parts. Written in the time of " the late Wars. Corrected and amended, with " Additions. To which is added, Annotations to ext morning on particular bufinefs.' Hei- ei degger attended, and Jolly was there to meet him ; (( and in confequence, as foon as Heidegger's vifit was *'' over, Jolly received the cafh. " The late facetious duke of Montagu (the memo- *' raole author of the bottle conjuror at the theatre 6i in The Hay market) gave an entertainment at The (( Devil-tavern, Temple-bar, to feveral of the nobility " and gentry, fele£ting the molt convivial, and a " few hard-drinkers, who were all in the plot. *' Heidegger was invited, and in a few hours after " with candour — — for which the author defires no more M gratuity than a ticket for your next ball." There is a mezzotinto of Heidegger by J. Fabcr, 1742, (other copies dated 1749) from a painting by Fanloo, a linking likenefs, now (178 5) in the polieffion of Peter Crawford, eiq. of Cold Bath Fields. " dinner t '57 3 " dinner was made fo dead drunk that he was tl carried out of the room, and laid infenfible upon " a bed. A profound ileep enfued ; when the late " Mrs. Salmon's daughter was introduced, who took " a mould from his face in plafter of Paris. From " this a mafk was made, and a few days before the " next mafquerade (at which the king promiied to " be prefent, with the countefs of TarmoutbJ, the " duke made application to Heidegger's valet de " chambre, to know what fuit of cloaths he was " likely to wear ; and then procuring a fimilar " drefs, and a perfon of the fame itature, he gave " him his initruclions. On the evening of the " mafquerade, as foon as his majefty was feated " (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- " Megger, 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 ftrike up " * Cbarly over the Water.' The whole company *' were inftantly thunderftruck, and all the courtiers, " not in the plot, were thrown into a ftupid confter- t( nation. Heidegger flew to the mulic-gallery, fwore, M ttamped, and raved, accufed the muficians of " drunkenncfs, 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, ** f God fave the King* was the tune; but when, " after C '58 ] ,c after fetting matters to rights, he retired to one of " the dancing-rooms, to obferve if decorum was " kept by the company, the counterfeit ftepping " forward, and placing himfelf upon the floor of the €i theatre, juft in front of the mufic-gallery, called " out in a mod audible voice, imitating Heidegger, " damned them for blockheads, had he not juft iC who could hardly contain himfelf, interpofed. (t The company were thrown into great confufion. iC e Shame ! Shame !' refounded 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 himfelf to " himj told him, ' the king was in a violent paflion ; " that his belt way was to go inftantly and make an " apology, for certainly the mufic were mad, and " afterwards to difcharge them.' Almoft at the £i fame inilant, he ordered the falfe Heidegger to do " the fame. The fcene now became truly comic in " the circle before the king. Heidegger had no Sl fooner made a genteel apology for the infolence of " his [ l $9 ] " his mufieians, but the falfe Heidegger advanced, " and, in a plaintive tone, cried out, * Indeed, Sire, " it was not my fault, but that devil's in my likenefs.' " Poor Heidegger turned round, flared, ftaggered, " grew pale, and could not utter a word. The duke *' then humanely whifpered in his ear the fum of his " plot, and the counterfeit was ordered to take off " his mafk. Here ended the frolick ; but Heidegger " fwore he would never attend any public amufe- u ment, if that witch the wax- work woman did not " break the mould, and melt down the maik before " his face *. " Being once at fupper with a large company, ft when a queftion was debated, which nationalift of {l Europe, had the greateft ingenuity ; to the furprife " of all prefent, he claimed that character for the " Swift, and appealed to himfelf for the truth of it. * To this occurrence the following imperfect ftanzas, tranferibed from the hand-writing of Pope, are fuppofed to relate. They were found on the back of a page containing lomc part of his tranfiation, either of the " Iliad'* or M OdyfTey," in the Britijb Majcum. XIII. Then he went to the fide-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 hogfheads of Burgundy, Satan drank both. Then all like a ■ the Devil appear'd, And itrait the whole tables of dimes he clear'd ; Then a friar, then a nun, And then he put on A face all the company took for his own. Even thine, O falfe Heidegger ! who wert fo wicked To let in the Devil ■ ■ ■ [ i6o ] ct ( I was born a Sivifs* faid he, c and came to Eng± " land without a farthing, where I have found meani " to gain 5000 /. a year, and to fpend it. Now I " defy the moft able Englijhman to go to Switzerland, " and either to gain that income, or to fpend it there/ " He died Sept. 4, 1749, at r ^ e advanced age of 96 " years, at his houfe at Richmond in Surrey* where he " was buried. He left behind him one natural " daughter, Mifs Pappet, who was married Sept. 2, y~ tc lane, that there is now in rehearfal, and to be per- " formed on Tuefday, March 16, a new Scots Opera, * Of this one, Mr. S Ireland has the original drawing, f This piece had before nude its appeal ancc in j 730 in one aft only. " called [ »7* ] *' called The Highland Fair, or Union of the Clans, W &c." The fubjcdt being too local for the Englijh ftage, it met with little or no fucc'efs. 1732. 1. Sarah Malcolm *, executed March 7, 1732, for murdering * On Sunday morning,, the 4th of February, Mrs. l.ydla Dunarmbe, aged 80, Elizabeth Harrifon, her companion, aged 60, were found ftrangled, .and Ann Price, her maid, aged 17, with her throat cut, in their beds, at the faid Mrs. Dun combers apartments in Tanfield-Court in The Temple. Sarah Malcolm, a chare-woman, was apprehended the fame evening on the infor- mation of Mr. Kerrol, who had chambers on the fame flair- cafe, and had found fome bloody linen under his bed, and a filver tankard in his clofe-flool, which fhe had hid there. She made a pretended confeilion, and gave information againffc Thomas Alexander, James Alexander , and Mary 75 acey, that they committed the murder and robbery, and fhe only flood on the flairs as a watch ; that they took away three hundred pounds and fome valuable goods, of which fhe had not more than her ihare ; but the coroner's inqueft gave their verdict Wilful Mur-, Jer againft Malcolm only. — On the 23d her trial came on at The Old Bailey : when it appeared that Mrs. Duncombc had but 54/. in her box, and 53/. 11 s. 6rf. of it were fourrd upon Mai' colm betwixt her cap and hair. She owned her being con- cerned in the robbery, but denied fhe knew any thing of the murder till fhe went in with other company to fee the de- ceafed. The jury found her guilty of both. She was flrongly fufpefted to have been concerned in the murder of Mr. Nejbit in 1729, near Drury-lane, for which one Kelly, alias Owen, was hanged ; the grounds for his conviction being only a bloody razor found under the murdered man's head that was known to be his. But he denied to the laft his being concerned in the murder ; and faid, in his defence, he lent the razor to a woman he did not know. -,- On Wednejday, March 7, fhe was executed on a gibbet oppofite Mitre-court, Fleet-Jlrcet, where the crowd was fo great, that a Mrs. Stra>igways, who lived in Fleet-Jireet, near Serjeant's- Inn, croffed the ftreet, from her own houfe to Mrs. Couhhurfi x s on the oppofite fide of the way, over C '73 ] murdering Mrs. Lydia Buncombe her rjiiftrefej Elizabeth Harrifon, and Anne Price ; drawn in Nczvgate, W. Hogarth (ad vivum) pinxit cff fculpfit *. Some copies are dated 1733, an ^ have on b r HGgartb pinx. She was about twenty-five years of agef. " This zvoman ltl put on red to fit to him for her piclure two days before " her execution J." Mr. Walpolc paid Hogarth five guineas for the original. Profefibr Martyn diiTe&ed this notorious murderefs, and afterwards prelented ■over the heads and (houlders of the mob. She went to exe- 'Cution neatly drefled in a crape mourning gown, holding up her head in the cart with an air, and looking as if flie was painted, which fome did not fcruple to affirm. Ker corpfe was carried to an undertaker's upon Snow-hill, where multi- tudes of people reforted, and gave money to fee it : among the reft a gentleman in deep mourning, who kiffed her, and :gave the people half a crown. She was attended by the Rev. Mr. Pedi'ngton, le&urer of St. Bartholomew the Great, ieemed ipenitent, and delired to fee her matter Kerrol\ but, as (lie did not, protefted all accufations againft him were falfe. During her imprilonment (lie received a letter from her father at Dullin, who was in too bad circumftances to fend her fuch a fum as 17/. which (lie pretended he did. The night before her execution, (lie delivered a paper to Mr. Pedington (the copy 74 ] her Skeleton, in a glafs cafe, to the Botanic Garden- at Cambridge, where it ftill remains. 2. An engraved copy of ditto. 3. Ditto, mezzotinto. 4. Ditto, part graven, part mezzotinto. The knife with which me committed the murder is lying by her. 5. Another copy of this portrait * (of which only the firft was engraved by Hogarth), with the addi- tion of a clergyman holding a ring in his hand, and a motto, " No rccompence but Love f." In The Grub-jlreet Journal of Thurjday, March 8, 1732, appeared the following epigram : " To Malcolm Guthrie \ cries, confefs the murther ; The truth difclofe, and trouble me no further. Think on both worlds ; the pain that thou muftbear In that, and what a load of fcandal here. Confefs, confefs, and you'll avoid it all : Your body lha'n't be hack'd at Surgeons Hall : No Grub-ffrect hack fhall dare to ufe your ghoft ill, Henly fhall read upon your poft a poftile ; Hogarth your charms tranfmit to future times, And Cur II record your life in prole and rhimes. Sarah replies, thefe arguments might do From Hogarth, Curl/, and Henly, drawn by you, * A copy of it in wood was inferted in The Gentleman's Ma- gazine, 1733, p. 153. f This print was defigned as a frontifpiece to the pamphlet auverrii'ed in The Weekly Mifcellany % See the next page, X The Ordinary or Newgate. Were [ "75 ] 'Were I condemn 'd at Padington to ride : But now from Fleet-Jlreet Pedington's my guide." The office of this Pedington * may be known from the following advertifement in The Weekly Mifcellany, N°37. Augujl 25, 1733. " This day is publiflied, '" Price Six-pence, (on occafion of the Re-commit- " ment of the two Alexanders > with a very neat '" effigies of Sarah Malcolm and her Reverend Con- " fcjfor, both taken from the Life) The Friendly " Apparition : Being an account of the moft fur- " prifing appearance of Sarah Malcolm 's Ghoft to a y great affembly of her acquaintance at a noted Gin- " Ihop ; together with the remarkable fpeech flie ec then made to the whole company." 7. The Man of Taste. The Gate of Burlington- houfe. Pope white-wafhing it, and befpattering the Duke of Chandoi's coach. " A fit ire on Pope's " Epijile on Tafle. No name." It has been already obferved that the plate was fupprefled ; and if this be true, the fuppreffion may be accounted for from the following inlcription, lately met with at the back of one of the copies. " Bo 1 this book of Mr. Wayte, at The Fountain {< Tavern, in The Strand, in the prefence of Mr, " Draper, who told me he had it of the Printer, « Mr. W. Rayner\. J. Cefins!" On * Mr. Fcdlngton died September 18, 1734. He is fuppofed to have made iome amorous overtures to Sarah. f Rayncr was at that time already under profecution for publishing a pamphlet called, " Robin's Game, or Seven's " the C 176 ] On this attefted memorandum a profecution feems meant to have been founded. Cofins was an attorney, and Pope was defirous on all occafions to make the law the engine of his revenge. 7. The fame, in a fmaller fize ; prefixed to a pamphlet, intituled, " A Mifcellany of Tafte, by •' Mr. Pope/' &c. containing his Epiftles, with Notes and other poems. In the former of thefe Mr. Pope has a tie-wig on, in the latter a cap. 8. The fame, in a fize flill fmaller •, very coarfely engraved. Only one of them is noted by Mr. Walpole. A reader of thefe Anecdotes obferves, " That the *' total filence of Pope concerning fo great an aftift, " encourages a fufpicion that his attacks were felt " though not refented. The thunders of the poet " were ufually pointed at inglorious adverfaries ; " but he might be confeious of a more equal match te in our formidable caricaturift. All ranks of peo- " pie have eyes for pencil'd ridicule, but of written " fatire we have fewer judges. It may be fufpefted, " that the e pictured fhape* would never have *' been complained of, had it been produced only *.* by a bungler in his art. But from the powers of " Hogarth, Pope feems to have apprehended more cc lading inconvenience ; and the event has juflified Defies Jack Spaniard, nor invafion fears, * Land when they will, they ne'er cou'd hurt bis ears. * Methink I fee as yet his flowing hair And body, darting like a falling flar : Swifter than what " with fins or feathers fly Thro' the aerial or the wat'ry fky. Once more he dares to brave the pathlefs way, Fate now purfuing, like a bird of prey ; And, comet-like, he makes his lateft tour, In air excentric (oh ! ill-omen'd hour !) Bar'd in his fhirt to pleafe the gazing crowd, He little dreamt, poor foul ! of winding fliroud ! Nothing could aught av"ail but limbs of brafs, When ground was iron, and the Severn glafs. A« C «85 ] Let this fmall monument record the name Of Cadman, and to future times proclaim ' How, by an attempt to fly from this high fpire Acrofs the Scibrine flream, he did acquire His fatal end. 'Twas not for want of ikill, Or courage, to perform the tafk, he fell : No, no, — a faulty cord, being drawn too tight, 1 Kurry'd his foul on high to take her flight, j* Which bid the body here beneath, good night. J A prelate being afked permiffion for a line to be tfixed to the fteeple of a cathedral church, for this daring adventurer, replied, the man might % to the church whenever he pleafed, but he fhould never give his confent to any one's flying from it. It feems As quick as lightning down his line he fkims, Secure in equal poize of agile limbs. But fee the trufted cordage faithlefs prove! Headlong he falls, and leaves his foul above : The gazing town was fhock'd at the rebound Of fliatter'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 make is fnatch'd on high In eagle's claws, and hifles in the iky, Around the foe his twirling tail he flings, And twins her legs, and writhes about her wings. CaJman laid low, ye rafli, behold and fear, Man is a reptile, and the ground his lphere. Unhappy man ! thy end lamented be; Nought but thy own ill fate fo fwift as thee. Were metamorphofes permitted now, And tuneful OvidWv'd to tell us how ; His apter Mufe fhou'd turn thee to a daw, Nigh to the fatal lleeple ftill to kaw ; Perch on the cock, and neftle on the ball, In ropes no more confide, and never fall. J. A. that [ i8« 3 that fome exhibitor of the fame kind met with a limilar inhibition here in London. I learn from Mft's Journal for July 8, 1727, that a fixpenny pamphlet, intituled, i( The Devil to pay at St. *' James's, &c. *," was publifhed on this occafion. Again, in The Weekly Mfce/lany for April 17, 1736. " Thomas Kidman, the famous Flyer, who has flown " from fcveral of the higheft precipices in England, "and was the perfon that flew off Bromham ileeple " in Wiltjbire when it fell down, flew, on Monday " iaft, from the higheft of the rocks near The Hot- " well aj. Brijlol, with fire-works and piftols ; after " which he w r ent up the rope, and performed feveral furprifing dexterities on it, in fight of thousands of i. * Suppofed to have been written by Dr. Aroutbnot, and as fuch preferved in the Collection of' his Works. The full title is, " The Devil to pay at St. James's: or, a full and true Ao ** count of a molt horrid and bloody Battle between Madam " Faujlina and Madam Cuzzom. Aifo of a hot Skirmilh be- ** tween Signor Bofcbl and Signor Palmerini. Moreover, how •' Senef.no has taken Shuflf, is going to leave the Opera, and * { lings Pfalms at Henley's Oratory. Alfo about the Flying ** Man, and how the Doctor of St. Martins -has very un- ** kindly taken down the Scaffold, and difappointed a World *' of good Company. As alfo how a certain Great Lady is M gone mad tor the Love of William Gibfon, the Quaker. And •* how the Wild Boy is come to Life again, and has got a Dairy *« Maid with Child. Alfo about the great Mourning, and 11 the Fafhions, and the Alterations, and what not. With " other material Occurrences, too many to infert." In this pamphlet our artift is incidentally mentioned, but in fuch a manner as fhews that he had attained fome celebrity lb early as 1727. Speaking of fome Lilliputian fwine, fuppofed to be in the poifcilion of Dean Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot adds, •* But Hogarth the Fngraver is making a print after them, '• which will give a juiter idea of them than I can." g ** fp e&ators, C 187 ] 11 fpectators, both from Somerfetjhire and Glouceftcr- l< Jhire" In this print alio is a portrait which has been taken for that of Dr. Rock, but was more probably- meant for another Quack, who uied to draw a crowd round him by feeming to eat fire, which, having his checks puffed up with tow, he blew out of his mouth *. Some other particulars are explained in the notes to the poetical epiflle already mentioned. 3. Judith and Holof ernes. •« Per vulnera fervor, " morte tua vivens." W. Hogarth inv. Ger. Vander- gucht Jc. A frontifpiece to the Oratorio of Judith. — Our heroine, inftead of holding the fvvord by its handle, grafps it by its edge, in fuch a manner as mould feem to have endangered her fingers. (Judith was an Oratorio by William Eugg'ms, Efq. fet to mufick by William De Fefch +^ late Chapel-mailer of the cathedral church of Antwerp. This piece was performed with fcenes and other decorations, but met with no fuccefs. It was publifhed in 8V0, 1733.) * Perhaps he was only a fire-eater. ■J- Wiliiam Defefcb, a German, and fome time chapel-mafter at Antwerp, was in his time a refpe&able p rote fib r on the violin, and leader of the band for feveral ieafons at Marybone- garden*.. His head was engraved as a frontifpiece to fome muiical com- pofitions publifhed by him ; and his name is to be found on many fongs and ballads to which he (et the tunes for Vauxhall and Mar yb one -gardens. He died, foon after the year 1750, at the age of 70. The following lines were written under a picture of Defefcb t painted by Soldi, 1751. Thou honor'ft verfe, and verfe mnft lend her wing, To honor thee, the prieft of Pbxbus quire, That tun'Ji htr bappieft lines in hymn or long. MilTok. Defefcb was the patriotic Mr. Hoiiu's muuc-mailer. —The [ 188 ] — The original plate of the frontifpicce is in the poffeffion of Dr. Monkhoufe, This defign has little of Hogarth ; yet if he furnifhed other engravers with fuch flight undetermined Sketches as he himfelf is fometimes- known to have worked from, we cannot wonder if on many occafions his ufual characteristics fhould efcape our notice. Whoever undertakes to perfect feveral of his unpublilhed drawings, wili be reduced to the neceffity of inventing more than pre- fents itfelf for imitation. 4. Boys peeping at Nature. " The fubfcription- " ticket to the Harlot's Progrefs " A copy in aqua- tinta from this receipt was made by R. Live/ay in 1781, and is to be had at Mrs. Hogarth* s houfe in Leicejler-fiuare, 1733 and 1734. 1.* The Harlot's Progrefs -}-, in fix plates. In the fir ft is a portrait of Colonel Chartres. " Cette figure " de * In The Craft/man of Nov. 2tj, 1 732, we read, " This day " is pubiifhed, lix prints in chiaro ofcuro, of The Harlot's " Progrefs, from the defigns of Mr. Hogarth, in a beautiful " green tint, by Mr. E. Kirkall, with proper explanations " under each print. Printed and fold by E. Kirkall, in Dock- *' well-court, White-Fryars ; Phil. Overton, in Flcct-Jlreet \H. *' Overton and J. Hoole, without Newgate; J. King, in the »« Poultry ; and T. Giafs, under the Royal Exchange ." Left any of our readers fhould from hence fuppofe we have been guilty of an innacuracy in appropriating this fet of prints to the year 1733, &c. it is neceflary to obferve, that the plates adveitiied as above, were only a pirated copy of Hogarth's work, and were pubiifhed before their original. ■f In c rheGrub-Jircet Journal for December 6, 1733, appeared the following advertifement : " Lately publifhed, (illuitrated '* with lix prints, neatly engraven from Mr. Hogarth's De- " figns,) C 189 ] " de viellard (fays Rouquet) eft d'apres nature; e'eft " le portrait d'un officier tres riche, fameux dans ce " tems-la pour de pareilles expeditions, grand (e- " ducl:eur de campagnardes, et qui avoit toujours a "' fes gages des femnaes de la profeftion de celle " qui cajole ici la nouvelle debarquee." Behind him is John Gcurlay a Pimp, whom he always kept about his perfon. The next figure that attracts our notice, is that of Mother Ncedham. To prove this woman was fufficiently notorious to have deferved the fatire of Hogarth, the following paragraphs in The Grub" jlreet journal are fufficient. March 25, 1 731. " The noted Mother Needham tQ was yefterday committed to The Gatehoufe by *' Juftice RaUton." Ibid. " Yefterday, at the quarter-feffions for the " city and liberties oiWeftminjler, the infamous JVlo- " ther Needham, who has been reported to have been M figns,) The Lure of Venus ; or a Harlot's Progreis. An " heroi-comical Poem, in fix Cantos, by Mr. Jofepb Gay. " To Mr. Jofeph Gay. " Sir, '* It has been well obferved, that a great and juft objection " to the Genius of Painters is their want of invention ; from " whence proceeds fo many different defigns or draughts on " the fame hiftoryor fable. Few hive ventured to touch upon . " a new ftory ; but Qill fewer have invented both the ftury *' and the execution, as the ingenious Mr. Hogarth has done, " in his fix prints of a Harlot's Prc'grefs\ and, without a eom- '.* plinient, ^ir, your admirable C ntos are a true key and " lively explanation of the painter's hieroglyphicks. 14 I am, Sir, yours, &c. A. Phillips." This letter, alcribed to Amhrofe PJrlllps y was in all probabi- lity a forgery, like the nanu; of Jcfcph Gay. « dead C 190 ] " dead for fome time, to fcreen her from feveral " profecutions, was brought from the Gatehoufe, and tc pleaded not guilty to an indictment found againft " her for keeping a lewd and diforderly houfe ; «but, " for want of fureties, was remanded baek to " prifon." Ibid. April 29 , i^gi. " On Saturday ended the " quarter- feflions for JVejlminJter, &c. The noted (f Mother Needbam, convicted for keeping a difor- u derly houfe in Park Place, St. James's, was fined reut, but not too great for thee ; *' Quo' my Lord, ' My friend Abel, I needs muft allow *' You have puzzled me oft, as indeed you do now ; " Nay, have puzzled yourielf, the court and tl>e law, *' And chuckled mail wittily over a flaw ; *' For your noftrums, enigmas, conundrums, and puns, *' Are ribove comprehenfion, fave that of your fon's. '* To fiing oft" the coif! Oh fye, my friend Abel t " 'Twould be acting the part of the Cock in the Fable ! " 'Tis a badge of diftincViori ! and fome people buy it ; «* Can you doubt on't, when Skinner and Hayward enjoy it ? " Tho' 1 own you have fpoil'd (but I will not enlarge on't) * 4 A good Chanctry draftiman to make a bad Serjeant." 1 Lord Northitgtffit did not come into notice till many years after the publication of this print. For [ *°5 ] For thee, the Poet's conftant friend, Whofe vein of humour knows no end. This verfe which, honed to thy fame, Has added to thy praife thy name ! "Who can be dull when to his eyes Such various fcenes of humour rife ? Now we behold in what unite The Prieft, the Beau, the Cit, the Bite ; Where Law and Phyfick join the Sword, And Juftice deigns to crown the board : How Midnight Modern Converfations Mingle all faculties and ftations ! Full to the light, and next the bowl, Sits the phyfician of the foul ; No loftier themes his thought purfues Than Punch, good Company, and Dues : Eafy and carelefs what may fall, He hears, confents, and fills to all ; Proving it plainly by his face That cafTocks are no figns of grace. Near him a fon of Belial fee ; (That Heav'n and Satan Hiould agree !) Warm'd and wound up to proper height He vows to dill maintain the fight, The brave furviving Prieft aflails, And fairly damns the firft that fails ; Fills up a bumper to the Bell: In Chriftendom, for that's his tafte : The parfon Cmpers at the jeft, And puts it forward to the reft. What [ 2o6 ] What hand but thine fo well could draw A formal Barrifter at Law > Fitzherbert, Littleton t and Cokej Are all united in his look. His fpacious wig conceals his ears, Yet the dull plodding beaft appears. His mufcles feem exact to fit Much noii'e, much pride, and not much wit* Who then is he with folemn phiz, Upon his elbows pois'd with eafe ? Freely to fpeak the Mufe is loth — Juflice or knave — he may be both — ■ JulTice or knave — 'tis much the fame : To boait of crimes, or tell the fhame, Of raking talk or reformation, 'Tis all good Modern Ccnverfation. What mighty Muchiavel art thou, With patriot cares upon thy brow ? Alas, that punch mould have the fate To drown the pilot of the ftate ! That while both fides thy pocket holds, T^or U shivers grieves, nor Ofbome fcolds, Thou fink'fl the bulinefs of the nation In Midnight Modern Converfation ! The Tradcfman tells with wat'ry eyes How Credit fmks, how Taxes rife ; At Parliaments and Great Men pets, Counts all his lories and his debts. The puny Fop, mankind's difgrace, The ladies-' jell and looking-glafs ; This [ 20 7 ] This hc-fhe thing the mode purines, And drinks in order — till he fp — s. See where the Relict of the Wars, Deep mark'd with honorary fears, A mightier toe has caus'd to yield Than ever Marlbro met in field ! ,See proftrate on the earth he lies; And learn, ye fbldiers, to be wife. Flulh'd with the fumes of gen'rous wine The Doctor's face begins to mine : With eyes half clos'd, in ftamm'ring flrain, He lpeaks the praifc of rich champaign. Tii dull in verfe, what from thy hand Might even a Cato's fmile command. Th' expiring muffs, the bottles broke, And the full bowl at four o'clock. March 22, 1742, was adted at Ccvent-Garden, a new fcene, called A Modern Midnight Genverfaiion, taken from Hogarth's celebrated print •, in which was introduced, Hipp : JJcy's Drunken Man, with a comic tale of what reaily panned between himfelf and his old aunt, at her houfe on Mendip-HiUs, m Somerfet- Jbire. For Mr. Hippi/Iey's benefit. 1 735* 1. The Rake's Frogrefs, in eight plates. Extract from the London Daily Poji, May is, 1735 : lc The nine prints from the paintings of Mr. Hg- " garth, one reprefenting a Fair, and the others' a " Rake's Progrcfs, are now printing oflf, and will be *' ready to be delivered on the 25th of June next. iC Subfcrinji;gjM f 208 ] •' Subfcriptions will be taken at Mr. Hogarth*s, the (< Golden-Heady in Leicejler-fidds, till the 2^d of June, <£ and no longer, at half a guinea to be paid on fub- " fcribing, and half a guinea more on delivery of *' the prints at the price above-mentioned, after cc which the price will be two guineas. " N. B. Mr. Hogarth was, and is, obliged to defer * c the publication and delivery of the abovefaid prints " till the 25th of June next, in order to fecure his " property, purfuant to an act lately pafTed both " houfes of parliament, now waiting for the royal u affent, to fecure all new invented prints that mall st be publiihed after the 24th of June next, from " being copied without confent of the proprietor, " and thereby preventing a fcandalous and unjuft *' cuftom (hitherto pradrifed with impunity) of mak- " ing and vending bafe copies of original prints, to " the manifeft injury of the author, and the great " difcouragement of the arts of painting and en- o ] to a roll of black cloth, omitted ; the contents of the clolet thrown more into ihade. In Plate II. are portraits of Figg, the prize- fighter * ; Bridge?nan t a noted gardener ; and Dubois, 2L * Of whom a feparate portraif , by Ellis, had been published by Overtax. Figg died in the year 1734. As the tafte of the publick is much changed about the importance of the nolle Science of Defence, as it was called, and as probably it will never again revive, it may afford fome entertainment to my readers, to fee the terms in which this celebrated prize-fighter is fpoken of by a profeflbr of the art. " Figg was the Atla> *' of tht Sword ; and may he remain the gladiating ftatne 1 " In him firength, refolution, and unparalleled judgement, *' ccnfpired to form a matchlefs matter. There was a ma- " jelly fhcnein his countenance, and blazed in all his anions, " beyond all I ever faw. His right leg bold and firm ; and '* his left, which could hardly ever be dilturbed, gave him the *' furprifing advantage already proved, and {truck his adver- " fary with defpair and panic. He had that peculiar way of *' flepping in I lpoke of, in a parry ; he knew his arm, and " its juft time of moving ; put a firm faith in that, and never *' let his adverfary efcape his parry. He was juft as much a *' greater mafler than any other I ever law, as he was^a *' greater judge of time and meafure." Captain John Godfrey's Trcatife upon the Uj'eful Science of Defence, 410, 1747, p. 41. " Mr. Figg" fays Cbetouood, Hiftory of the Stage, p. 60, " informed me once, that he had not bought a fhirt for more " than twenty years, but had fold fome dozens. It was hfs *.' method, when he fought in his amphitheatre (his ftage " bearing that fuperb title), to fend round to a leleft number " of his icholars, to borrow a fhirt for the enfuing combat, " and feldom failed of half a dozen of fuperfine Holland ki from his prime pupils (molt of the young nobility and " gentry made it a part of their education to march under his *' warlike banner). This champion was generally conqueror, *' though his fhirt feldom failed of gaining a cut from his " enemy, and foinetimes his flefh, though I think he never *' received any dangerous wound. Moil of his fcholars were •' at every battle, and were fure to exult at their great mafter*s " victories, t »« 1 a mailer of defence, who was killed in a duel by one of the fame name, as the following paragraphs in The Grub-flreet Journal fox May 16, 1734, 8cc. will tcftify : " Yefterday (May 1 1) between two and three " in the afternoon, a duel was fought in Mary-le-bone * f Fields, between Mr. Dubois a Frenchman, and Mr, " Dubois an Irijhman, both fencing-mafters, the for- " mer of whem was run through the body, but " walked a confiderable way from the place, and is " now under the hands of an able furgeon, who has u great hopes of his recovery." May 23, 1734, *' Yefterday morning died Mr. fl Dubois, of a wound he received in a duel." The portrait of Handel has been fuppofed 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 fenfe of his own merit than " ever to put himfelf in fuch a fituation ; and, if fo, " the painter would hardly have thought of doing it. *' The mufician mud: mean in general any compofer " of operas." On the floor lies a picture reprefenting FarincUi, feated on a pedellal, with an altar before him, on which are feveral flaming hearts,- near which ftand a number of people with their arms ex- " v: -lories, every perfon fuppofing he faw the wounds his ftrirt *' received. Mr. Figg took hU opportunity to inform his " leaders of linen of the chai'ms their fhirts received, with a " promife to fend them home. But, laid the ingenious cou- " rageous Figgi I feldom received any other anfvver than " D — mn you, keep it !" A Poem by Dr. Byrom, on a battle between Figg and Sutton, another prize-fighter, is in the 6th Volume or Dedjleys Collection of Poems. P 2 tended, t 212 ] tended, offering him prefects : at the loot of the- altar is one female kneeling, tendering her heart. From her mouth a label ifllies, inferibed, " One " God, one Farinelli ;" alluding to a lady of dif- tincYion, 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, Rouquct has the following remark : " Ce « c cara&ere me paroit plus Italien qu' Anglcis." I am not fufficientlv veried in Alfatian annals to decide on the queftion ; but believe that the bully by profef- fion (not affeffin, as Rouquet feems to interpret the character) was to be found during the youth of our artiit. More have heard and been afraid of thefc vulgar heroes, than ever met with them. This let of prints was engraved by Scotin chiefly ; but feverai of the faces were touched upon by Hogarth. In the fecond plate the countenance of the man with the quarter- Haves was wholly engraved by Hogarth. In fome early proofs of the print, there is not a tin- 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 horfe-race cup, the letter, or the poem that lies at the end of the label, that being entirely blank. I mention thefe circumitances to fhew that our artift would not entruft particular parts of his work to any hand but his own ; or perhaps he had neither determined on the countenance or the in- fcription he meant to introduce, till the plate was far advanced. With unfinifhed proofs, on any other [ 21 3 ] Other account, this catalogue has nothing to do. As the rudiments of plates, they ma}' afford induc- tion to young engravers ; or add a fancied value to the collections of connoifleurs. In the third plate is Leather-coat*, a noted porter belonging to The Rofe Tavern, with a large pewter diih in his hand, which for many years ferved as a fign to the fhop of a pewteref on Snow-HHL In this titenfil the pofture- woman, who is undrefling, ufed to whirl herfeif round, and difplay other feats of indecent activity : " II luffit" (I tranferibe from Rouquct, who is more circumftantial) " de vous '* laifTer a deviner la deftination de la chandelle. Ce " grand plat va fervir a cette femme comme a une " poularde. II fera mis au milieu de la table ; elle f* s'y placera fur le dos ; et l'ivreffe et l'efprit de " debauche feront trouver plaifant un jeu, qui de fe fang-froid ne le paroit guercs." Rouqiiet> in his defer iption of an Engiijh tavern, fuch as that in which our fcene lies, mentions the following as ex- traordinary conveniencies and articles of magnifi- cence : " Du linge toujours blanc f — de tables de bois " qu'on * Fielding has introduced this porter, under the name of LcatbcrJiJcS) into The Covcnt-Garden Tragedy, atfed in 1732. Leatb. Two whores, great Madam, mult be icraight prepar'd, A fat one for the Squire, and for my Lord a lean. Mother. Thou, Leatberjides, beft know'it fuch nymphs to find, To thee their lodgings they communicate. Go thou procure the girl, f The cleanlinef. of the lEngiijb feems to have made a fimi- Ut imprelfion on the mind of M. De Grojlry, who, in his P 3 " Tour [ «4 ] tc qu'on appelje ici mahogani — grand feu et gratis. ,? Variations : Pontac's head is added in the room of a mutilated Cafar. Principal woman has a man's hat on. Rake's head altered. Undreft woman's head altered. Woman who fpirts the wine, and fhe who. threatens her with a drawn knife, have lower caps, &c. So pntirely dp our manners differ from thofe qf fifty years ago, that 1 much queflion if at prefent, in all the taverns of London, any thing refembling the icene here exhibited by Hogarth could be found. That we are lefs fenfual than our predecefTors, I dp jiot affirm ; but may with truth obferve, we are more delicate in purfuit of our gratifications.— No young man, of our hero's fortune and education, would now think of entertaining half a fcore of proftitutes 'at a tavern, after having routed a fet of feeble wretches^ who- are idly called our Guardians of the Night. Plate IV. Rakcwell is going to court on the firft of March, which was Queen Carolines birth-day, a? *' Tour to London,^ obfrrves, that ft The plate, hearth-ftones, " moveables, apartments, cjoprs, flairs, the very ftreet-doors, *'* their locks, and the large brafs knockers, are every day " wafhed, (cowered, or rubbed. Even in lodging-houfes, the *' middle of the ftairs is often cohered with carpeting, to pre- *' vent them from being foiled. All the apartments in the M houfe have mats or carpets j and -the ufe of them has been, •' adopted fome years fince by the French;'* and that " The " towns and villages upon the rqad have excellent inns, but 4< fomewhat dear j at thefe an E/tghJ/Aord is as well ferved as. '* at his own houfe, and with a cleanlinefs much to be wifhed 11 for in mod: of the be ft houies of France. The innkeeper " makes his appearance only to do the honours of his table to V the grcateft perfonages, who often invite him to dine with K them." well E 21 5 3 well as the anniversary of Si. David, In the early imprefiions a fhoe-black fleals the Rake's cane. In the modern ones, a large group of blackguards* [the chimney-fweeper peeping over the poll boy's cards, and difcovering that he has two honours, by holding up two fingers, is among the luckleft of Hogarth's traits] are introduced gambling on the pavement ; near them a frone infcribed Brack's, a contrail to White's gaming- houfe, againft which a flafh of light- ning is pointed. The curtain in the window of the fedan chair is thrown back. This plate is likewife found in an intermediate ftate j-; the iky being made unnaturally obfcure, with an attempt to introduce a ihower of rain, and lightning very aukwardly repre- fented. It is fuppofed to be a firft proof after the infertion 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 iky, that he was obliged to obliterate it, and caufe it to be engraved over again by another hand {'. Not forefeeing, how- ever, the immenfe demand for his prints, many of * The chief of thefe, who wears fomething that feems to have been a tie-wig, was painted from a French bov, who cleaned fhoes at the corner of Hog-Lane. f In the collection of Mr. Steevcr.s only. X He had meditated, however, fome additional improve- ments in the fame plate. When he had inferted the florin, he began to conlider the impropriety of turning the girl out in the midft of it with her head uncovered ; and therefore, on a proof of this print, from which he deiigned to have worked, he fketched her hat in with India i ink. P 4 them [ 2 i6 ] them were fo flightly executed, as very early to ftan4 in need of retouching. The feventh in particular was fo much more flightly executed than the reft, that it fooner wanted renovation, and is therefore to be fourjd in three different flates. The reft appear only in two. In Plate V. is his favourite dpg Trump. In this, alfo the head of the rnaid-fervant is greatly altered, and the leg and foot of the bridegroom omitted. From the antiquated bride, amd the young female adjufting the foWs of her gown, in this plate, is taken a French print of a wrinkled harridan of faihion at her toilet, attended by a blooming coeffeufe. It was engraved by L. Surugue in 1745, from a pi&ure in crayons by Coypel, and is entitled, La Folk pare la Der crepitude des ajuftcmens de la Jeimeffe. From the French- man, however, the Devonjhire-fqiiare dowager of our artift has received fo high a polifh, that ihe might be mif]:aken for a queen mother of France '. Mr. Gilpin, in his remarks on this plate, appears not to have fully comprehended the extent of the fatire defigned in it. Speaking of the church, he obferves, that " the wooden poft, which feems to have 'f no ufe, divides the picture difagreeably." Hogarth 7 however, meant to expoie. the infufficiency of fuch ecclefiaftical repairs as a,re confided to the fuperin- tendance of parifh-officers. We learn, from an in- fcription on the front of a pew, that " This church 4i was beautified in the Year 1725. 'Tho. Sice, Tho. [ £17 ] ?, £ thm, Churchwardens*.'* 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 date, it was pulled dpwn and rebuilt in the year 1741. Fifty years ago, Mary bone church was considered at fuch a diftance from London, as to become the ufual refort of thofe who, like our hero, willied to be privately married. In Plate VI. the fire breaking out, alludes to the fame accident which happened at White's, May 3, 1733. I learn from a very indifferent poem defcrip- tive of this fet of plates (the title is unfortunately * It appears, on examination of the Regitters, &c. that Tho. Sice and Tbo. Horn are not fictitious names. Such people were really churchwardens when the repairs in 1725 were made. The following inlcription on the pew, denoting a vault beneath, is alfo genuine, and, as far as can be known at prefent, was faithfully copied in regard to its obfolete fpelling. THESE PEWES VNSCRVD AND TANE IN' SVNDER IN STONE THERS GRAVEN WHAT IS VNDER TO WIT A VALT FOR BURIAL THERE IS WHICH EDWARD FORSET MADE FOR HIM AND HIS. Part of thefe words, in railed letters, at prefent form a*pannel in the wainicot at the end of the right-hand gallery, as the church is entered from the itreet. — N'o heir of the Forfct fa- mily appearing, their vault has been claimed and ufed by his "Grace the Duke of Portland, as lord of the manor. The mural monument of the Taylors, compofed of lead gilt over, is likewife preferred. It is feen, in Hogarth's print, jull under the window. The bifliop of the diocefe, when the new church was built, gave orders that all the ancient tablets fliould be placed, as nearly 36 poilible, in their former iituations. ■ wanting), C *i8 ] wanting), that fome of the characters in the fcene f^efore us were real ones : " But fee the careful plain old man, M *, well-known youth to trepan, To C ^—Jh ^ lend the dear bought pence, " C Jh, quite void of common fenfe, te Whofe face, unto his foul a. fign, ** Looks ftupid, as does that within, * c A quarrel from behind enfues, " The fure retreat of thofe that lofe. '* An honeft 'Squire fmelis the cheat, " And fwears the villain mall be beat : " But G dd wifely interferes, " And diffipates the wretch's fears." The original iketch in oil for this fcene is at Mrs. Hogarth's houfe in Lekefter-fields. The principal character was then fitting, and not, as he is at prefent, thrown upon his knees in the a£t of execration. The thought of the lofing gamefter pulling his hat over his brows is adopted from a fimilar character to be found among the figures of the principal per- fonages in the court of Louis ~X.IV. folio. This work has n# engraver's name, but was probably executed about the year 170a. Plate VII. The celebrated Beccaria, in his " EfTay " on Public Happinefs," vol. II. p, 172, obferves, # Old Manners, brother to the late Duke of Rutland. f The old Duke of Devonjhire loft the great eilate of Lei- cefier abbey to him at the gaming-table. Memerswm the only perfon of his time who. had amaUed a coniiderabie fortune by the profeffion of a ^ameiler. 7 "I [ 2I 9 ] *' l am fenfible there are perfons whom it will be " difficult for me to perfuade : I mean thofe pro- «- found contcmplators, who, fecluding themfelves ■'•' from their fellow-creatures, are afliduoufly em- " ployed in framing laws for them, and who fre- "•quently negledt the care of their domeflic and " private concerns, to prefcribe to empires that form little, that it would have flood within the walls of the prefent one, leaving at the fame time fufficient room fpi a walk ruund it. 44 the [ 225 ] Hall thou a fon ? in time be wife- He views thy toil with other eyes. Needi " the winning gamefters, the atterition of the ufurer, the *' vehemence of the watchman, and the profound reverie of " the highwayman* are all admirably marked. There is " great coolnefs too exprefTed in the little we fee of the fat " gentleman at the end of the table. The figure oppofing '* the mad-man is bad : it has a drunken appearance ; and '* drunkennefs is not the vice of a* gaming tab)-'. — -The prin- " cipal figure is ill-drawn. The perfpcSlive is formal ; and *' the execution but indifferent: in heightening his expreffion, " Hogarth has loft his fpirit. " The feventh plate, which gives us the view of a jail, has *' very little in it. Many of the circumftances, which may ■* well be fuppofed to increafe the rtihery of a confined debtor, *' are well contrived ; but the fruitful genius of Hdgarth, I * c fhould think; might have treated the fubject in a more co- " pious manner. The epifode of the fainting woman might " have given way to many circumftances more pi - . .per to the *' occafton. This is the fame woman, whom the r ike difcards *' in the firft print; by whom he is refcued in the fourth; *' who is pretent at his marriage ; who follows him into jail ; " and, laftly, to Bedlam. The thought is rather unnatural, *' and the moral certainly culpable. — The tompofi'tioh is bad. *' The group of the womart fainting is a round heavy mafs : *' and the other group is very ill-fh aped. The light could not 44 be worfe managed , and, as the ..roups are contrived, can " hardly be improved. — In the principal igure there is great ii expreffion ; and the fainting fcene is vfrell dei'cribed. A " fcheme to pay oft the national debt, by a man who cannot *' pay his own ; and the attempt of a iilly rake, to retrieve *' his affairs by a work of genius j are admirable ftrckes of " humour. " The eighth plate brings the fortune of oar hero to a li conclufion. It is a very expreffive reprefentation of the tc moft horrid fcene which human nature can exhibit. — The *' compofition is not bad. The group, in which the lunatic is " chained, is well managed j and if, it had been carried i " little further towards the middle of the picture, an ! th; •' two women (who feem very oddly introduced) had n Q_ " removed, [ 226 ] Needs muft thy kind, paternal care, Lock'd in thy chefts be buried there ? Whence then lhall flow that friendly eafe, That focial converfe, home-felt peace, Familiar duty without dread, Inftruction from example bred, Which youthful minds with freedom mend, And with the father mix the friend? Uncircumfcrib'd by prudent rules, Or precepts of expenfive fchools ; Abus'd at home, abroad defpis'd, Unbred, unletter'd, unadvis'd ; The headflrong courfe of youth begun, What comfort from this darling fon ? " removed, both the compofition, and the diitribution of " light, had been good. — The drawing of the principal figure f* is a more accurate piece of anatomy than we commonly " find in the works of this mailer. The exprcfjion of the *' figure is rather unmeaning ; and very inferior to the ftrong " characters of all the other lunatics. The fertile genius of " the artiit has introduced as many of the caufes of madnefs, " as he could well have collected ; but there is fome tauto- " logy. There are two religionifts, and two altronomers. " Yet there is variety in each ; and ftrong cxprefiion in all the '* characters. The ielf-fatisfaclion, and conviction, of him *' who has difcovered the longitude ; the mock majefly of the '* monarch ; the moody melancholy , of the lover; and the " fuperftitious horror of the popifh devotee; are all admirable. " — The perfpe&ive is fimple and proper. " I fhould 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 de/igp} but have loit in point of *' et-prejfon** Plate [ 227 3 Plate II. Profperity (with harlot's fmiles, Mod pleating when me moft beguiles) How foon, fweet foe, can all thy train Of falfe, gay, frantic, loud, and vain, Enter the unprovided mind, And Memory in fetters bind ; Load Faith and Love with golden chain, And fprinkle Lethe o'er the brain ! Pleafure, in her filver throne, Smiling comes, nor comes alone ; Venus comes with her along, And fmooth Lyteus ever young ; And in their train, to fill the prefs, Come apiih Dance, and fwol'n Excefs, Mechanic Honour, vicious Tajte, And Fajhion in her changing veil. Plate III. O vanity of youthful blood, So by mifufe to poifon good ! Woman, fram'd for focial love, Faireft gift of powers above ; Source of every houmold blernng, All charms in innocence pofTemng— But turn'd to Vice, all plagues above, Foe to thy Being, foe to Love ! Gueft divine to outward viewing, Ableft Minifter of Ruin ! Q^2 Md C k-8 3 And thou, no lefs of gift divine, 44 Sweet poifon of mifufed wine I** With freedom led to every part, And fecret chamber of the heart ; Doft thou thy friendly hoft betray, And ftiow thy riotous gang the way To enter in with covert treafon, O'erthrow the drowfy guard of reafon, To ranfack the abandon'd place, And revel there in wild excefs ? Plate IV. vanity of youthful blood, So by mifufe to poifon good ! Reafon awakes, and views unbarr'd The lacred gates he watch'd to guard ; Approaching fees the harpy, Law, An dPoverty, with icy paw, Ready to feize the poor remains • That Vice has left of all his gains. Cold Penitence, lame After-thought, With fears, defpair, and horrors fraught, Call back his guilty pleafures dead, Whom he hath wrong'd^ and whom betfay'd. Plate V. New to the School of hard Mijhap, 'Driven from the eafe of Fortune's lap> What fchemes will Nature not embrace T' avoid lefs lhame of drear diftrels ! Gold C 229 3 Gold can the charms of youth beftow^ And mafk deformity with fliow : Gold can avert the fting of Shame, In winter's arms create a flame ; Can couple youth with hoary age, And make antipathies engage. Plate VI. Gold, thou bright fon of Phcebus 3 fource Of univerfal intercourfe ; Of weeping Virtue foft redrefs, And bleffing thofe who live to blefe ! Yet oft behold this facred truft, The tool of avaricious Luft : No longer bond of human kind, But bane of every virtuous mind. What chaos fuch mifufe attends i Friendship ftoops to prey on friends j Health, that gives relifh to delight, Is wafied with the wafting night ; Doubt and miftruft is thrown on Heaven 9 And all its power to Chance is given. Sad purchafe of repentant tears, Of needlefs quarrels, endlefs fears, Of hopes of moments, pangs of years ! Sad purchafe of a tortured mind fo an imprifon'd body join'd ! } Plate VII, Happy the man, whofe conftant thought (Though in the fchool of hardihip taught) 0^3 Can C *3° 3 Can fend Remembrance back to fetch Treafures from life's earlieft ftretch ; Who, felf-approving, can review- Scenes of pail virtues, which fhine through The gloom of age, and caft a ray To gild the evening of his day ! ' Not fo the guilty wretch confin'd : No pleafures meet his confcious mind ; No bleflings brought from early youth, But broken faith and wrefted truth, Talents idle and unus'd, And every trufl of Heaven abus'd. In feas of fad reflection loft, From horrors flill to horrors tofs'd, Reafon the veffel leaves to freer, And gives the helm to mad defpair. ' } Plate VIIL Madnefs ! thou chaos of the brain ; What art, that pleafure giv'ft and pain Tyranny of Fancy's reign ! Mechanic Fancy ! that can build Vaft labyrinths and mazes wilc|, With rule disjointed, fhapelefs meafure, F^ll'd with horror, fill'd with pleafure ! Shapes of horror, that would even Caft doubt of mercy upon Heaven \ Shapes of pleafure, that but feen Would fplit the fhaking fides of fpken, O vanity of age ! here fee The ftamp of Heaven efFac'd by thee ! 4 C *3 J ] The headflrong courfe of youth thus run, What comfort from this darling fon ? His rattling chains with terror hear ; Behold Death grappling with defpair ; See him by thee to ruin fold, And curfe Thy/elf, and curfe thy Gold, On this occafion alfo appeared an 8vo pamphlet, inrituled, " The Rake's Progrefs, or the Humours of " Drury-Lane, a poem in eight canto's, in Hudi~ t( brajiick verfe, being the ramble of a modern Oxo- inferted the little girl with the fan, as an after-thought, fome friend having a iked him what the boy cried for. He therefore introduced the girl going to take the play- thing from her brother. Nothing is more common than to fee children cry without reafon. The cir- eumftance, however, fhews that this great Genius did not always think himfelf above advice, as fome have alledged to have been the cafe with him. In the early impreflfions of this plate, the face and neck of the woman are coloured with red, to exprefs heat; and the hand of her hufband is tinged with blue, to * A hornpipe dancer at Content Garden. She wasjrnftrefs toSbuter the comedian, Uc. &.c, &.c. intimate % 2 5' ] intimate that he was by trade a Dyer. The purchafers of the plate, intituled Evening, are hereby cautioned againft impofition. In a modern copy of it, fold to the late Mr. Ingham Fojler, the face of the woman had been warned over with vermilion, that it might pafs (as it chanced to do) for a firft impreflion. In the true ones, and none but thefe, the face and bo- fom were printed off with red, and the hand with, blue ink. Only the traces'of the graver, therefore, ought to be filled by either colour, and not the whole furface of the vifage, &c. as in the fmeary counterfeit. I have been told that a few copies of plate III. were taken off before the fan was inferted, but have not hitherto met with one of them. In Night, the drunken Free-mafon has been fuppofed to be Sir Thomas de Veil; but Sir John Hazvkins af- fures me, it is not the leaft like him. The Salijbury Flying-Coach implies a fatire on the right honourable inventor of that fpecies of carriage. The two firft of thefe pictures were fold to the Buke of Ancafier s for 57 Guineas ; the remaining pair to Sir William Fleathcote for 64. 2 . Strolling Adtreffes * dreffing in a Barn. Invent* ed, painted, engraved, and publi-Jhed by W. Hogarth, * I know not why this print fhould have received its title only from its female agents. Not to dwell on the Jupiter pointing with Cupid 's bow to a pair of itockings, whoever will examine the linen f of the weeping figure receiving a dram- glafs from the Syren, and look for the object that attracts her regard, may difcover an indication that the other fex has alio a repreientative in this theatrical parliament. f Non fie prscipiti carbafii tenfa nolo. Mr. [ 252 ] Mr. Walpole obferves that this piece, " for wit and imagination, without any other end," is the beft of all our artift's works. Mr. Wood of Littelton has the original, for which he paid only 26 Guineas. Dr. TruJJer, in his explanation of this plate, is of opinion, that fome inceftuous commerce among the performers is intimated by the names of CEdipus and Jscafla appearing above the heads of two figures among the theatrical lumber at the top of the bam. But furely there is no caufe for fo grofs a fuppofition. Painted prodigies of this description were neceffary to the performance of Lee's CEdipus, See Aft II. where the following ftage direction occurs ; " The " cloud draws, that veiled the heads of the figures te in the iky, and fhews them crowned, with the ce names of CEdipus and Jocajla written above, in " great characters of gold." The magazine of dra- gons, clouds, fcenes, flags, &c. or the woman half naked, was fufHcient to attract 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 favourable to the Doctor's conceit. Inceft was alfo too fhocking an idea to have intruded itfelf among the comic circumftances that form the prefent reprefentation. When this plate was retouched a fecond time, a variety of little changes were made in it. In the two earlier! impreffions the actrefs who perfonates Flora, is greaiing her hair with a tallow candle, and preparing to powder herfelf, after her cap, feathers, &c. were put on. This folecifm in the 4 regulav C 253 3 regular courfe of drefs is removed in the third copy> the cap and ornaments being there omitted. The coiffure of the female who holds the cat, is alfo lowered ; and whereas at firft we could read in the play-bill depending from the truckle-bed, that the part of Jupiter was to be performed by Mr. Bilk-vil- lage, an additional lhade in the modern copy renders this part of the infeription illegible. Several hole? likewife in the thatch of the barn are filled up \ and the whole plate has loft fomewhat of its clearnefs* The fame cenfure is due to the reparations of the Harlot's and Rake's Progrejfes. Had Hogarth lived, he would alfo have gradually deftroyed much of that hiftory of drefs, &c. for which his defigns have been juftly praifed by Mr. Walpole. In the firft and laft fcenes of the Rake's Progrefs, he began to adorn the heads of his females in the fafhion prevalent at the time he retraced the plates. In fhort, the collec- tor, who contents himfelf with the later impreffions of his work, will not confult our artift's reputation. Thofe who wifh to be acquainted with the whole extent of his powers, fhould affemble the firft copies s together with all the varieties of his capital works. I 739- I. Several children of Ibe Foundling Hofpital; the boys with mathematical inftruments ; the girls with Spinning wheels. Over the door of the houfe they come out of, are the King's-arms. A porter is bring- ing in a child, followed by Capt. Coram, whofe be- nevolent countenance * is directed towards a kneeling * See p. 261. woman. C »54 3 woman. On the right hand is a view of a church ; near it a woman lifting a child from the ground ; at a little diftance another infant expofed near a river. In the back of the picture, a profped: of fhips failing. W. Hogarth inv. F. Mcrtlkn la Cave Jculp. London. This is prefixed to an engraved Power of Attorney^ from the truftees of The Foundling Hojpital, to thofe gentlemen who were appointed to receive fubfcrip- tions towards the building, &c. The whole toge- ther is printed on a half fheet. 1741. 1. The Enraged Mufician, Defigned, engraved, and publiped by W. Hogarth. ** Mr. John Fejlin *, ** the firft hautboy and German flute of his time, had " numerous fcholars, to each of whom he devoted li an hour every day. At nine in the morning he * f attended Mr. Spencer, grandfather to the earl of " that name. If he happened to be out of town on " any day, he devoted that hour to another. One *' morning at that hour he waited on Mr. V — n, af- " terwards Lord V — n. He was not up. Mr. Fejlin 44 went into his chamber, and opening the fhutter of " a window, fat down in it- The figure with the " hautboy was playing under the window. A man, " with a barrow full of onions, came up to the " player, and fat en the edge of his barrow, and I* faid to the man, ' if you will play the Black Joke, u I will give you this onion.' The man played it. * Mr. Fejlin has not been dead ten years. He was brother to the Feftin who led the band -&t Ranelagb" " When C 255 ] ct When he had fo done, the man ngain de£red him " to play fome other tune, and then he would give " him another onion. * This,' faid Fejlin to tine, " < highly angered me; I cried out, Z — <.s, fir, " flop here. This fellow is ridiculing my profelTion: " he is playing on the hautboy for onions.' Being " intimate with Mr. Hogarth, he mentioned the cir- " cumflance to him ; which, as he faid, was the " origin of ' The enraged Mufician.' The fact ttaay " be depended upon. Mr. Fejlin * was himfelf the " Enrage4 * In the fecond edition of thefe anecdotes, I had faid " the *' mufician was undoubtedly Cnftrucci ;" though one gentle- man aiTured me it was F'eraciai, The error is here acknowledged, to fliew the danger or" receiving information upon truft. in, the firft edition, I had fallen into a lefs pardonable mifiake, by fuppoiing it was Cenvttto\ whom. I defiribed to be thea lately dead. Cut ** Hogarth's muiician," as a friend on that occafion fuggefied to me, ** is rcprefented with a violin j *' whereas Cerwtto'j inilrument was the violoncello; but, how- " ever that may be, he is now certainly living. He lodges at ** Friburgs muff- mop, in The Hay market , and maybe feen every *' day at The Orange Coffci'hoafe, although he completed his loiit *' year in November 1781." This extraordinary chac^&er ia the mufical world came to Engjaxd\x\ the hard froft, and was then an old man. He foon after was engaged to play the bafs at Drtcry-lane theatre, and continued in that employment till a lea Ion or two previous to Mr. Garrick*i retiring from the flag::. He died June 14, 1783, m i« is 103d year. One even- ing when Mr. Garrick was performing the character of Sir John Brute, during the drunkard's muttering and dofmg till he falls fail afleep in the chair (the audience being moft pro- foundly filent and attentive to this admirable performer). Or- mctto (in the orcheftra) uttered a very loud aadlmnaodd lengthened yawn ! The moment Garrick was off the fhjjjp?, he feat for the muiician, and with confidcrabie warmth repri- manded him for io ill-timed a fymptom of foxnnolency, v, i.rt- tlie [ 2 5 6 ] « Enraged Performer." The ftory is here told jufl as he related it to a clergyman, in whofe words the reader now receives it. Of this print * it has been quaintly faid, that it deafens one to look at it. Mr. Walpole is of opinion that it " tends to farce." " Rouquet " fays of it, Le Muficien ell un It alien que les *' cris de Londres font enrager." The wretched figure playing on a hautbois, was at that time well known about the llreets. For variations, fee the horfe's head, originally white, but now black. — Sleeve of the child with a rattle, at firft fmaller, as well as of a lighter hue — the milk-woman's face, cloak, Sec. boy's dragg, cutler's hatchet, dog, &c. &c. more darkened than in the firft impreffions. Thefe, however, can fcarcely be termed varieties, as they were occafioned only by retouching the plate, and adding a few ihadows. the modern Na/o, with great addrefs, reconciled Garrick to him in a trice, by laying, with a fhrug, " I beg ten toufand " pardon ! but I alvays do fo ven I am ver mujh pleafe \" Mr. Cernjetto was diftinguifhed among his friends in the galleries by the name of Nofey. See Gentleman's Magazine^ 1783, p. 95. * London Daily Poft, Not-ember 24, 1740. " Shortly will be publifhed, a new print called The Provoked Mujician, defign- ed and engraved by Mr William Hogarth ; being a companion to a print reprelenting a Dijtrcjj'cd Poet, publifhed fome time iince. To which will be a. ided, a Third en Painting, which will compleat the let; but as this fubject may turn upon an affair depending between the right honourable the L — d M — r and the author, it may be retarded for fome time." Query to what affair does Hogarth allude ? Humphrey Par/oni was theu Lord Mayor. Hogartb s Hogarth, however, made feveral alterations and additions in this plate when it appeared to be fmimed. He changed in forne meafure all the countenances, and indeed the entire head and limbs of the chimney- fvveeper, who had originally a grenadier's cap on. Mils had alio a Doll, fignificantly 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-fchool, 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. 1 It is remarkable that the duftman was without a nofe. The proofs of the phte in this condition are fcarce. I have feen only one of them *. Mr. S. Ireland has the original fketch. 1742. 1. Martin Folks, Efq. half length, ffl. Hogarth pinxit £*? fadfjit. An engraving. To fome impref- lions of this print, which are not proofs, the name of Hogarth is wanting. 2. The fame, half length mezzotinto. W. Ho- garth pinx. 1 741; 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. CrLiitt. S 3. Charmers [ *3» ] 3. Charmers of the .Age *. " A fietcb. No name. 1 * It was intended to ridicule Monf. Defnoyer -f and Signora Barbervri, the two bell dancers that ever ap- peared in London. This plate exhibits the internal profpect of a theatre. The openings between the fide fcenes are crowded with applauding fpe&ators. 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. 'I he reprefen- tatives of Tragedy and Comedy are candle-holders on the occafion. Underneath is the following in- scription : ct The prick'd lines fhow the rifing height." There are alfo a few letters of direction, lb fituated as to convey no very decent innuendo. The whole is but a hafly outline, executed, however, with fpirit, and bitten uncommonly deep by the aqua fortis. I afcribe it to Hogarth without hesitation. Of this print there is a copy by Live/ay. All the three pieces of our artift that fatirize the ftage, &c. are peculiarly fcarce. We may fuppofe * Hogarth defigned to have publifhed this print, with fome explanation at the bottom of it in 1741-2. — See the infeription almoil effaced, a circumftance to which the copier did not at- tend. f I learn from The Grul-ftrect Journal for Qftober 17, 1734, that Monfieur Defnoyer was jnil arrived from Poland, to- gether with Mademoifelle Roland from Paris (this lady is ftill alive). Again, from the lame paper, Auguji 19, 1736, that " Monfieur Defnoyer^ the famous dancer at Dmry-Iane, is gone " to Paris, by order of Mr. Fleetwood, to engage Mademoifelle •" Sallee for the enfuing winter." In fome future expedition, we may fuppofe, he prevailed on Signora Earbcrini to come over for the fame purpofe. 4. them, [ 2 59 3 them, therefore, to have been fuppreffed by the in- fluence of the managers for the time being, who were not, like our prefent ones, become callous through the inceffant attacks of diurnal criticks in the news-papers. 4. Tafle in High Life. A beau, a fafhionable old lady, a young lady, a black boy, and a monkey. Painted by Mr. Hogarth. It was fold by Mr. Jarvis 9 in Bedford-Jlreet, Covent-Garden. Publijhed May 24th, [no year~\. The original picture is in the poffeflion of Mr. Birch, furgeon, EJfcx-Jireet, in The Strand. It difplays (as we learn from an infeription on the pedeftal under a Venus dreffed in a hoop-petticoat) the reigning modes of the year 1742. It was painted for the opulent Mifs Edwards, who paid our artift fixty guineas for it. Her reafon for choofing fuch a fubjedt was rather whimfical* By her own Angula- rities having incurred fome ridicule, fhe was defirous, by the affiftance of Hogarth, to recriminate on the publick. As he defigned after her ideas, he had little kindnefs 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 Kenfwgton. The figure of the beau holding the china-faucer is faid to have been that of Lord Portmore, dreffed as he fir ft appeared at court after his return from France. The young female was defigned for a cele- brated courtezan, who was the Kilty Fijker of her S 2 time. [ 26o ] time. Her familiarity with the black boy alludes to a iimilar weaknefs in a noble duchefs, who educated two brats of the fame colour. One of them after- wards robbed her, and the other was guilty of fome offence equally unpardonable. The pictures with which the room is adorned, contain many flrokes of temporary fatire. See the Venus with flays, a hoop, and high-heel'd fhoes ; Cupid burning all thefe parts of drefs, together with a modifh wig, &c. ; a fecond Cupid paring down a plump lady to the fafhionable flandard ; and [in a framed picture claffed with a number of infects] the figure of Defnoyer the dancing- mailer in a grand ballet. The ridicule on the folly of collecting old china, 8cc. &c. are alike circum- ftances happily introduced, and explanatory of the fafhions then in vogue. The colouring is better than that in moft of Hogarth's pictures. The plate is now the property of Mr. Sayer. J743- i. Benjamin Hoadly, bifbop of Winchejler, W. Hogarth pinx. B. Baron fculp. The plate belongs to Mrs. Hoadly. 2. Captain Thomas Coram, who obtained the char- ter* for The Foundling Hoj r pit al. Mezzotinto; a three- quarters. The fir ft print publifhed by M'Ardell, The original is a whole length. The captain has the feal of the charter in his hand. Before him is a globe ; at a diftance a profpect of the fea. This is * In >vhich the name of Wijliam Hogarth {lands enrolled as one of the earlicft governors of rhc charity. perhaps C *«.« 3 perhaps the beft of all Hogarth's portraits, and is thus defcribed in the Scanddizade, a fatire publifhed about 1749. u Lo ! old Captain Coram *, fo round in the face, " And a pair of good chaps plump'd up in good cafe, "His * Mr. Coram was bred to the fea, and fpent the fir ft part of his life as mailer of a veflel trading to our colonies. While he reiided in that part of the metropolis which is the common refidence of feafaring people, bufinefs often obliging him to come early into the city and return late ; he had frequent occalions of feeing young children expofcd, through the in- digence or cruelty of their parents. This excited his com. paffion fo far, that he projected The Foundling Ho/pi 'tal ; in which humane deiign he laboured 17 years, and at la ft, by his fole application, obtained the royal charter for itf. He died at his lodgings near Lticejrer-Square, March 29, 1751, in Ids 84th year : and was interred under the chapel of the Foundling Hofpital) where the following infeription perpetuates his memory : " Captain Thomas Coram, whofe Name will never want a Monument fo long as this Hofpital (hall fubfift, was born about the year 1668; a Man eminent in that moll eminent "Virtue, the Love of Mankind ; little attentive to his private Fortune, and refufing many Opportunities of encreaung it, his Time and Thoughts were continually employed in endeavours to promote the public Hnppinefs, both in this Kingdom and elfewhere, particularly in the Colonies of North America ;' and his Endeavours were many Times crowned with the defired Succefs. His unwearied Solicitation, for above Seventeen Years together, (which would have baffled the Patience and Induftry of any Man lefs zealous in doing Good) f For his other charitable projects, fee Biog. Die!:. 1784, vol. IV. p. 120. S 3 and [ 262 ] " His amiable locks hanging grey on each fide H To his double-breaft coat o'er his fhoulders fo " wide," &c. 3. The fame engraving, for the London Magazine. 4. Characters and Caricaturas, CANTO III. " My Lord now keeps a common Mifs, " Th' eifedts d efc rib 'd of amorous Mils i '* Venereal taints infedt t>heir veins, . " And fill them full of aches and pains ; " Which to an old French Dodlor drives 'em, " Who with his pill, a grand p — x gives 'em ; " A fcene of vengeance next enfues, " With which the Mufe her tale purfues." • CANTO t 266 ] CANTO IV. ** Frefh honours on the Lady wait, . V arma E)ea; ; Arserunt Cives, arfit Judscus Afclla^ Et te Bellorum depericre chori. Jam forties, palleufque gen as. & flaccid i mammas, Non oculi, quondam qui micuere, micant. lieu ! ubi formofe referentes lilia malae ! Labra ubi purpureis qua: rubucre roiis ! Te puer Idalius, te fafliditque juventus Tam marceicentem, diiTimilemque tui. Siccine tarn fidam curas Erycina minifham ? Haecciue militia; prsemia digna tua: ? O Fhius! 6 nimium, nimiumque oblita tuarara ! Carleffs an meruit ibrtis aceiba pati ? Qux potlhac arifve tuis imponet honorem, Ardebit pofthac vel tua caftra fequi ? Omnigenas aequo circumfpice lumine mocchas Quas tua pellicibus Drurla dives alit, Qua? cellas habitant, vicos peditefve peragraut, Aut quae Wappinios incoluere lares ; Invenienda fuit nufquam lafcivior, artus Mobilior, facris vel magis apta tuis. Carkfu ah noftris &: flenda 8i fkra Camcenis ! Accedat verbis nulla medela malis r Te vereor miferam fortuna tenaciter anget, Nee veniet rebus mollior aura tuis. Again in his Ode, " Ad Carolum B " - relinquent Carlcfis quondam miferne Penates Bovglaja U John/on, duo pervicacis Fulmina linguae. • Again [ 269 ] gain was made. Ravenet went through two of the plates, but the price proved far inadequate to the labour. Again in a " Copy of Verfes on Betty Clnfe's coming to ♦'Town, &c." Roberts will curfe all whores ■ From worn-out Careicfs to fair Kitty Walker* Again in an Ode intituled " Meretrices Brltar.n-^.'' Alma fcortorum Bruriaque ciiftos Orta Kfptnna ! tibi cura pulchrae Carkfu fatis data, tu fecunda. Carlcfc regnes. Thefe lines will ferve to enforce the moral of The Harfyfs Progrefs, while they aim at the iiluftration of a fmgle circurn- ftance in Marriage a la Mcde ; where if this female is intro- duced at all, it lcems to be in the character of an opulent procurefs, cither threatening the peer for having difeafed her favourite girl, or preparing to revenge herfelf on the quack whole medicines had failed to eradicate his lordihip's diforder. That heroine muft have been notorious, who could at onoe en- gage the pencil of Hogarth and the pens of Lovelh/g aod Fielding, who in the fixth chapter of the fir It hodfe' of Jtxieli* has the following ilory : " I happened in my youth to fit be- *' hind two ladies in a fide-box at a play, where, in the bal- " cony on the oppofite fi.de was placed the inimitable B*'0f " Carekfifivi company with a young fellow of no very formal, " or indeed fober, appearance. One of the ladies, I remerci- " ber, faid to the other — * Did you ever lee any thing look u _fo niodeft and fo innocent as that girl over the way ? What ** pity it is inch a creature faould be in the way of ruin, as I " am afraid ftfe is, by her being alone with that young fellow r *'* Now this lady was no bad phyiiognomilt ; for it was impof- " fihle to conceive a greater appearance of modefty, innocence, " and finiplicity, than what nature had displayed in the coim- " tenauce of that girl ; ant! yet, all appearances notwkh- " landing, I myfelf (remember, critic, it was in my youth) " had a few mornings before feen that very identical picture " of th.'fe engaging qualities in bed with a rake at a bagnio, ** fmoaking tobacco, drinking punch, talking ob&enuy, and u fwearing and curfing with all the impudence and impK-tv of M the [ 270 ] labour. He remonftrated, but could obtain no aug- mentation. When the Sigifmunda was to be en- graved, M the lovveft and mod: abandoned trull of a foldier , We may " add, that one of the mad-men in the laft plate oiThe Rake's* Progrefs has likewife written " charming Betty Carelefs" on the rail of the flairs, and wears her portrait round his neck. Perhaps between the publication of The Rakes Progrcfs and Marriage a la Mode, fhe funk from a wanton into a bawd. Mrs. Heywood's Bctfcy Thcughtlefs was at firft entitled Bctfcy Carelefs, but the name was afterwards changed for obvious reafons. The London Daily Pojl, Nov. 28, 173$, contains the follow- ing advertifement from this notorious female : 44 Mrs, Carelefs, from the Piazza in Covent-Garden, not be- 44 ing able to make an end of her affairs fo foon as fhe ex* " pe&ed, intends on Monday next to open a coffee-houfe in 44 Prujean's-Court, in The Old Bailey, where fhe hopes her friends 44 will favour her with their company, notwithuanding the ill 44 fituation of the place ; fince her misfortunes oblige her fUll " to remain there. 44 N. B. It is the uppermoil houfe in the court, and coaches 44 and chairs may come up to the door." Again in The London Daily P oft, OB. zi, 1 741 , Mrs. Carele/s advertifes The Beggar's Opera, at the theatre in James-Street, Haymarket, for her benefit, Oft. 27. At the bottom of the advertifement fhe fays, " Mrs. Carelefs takes this benefit be- 44 caufe flie finds a fmall preffing occafion for one : and as fhe 44 has the happintfs of knowing fhe has a great many friends, 44 hopes not to find an inftance to the contrary by their being *' abfent the above-mentioned evening; and as it would be " entirely inconvenient, and confequently difagreeable, if they ** fhould, flie ventures to believe they won't fail to let her 14 have the honour of their company. In the bill of the day *"* flie fays — N. B. Mrs. Carelefs hopes her friends will favour 41 her according to their promife, to relieve her from terrible 44 riu of the vapours proceeding from bad dreams, though the • 4 comfort is they generally go by the contraries. 44 Tickets to be had at Mrs. Carelefs' 's Coffee-houfe, the 44 Playhoufe-Pafage, Bridges-Street? Would the public, at this period of refinement, have pa- tiently [ rj.\ ] graved, Mr. Ravenet was in a different fphere of life- The painter, with many compliments, folicited his amftance as an engraver, but Ravcnet indignantly declined the connexion. In tiently endured the familiar addrefs of fuch a fhamelefs, fuper- annuated, advertifing ftrumpet ? The reader will perhaps fmile, when, after (o much grave ratiocination, and this long deduction of particulars, he is informed that the letters are not E. C. but F. C. the initials of Fanny Cock, daughter to the celebrated auctioneer of that name, with whom our artift had had fome cafual difagreement. The following, fomewhat different, explanation has alfobeen comirunicared to me by Charles Rogers, efq. who fays it came from Sullivan, one of Hogarth'' s engravers : " The nobleman " threatens to cane a quack-doctor for having given pills which. ** proved ineffectual in curing a girl he had debauched ; and *' brings with him a woman, from whom he alledges he caught '* the infection ; at which the, in a rage, is preparing to ftafa " him with her clafp knife. This wretch is one of -the loweil " 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 elimination and inspection, '* and for which purpofe he is wiping his fpectacles with his " c'oarfe muckender.'* The explanation given by Rouquet, however, ought not to be fuppreffed, as in all probability he received it from Hogarth. *' II falloit indiquer la mauvaife conduite du heros de la piece. " L'auteur pour cet effet Pintrcduit dans l'appartement d'un " empirique, ou il ne peut gueres fe trouver qu'en confecjuence 11 de fes debauches ; il fait en meme terns rencontrer chez cet **■ empirique une de ces femmes qui perdues depuis long-tems s " font enfin leur metier de la perte des autres. II fuppofe un *' demeie entre cette femme et fon heros, dont le fujet paroit *' etre la mauvaife fame d'un petite fille, du commerce de la- " quelle il ne s'eft pas bien trouve. La petite fille au refte *' fait ici contrafte par fon age, fa timirtite, fa douceur, avec M le caractere de l'autre femme, qui paroit un compofe de " rage, de fureur, et de tous les crimes qui accompagnent *' d'ordinaire les dernicres debauches chez celles de fon fexe. " L'empirique C *72 3 Tn the fourth of thefe plates * are the following portraits : Mrs. Lane (afterwards Lady Binglcy) adoring Care/lint ; her hufband Fox Lane aflccp. Rouquet only calls him " Un gentilhomme cam- tc 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 lame explainer adds, fpeaking-of the two next figures, " Ici on voit en papillotes un de ces perfonages qui " L'empirique et fon appartement font des objets entiere- '* ment epifodiques. Quoique jadis barbier f, il eft aujonrdhui, '* fi l'on en jnge par l'etalage, non feulment chirurgien, mais ** naturalifte, chimifte, mechanicien, medecin, apoticaire; " et vous re marque re z qu'il eft Francois pour comble de ridi- *' cule. L'auteur pour achever de le caraclerifer iuivant fon *« idee, lui fait inventer des machines extremement compofees •** pour les operations les plus fimples, comme celles de re- '* mettre un membre dilloque, ou de deboucher une bouteille. " Je ne deciderai pas ft l'auteur eft auffi heureux dans le ** choix des objets dc fa fatire, quand il les prendparmi nous, *' que lorfqu'il les choifit parmi ceux de la nation ; mais il " me femble qu'il doit mieux connoitre ceux-ci ; et je crois '* que cette planche vous en paroitra un exemple bien mar- *' que. II tourne ici en ridicule ce que nous avons de moins '* mauvais ; que deviendroit le refte s'il etoit vrai qu'il nous • connut affez pour nous depeindre ?" * Scot!?: engraved the fir ft and fixth ; Baron the fecond and third ; Ravenct the fourth and fifth. f This circumftance feems to be implied bv the broken comb, die pewter bafon, and the horn (o placed as to refemble a barber's pole, all which are exhibited either above, or within the glafs cafe, in which the fkeleton appears whifpering. a man who had been exficcated by fome mode of embalming at prcfent unknown. About the time of the pub- lication of this fet of prints, a number of bodies thus preferred were tlifcoverecl in a vault in Wb'uechapel church. — Our Quack is likewife a virtuofo. An ancient fpur, a high-crowned hat, old lhoer, &:c. together with a model of the gallows-, are among his raiities. — On his table is a fkull, rendered carious by the difcafe he is profeffing to cure. — 1 heie rwo laft objects are monitorv a well as charaficriftic 6 " pafTent L 2 73 ] fr paffent toute leur vie a tacher de plaire fans y " reuffir; la, un eventail au poing, on reconnoit un " de ces heretiques en amour, un fectateur d'Ana- " creon." The former of thefe has been fuppofed to reprefent Monfieur Michel, the Pruffian ambaffador. IVeideman is playing on the German, flute — The pic- tures in the room are properly fuited to the bed- chamber of a profligate pair — Jupiter and Io, Lot with his Daughters, Ganymede and the Eagle, and the Young Lawyer who debauches the Countefs. r J he child's coral, hanging from the back of the chair fhe fits in, ferves to fhew fhe was already a mo- ther; a circumftance that renders her conduct Hill 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, for which her para- mour is offering her a ticket. The pompous picture on the right hand of the window in the nobleman's apartment, Plate I. alfo deferves attention. It appears to be defigned as a ridicule on the unmeaning flutter of French portraits, fome of which (particularly thofe of Louis XLV.) are painted in a ftyle of extravagance equal at leafl to the prefent parody by Hogarth. This anceftor of our peer is invefled 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 directions. A comet is like- wife ftreaming over his head. In his hand he grafps the lightning of Jove, and repofes on a cannon going T " off, C *74 3 off, whofe ball is abfurdly rendered an object of fight. A fmile, compounded of felf-complacency and pert- nefs, is the charafteriftic of his face. On the cieling of this magnificent faloon is a repre- fentation of Pharaoh and his Hod drowned in the Red Sea. The pictures underneath are not on the moft captivating fubjccts — David killing Goliah — • Prometheus and the Vulture — the Murder of the In- nocents — Judith and Holofernes — St. Sebaf.ian mot full of Arrows — Cain deftroying Abel — and St. Laurence on the Gridiron. Among fuch little circumflances in this plate as might efcape the notice of a carelefs fpe&ator, is the Thief in the Candle, emblematic of the mortgage on his Lord fhip's eftate. When engravings on a contracted fcale are made from large pictures, a few parts of them will una- voidably become fo fmall, as almoft to want diftindt- nefs. It has fared thus with a number of figures that appear before the unfinifhed edifice *', feen through a window in the firfc plate of this work. Hogarth defigned them for the lazy vermin of his Lordfhip's hall, who, having nothing to do, are (It- tin^ on the blocks of ftone, or flarino- at the build- ing -f ; for thus Rouquct has defcribed them, " Une " troupe de lacquais oififs, qui font dans le cour de '.' ce batiment, acheve de cara&erifer le fafte ruineux " qui environ ne le comte." The fame illuftrator * The blunders in architecture in this unfiniflied noble- man's feat, on the fame account, are feen to difadvantage. -f- This edifice feema at a ftand for want of money, no workmen appearing on the fcaffolds, or near them. properly C 275 3 properly calls the Citizen Echevin (i. e. merifT) of London, on account of the chain he wears. Plate II. From the late Dr. Ducarel I received the following anecdote ; but there muft be fome miflake in it, as Herring was not archbimop till fe- veral years after the defigns for Marriage a la Mode were made. (i Edward Swallow, butler to Archbimop Herring, " had an annuity of ten pounds given to him in his " Grace's will. For the honefty and fimplicity of " his phyfiognomy, this old faithful fervant was fo " remarkable, that Hogarth, wanting fuch a figure in " Marriage a la Mode, accompanied the late dean of u Sarwn, Dr. 'Thomas Greene, on a public day, to " Lambdh, on purpofe to catch the likenefs. As S 1 The tender Lamb, o'erdrave and falii^ Amid ft expiring throes, Bleats forth it's innocent complaint; And dies beneath the blows. Inhuman wretch ! fay whence proceeds This coward Cruelty ? What int'reft fprings from barb'rous deeds ? What joy from mifery ? III. Owelty in Perfection. To lawlefs Love when once betray 'd, Soon crime to crime fucceeds; At length beguil'd to Theft, the maid By her beguiler bleeds,; Yet learn, feducing man, not night With all its fable olbud, Can fkreen the guilty deed from light : Foul Murder cries aloud. The gaping wounds, the blood-ftain'd free!; NovV fhock his trembling foul : But oh ! what pangs his breaft mull feel, When Death his knell mall toll. IV. T£e Reward of Cruelty Behold, the Villain's dire difgrace Not death itfelf can end : He finds no peaceful burial-place } His breathlefs corfe, no friend, Tori} C 3«9 3 Torn from the root, that wicked Tongue, Which daily fvvore and curft ! 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 f. 3. Boys peeping at Nature, with Variations, Receipt for Mofes brought to Pharaoh's Daughter, and St. Paul before 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 peefing at Nature (fee p. 188.) for the fame purpofe. This plate was lately found at Mrs. Uogartlfs, but no for- * In the laft of thefe plates, " how delicate and fuperior," as Mr. Walpole obferves, " is Hogarth's fatire, when he inti- " mates, in the College of Phyficians and Surgeons that prefide •' at a diflecYion, how the legal habitude of viewing mocking ■* fcenes hardens the human mind, and renders it unfeeling. *• The prefident maintains the dignity of infenfibility over an *' executed corpfe, and confiders it but as the object of a *' le&ure. In the print of the Sleeping Judges, this habi- " tual indifference only excites our laughter." To render his fpeclacle, however, more mocking, our artift has per- haps deviated from nature, againft whofe laws he fo rarely oftends. He has imprefled marks of agony on the face of the criminal under difleclion ; whereas it is well known, that, the moft violent death once paft, the tumult of the features fubfides for ever. But, in Hogarth's print, the wretch who •lias been executed, feems to feel the fubfequent operation. Of this plate Mr. S. Ireland lias the original drawing. mer / C v° 1 mer impreffions from it appear to have been circus lated. It might have been a firft thought, before? the idea of its ludicrous fucceffor occurred. Hogarth, however, with propriety,- effaced all the wit in his original defign, before he meant to offer it as a pro* logue to his uninterefting ferious productions, 4. Paul before Felix, designed and fcratched in the true Dutch taite, by W* Hogarth. This was the receipt for Phaj-aph's daughter, and for the ferious Paul and Felix ; and is a fatire on Dutch pictures.' It alio contains, in the character of a ferjeant tearing his brief, a portrait of Hume Campbell, who was not over-delicate in the language he ufed at the bar to his adverfaries and antagonifts. This, however, is faid by others to be the portrait of William King *, LL. D. Principal of St. Alary Hall, Oxford* In a va- riation of this print, the Devil is introduced fawing off a leg. of the {tool on which Paul Hands. In the third impreffion, as is noted in the collection foldjaft at Chrijlie > s i M Hogarth has again taken out the Devil. *' By thefc variations of Devil and no Devil, he glances ucrs, have occafionally repreiented. If we are to look for " Sermons in ftones, and good in everything," this inference is as fair as many which Mr. W. feems inclined to produce in honour of poor Hogarth, who, like Shakfjbcare, often fought to entertain, without keeping any moral purpofe in view. But was there either wit or morality in Hogarth's own eva- cuation again, ft the door of a church, a circumftance recorded by Mr. Forrc/I in his MS. tour, though prudently fttppreffed in his printed copy of it? Perhaps, following Uncle TdyZf advice, ' C 3 2 3 3 and admired than his ferious painting on the fame fubjed. I* Paul before Felix, from the original painting in Lincoln* s-Inn Hall, painted by W. Hogarth. " There li is much lefs Dignity in this, than Wit in the pre- u ceding.'* Under the infeription to the firfl impref- lions 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. Jofeph Warton's Effay on the Ge- nius of Pope. It was covered with paper in the third impreffion, and entirely effaced in the fourth* 2. The fame, " as firjl dejigned, but the wife of " Felix was afterwards omitted, becaufe St. Paul's " hand was very improperly placed before her,' 1 I have feen a copy of it, on which Hogarth had written, " A print off the plate that was fet afide as infufE- 4i cient. Engraved by W. H." On the appearance of Dr. Warton's criticifm on this plate, Hogarth caufed the whole of it to be engraved under both this and the next mentioned print, without any com- ment. advice, he had better hare wiped the whole up, and faid no- thing about the matter. Our worthy Tour-writer, however, was by no means qualified to be the author of a Sentimental Journey. He rather (and purpoi'ely, as we are told) refem- bles Ben Jonforfi communicative traveller, who fays to hi* companion, 1 went and paid a moccinigo For mending my filk {lockings ; by the way I cheapen'd fprats, and at St. Mark's I urin'd. Faith, thefe are politic notes! Y z 3. Mofei C 3 2 4 ] 3. Mofes brought to Pharaoh's daughter, from a picture at The Foundling Hojpital. Engraved by W* Hogarth and Luke Sullivan. In the early imprefiions from this plate (exclufive of its neceffary and ufual infeription) the words " Publifhed February 5, 1752, according to Act of " Parliament," and ft W* Hogarth pinxit" are found. In fubfequent copies they are obliterated ; and we have oaly " Publifhed as the Act directs" in their room. Thefe were left out, however, only to make room for the quotation from Dr. Warton's book al- ready mentioned *. 1753- 1 . Columbus breaking the egg. ce The fubfcrip» " tion-ticket to his Analyfis? Firfl payment 5 s. Ho- garth publifhed this print as a farcafm on thofe ar- tifts who had been inclined to laugh at his boafted line of beauty, as a difcovery which every one might have made. * It fhould here be remarked, that the heads of feveral of the figures in the original, differ widely from thofe in the engraving. The daughter of the Egyptian Monarch appears to more advantage in the print than on the canvas, for there fhe refembles a wanton under-aclrefs, who, half-undreft, and waiting for her keeper, employs the interval of time in fettling accounts with a waflierwoman, who has her baftard at nurfe, and has jnft brought him home to convince her that young Curl-fated Hugh has no flioes to his feet. The colouring of this piece is beneath criticifm. I have juft been told the head of Pharaoh's daughter was copied from one Seaton, a lmock- faced youth of our artift's acquaintance : a proper model, no doubt, fur an Eajlem Princeis ! Hogarth could not, like Guido t draw a Venus from a common porter. a. Analyfis [ 325 ] 2. Analyfis of Beauty. Two plates. Mr. Walpok Dbferves, that Hogarth's " famples of grace in a " young lord and lady are flrikingly itiffand affec- '" ted. They are a Bath beau and a county beau* '" ty." The print is found in three different ftates. ni In the original plate the principal figure reprefent- m ed the prefent king, then prince, but Hogarth was " dcfired to alter it. The prefent figure was taken •• from the laft duke of Kino/Ion ; yet, though like " him, is ft iff, and far from graceful *." In Plate I. Fig. 19. the fat perfonage dreft in a Roman habit, and elevated on a pedeflal, was defigned, as Hogarth himfelf acknowledged, for a ridicule on §hiin in the character of Coriolanus. Effex the dancing-mafter is alfo reprefented in the act of endeavouring to reduce the graceful attitude of Antinous to modern ft i fine is* Fig. 20. was likewife meant for the celebrated DeJ~ noyer, dancing in a grand ballet. Dr. Seattle, fpeaking of the modes of combination, by which incongruous qualities may be prefented to the eve, or the fancy, fo as to provoke laughter, ob- ferves " A country dance of men and women, like *' thofe exhibited by Hogarth in his Analyfis of Beau~ " ty, could hardly fail to make a beholder merry, " whether he believed their union to be the effect " of defign or accident. Melt of thofe perfons " have incongruities of their own in their fhape, " drefs, or attitude, and all of them are incongruous " in refpect of one another; thus far the aflemblage * Anecdotes of Painting, 8vo. vol, IV, p, Y 3 " difplays [ 3*6 3 < e difplays contrariety or want of relation : and they " are all united in the fame dance ; and thus far " they are mutually related. And if we fuppofe the '* two elegant figures removed, which might be Ci done without leffening the ridicule, we mould not " You know all this as well as me, "All C 35* 1 in all probability, had been informed that vitriol, of .cream of tartar, is commonly ufed, inflead of vege- table 11 All men of parts are out of place ; " 'Tis mine, 'tis many a wife man's cafe ; *' And though fo Cato-like I write, " I ne'er (hall get a farthing by't." Good Clerk, difpatch them quick, I pray : How eafy fools are led aftray ! He thinks th' infinuation's true, As all the race of Idiots do. But who comes here ? Ha, one juft dead, RavifiVd from out th' infirmary's bed ; Through racking follies fad and fick, Yet to the caufe he'll ever flick ; Tie the groat favour on his cap, And die True Blue, whate'er may hap. Oh, Vice ! through life extends thy reigns When Cuftom fixes thy domain, Not Wefleys cant, nor WljitficlcTs art, Can chace thee from th' envelop'd heart ! Behold that wretch ! whom Venus knows Has in her revels loft his nofe ; Still with that feafon'd Nurfe he toys ; As erft indulges fenfual joys ; Can drink, and crack a bawdy joke, And full 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 mrnd 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 punifh 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 difh; Who, C 352< 3 table acids, when a great quantity of fuch liquor 23 prepared at public houfes on public occasions. In the Who, when o'er venifon, ne'er will fpare it, And wafhes down fome rounds with claret ; That rhati will have a portly belly, And be of confequence, they tell ye ; Grandeur (hall 'tend his air and gait, And make him like — that Candidate : Obferve him on the huflings fit ! Fatigu'd, he fweats, or Teems to {went ; Scratching his pate, with fhook-back w\g i And puffs, and blows, extremely big ; Perhaps that paper hints about Votes, whofe legality's a doubt ; And will by fcrutiny be tryM, Unlets they're on the proper fide. Stiff as if Racyiraw * , fam'd for Ik ill, For genius, tafle, or what you will, With temper'd plaifler, flood in hafte, From his let face to form the caft ; Refting on oak-flick fledfafUy, The other would-be Member fee ! Struck with his look, fo fix'd and flout, That Wag refolves to ike.tch it out ; Laughing, they view the pencil'd-phiz.— *.' 'Tis very like him — that it is." Hark to yon hawker with her fongs ! " The Gallows (hall redrefs our wrongs V 9 1 warrant, wrote in humourous ftyle ; The hearers laugh ; the readers fmiie. And lo, although fo thick the rout, "They've room to pufh the glafs about ! Variety her province keeps ; One Beadle watches ; t'other fleeps. But fee that chariot ! who rides there ? Bri/aunia, Sir, a lady fair : * The ingenious arcift in FLet-JIreet, well known to the learned and ingenious, by his excellence in taking Bulls from the Life, and carts tivtn Anatomical Dillc&ions. [ 353 ] the third imprefHon a hat is added to thofe before oa the ground, and another on the bench. The whole plate To her celcftial charms are given ; Ador'd on earth, beloved in heaven ; Her frown makes nations dread a fall ; Her fmile gives joy and life to all. Too generous, merciful, and kind ; Her Servants won't their duty mind ; Neither their Mi ft rets' call regards ; Their ftudy's Low to cheat at cards ; The reins of power, oh, indi'creet ! They trample, carelefs, under feet ; Th' unguided couriers neigh and fpurn, And ah, the car mull overturn ! Juft gods, forbid ! -^-there's comfort yet ! For, lo, how near that laving Pitt ! Sure Heaven defign'd her that refoarce, To ftop her venal fervants courfe j Her peace and fafety to reftore, And keep from dangers evermore. Ha ! fee, yon diftant cavalcade ! Exulting crowds, and flags difplay'd ! Let's to the bridge our foot-ftcps bend—* So cheek by jole, along, my friend. CANTO IV. CHAIRING the MEMBERS. " Huzza ! the Country ! not the Court I"— . Your Honour can't have better fporc ; In old arm-chair aloft you foar — No Candidate can wifh 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 prsetor exhibition ; Tell me if, 'iindft the fpoils of age, And relicks of the moulder'd page, A a You [ 354 1 plate has alfo loft much of its former clearnefs. The original infcription at one corner of it was — " Painted, (< and You e'er found why this aukward fiate Muft 'tend the man who'd fain be great J When Alexander, Glory's fon, Enter'd in triumph Babylon^ Hear ancient annals make confefllori, How aggrandiz'd was his proceffion ! But this is Skymington, I trow ! ■ Yet Time proclaims We mujl * do fo. It fure was meant to make folks flare, •* Like cloths hung out at country fair: 44 Where painted monflers rage and grin, 44 To draw the gaping bumpkins in f." Minerva's facred bird's an owl ; Our candidate's, behold, a fowl [ From which we readily fuppofe (As now his generous Honour's chofe) His voice he'll in the Senate ufe ; And csckle, cackle, like — a goofe. But, hark ye ! you who bear this load Of patriot worth along the road, Methinksyou make his Honour lean ; Be careful, Sirs ! — Zounds ! what d' ye mean ? Off flies his hat, back leans his chair, And dread of falling makes him flare. His Lady, fond to fee him ride, With Nurfe and Black-moor at her fide, In church-yard Hands to view the fight, And at his danger's in a fright. 44 Alack, alack, fhe faints away !'* «« The hartlhorn, Ora — quick, I fay I " See, at yon houfe th' oppofing party Enjoy the joke, with laughter hearty ! " Well done, my boys— now let him fall;' 44 Here's gin and porter for you all !" But let 's find whence this came about : Ha, lo, that Threflier bold and flout 1 * See the Dial in Plate IV. f See the Prologue to a farce called " The Male Coquette." Hovr, t 355 ] Kt and the whole engraved by Wm. Hogarth */' The two words in Italicks were afterwards effaced. I may How, like a hero, void of dread, He aims to crack that Jailor's head ! While, with' the purchafe of the flroke, Behind, the bearer's pate is broke : The failor too refolves to drub, Wrathful he (ways the ponderous club ; Who to flir up his rage fhall dare ? He'll fight for ever — for his Bear. Sir Hudibras agreed, Bear-baiting Was carnal, and of man's creating ; But, had he like that Threfher done, 1*11 hold a wager, ten to one, His knighthood had not kept him fafe ; That Tar had trimm'd both him and Ralph, In fighting George's glorious battles, To fave our liberties and chattels ; Commanded by fome former Hoive, Ordain'd to make proud Gallia bow, A cannon-ball took oft* his leg : What then ? he fcorns, like ibme, to beg : That muzzled beafl is taught to dance, That Ape to ape the beaux of France ; The country folks admire the fport, And fmall collections pay him for't. Sailors and Soldiers ne'er agree ; — There's difference 'twixt the Land and Sea ; He, willing not a jeft fhall 'icape, In uniform riggs out his Ape :— From which we reafonably infer An Ape may be an Officer. But, hey-day ! more difafters ftill ? Turn cruick thy head, bold failor With In vain that fellow, on his Afs, Attempts to Hogs at home to pafs, The hungry Bear, who thinks no crime To feaft on guts at any time, * The earliejl impreffiont of this plate in its fecond flare, have th* fame infuiptiou. A a 2 Arre^i C 356 3 I may here obferve, that this performance, in its original Hate, is by far the moft fmifhed and laborious of Arrefts the garbage in the tub, And with his fnout begins to grub* Pray is it friendly, honeft brother, That one Afs thus mould ride another ? The beaft: feems wearied with his toil, And, like the bear r would munch a while. The good wife thought that every pig Should in the wafh, then coming, fwig ; And went induftrioufly to find Her family of the hoggifh kind ; But, oh, unhappy fate to tell ! Behind the Thremer down the fell: Indeed the wonder were no more, Had (he, by chance, fall'n down before : Away the fow affrighted runs, Attended by her little ones : Thofe gruntings to each other founding ; This fqueaking fhrill, through fear of drowning. " The lamb thou doom'ft to bleed to-day, " Had he thy reafon, wou'd he play * ?'* And did that Bear know he'd be beat, Would he from out that firkin eat ? The Afs's rider lifts his Hick ; Take out your nofe, old Bruin y quick ; A grin of vengeance arms his face, Prefaging torture, and difgrace. The Ape, who dearly loves to ride On Bruin s back, in martial pride, Dejected at the fad occafion, Looks up, with foft commiferation ; As if to fpeak, " Oh, fpare my friend I ** Avert that blow you now intend !" *Tis complaifant, good-natur*d too ;-»— Much more than many Apes would do. Obferve the chimney-fweepers, there I On gate-pott, how they laugh and itare j * See P*f>e'f Efiay on Man. Thcrf* C 357 ] of all Hogarth* s engravings. Having been two years on fale (from 1755 to 1757) it was confiderably worn Thofe bones, and emblematic fkull, Have no effect to make them dull ; Pleas'd they adorn the death-like head With ipectacles of gingerbread. When London city's bold train -band * March, to prelerve their track of land, Each val'rous heart the French defying, While druni6 are beating, colours flying, How many accidents reiound From Tower-bill to th' Artillery-ground ! Perhaps fome hog, in frifky pranks, Unluckily breaks through their ranks, And makes the captain llonn and fwear, To form their foldiers, as they were: Or elfe the wadding, which they ram, Pop into ibme one's ear they jam j Or not alert at gun and fvvord, When their commander gives the word To fire, amid ft the duft and clamour, Forget to draw their deiperate rammer; And one or two brave comrades hit, As cooks fix larks upon a fpit. That Monkey's lure not of the reg'ment, Yet ftill his arms fliould have abridgement ; The little, aukward, martial figure, Will wriggle till he pulls the trigger : 'Tis done — and fee the bullet fly J — Pop down, you rogue ! .or elfe you'll die. Survey, as merry as a grig, The Fiddler dancing to his jig ! ♦ ThispafTage will, perhaps, be better illuftrated by the following paragraph, printed in a daily paper called ** The Citizen:" — " Sa- H turday laft, being the firft day of dugufi Old Stile, the Artillery " Company marched according to cuftotn once in three years (called " Barnes's March, by which they hold an cllart) : they went to Sir u George IVbitmore's, and tcok a dunghill. As they were marching " through Bunbtil-Ronv, a large hog ran between a woman's legs and *' threw her down, by which accident the ranks were broke, which *' put the army in the utmoft confufion before they could recover." A a 3 No t 358 3 worn before the publication of Plate the fecond j and was afterwards touched and retouched till al- moft No goat, by good St. David rear'd, Could ever boa ft more length of beard : 'Tis his to wait on Matter Bruin, And tune away to all he's doing ; You think this firange, but 'tis no more Than Orpheus did in days of yore ; With modern fiddlers fo it fares ; They often fcratch to dancing-bears. He took to fcraping in his prime, And plays in tune, as well as time ; Elections cheer his merry heart ; Sure always then to flay his part: In toping healths as' great a foaker As executing Ally Croaker. Tho' forne Muficians fcarce can touch The firings, if drunk a glafs too much j Yet he'll tope ale, or ftout Ocloler, And fcrape as well when drunk, as fober. Lo, on yon fione which fhovvs the way. That travellers mayn't go aftray ; And tells how many miles they lag on, From London, in the drawling waggon, A Soldier fits, in naked buff! In troth, Sir, this is odd enough ! His head bound up, his fword-blade broken, And fiefli with many a bloody token, Declare he fought extremely well ; But which had belt on't, who can tell ? If he were victor, 'tis confeft, To be fo maul'd makes bad the befl : What though he fmart, he likes the jobb l ''tis great to head a party-mob. But what reward for all he did? — ■ Oh, Sir, he'll never want a — quid. There's lomewhat favory in the wind— Thofe Courtiers, Friend, have not yet din'd 2 Their true ally, grave Puzzlc-caufcy A man right learned in the laws, (Whofe C 359 ] mod all the original and finer traces of the burin ivere either obliterated or covered by fucceeding ones. In (Whofe meagre clerk below can't venture, And willies damn'd the long indenture), f As cuftom bids, prepares the dinner, For, though they've loft, yet he's the winner. See, the.domeftic train appear ! Old England bringing up the rear ! Curfe on their ftomachs, who can't brook Good Englijb fare, from Englijh cook ! Obferve lank Monfieur, in amaze, Upon the valiant foldier gaze ! " Morbleu ! you love de fight, ve fee, '* But dat is no de dim for ve." Behold, above, that azure garter— Look, now he whifpers, like a tartar ; By button faft he holds the other, The loft election makes a pother. *' All this parade is idle ftufF — *' We know our intereft well enough— •*' We ftill fupport what we efpoufe ; ^ We'll bring the matter in the Houfe." Of fome wife man, perhaps philofopher, (If not, it flings the vice a glofs over) I've read, who, Maudlin-like, would cry Soon as he 'ad drunk his barrel dry : Yon fellow, certain as a gun, Of that Philofopher's a Son : Long as the pot the beer could fcoop, He fcorn'd, like fwjne, to trough to ftoop ; But, now 'tis mallow, kneels devout, Eager to fuck the laft drop out. Vociferous Loyalty's a-dry, And, lo, they bear a frefh fupply ! That all the mob may roar applaufe, And know they'll never ftarve the caufe. When grey-mare proves the better horfe> The man is mis'rable of courfe ; That Taylor leads a precious life—* Look at the termagant his wife, A a 4. She C s e ° 3 In fhort, there is the fame difference between the carlieft and lateft impreffions, is there was between the firft and fecond Itate of Sir John Cutler's ftockings, which, by frequent mending, from filk degenerated into worfted. She pays him fweetly o'er the head ;— 11 Get home, you dog, and get your bread ; " Shall 1 have nothing to appear in, •' While you get drunk electioneering ? See from the Town-hall prefs the crowd, While ruftic Butchers ring aloud ! There, lo, their cap of liberty ! Here t'other fide in effigy ! A notable device, to call The Courtier party blockheads all 5 Aloft True-Blue, their en (ign, flie^, And acclamations rend the Ikies. Reflect, my friend, and judge from thence^ How idle this extreme expence ; What mighty fums are thrown. away, To be the pageant of the day J In vain Defert implores protections ; The Rich are fonder of Elections. Th' ambitiou* Peer, the Knight, the 'Squire, Can buy the Borough they defire j Yet fee, with unaffilting eye. Arts fade away, and Genius die. Tir'd with the applauding, and the fneering, And all that's ftyl'd Electioneering, I think to take a little tour, And likely tow'rd the Gallic fhore ; The Mufe, to whom we bear no malice, Invites me to the Gate of Calais *. That gate to which a knight of worth, 'Yclep'd Sir Loin, of Brifijb birth, Advanc'd, though not in hoftile plight, And put their army in a fright. But more it fits not, here to tell, So, courteous Reader, fare thee well, * See above, p. 295. I learn t $&' ] I learn alfo, en the bed authority, that our artift,. who was always fond of trying to do what no man had ventured to do before him, refolved to finiih this plate without taking a fingle proof from it as he proceeded in his operation. The confequence of his temerity was, that he almoft fpoiled his perfor- mance. When he difcovered his folly, he raved, flamped, and f,\ore he was ruined, nor could be pre- vailed on to think otherwife, till his paffion fubfided, and a brother artift aflifted him in his efforts to re- medy the general defect occafioned by fuch an at. tempt to perform an impoflibility. In Plate II. we meet with a frefli proof of our artift's inattention to orthography ; Party-tool (ufed as a proper name) being here (pelt parti-tool. This plate was engraved by C. Grignion, and has been re- touched, as the upper-row of the lion's teeth arc quite obliterated in the fecond imprefljon. Plate III. The militia- (or, as Hogarth fpells it, milina) bill appearing out of the pocket of the niaimed voter, is only found in the fecond impreflion. This print was engraved by Hogarth and Le Cave *« The dead man, whom they are bringing up as a ** Morolcn l.e Cave. Mr. Walpole, in his catalogue of Englijly engravers, (octavo edit.) profeHes to know no rnore of this artift than that he wa9 " a fcholar of Picart" and *' did a *' head of Dr. Pococfo before fw//j'< edition of the Dolor's "works." In the year J73Q. however, he engraved Captain Coram, &c. at the head of the Power of Attoiney, &c. (a de- fcription of which fee p. 254. of the prefent work) and after- wards was Hogarth's coadjutor in this third of his Election plates. At the bottom of it he is only ftyltd Le Cave. voter. [ 3«* 3 voter, alludes to an event of the fame kind that happened during the contefted election between Bof- wsrth and Selwyn. " Why," fays one of the clerks, * c you have brought us here a dead man." — u Dead 1' ! cries the bringer ; " dead as you fuppofe him, you <4 ihall foon hear him vote for Bofwortb" On this, a thump was given to the body, which, being full of wind, emitted a found that was immediately affirmed to be a diftindt, audible, and good vote for the can- didate already mentioned.-^-This circumstance, how*> ever, might have reference to the behaviour of the late Dr. Barrowby, who perfuaded a dying patient Be was (o much better, that he might venture with him in his chariot to go and poll for Sir George Vonaefai in Covent-Garden, The unhappy voter took his phyfician's advice, but expired in an hour after his return from the huftings. ft If Hogarth" fays Mr, Walpole> " had an emblematic thought, he ** exprefTed it with wit, rather than by a fymbol, " Such is that of the whore fetting fire to the wprld " in The Rake's Progrefs. Once indeed he defcended fi to ufe an allegoric perfonage, and was not happy * f in it. In one of his Election prints [plate III.] £ : Britannia's chariot breaks down, while the coach- " man and footman are playing at cards on the f< box." In the fecond jmprefiSons of Plate IV.* (which was * Some of thefefcenes having been rcverfed by the eugraver, the figures in them are renrcicnted as ufina their left hands joftead of their right, engraved C 3«3 ] engraved by W, Hogarth and F. Avillne) the {hadow on the fun-dial, denoting the hour, and the word indmtwr (commonly fpelt indenture) on the fcroll hanging out at the attorney's window, are both added. The fire from the gun is alfo continued farther ; the bars of the church-gate are darkened ; and the upper fprigs of a tree, which were bare at firfl, are covered with leaves. By thefe marks, the unfkilful purchafer may diflin- guifh the early from the later impreffions. I forbear therefore to dwell on more minute variations. The ruined houfe adjoining to the attorney's, in- timating that nothing can thrive in the neighbour- hood of fuch vermin, is a ftroke of fatire that mould not be overlooked. The publick were fo impatient for this fet of prints, that Hogartb was perpetually haftening his coadjutors, changing fome, and quarrelling with others. Three of the plates therefore were flightly executed, and foon needed the reparations they have iince received. The following curious addrefs appeared in the Public Advertifer of Feb. 28, 1757. " Mr. Hogarth is obliged to inform the fubferibers f ' to his Election Prints, that the three laft cannot be ff published till about Chrijlmas next, which delay f is entirely owing to the difficulties he has met with " to procure able hands to engrave the plates ; but " that he neither may have any more apologies to iS make on fuch an account, nor trefpafs any fur- " ther C 364 ] <* thcr on the indulgence of the public by encreafing *' a collection already fufficiently large, he intends tp *' employ the reft of his time in portrait-painting ; *f chiefly this notice feems more neceflary, as feveral " fpurious and fcandalous prints * have lately been * 4 published in his name, " AH Mr. Hogarth's engraved works are to be had u at his houfe in Leicejltr-fields, feparate or together; ** as alfo his Analyfis of Beauty, in 4to. with two «* explanatory prints, price i£s, With which will ** be delivered gratis, an eighteen-penny pamphlet " published by A, Miller, called The lavejligator, *« written in oppofition to the principles laid down «' in the above Analyfis of Beauty, by A. R. f, a •* friend to Mr. Hogarth, an eminent portrait-painter *• now of Rome' 1 The foregoing advertifement appears to have been written during the influence of a lit of fpleen or dif* appointment, for nothing elfe could have dilated to our artift fo abfurd a refolution as that pf quitting a walk he had trod without a rival to re-enter another in which he had by no means diftinguiihed himfelf from the herd of common painters, 1756. 1. France and England, two plates; both etched by himfelf. Under them are the following verfes, by Mr. Gar rick : * Query, what were the fcandalous prints to which he al- ludes ? •f- This J, Rl was Allan Ram/ay, but having never met with his jerfoinjance, 1 can give no account or" it. Plate [ 3*S ] Plate I. France. "With lanthern jaws, and croaking gut, See how the half-ftarv'd Frenchmen flrut, And call us Englifo dogs ! But loon we'll teach theie bragging foes. That beef and beer give heavier blows Than foup and roafted frogs. The priefts, inflam'd with righteous hopes, Prepare their axes, wheels, and ropes, To bend the ftifF-neck'd finner ; But, fliould they fink in coming over, Old Nick may fiih 'twixt France and Dover, And catch a glorious dinner. Plate II. England. See John the Soldier, Jack the Tar, With fword and piftol arm'd for war, Should Mounfeer dare come here ! The hungry Haves have fmelt our food, They long to tafte our fleih. and blood, Old England's beef and beer ! Britons, to arms ! and let 'em come, Be you but Britons flill, Strike home, And lion-like attack 'em ; No power can ftand the deadly ftroke That's given from hands and hearts of oak, With Liberty to back 'em. 2, The Search Night, a copy. J. Fielding fculp. 2lfi C 366 ] 2iy2 March, 1756 *. « A very bad print, and I he* " lieve an impofition" On this plate are fixteen flupid verfes, not worth tranfcribing. It was afterwards copied again in two different iizes in miniature, and printed or! on cards, by Darly, in 1766. The original, in a finall oval, was an impreffion taken from the top of a filver tobacco-box 'engraved by Hogarth for one Captain John/on, and never meant for publica- tion. . I75S * . 1. His own portraitf, fitting, and painting the Mufe of Comedy. Head profile, in a cap. The A- nalyfis of Beauty on the floor. IV, Hogarth, ferjeant- painter to his Majejiy. The face engraved by W. Hogarth. I mould obferve, that when this plate was left with the perfon employed to furnifh the infcription, he, taking the whole for the production of our artift, wrote " Engraved by W, Hogarth" under it. Ho- garth, being confcious that the face only bad been * There is alfo a copy of this print, engraved likevvife by Fielding, and dated Auguft n, 1746. \ Among the prints bequeathed by the late Mr. Forrcfl to hi9 executor Mr. Ccxc, is this head cut out of a proof, and touched up with Indian ink by Hogarth. Mr. Forrejl, in an infcription on the back of the paper to which it£is affixed, ob- ferves it was a prefent to him from Mrs. Hogarth. - With thefe prints are likewife feveral early impreffions from other plates by our artift ; and in particular a March to Finch- ley uncommonly fine, and with the original ipelling of prusia uncorrected even by a pen. I am told that both the head and this, with other engravings in the collection of the late Mr. Forreji, will.be fold by auction in the courie of the Winter 1786. I touched t s«7 3 touched by himfelf, added, with his own hand, " The Face" Engraved, Sec. In the fecond impreffion " The Face Engraved u by W. Hogarth" is totally omitted. In the third' impreffion " Serjeant-painter, &c. w is fcratched over by the burin, but remains ftill iuf- ficiently legible. The fourth impreffion has " the face retouched, " but not fo like as the preceding *. Comedy alfo has " the face andmafn marked with black f, andinfcribcJ, " Comedy, 1764. No other inferhtipn but his name % " William Hogarth, 1764." The original from which this plate is taken, is in Mrs. Hogarth's poffeffion at Chifwick. A whole- length of herfelf, in the fame fize, is its companion. They are both fmall pictures. 2. The Bench. Over the top of this plate is written in capitals — CHARACTER. Under it 4i of " the different meaning of the words Characler, *' Caracatura, and Outre, in painting and drawings" Then follows a long infeription on this fubject. The original painting is in the collection of Mr, Edwards, *759- 1. The Cockpit. Defigned and engraved by W. Hogarth, In this plate is a portrait of Nan Rawlins, a very ugly old woman (commonly called Deptford Nan, fometimes the Duchefs of Deptford), and well * i. e. the two firft. f So in both the third and fourth impreffions. remembered C 36S ] remembered at Nezvmarket. She was a famous cock- feeder, and did the honours of the gentlemen's ordi- nary at Northampton ; while, in return, a (ingle gen- tleman was deputed to prefide at the table appro- priated to the ladies. The figure with a hump back,* was defigned for one Jack/on, a once noted Jockey at Newmarket* The blind prefident is Lord Albe- marle Bertie, who was a conftant at tender of this drverfion. His portrait was before difcoverable in ihe crowd roUnd the bruifers in the March to Finchley. By the cockpit laws, any perfon who cannot, or will not pay his debts of honour, is drawn up in a bafketto the roof of the building. Without a know- ledge of this circumftance, the fhadow of the man Who is offering his watch would be unintelligible. The fubject of The Cockpit had been recommend- ed to Hogdrtb (6 long ago as 1747, in the following lines, firft printed in The Gentleman's Magazine of that year, p. 292. * f Where Dudflorfs * walks with vary'd beauties mine, tc And fome are pleas'd with bowling, fome 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 ! " Come, Hogarth, thou whole art can befl declare " What form9, what features, human paffions wear, * A gentleman's feat, about a mile from Birmingham, fitted * up for the reception of company, in imiution of Faux-ba'.l G/trJens. * Come C 3«9 3 «* Come, with a painter's philofophlc fight, " Survey 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 fmiles of Cruelty at pain " Whate'er looks anxious in the lufl of gain ; " And fay, can aught that's generous, juft, or kind, a 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 flill the fame ? " And war itfelf a cock-fight, and a game r " Are fieges, battles, triumphs, little things; w And armies only the game-cocks of kings ? " Which fight, in Freedom's caufe, flill blindly bold, " Bye-battles only, and the main for gold ? " The crefted bird, v/hofe voice awakes the morn^ " Whole plumage flreaks of radiant geld adorn, " Proud of his birth, on fair Salopians plain, " Stalks round, and fcovvls defiance and difdain. u Not fiercer looks the proud Helvetians wear, " Though thunder {lumbers in the arms they bear; u Nor T/jracias fiercer fons, a warlike race ! " Difplay more prowefs, or more martial grace.' " But, lo ! another comes, renown'd for might, " Renown'd for courage, and provokes the fight. " Yet what, alas ! avails his furious mien, 1760. 1 . Frontifpiece to Trijram Shandy. Of this plate there are two copies ; in the firft of which the hat and clock are omitted. S. Ravenet fculp. In this platt is the portrait of Dr. Burton, of Tork, the Ja- cobite phyfician and antiquary, in the character of Dr. Slop, Sterne probably was indebted for thefe plates (efpecially the firft of them) to the following com- pliment he had paid our author in the firft volume of Trijiram t 371 ] Trifiram Shandy. " Such were the outlines of Dr. " Slop's figure, which, if you have read Hogarth's ;u Analyfu of Beauty, and, if you hav6 not, I wifh ,tc you would, you mutt know, may as certainly be '" caracatured, and conveyed to the mind by three '" itrokes as three hundred." 2. Fronrifnicce to Break 'Taylor's Perfpe&ive of Architecture- '••. With an attempt at a new order. W, Ho- * Published in two volumes, folio, 1761, by Jojlna Kirhy > Peiigncr in Perfpeiftive to his Majefty. — " Here is a curious *' frontifpiece, detlgned by Mr. Hogarth ; but not in the fame " ludicrous ftyle as the form r (fee p. 333) : it were to be " wifhed that he had explained its meaning; for, being fym- t; bolicai, the meaning oi it is nut (o ol)vious as the other. To *' me it conveys the idea, which Milieu fo poetically defcriUes, <; of the angel Uriel gliding down to Paradife on a fun-beam ; " but the young gentleman has dropped off before he had M arrived at his journey's end, with Palladia's book of archi- " reeturc on his knees. A ray of light from the fun, riling M over a diitant mountain, is directed to a fcroll on the ground, •' on which are two or three fcraps ofperfpec"Hve ; over which, " fupported by a l.'ge block of ftone, is the upper part of a *' iceptre, broke off; the fnaft very obliquely and abfurdly *' indined, fomewhat refembling the Reman Jafces, and girt *' above with the Prince of IValei's coronet, as an ailragal, «' through which the fcfecs rile, and i'wcll into a crown, •■* adorned with embroidered ftaro ; rhjs is the principal obi ** jccTt, but moil vilely drawn. The ray pi lies through a " round tempJe, at a cur.fiderable diltance, which is aifofalfly " reprefented, the curves being for the diiia.ice too round, " and confequeatly the diminution of the columns is :co *' great It appears to pais ever a piece of waiter ; on his "fide the ground is fertile and luxuriant with vegeta ion, " abounding with trees and flirubs ; on rhe other lide it is •' rocky and barren \ . What is indicated by this fetms to be, t The idea of this contrail between fertility and 1 arrennefs is ara •Id one. Hogarth probably took it from the engraving known Dy the .name of HaJfuelU'i Dream. B b 2 «> that, i C 372 3 W, Hogarth, July - 1 760. W. Woollei fculp. • Left any reader fhould fuppofe that this idea of forming a new capital 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 pafTage in the Ana- . lyjis will prove that many years before he had concei- ved the practicability 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 parts " might be produced, &c." -Again, p. 46. " Even " a capital, compofed of the aukward and confined i( forms of hats and perriwigs, as Fig. 48. Plate I. " in a fkilful hand might be made to have fome " beauty.'' Mr. S. Ireland has the original iketch. 3. Mr. Huggins, A fmall circular plate. Hogarth pinx. Major fculp. On the left, a bud, infcribed, " II divino Ariosto." " Dante l'Inferno, il " Purgatorio, il Paradiso." Mr. Huggins (of whom fee p. 19.) had this portrait engraven, to pre- fix to his tranilation of Dante, of which no more than a fpecimen was ever publiihed. The buft of Ar'wfto was inferted by the pofitive order of Mr. Huggins (after the plate was finifhed), " that, where the arts are encouraged by the rays of royal " favour, they will thrive and flourifh ; but where they arc «' neglecled, and do not find encouragement, they will droop «« and ianguilh." Million's Appendix to his Treatife on Per- fpe&ive. * Mr. H. Emlyn has lately realized this plan, by his Pro- pofals for a new order of archite&ure, 1781. though :. [ 373 ] :hough much agai-nft the judgement of the engraver, who was convinced that a dill ground would have liewn the countenance of the pcrfon rcprefented to TAich greater advantage. Mr. Major's charge was 3ttly three guineas, and yet eleven years elapfed be- fore he received even this trifling acknowledgement r or his labour. Dr. Monkboufe has the plate. 1761. 1. Frontifpiece and tail-piece to the catalogue of oictures exhibited at Spring Gardens, W Hogarth ■ inv. C. Grignion fculp. There is a variation of this >rint ; a Latin motto under each in the lecond edi- .ion. In the earlieft impreffions obit, corrected after- wards to obiit. The fame mark of ignorance, how- ever, remains unamended over the monument ot the jfudge in the firft plate of the Analyjis. 2. Time blackening a picture. Subfcription-ticket 'or his Sigifmunda. (i This, and the preceding tail- ' piece, are fatires on Connoifieurs." 3. The Five Orders of Perriwigs at the Corona- ion of George III.* Many of the heads, as well us wigs, were known at the time. The firft head of he fecond row was defigned to reprefent Lord Mel" -ombe ; and thole of Bifhops Warburton, Mawfun, md Squire, arc found in the groupe. The advertife- iient annexed, as well as the whole print, is faid to nave been a ridicule on Mr. Stewart's Antiquities of * A DifTertation on Mr. HogartHs piint of the Order of ^rriv.igs, viz. the Epifcopal, Aldermanic, and Lexonic, is )rinted in The Beauties of all the Magazines, 1 761, p. 52. B b 3 Athens, [ 374 ] Athens, in which, with minute accuracy, are gives the meafurements of all the members of the Greek Architecture. The infcription under the print af- fords a plentiful crop of lalle fpellirl^s — volqmns— . advertifmei.t — bafo — &c. The fecond e in adver- titement was afterwards added on the neck of the fe» male figure juft over it. The firtt and fubfequent ina» preifions will be known by this diftinCtion. 4. Frontifpiece to the Farmer's Return- from Lon- don, an Interlude by Mr. Gwrrkk% a£ted at Drury Lane. W. Hogarth delin. J. Bafire fculp. In Mr. Lofier's collection is a bad copy of this plate, no name, the figures reverfed. The original drawing was given to Mr. Garrick, and is fuppofed to be in the poll- ffio 1 of his widow at Hampton. Mr. S. Ire* land has a iketch of it. An excellent copy of this plate is fometimes fold as the original. 5. Another frontifpiece to Trijbam 'Shandy (for the fecond volume). His chriilening. F, Ravenet fculp, * Mr. Garrictts publication was thus prefaced : ** The fol- *' lowing interlude was prepared for the ftage, merely with ** a view of afliiling Mrs. Frltchard at her benefit j and the *' defire uf lerving lb good an aclrefs is a better excufe for its " defects, than the few days in which it was written and re-r *' prefented. Notwithflanding the favourable reception it »' has met with, the author would not have printed it, had not " his friend, Mr. Hogarth, flattered him rnofl agreeably, by ** thinking the Farmer and bis Family not unworthy of a Iketch «' of his pencil. To him, therefore, tfcjs trifle, which he has •* fo much honoured, is inferibed, as a faint teftimony of the *' fincere efleem which the writer bears him, both as a man, «• and an artifl," 6. The C 375 ] 6. The fame engraved by Ryland. This, as f am informed, was the firft, but was too coarfely ex- ecuted to fuit that prepared for the firft volume of the fame work. 1762. 1. Credulity, Superftition, and Fanaticifm. " Sa- ** tire on Methodijls." " For deep and ufeful fatire," fays Mr. Walpok, u the moll fublime of all his * works." This print, however, contains fomewhat more than a fatire on Methodifm. Credulity is illuftrated by the figure of the Rabbit-breeder of Godaiming, with 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 difte mihi, fummd dicende Camcena. 2. The Times. Plate I. In one copy or this print Henry VIII. is blowing the flames ; in another Mr. Pitt has the fame employment.' As this dclign is not illuftrated in Tru/lers Account of Hogarth's Works, I fhall attempt its explanation, and fubjoin, by way of note, a humourous deicription of it, which was printed in a news-paper immediately after it's firft appearance in the world *; Europe * The principal figure in the character of Henry VIII. ap- pears to be not Mr. F. but anotuer peri'on whole power is iignified by nib bulk of carcaie, treading on Mr. P. represented by 3000 1. The Dellows may fignify nis well-meaning, though ineflediual, endeavours to extinguhh the fire by wind, which, B b 4 though C 37« ] Europe on fire ; France, Germany , Spain, in flames, which are extending to Great Britain. This defola- tion continued and affifted by Mr. Pitt, under the though it will put out a fmall flame, will cherifh a large one. The guider of the engine-pipe, I fhould think, can only mean his M , who unweariedly tries, by a more proper method, to ftop the flames of war. in which he is affiited by all his good fubje&s, both by fea and land, notwithftanding any interruption from Auditors or Britons, Monitors or North Britons. The refpectable body at the bottom can never mean the magiftrates of London ; Mr. H. has more fenfe than to abufe fo refpeclable a body; much lefs can it mean the judges. I think it may as likely be the Court of Seflion in Scotland, either in the attitude of adoration, or with outfpread arms intending to catch their patron, fliould his ltilts give way. The Frenchman may very well lit at his eaie among his mife- rable countrywomen, as he is not unacquainted that France has always gained by negociating what fhe loft in fighting. The fine gentleman at the window with his garretteers, and the barrow of periodical papers, refer to the prefent contend- ing parties of every denomination. The breaking of the Nenucaftle arms alludes to the refignation of a great perfonage ; and the replacing of them, by the fign of the four clenched fifts, may be thought emblematical of the great ceconomy of his fucceflbr. The Norfolk jig fignifies, in a lively manner, the alacrity of all his Majefty's forces during the war ; and G. T. [George ToivnJJscnd] fecit, is an opportune compliment paid to Lord ToMunJhend, who, in conjunction with 3*1 r. Wind- bam, publifhed " A Plan of Dilcipline for the Ufe of the *' Norfolk Militia," ^to. and had been the greateft advocate for the eftablilhment of our preient militia. The picture of the Indian alive from America is a fatire on our late uncivi- lized behaviour to the three chiefs of the Cherokee nation, who, were lately in this kingdom ; and the bags of money let this in a ftill clearer point of view, fignifying the fums gained by (hewing them at our public gardens. The fly Dutchman, with his pipe, feeras plealed with the combullion, from which he thinks he fhall be a gainer. And the Duke of Nivemois, un- der the figure of a dove, is coming from France to give a cef- i'ation of hoftilities to Europe. figure C 377 ] figure of King Henry VIII. with bellows increafing the mifchief which others are driving to abate. lie is mounted on the itilts of the populace. A Chefhire cheefe depends from his neck, with 3000/. on it. This alludes to what he had faid in Parliament— that he would fooner live on a Chcjfjire cheefe and a moul- der of mutton, than fubmit to the enemies of Great Britain. Lord Bute, attended by Englijh foldicrs, failors, and Highlanders, manages an engine for ex- tinguiming the flames, but is impeded by the Duke of Newcajlk, with a wheel-barrow full of Monitors and North Britons, for the purpofe of feeding the blaze. The refpedfcable body under Mr. Pitt are tne aldermen of London, worshiping the idol they had fet up ; whilft the mufical King of Pru/fe, who alone is fure to gain by the war, is amufing himfelf with a violin amongll: his miferable countrywomen. The pic- ture of the Indian alludes to the advocates for retain- ing our IVeft Indian conquefts, which, in was faid, would only increafe excefs and debauchery. The breaking down of the Newcajile-2^ms t and the draw- ing up the patriotic ones, refer to the refignation of that noble Duke, and the appointment of his fuccef- for. The Dutchman fmoking his pipe, and a Fox peeping out behind him, and waiting the iflue ; the Waggon, with the treafures of the Her?nione ; the unneceiTary 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 378 ] To thofe already given, however, may be added the following doggrel verfes : Devouring flames with fury roll Their curling fpires from Pole to Pole, Wide-fpreading devaluation dire, Three kingdoms ready to expire ; Here realms convuluve pant for breath, And quiver in the arms of death. Ill-fated ifle ! Britannia bleeds ; The flames her trait'rous "offspring feeds * Now, now, they feize her vital parts—. O fave her from his murd'rous arts ! In air exalted high, behold ! Fierce, noify, boifterous, and bold, Swol'n, like the king of frogs, that fed On mangled limbs of victims 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, Britons, what a bonfire there ! * Halloo, be d — *d, and rend the air.* Aldermen, marrow-bones and cleavers, Brokers, flock-jobbers, and coal-heavers, Templars, and knaves of ev'ry ftation, The dregs of London, and the nation ; Contractors, agents, clerks,-and all Who lhare the plunder, great and fmall, Join in the halloo at his call. Higher } C 379 3 H'igherthey raife the ftilts that bGrc The ihapelels idol they adore : He, to increafe his weight, had flung A Miil-ftonc round his neck, which hung With bulk enormous to the ground, And adds thereto Three Thou/and Pound; That none may dare to fay henceforth, He wanted either weight or worth. He blows, — the flames triumphant rife, Devour the esrth, and threat rhe fkies. When lo ! in peaceful mien appears, Jn bloom of life, and youthful years, Georgl, Prince of Men ; a lmile beniga Thar goodnels looks, prognoitic fign Of foul etherial, leems to bode, A world's deliv'rcr fent from God. Array'd in Majcfty ferene, Like heav'nly ipirits when they deign, Jn pity to mankind, to come, And flop avenging judgement's doom; Behold, and blefs ! jufl not too late T' avert a linking nation's fate, He comes, with friendly care to flay Thofe flames that made the world their prey. Born to reform and blefs the age, Pearlefs of taction's madd'ning 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 38° 3 Before him Fattion dare not Ihew Her ghaflly face and livid hue, But back retires to Temple-Bar, Where the fpe&ator fees from far Many a traitor's head eredt, To fhew what traitors muft expect. Upon that barefaced figure look, With empty fcull and full peruke ; For man or ftatue it might pafs ; Cafar would call't a golden afs. Behold the vain malicious thing, Squirting his poifon at his king, And pointing, with infernal art, Th' envenom'd 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 thebrifkeft trade, When Faction founds with loudeft din, To bring fome new Pretender in. This tribe from their aerial ftation, Deluge with fcandal all the nation : Below contempt, fecure from ihame, Sure not to forfeit any fame, Indifferent what part to choofe, With nothing but their ears to- lofe. Not Virtue on a throne can be From tongues below refentment free. Of C 38" ] Of human things fuch the diftr action, \\ ith Liberty we muft have Faction. But look behind the Temple-gate, Near the thick, clumfy, (linking feat, Where London's pageant fits in ftate ; What wild, ferocious fhape is there, With raging looks and favage air ? Is that the monfler 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 monfler P * * * prefented To the late King, who quickly fent it, Among his other beafts of prey, Safe in a cage with lock and key. Some faid he was of Britif/j blood, Though taken in an Indian wood. If he mould 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 cither hand, what bags of gold ! Monfters are dangerous things let loofe ; Old Cambrian, guard thy manfion-houfe. But here, what comes ? A loaded car, StufPd, and high pil'd, from Temple- Bar. The labouring wretches hardly move The load that totters from above. } Bi C 382 ] By their wry faces, and high ftrains, The cart fome lumpifh weight contains. * North Britons — Gentlemen — come, buy, * There 's no man fells fo cheap as I. c Of the North Briton juft a fcore, * And twenty Monitors or more, * For juft one penny — 6 North Britons — Monitors — come, buy, * There *s no man fells fo cheap as L ' North Britons ! Monitors ! be d — *d ! £ Is that the luggage you have cramm'd 6 Into your {linking cart ? Be gone, « Or elfe I'll burn them every one. * Good Sir, I'm fure they are not dear, * The paper's excellent, I fwear — * You can't have better any where. ' Come, feel this meet, Sir — pleafe to choofe— -« ' They're very foft, and fit for ufe. c All very good, Sir, take my word— - 'As cheap as any can afford. 1 The Curate, Sir, Lord ! how he'll foam I * 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 mare 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 diflance from his bales, £ftd fure thereby to raile the fales ; Good } } C 3S3 ] Good Mr. Reynard, wlfer ftill, Difplays you his fuperior fkill : Behind the felfim mifer's back, He cuts a hole into the fack, His paunch well cramm'd, he fnugly lie« # And with himfelf the place fup plies ; And now and then his head pops out, To fee how things go round about; Prepar'd to run. or ftand the fire, Juft as occafion may require, But willing in the fack to flay, And cram his belly while he may, Regardlefs of the babbling town, And every interest 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 Furies in her train, Exulting at the martial drain ; 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 diftrefs, To mark their footfleps o'er the plains, And teach the world what mighty gains From German victories accrue To th* vanquifh'd and the victors too. 7 The C 3^4 ] The fidler, ait his eafe reeling Enjoys the woes of human kind ; Purfues his trade, deftroys by rules, And reaps the fpoils of Knaves and Foolsv * * * * Multa defunt. The firft impreffions of this print may be known by the following distinction. The fmoke jud over the Dove is left white ; and the whole of the composition has a brilliancy and clearnefs not to be found in the copies worked off after the plate was retouched. I am told that Hogarth did not undertake this po- litical print .merely ex officio, but through a hope the falary of his appointment as Serjeant Painter would be increafed by fuch a fhow of zeal for the reigning Miniftry. He left behind him a fecond part, on the fame fubjedt ; but hitherto it has been withheld from the public. The finifhed Plate is in the poffeffion of Mrs. Hogarth. There feems, however, no reafon why this defign fhould be fupprefled. The widow of our artift is happily independent of a court ; nor can aught re- lative to the politics of the year 1762 be of confe- quence to any party now exifling. Our Monarch alio, as the patron of arts, would rather encourage than prevent the publication of a work by Hogarth, even though it fhould recall the difagreeable ideas of faction triumphant, and a favourite in difgrace. 3. T. Morell y S. T. P. S. S. A. W. Hogarth dtliiu James Bafire fculp. From a drawing returned to Mr. Hogarth. [ 385 ] Hogarth. Of this plate there is an admirable copy, though it has not yet been extenfivcly circulated. 4. Henry Fielding, Jetatis 48. W % Hogarth delin* James Bafire fculp. From a drawing with a pen made after the death of Mr. Fielding. " That gen- €c tleman," fays Mr. Murphy, " had often promifed u to fit 'to his friend Hogarth, for whofe good quali- Cl ties and excellent genius he always entertained " fo high an efteem, that he has left us in his wri- u tings many beautiful memorials of his affedtion. <( Unluckily, however, it fo fell out that no pidture " of him was ever drawn ; but yet, as if it was in- " tended that fome traces of his countenance fhould " be perpetuated, and that too by the very artift " whom our author preferred to all others, after il Mr. Hogarth had long laboured to try if he could * { bring out any likenefs of him from images ex- " ifting in his own fancy, and juft as he was de-. " fpairing of fuccefs, for want of fome rules to go (C by in the dimenfions and outlines of the face, For~ <( tune threw the grand dcfideratum in the way. A " lady, with a pair of fciffars, had cut a profile, " which gave the diftances and proportions of his " face fufficiently to reflore his loft ideas of him. " Glad of an opportunity of paying his laft tribute tl to the memory of an author whom he admired, " Mr. Hogarth caught at this outline with pleafure, " and worked, with all the attachment of friend- " fhip, till he fmifhed that excellent drawing which u Hands at the head of this work, and recalls to C c « all, t 386 ] " all, who have feen the original, a correfponding " image of the man." Notwithflanding this authen- tic relation of Mr. Murphy, a different account of the portrait has been lately given in one of the news- papers. Mr. Garrick, it is there faid, dreffed himfelf in a fuit of his old friend's cloaths, and prefented himfelf to the painter in the attitude, and with the features, of Fielding. Our Rofcius, however, I can affert, interfered no farther in this bufinefs than by urging Hogarth to attempt the likenefs, as a neceflary adjunct to the edition of Fielding's works. I am af- fured that our artift began and finifhed the head in the prefence of his wife and another lady. He had no affiftance but from his own memory, which, on fuch occasions, was remarkably tenacious *■ 1.763. 1. John Wilkes, Efq. Drawn from the life, and etched in aquafortis by Wm. Hogarth. Price is. It ivas published with the following oblique note. This Is " a diredt contrail to a print of Simon Lord i( LovAt-f." Mr. IVilkes, 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 impreffions of this plate there are * To this fketch fo great juftrce was done by the engraver, that Mr. Hogarth declared he did not know his own drawing from a proof of the plate before the ornaments were added* This proof is now in the collection* of Nlv.Steevens. f The original drawing, which was thrown by Hogarth into the fire, was fnatchcd out of it by Mrs. Lewis, and is now in the polfeffion of Mr. S, Ireland, a few C 387 ] a fe\V flight variations, fumcient at leaft to fhew that the face of the perfon reprefented had been retouched* I have beeh told, by a copper-plate printer, that near 4000 copies of this caricature were worked off on its firft publication. Being kept up for two or three following nights on the occafion, he has reafon to remember it. 2. The Bruifer C. Churchill *> in the character of a Ruffian Hercules, &c. The Ruffian Hercules was thus explained, in Auguji, 1 763, by an admirer of Hogarth ; ,( The principal figure is a Ruffian Bear (i. e. Mr* R Churchill) with a club in his left paw, which he " hugs to his fide, and which is intended to denote " his friendfhip to Mr. Wilkes : on the notches of the " club are wrote, Lye 1, Lye 2, &V. fignifying the tc fallities in The North Briton i in his other paw is a Cf gallon pot of porter, of which (being very hot) he * In a letter written to his friend Mr. Wilkes t dated Aug. 3, 1763, Churchill fays : *' I take it for granted you have feen *' Hogarth's Print againft me. Was ever any thing fo contemp- s ' tibie ? I think he is fairly/tr/d defe — I think not to let him " off in that manner, although I might fafely leave him td " your notes. He has broke into my pale of private life, •' and fet that example of illiberality which I wiflied — of that * ( kind of attack which is ungenerous in the firft mftance, bun *• juftice in return. I intend an Elegy on him, fuppofing him *' dead ; but * * tells me with a kifs, he will be really dead *' before it comes out : that I have already killed him, &c. ** How fweet is flattery from the woman we love ! and hovV ** weak is our boafted ftrength when oppofed to beauty and " good fenfe with good nature !" — In Mr. Churchill's will is the following paflage : " I defire my dear friend, John Wilkes^ " Efq. to colled and publifh my \V0rk3, with the Remarks € * and Explanations he has prepared, and any others he thinks w proper to make." C c 2 " feemS [ 3«S ] (i feems going to drink : round his neck is a clergy- " man's band, which is torn, and feems intended to <( denote the bruifer. The other figure is a Pug-dog t " which is fuppofed to mean Mr. Hogarth himfelf, D d 2 varied [ 4°4 ] varied occurs in two ftates. In the firft of thefe we have only " This plate could have been better ex- " plained, had the author lived a week, longer." In the fecond impreffion of it we are told, that " The " unfinifhed group of heads, in the upper part of F this print, was added by the author in October ** 1764; and was intended as a farther illuftration *' of what is here faid concerning Character, Cara- il catura, and Outre. He worked upon it a day " before his death, which happened the 26th of that * month." This plate exhibits the infide of the Common Pleas, with portraits of the following judges then belonging to that court : Hon. Wm. Noei. Sir Edw, Clive. Sir John Wilks, Ld Ch.Juflice \ I: Hon.Mr.Juf- tice(nowEarlj Bathurji. Mr. Edwards's picture on this iubjecl (fee p. 367.) differs from both the plates. 3. Hell-Gate, Satan, Sin, and Death. Milton's Faradife Loft. Book II. A large print. Engraved by C.Townley, and intended to have been publiihed April 15, 1767. It was dedicated to the late Mr. Garrick, who poffciTed the original (unfinifhed) pic- ture painted by Hogarth. The plate was deftroyed, and only a few of the prints are now remaining. The original is in the poffeffion of Mrs. Garrick. ' It is impoffible to conclude my account of it without obferving, that the united labours of Tenters, Hcemfiirky and Callot, could not have fumifhed 3 more C 405 1 more abfolute burlefque of this noble fubjedt, than Hogarth, who went ferioufly to work on it, has here produced. <% How art thou fallen, O Lucifer, thou " fon of the 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 diverted of all the powers of temptation. 1772. 1. The Good Samaritan; by Ravenet and Delatre, In The Grub Street Journal for July 14, • 7j7, ap- peared the following paragraph : Yefterday the fcaf- *' folding was taken down from before the picture ** of The Good Sa?naritan *, painted by Mr. Hogarth^ u on the St iir Cafe in St+ Bartholomeivs Hofpital, " which is efteemed a very curious piece." Hogarth paid his friend Lambert for painting the landfcape ia this picture, and afterwards cleaned the whole at his own expence. To the imaginary merits of his coad- jutor, the Analyfis, p. 26, bears the following tefti- mony : " The fky always gradates one way or other, " and the rifmg or felting fun exhibits it in great " perfection; the imitating of which was Claud de * l Lorain s peculiar excellence, and is now Mr. Lam- " ben's:' 2. The Pool of Bet he/da; krge, by Ravenet and Picot. A fmall one, by Ravenet^ has been mentioned under 1 748. Both very indifferent. Mr. Walpole juftly obferves, that u the burlefque turn of our * Of this piifhire Mr. S. Ireland has a Iketch in oil. Ddcj "ai tilt's I 406 ] *f artift's mind mixed itfelf with his moft ferious if compositions; and that, in The Pool of Bethefda, a *' fervant of a rich ulcerated lady, beats back a < e poor man [perhaps woman] who fought the fame * c celeftial remedy.*' To this remark I may add, that the figure of the prieft, in The Good Samaritan % is fupvemely comic, and rather refernbles fome purfe- proud burgomafler, than the character it was de- igned to reprefent. On the top of the flaircafe at St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, and juft under the cornice, is the following infcription, u The hiftorical paintings of this ftaircafc f were painted and given by Mr. William Hogarth, * c and the ornamental paintings at his expence, A. D. *' 1736." Both pictures, which appear of an oblong fquare in the engravings, in the originals are fur- rounded with fcroll-work which cuts off the corners pf them, &c. All thefe ornaments, together with compartments carved at the bottom, were the work of Mr. Richards. Mr. Boydell had the latter engraved on feparate plates., appended to thofe above them, on which fufficient fpace had not been left. — Hogarth re- 6d. is now fold at 1 f, though the proprietor has incurred the frefh expence of decorating it in aqua tinta. Should it hencefor- ward fail to meet with buyers, I fhall not be ready to exclaim, with Qvid s Fit bam C 4 C 9 ] Flebam fuceeffu pojfe car ere dofo. The three hit publifhed by John Thane, Rupert- Jlreet, Haymarket. 5. Firft fketch of arms for The Foundling HcfpitaL Wm. Hogarth inv. \ 747. Over the Creft and Suppor- ters is writtten — A Lamb — Nature — Britannia. In the fhield is a naked Infant : the Motto Help. This is an accurate fac fimile from a drawing with a pen and ink by Hogarth. Publifhed as the Act directs July 31, 1781, by R. Live fay, at Mrs. Ho- garth's, Leicejier Fields. The original is in the col- lection of the Earl of Exeter. 6. Two Figures, &c. Hogarth inv. F. B. [i. e. Francis Bart olozzi~]fcidp. Thefe figures were defigned for Lord Mclccmbe and Lord Winchelfea. From a drawing with a pen and ink by Hogarth. Publifhed as the Act directs, 31 July, 1781, by R. Live/ay at Mrs. Hogarth's, Leicejter-fields. I am informed, how- ever, that this drawing was certainly the work of Lord Toiunjhend. The original is in the collection of the Earl of Exeter. 7. A mezzotinto portrait of Hogarth with his hat on, in a large oval, " from an original begun by tl Wheltdcn, and fmifhed by himfelf, late in the poffei- fi fion of the Rev. Mr. Townley. Charles Townley fee." The family of Hogarth affect to know nothing of this painting ; and fay, if there is fuch a thing, it was only flightly touched over by him. It mult be con- feffed that it bears little, if any, refemblance to the reprefentations of our artift edited by himfelf. The original C 410 ] original is now in the poffeffion of Mr. James Townky, as has been mentioned in p. 98. 1782. 1. The Stay maker. 2. Debates on Palmiftry. The humour in the firit of the two preceding prints is not very ftrong, and in the fecond it is fcarce intelligible. The Male Staymaker feems to be taking profeffional liberties with a female in the very room where her hufband fits, who is playing with one of his children prefented to him by a nurfe, perhaps with a view to call off his attention from what is go- ing forward. The hag mews her pretended love for the infant, by killing its pofteriors. A maid-fervant holds a looking-glafs for the lady, and peeps fignifi- cantly at the operator from behind it* A boy with a cockade on, and a little fword by his fide, appears to obferve the familiarities already mentioned, and is (hutting up fiercely towards the Staymaker, while a girl is fpilling fome liquor in his hat. The figures employed in the ftudy of Falmiftry rfeem to be deiigned for Phyficians and Surgeons o£ an Hofpital, who are debating on the moft commo- dious method of receiving a fee, unattentive to the complaints of a lame female who folicits afliftance. A fpeclre, refembling the Royal Dane, comes out be- hind, perhaps to intimate that phyfick and poifon will occasionally produce fimilar effects. A glafs cafe, containing fkeletons, is open ; a crocodile hangs overhead ; and an owl, emblematic of this fapient 6 confiftory [ 4" 3 eonfiflory, is perched on an high fland. I fufpefi; - thefe two to have been difcarded (ketches — the firft of them too barren in its fubjedt to deferve finifhing, and the fecond a repented effort of hafty fpleen again ft the officers of St. Bartholomew's, who might not have treated fome recommendation of a patient from our artift with all the refpecl: and attention to which he thought it was entitled. But this is mere fuppofition. 3. Portrait of Henry Fox Lord Holland. 4. Portrait of James Cauljield Earl of Charlemont. The above four articles are all etched by S. Haynes, pupil to the late Mr. Mortimer, from original draw- ings in the pofTeffion of Mr. S. Ireland. The fix prints which follow, were publifhed by fubfcription by Mrs. Hogarth in April 1782 ; of thefe No. 5. was engraved by Bartolozzi, and the reft by R. Live fay. 5. The Shrimp Girl, a head, from an original iketch in oil, in the pofTeffion of Mrs. Hogarth. This plate, which is executed in the dotted manner fo much at prefent in fafhion, mould have been etched or engraved like thofe excellent performances by Bartolozzi after the drawings of Guercino. Spirit, rather than delicacy, is the characterise of our artift's Shrimp Girl. 6. 7. Portraits of Gabriel Hunt and Benjamin Read, in aqua tinta, from the original drawings in the pofTeffion of the late Mr. Forrejl. The drawing of Mr. Hunt was taken in 1733, a period when, from the number of Itreett C 412 ] ftreet-robberies, it was ufual to go armed. HunCs couteau'is {luck in one of his button-holes. The figure of Ben Read was taken in 1757. Coming one night to the club after having taken a long journey, he fell afleep there. Hogarth had got on his roque- laure, and was about to leave the room ; but, flruck with the drollery of his friend's appearance, he ex- claimed,, " Heavens ! what a character !" and, calling for pen and ink, took the drawing immediately, without fitting down. To be recorded only as votaries of the bottle and pipe, is no very flattering mark of diftincYion to thefe members of our artilVs club. There is fcarce a meaner avenue to the Temple of Fame. 8. Three plates, from the original Sketches of Hogarth, defigned for the epitaph and monument of George Taylor. The drawings are the property of Mr. Morrifon. George Taylor was a famous boxer, who died Fe- bruary 21, 1750. A writer already quoted fpeaks of him in thefe terms : " George Taylor, known by the " name of George the Barber, fprang up furprifingly. " He has beat all the chief boxers but Br ought on. Ci He, I think, injudiciously fought him one of the " firft, and was obliged very foon to give out. Ci Doubtlefs it was a wrong ftep in him to commence " a boxer by fighting the Handing champion : for " George was not then twenty, and Broughton was in tc the zenith of his age and art. Since that he has " greatly diftinguifhed himfelf with others ; but has " never [ 4*3 1 " never engaged Broughton more. He is a flrong " able boxer, who, with a fkill extraordinary, aided " by his knowledge of the fmall and back fwords, €t and a remarkable judgement in the crofs-buttock " fall, may conteft with any. But, pleafe or dii- " pleafe, I am refolved to be ingenuous in my cha- u rafters. Therefore I am of opinion, that he is not " overftocked with that necefTary ingredient of a " boxer, called a bottom ; and am apt to fufpect that " blows of equal ftrength with his too much affect " him and difconcert his conduct." Godfrey on the Science of Defence, p. 6r. On Taylor's tombftone in Deptford church-yard is the following epitaph : Farewell ye honours of my brow ! Victorious wreaths farewell ! 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 mall 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 molt, folemn of all events with too great a degree of levity. 9. Nine prints of Hogarth's Tour from drawings by Hogarth, Sec. accompanied with nine pages of let- ter prefs. The frontifpiece of this v/ork (Mr. Some-' 5 body) t 414 ] body) was defigned by Hogarth, as emblematical of their journey, viz* that it was a fhort Tour by land and water, backwards and forwards, without head or tail. The 9th is the tail-piece (Mr. Nobody) of the fame whimfical nature with the firft ; the whole being intended as a burlefque on hiftorical writers record- ing a feries of infignificant events intirely uninterefting to the reader. " Some few copies of the Tour,*' fays Mr. Walpole *«■ " were printed by Mr. Nichols in the " preceding year. It was a party of pleafure down " the river into Kent, undertaken by Mr. Hogarth^ " Mr. Scott, and three of their friends, in which " they intended to have more humour than they ac- " compliihed, as is commonly the cafe in fuch medi* " tated attempts. The Tour was defcribed in verfc t( by one of the company, .and the drawings exe- *' cuted by the painters, but with little merit, except " the views taken by Mr. Scott" I have tranfcribed this paragraph left the readers of the truly valuable work whence it is taken fhould imagine the Tour printed by J. N. in 1781, was the fame with that prublifhed by Mr. Live/ay in 17820 The former was the production of the ingenious Mr. Gojlling of Canterbury 1 the latter was written by one of the company, and, with the omiffion of a fingle glaring indelicacy, and many falfe fpellings, has been faithfully edited by Mr. Live/ay, 10. Hogarth's Creft, exhibiting the Line of Beauty. Cyprus and Variety fubjoined by way of mottoes; bus * Vol. IV. 8vo. p, 192* tnf [ 4i5 ] my readers will anticipate me when I obferve that the univeiie contains no place in which Hogarth had fo little intereft as in the Cyprian iile, 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 his carriage, is now in the pofleflion of Mr. Live/ay. ii. The card of invitation mentioned in p. 63. is introduced in the title-page of the prefent pub- lication. It is engraved by J. Cary, a young artift, whofe abilities, more particularly 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. Publifhed by Live/ay, 1785. 1. Orator Henley Chriftening a Child. Etched by Sam 1 Ireland, from an original iketch in oil — in his pofleflion — by Hogarth. — To Francis Grofe, Efq; F. A.S. an encourager and promoter of the arts, this etching, from his favourite Hogarth, is inferibed by his obliged friend and fervant, Sam l Ireland. 2. A Landfcape. Etch'd by Sam 1 Ireland, from an original picture in his pofleflion, 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 inferibed by his Lordfhip's moft obliged and obedient fervant. S. Ireland. The very confiderable degree of (kill and fidelity, difplayed in the execution of thefe two plates, enti- tles C 416 ] ties the gentleman who etched them to the warmeft thanks of every collector of the works of Hogarth, — May a hope be added, that he will favour us with yet other unpublifhed defigns of the fame matter > Prints of uncertain Date. Before Mr. Walpole*s enumeration of the following Ihop-bills, coats of arms, &c. made its appearance, perhaps few of them were known to our collectors. Concerning the genuinenefs of fome of thefe unim- portant engravings, no doubt can be entertained ; but whence is it inferred that all of them were his productions ? Do we receive them merely on the faith of Mr. Fond ? or are they imputed to our artift for any other reafon, or on the flrength of any other teitimony ? 1 am afTured, by a gentleman who pof- feffes the chief of them, and is well acquainted with Hogarth's manner, that from mere external evidence feveral of thefe could not have been authenticated. It is natural, however, to fuppofe that moft of them (if Hogarth's) were the fruits of his appren- ticeship *. As fuch, therefore, they fhould be placed at the beginning of every collection. * Let it be remembered likewife, that being bound appren» tice to the Tingle branch of engraving arms and cyphers, the majority of his works, whether on bafe metal or iilver, mufl have been long fince melted down. During the minority of Hogarth, the forms in which plate was made, could contribute little to its chance of prefervation. Pot-bellied tankards, and falvers fcalloped like old-fafhioned minced-pies, were the higheft efforts of that period. 1. People C 4>7 3 1. People in a fliop under the King's arms : Mary and Ann Hogarth, " A flop-bill" for his two lifters, who for many years kept a linen-draper's, or rather what is called a flop-fhop. Mary and Ann Hogarth. from the Old Frock-fhop near the corner of The Long Walk, facing The Cloyjters, Removed to y e Kings Arms joyning to y e Little Britain-gate, near Long Walk. Sells y e bell and moll Fafhionable Ready Made Frocks, futes of Fuftian, Ticken and Holland, flript Dimmity and Flanel Waflcoats, blue and canvas Frocks, and bluecoat Boys Dra rs . Likewife Fuflians, 1 ickens, Hollands, white flript Dimity s, white and flript Flanels in y e piece. By wholefale or Retale, at Reafonable Rates. 2. His own cypher, with his name under it at length ; u a plate he ufed for his books" I have rea- fon to think it was neither defigned nor engraved by Hogarth. 3. A Turk's head. " A flop bill" for John Barker, goldfmith, at the Morocco Ambaffiidor's head in Lom- bard-Street. — A copy of this has been made. 4. A fhop-bill, with emblems of Trade. Grand Duke of Tufcany's arms at the top ; thoie of Florence within the plate. At the four corners, views of Na- ples, Venice, Genoa, and Legborne. At Mrs. Holt's, Italian Warehoufe, at the two Olive Pofls in y e Broad part of The Strand almofl oppofite to Exeter Change are fold all Sorts of Italian Silks, as Luflrings, Sattins, Padefois, E e Velvets, [ 418 ] Velvets, Damaiks, &c. Fans, Legorne Hats, Flowers, Lute and Violin Strings, Books of Effences, Venice Treacle, Balfomes, &c. And in a Back Warehoufe all Sorts of Italian Wines, Florence Cordials, Oyl, Olives, Anchovies, Capers, Vermicelli, Bolognia Sau- fidges, Parmefan Cheefes, Naple Soap, &c. 5. A large angel, holding a palm in his left hand. " AJhop-biir for Ellis Gamhle Ellis Gamble Goldfmith, at the GoUen-Aagel in Cratt- bourn -Street , Leicejler - Fields, Makes Buys and Sells all Sorts of Plate, Rings and Jewels Orfeure, a l'Enfeigne de l'Ange d'Or dans Cranbourn-Street, Lei- cejler-Fields. Fait, Achete,, & vend toutes fortes d'Argeu- terie, Bagues & Bijouxs, &c. 6. A fmaller angel. This is a contracted copy from the preceding, was another mop-bill for our Artift's Mailer, and has the fame infcription as that already given. 7. Another fmall angel purchafed, at fome diflance of time, by Sir Gregory Page, Bart, who erafed the original arms from the efcutcheon, and had his own put in. The difh was afterwards bought * Thefe are in the collection of the Earl of Exeter, and are faid to have the name of our artift fallacioully affixed to them. I ipeak, however, with uncertainty. at [ 4*3 3 at Chrijlie's at a fale of Sir Gregory's plate; and when 25 impremons only had been taken from it, was cut to pieces by R. Morrifon, 178 1. I wifh fome of thefe difcoveries of Hogarth's engravings had been made by people who had no immediate view to their own profit, and the fale of their acquifitions. Too many of our collectors are become dealers. 21. Small oval print for the Rape of the Lock. This was not defigned for any edition of it. A few impreffions only were taken off from the lid of a fnuff-box engraved by Mr. Hogarth, as it is believed, for fome gentleman characterized by Pope in his celebrated mock-heroic poem. It is one of the pooreft of Hogarth's performances. 22. An emblematic print, reprefenting Agricul- ture and Arts. " It feems to be a ticket for fome fo- ciety." 23. A ticket for the benefit of Milward the trage- dian. A fcene in The Beggar' s Opera ; " Pitt 3 s." inferted with a pen between " Theatre" and " Royal," in a fcroll at the bottom of it. I have feen an im- preflion of it, under which is engraved, " Lincolns-Inn " Fields, Tuefday, Apr ill 23. A Bold Stroke for a tc Wife, with Entertainments, for the benefit of Mr % " Milward," This carelefs, but fpirited little en- graving, has more of Hogarth's manner than feveral other more laboured pieces, which of late have been imputed to him. — Let the connoiffeur judge. This ticket (as is already obferved) muft have been iflued before 1733, when the Theatre in Lin- E e 4 coins* C 4M 3 colns-Inn-Ficlds was {hut up, and all the a&ors, Mil- ward among the reft, removed to Covent Garden. 24. The Myftery of Mafonry brought to Light by the Gormagons. A. Chin Quaw-Kypo* Done from ye Original. 1 ft Emperor of China. Painted at Vekin by Matt' B. The fage Confucius* chauter, Grav'd by Ho-ge C. InChinprefcntOe- andfoldbyy e Printfellers cumenical Volgi. efLondonP arts and Rome. D. The Mandarin Hangchi. Hogarth inv. et fculp. To the earlieft impreffions of this plate, the name of Sayer (for whom it has fince been retouched) is wanting. ?' Stolen from Coypel's Don Quixote." Underneath, thefe verfes : From Eaftern climes, tranfplanted to our coafts, Two oldeft orders that creation boafts Here meet in miniature, expos'd to view That by their conduct men may judge their due. The Gormagons, a venerable race, Appear diilinguifti'd with peculiar grace : What honour ! wifdom ! truth ! and focial love ! Sure fuch an order had its birth, above. But mark Free Mafons ! what a farce is this ? How wild their myftery ! what a Bum they kifs * ! Who would not laugh -f, who fuch occafions had ? Who mould not weep, to think the world fo mad? * On this occafion the print exhibits a trait of humour that may hitherto have efcaped obfervation. To render the part prefented for Salutation more tempting, it has patches on, fuch as women wore at the time when the plate was publifhed. f fPho would not laugb, csV.] Parody on the concluding couplet oil'opc's charade'" of Addlfon, I fhould C 425 ] I fhould fufpedl that this plate was publifhed about 1742, when the Proceffion * of Scald Miferables had been produced -j~ to parody the cavalcade of the Free Mafons, * The contrivers of the Mock Proceffion were at that time faid to be Paul Whitehead, efq. and his intimate friend (vvhofe real Chriftian name was Efi/uire) Carey, of Pall Mall, furgeon to Frederic Prince of Wales. The city officers did not fuffer this proceffion to go through Temple-Bar, the common report then being, that its real intent was to affront the annual pro- ceffion of the Free Mafons. The Prince was fo much of. fended at this piece of ridicule, that he immediately removed Carey from the office he held under him. f The print, reprefenting a View of Somerfet-Hovfe and of The Strand, is 3 feet ni inches in length, and ten inches in width ; and is intituled, '« A Geometrical View of the grand " Proceffion of the fcald-miferable Mafons, defigned as they " were drawn up over againfl Somerfet-Houfe in The Strand, on " the Twenty-feventh of April, An° 1742. Invented and en- *' graved by A. Benoijl, at his Lodgings, at Mr. Jordan 5, a " Grocer, the North Eaft Corner of Compton-Jlreet, Soho ; *' and fold by the Printfellers of London and WeJlminjler.-~ Note, A. Benoijl teaches Drawing abroad. '* N° 1. The grand Svvoard Bearer, or Tyler, carrying the " Swoard of State (a Prefent of IJItmael Abiff to old Hyram King *' of the Saracens) to his Grace of IVattin, Grand Matter of *< the Holy Lodge of St. John of Jcrufalem in CkrkenrjuelL " 2. Tylers or Guarders. " 3. Grand Chorus of Inftruments. " 4. The Stewards, in three Gutt Carts, drawn by Afies. " 5. Two famous Pillars, Jachin and Boaz. " 6. Three great Lights : the Sun Hieroglyphical to rule «' the Day, the Moon Emblematical to rule the Night. ; a " Matter Mafon Political to rule his — Lodge. " 7. The Entered Prentice's Token. " 8. The Letter G famous in Mafon ry for differencing the M Fellow Craft's Lodge from that of Prentices. " 9. The Funeral of a Grand Matter, according to the *' Rites of the Order, with the 15 loving Brethren. ** 10. A Matter Mafon 's Lodge. . " ir. Grand [ 4*6 ] Mafons, who ever afterwards difcontinued their an- nual proceffion. Hogarth was always ready to avail himfelf " ii. Grand Band of Mufick. " 12. Two Trophies ; one being that of a Black-fhoe Boy *' and Link Boy, the other that of a Chimney Sweeper. " 13. The Equipage of the Grand Mafter, all the Atten- " dants wearing Myftical Jewels." A different, but a fmaller, print of this Mock Proceffion was printed in May 1742, with the following memoranda, viz. *' The gieat Demand there has b^en for The Wejlminjler il Journal, of the 8th inftant, occafion'd reprinting the fol- •' lowing piece. 44 From my own Apartments in Spring Gardens. " Though I do not belong to the Fraternity mentiontd in '* the following piece, and therefore am little concerned in ** the annual diiputes, I think it my duty, as a Watchman of '* the city of Wejlmmjler, to preferve the memory of the late 41 extraordinary Cavalcade, the like to which hath never hap- " pened fince I have been in office. As more lolemn pro- ** ceffions have of late years been very rare, it cannot furely «* be taken amifs, either by the Free Mafons, or the Scald- Mife- " rabies, that I give lb much diflinction to this. T. Toucbit. '* The Free Mafon's Downfall, or the Reftoration of the •' Scald-Milerables." After the print follows : " A Key, or Explanation of the '* folemn and ftately Proceffion of the Scald-Miferable Mafons, " as it was martial'd on Tucfday the 27th paft, by their Scald- **" Purfuivant Black Mantle — fet forth by Order of the Grand «,« Mafter Poney." — Printed by J. Mechell, at The Kings Arms in Flect-Jireet, and fold by the Pamphlet-ihops, &c. Price Two-pence. Extracts from The London Daily Pofi, March 20, 1 740-1, &c. " Yefterday fome mock Free-Mafons marched through " Pall-Mall and The Strand, as far as Tctnple-Bar^'m proceffion; " firft went fellows on jack-affes, with cows horns in their ** hands; then a kettle-drummer on ajack-afs, having two " butter-firkins for kettle-drums ; then followed two carts " drawn by jack-affes, having in them the ftewards with fe- '* veral badges of their order ; then came a mourning coach 4< drawn [ 427 ] Mmfelf of any popular fubjecl: that afforded 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. ft 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 ? " 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 !" *' drawn by fix horfes, each of a different colour and fizc, in " which were the grand mailer and wardens ; the whole at- " tended by a vail mob. They Hayed without Temple Bar till " the Mafons came by, and paid their compliments to them, " who returned the fame with an agreeable humour that pof- *' fibly difappointed the witty contriver of this mock fcene, (" whole misfortune is, that though he has fome wit, his fub- " jedls are generally fo ill chofen, that he lofes by it as many " friends as other people of more judgement gain." Again, Aprili^, 1742. " Yefterday being the annual feaft " of the ancient and honourable fociety of Free and Accepted " Mafons, they made a grand proceffion from Brook-jlrect to * l Haberdafiers Hall, where an elegant entertainment was pro- *' vided for them, and the evening was concluded with that " harmony and decency peculiar to the fociety." " Some time before the fociety began their cavalcade, a *' number of fhoe-cleaners, chimney-lvveepers, &c. on foot *' and in carts, with ridiculous pageants carried before them, '* went in proceffion to Temple- Bar, by way of jell on the Frte- «' Mafons, at the expence, as we hear, of one hundred pounds «* flerling, which occalioned a great deal of diverfion." Again, May 3, 1744. " Yefterday feveral of the mock '* mafons were taken up by the conftable empowered to iin- *f prefs men for his Majefty's fervice, and confined till they f can be examined by the juftices." 7 The [ 428 ] The particular difputes between the parties referred to by this poem, it is not eafy to alcertain. Per- haps the humourous writer aludes to fome fchifm or diiH-ntion now forgotten. Mr. Gray, in one of his letters to Mr. Walpole, fays, " I reckon next week to " hear you are a Free Mafon, or a Gormogon at leaft.'* 410 edition- p. 188. I learn from Mafonry DijfeEled, &c. a pamphlet publifhed in 1730, by Samuel Prichard, late mem- ber of a Conftituted Lodge, that " From the Ac- " cepted Mafon fprang the real Mafons, and from " both fprang the Gormogons y whofe grand mailer t( the Volgi deduces his original from the Chinefe, te whofe writings, if to be credited, maintain the ** hvpothefes of the Pre-adamites, and confequently 4< mult be more antique than Mafonry." — This cir- cumltance will account for the Chinefe names and habits in our artift's plate. 24. Sancho, at the magnificent feaft, &c. flarved by his Phyfician. On the top of this plate are the following words : " This original print was invented *' and engraved by William Hogarth. Price 1 s* At bottom we read, W. Hogarth inv. & fculp. Printed for H. Overton and J. Hoole. Perhaps this defign was meant as a rival to that of Coypel on the fame fubjecl: ; or might be intended by way of fpecimen of a com- plete fct of plates for Don Quixote. Mr. S. Ireland has the original drawing. 25. Impreffion from a tankard belonging to a club of artifls, who met weekly at The Bull's Head in Clare' 3 C 4?9 ] Clare-Mar kef. Of this fociety Hogarth was a mem- ber. A fliepherd and his flock are here reprefented. 26. The Gin Drinkers. This may have been one 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. 27. The Oratory *. Orator Henley on a fcaffold, a monkey (over whom is written Amen) by his fide. A box of pills and the Hyp Doctor lying befidc him. Over his head, " The Oratory. Inveniam viam, aut faciam -f" Over the door. u Ingredere ut " prqficias J." A Parfon receiving the money for admiflion. Under him, " The Treafury." A Butcher ftands as porter. On the left hand, Modefty in a cloud ; Folly in a coach ; and a gibbet prepared for Merit ; people laughing. One marked The Scout §, introducing a Puritan Divine. A Boy eafing nature. Several grotefque figures, one of them (marked Tee-He e) in a violent fit of laughter. I difcover no reafon for regarding this as a produc- tion of Hogarth, though his name, cut from the bottom of one of his imaller works, was fraudulently * There are fuch coincidences between this print and that of The Beggar 's Opera, as incline me to clunk they were both by the fame hand. f The. motto on the medals which Mr Henley difperfed as tickets to his fnbfcribers. See Note on DunaaJ, 111. 199. 1 Thisinfciiption is over the outer door of St. Paul's fchool. § Oj what ptrlonage the name of Scout was bellowed, I am "unable ro inform the reader, though I recollccl having fecn the fame figure in leveral other prints, particularly one from which it appears that lie was at iait murdered. affixed C 43° 1 affixed to an impreffion of it belonging to the late worthy Mr. Ingham Fojler^ whofe prints were fold at Bar ford'' 5, in March 1783. Hogarth, whofe refources, both from fancy and obfervation, were large, was never, like the author of this plate, reduced to the poor neceffity of peopling his comic defigns with Pierot, Scaramouch, an.d the other hackneyed rabble of French and Italian farces. Underneath a fecond impreffion of it, is the fol- lowing infcription : " An extempore Epigram, made at the Oratory 3 " O Orator ! with brazen face and lungs, <( Whofe jargon's form'd of ten unlearned tongues, " Why ftand'ft thou there a whole long hour ha- *' ranguing, " When half the time fits better men for hanging !" Geo. B — k — h * jun. Ccpper-fcratcher a?id Grub-Street invent, fculp. 28. Orator Henley chriftening a child. 'John Sympfon jun. fecit. Mezzotinto (commonly of a greenifh colour), with the following verfes under it : Behold Vilaria lately brought to bed, Her cheeks now flrangers to their rofy red ; Languid her eyes, yet lovely fhe appears ! And oh ! what fondnefs her lord's vifage wears ! The pamper'd prieft, in whofe extended arms The female infant lies, with budding charms, Seeming to afk the name e'er he baptife, Cafts at the handfome goffips his wanton eyes, * B — k — b. Perhaps this was an intended mifhke for -B— £— m. While C 43 1 ] While gay Sir Fopling, an accomplifh'd afs, Is courting his own dear image in the glafs : The Midwife bufied too, with mighty care, Adjufts the cap, fhevvs innocency fair. Behind her ilands the Clerk, on whofe grave face Sleek Abigal cannot forbear to gaze : But mafter, without thought, poor harmlefs child, Has on the floor the holy-water fpill'd, Thrown down the hat ; the lap-dog gnaws the rofe ; And at the fire the Nurfe is warming cloaths. One gueft enquires the Parfon's name ; — fays Friendly, Why, dont you know, Sir ? — 'tis Hyp-DoBor * H y. Sold by J. Sympfon, at the Dove in Ruf el-Court, Drury-hane, An original fketch in oil, on the fame fubjecl:, is in the pofTeflion of Mr. 5. Ireland \, 29. A woman fvvearing a child to a grave citizen J. W. Hogarth pinx. J. Sympfon jun. fculp. Sold by J. Sympfon engraver and print-feller, at The Dove in RuJfeUCourt, Drury-Lane. This Mr. Walpole ob- ferves to be a very bad print. Perhaps he had only feen fome wretched impremon, or copy of it (for tkere are two, the one in a fmall fize, the other large, but fit for no other purpofe than to adorn the walls of a country Inn), and therefore fpoke with * He wrote a periodica! paper under that title. f See p. 415. for an etching from it. % A copy of this forms, the head-piece to a tale printed in Banks's Works, vol, I. p. 248, intituled, " The Subditutc *' Father." contempt C 432 ] contempt; of a performance which hardly deferves fo unfavourable a character. This entire defign, how- ever, is ftolen from a picture of Heemjkirk, which has been fince engraved in mezzotinto by IV* Dickin- fon of New Bond-Jlreet, and publifhed March 10, 1772. The original picture is in the poflefllon of Mr. Wat/on, furgeon, in Rathbone Place* The title given to this plate by the ingenious en- graver, is The Village Magijirate. All the male figures are monkies ; all the female ones, cats. Hogarth has likewife been indebted to its companion — The Con- Jlable of the Night. Few imprellions from thefe plates having been hitherto fold, they are both in excellent condition, and the former of them exhibits an indif- putable inftance of Hogarth* s plagiarifm. While Picart was preparing his Religious Ceremo- nies, he wrote to fome friend here, to fupply him with reprefentations illuftrative of his fubject. His correfnondent, either through ignorance or defign, furniihed him with the two preceding plates by Ho- garth. Picart has engraved the former with a few variations, and the latter with the utmoft fidelity. The one is called by him Le Serment de la Fille qui fe trouve enceinte ; the other, Le Bapteme domeftique* The fir ft contains a fuppofed portrait of Sir Thomas de Veil. For the converfion of a civil into a religious ceremony, let the Frenchman, or his purveyor, be anfwerable. The lines under Hogarth" 's performance are as follow s : Here Juftice triumphs in his elbow chair, And makes his market of the trading fair; His C 433 ] His office-fhelves with parifh laws are grac'J, But fpelling-books, and guides between 'em plac'd. Here pregnant madam fcreens the real fire, And falfely fwears her baftard child for hire Upon a rich old letcher, who denies The fact, and vows the naughty Huffif lies ; His wife enrag'd, exclaims againft her fpoufe, And fwears (he'll be revengM upon his brows ; The jade, thejuftice, and church ward'ns agree, And force him to provide fecurity. Hogarth's picture is in the polfeffion of the Rev. Mr. Whallcy, at Eclon, Ncrthamtonjhire. Mr. Wballey is the nephew of John Palmer, whofe portrait is mentioned among the works of Hogarth* See p. 295. This picture too is at Eclon. The fore- going print (as already obferved, p. 121.) mud have been published before the year 1735. 30. Right Hon. Gujiavus Lord Vifcount Boyne, &c. &c. Whole length, mezzotinto. W. Hogarth pinx. Andrew Miller fecit. " A 'very bad print , done " in Ireland." I have fince met with an early impreffion of this mezzotinto. The infeription, dedication, &c. un- derneath it, are as follows : " W. Hogarth pinx. Ford fecit. The R 1 . Hon ble . jects, that he was rarely faithful to the expreffions of countenance he undertook to trace on copper. There is no humour, and indeed little merit of any kind, in this performance. It has not hitherto been met with on the entire piece of paper to which it mull originally have belonged. A print called The Scotch Congregation , by Hogarth, is almoft unique, on account of its extreme inde- cency. One copy of it was in a collection of his works belonging to Mr. Alexander of Edinburgh, He is faid to have had it from Mrs. Hogarth. A ftcond copy is reported to exift in the pofTefficn of another gentleman. No more impreflions of it are known. A correfpondent at Dublin informs me, that in the collection of Dr. Hopkins of that city are the fol- lowing feven prints by Hogarth : 1. The Hi/lory of Witchcraft. Humbly dedicated to the Wife. Allegortcally modernized. Part the Firft. t 446 ] Ffrft. Publifhed according to act of Parliament. Hogarth inv. et fculpt. Half fheet print. At one end, Witches attending the punifhment of two human figures ; at the other, feveral at their different occupations. 2. The Hifiory of Witchcraft. Part the Second. Publifhed according to act of Parliament. Hogarth inv. et fculpt. Same fize as the former. Witches dancing; others at various amufements. Thefe two prints contain a great variety of diftorted figures. 3. A Suit of Law fits me better than a Suit of Clothes. Invented and engraved by* W. H. and publifhed pur- fuant to an Act of Parliament, 1 740. An upright half-fheet. A Man in embroidered clothes, his hat under his arm. A fcroll in his left hand, infcribed, " I'll go to Law." Huntfmen, dogs, and horfes in the back ground. Four lines in verfe underneath. Ufeful in all families. Invented and engraved by W. H. and publifhed purfuant to an Act of Parliament, 1740. 4. The fame man in a tattered garment in a wild country ; a ftaff in his right hand, and a fcroll in his left, infcribed, " To fhew that I went to law, and got the better." Four lines at the bottom. Thefe two may be clafTed among his indifferent prints. 5. The Caledonia?! March and Embarkation. Hogarth invent. London, printed for T. Baldwin. A number [ 447 ] A number of Scotchmen embarking In the Caledo-' man Tranfport. Labels iffuing from their mouths. The Laird of the Pg/ls, or the Bonnets exalted. Printed for T. Baldwin, London. Hogarth inv. 6. A Scotch Nobleman and his Friends taking pof- fejjion of fever al pofis, having kick\i down the former Pcffcjfors. Labels from their mouths too tedious to copy. A Lion on the fore- ground, hood- winked by a Scotch plaid. Suppofed to be printed for The London Magazine. 7. The Lion entranced. Printed for T. Baldwin, London. Hogarth inv. 1762. A Lion in a Coffin. A plate on the cover, in- fcribed, " Leo Britanicus, Ob. An. 1762. Requief- cat in pace." Attended by ftate mourners with la- bels as above. In one corner Hibernia fupplicating for her Sifter's intereft. A refpect for the obliging communicator has in- duced me to publifh th'isjuppofed addition to the fore- going catalogue of Hogarth's works. But, without ocular proof, I cannot receive as genuine any one of the plates enumerated. The name of our Artift has more than once been fubfcribed to the wretched productions of others ; and a collector at Dublin muft have had lingular good fortune indeed, if he has met with feven authentic curiofities unknown to the mod confidential friends of Hogarth, and the mod induftrious connoifieurs about London. I may add, that two, if not three, of the above-mentioned ar.ti-minifteral pieces, appeared in 1762, the very year [ 448 ] year in which our artift was appointed Serjeant Pain" ter. Till that period he is unfufpected of having engaged his pencil in the fervice of politicks ; and T. Baldwin (perhaps a fictitious name) is not known to have been on any former occafion his publiftier* So much for the probability of Hogarth's having uftiered performances like thefe into the world. Chance, and the kindnefs of my friends, have not enabled me to form a more accurate feries of Hogarth's labours. Thofe of the collector, however, are Hill incomplete, unlefs he can furnifh himfelf with a fpecimen of feveral other pieces, faid, I think, to have been produced a little before our artift's marriage. I forbear to keep my readers in fufpenfe on the occafion. Hogarth once taking up fome plain ivory fifhes that lay on his future wife's card-table, obferved how much was wanting to render them na- tural reprefentations. Having delivered this remark with becoming gravity, he proceeded to engrave fcales, fins, &c. on each of them: A few impref- fions have been taken from thefe curiofities, which remain in Mrs. Hogarth's pofleflion. As a button de- corated by her hufband has been received into the foregoing catalogue of his works, it can hardly be difgraced by this brief mention of the ornaments he bellowed on a counter. There are three large volumes in quarto by La- vater, a minifter at Zurich (with great numbers of plates), on Phyfiognomy, Among thefe are two containing feveral groups of figures from different 3 prints [ 449 ] prints of Hogarth, together with the portraits of Lord Lovat and Wilkes. For what particular purpofe they are introduced, remains to me a fecret *. In " An Addrefs of Thanks to the Broad Bot- *' toms, for the good things they have done, and <* the evil things they have not done, fince their M elevation, 17^5," is what the author calls " A " curious emblematic Frontifpiece, taken from an * c original painting of the ingenious Mr. // th ;" a palpable imposition. Mr. Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. IV. 63, obferves, that " Hogarth drew the fuppofed funeral of *' Vanaken, attended by the painters he worked for, " difcovering every mark of grief and defpair." To explain this paiTage, it mould be added, that " he <( was employed by feveral considerable artifts here, " to draw the attitudes, and drefs the figures in " their pictures." The merits of Hogarth, as an engraver, are incon- fiderable. His hand was faithful to character, but had little acquaintance with the powers of light and ihade. In fome of his early prints he was an aflidu- ous imitator of Calfot, but deviated at laft into a manner of his own, which fuffers much by compa- rifon with that of his coadjutors, Ravenet and Sul- livan. In the pieces fmiihed by thefe mailers of their art, there is a clearnefs that Hogarth could never reach. His ftrokes fometimes look as if fortui- tottfly difpofed, and fometimes confufedly thwart * This bdqk, I am told, is now tranflated into French. G g each C 45° 3 each other in almoft every poffible dire&ion. What he wanted in fkill, he ftrove to make up in labour ; but the refult of it was a univerfal haze and indif- tinclrnefs, that, by excluding force and tranfparency, has rendered feveral of his larger plates lefs capti- vating than they would have been, had he entruited the fole execution of them to either of the arti£s already mentioned. His fmaller etchings, indeed, fuch as The Laughing Pit, &c. cannot receive too much commendation. Mr. Walpole has juftly obferved, that " many " wretched prints came out to ridicule" the Analyfis of Beauty, He might have added, that no fmall number. of the fame quality were produced immedi- ately after the Times made its appearance. I wifh it had been in my power to have afforded my read- ers a complete lift of thefe performances, that as little as poffible might have been wanting to the hiftory of poor Hogarth* s firft and fecond perfecution. Such a catalogue, however, not being neceffary to the explanation of his works, it is with the lefs re- gret omitted *. The fcarcenefs of the good imprefrlons of Hogarth's larger works is in great meafure owing to their hav- ing been palled on canvas or boards, to be framed * One of thefe productions, however, fhould be fingled from the reft. The print, entitled The Conno:JJettrs y was fuipecled to be a work of Hogarth himfelf. It is placed with fome of his other undifputed defigns in the back-ground of The Author run Mad (which is known to be one of Mr. Sandby's performances), ami has the following reference — " A. his own Dundad" 4 and C 451 ] and glazed for furniture. There "were few people who collected his prints for any other purpofe at :heir firft appearance. The majority of theie fets being hung up in London houfes, have been utterly fpoiled by fmoke. Since foreigners have learned the value of the fame performances, they have aifo Ibeen exported in confiderabie numbers. V\ herever & tafle for the fine arts has prevailed, the works of this great mailer are to be found. Meflieurs Torre lhave frequent commiflions to fend them into Italy* 1 am credibly informed that the Fmprefs of RaJJia ihas expreffed uncommon pleafure in examining fuch (genuine reprefentations oiEngHJh manners; and I have tfeen a fet of cups and faucers with Toe Hanoi's Pro- \grefs painted on them in China about the year 1739. Of all fuch engravings as are Mrs. Hogarth's property, the later impreffions continue felling on terms fpecified many years ago in her printed cata- logue, which the reader will find at the end of this pamphlet. The few elder proofs that remain un- difpofed of, may be likewife 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 defiderata are found (perhaps in a ftate of corrofion), they are immediately vamped up, and im- preffions from them are offered to fale, at three, four, or five times their original value. They are alio flamed to give them the appearance of age ; and on thefe occafions we are confidently afTured, that only a few copies, which had lurked in fome obfeure G g 2 warehoufe ? ft flu C 452 ] warehoufe, or neglected port-feuille, had been juft difcovered. This information is ufually accompa- nied by fober advice to buy while we may, as the vender has fcarce a moment free from the repeated folicitations of the nobility and gentry, whom he al- ways wifhes to oblige, (till affording that preference to the connohTeur which he withholds from the lefs enlightened purchafer. It is fcarce needful to ob- r ferve, that no man ever vifited the mops of thefe po- ' Cl lite dealers, without foon fancying himfelf entitled to the more creditable of the aforefaid diftinctions. f Thus becoming a dupe to his own vanity, as well as to the artifice of the tradefman, he has fpeedily the mortification to find his fuppofed rarities are to be met with in every collection, and not long afterwards on every flail. The caution may not prove ufelefs to thofe who are ambitious to affemble the works of Hogarth. Such a purfuit needs no apology; for fure, of all his fraternity, whether ancient or mo- dern, he bent the keeneft eye on the follies and vices of mankind, and exprefled them with a degree of variety and force, which it would be vain to feek among the fatiric compofitions of any other painters. In fhort, what is obferved by Hamlet concerning a player's office, may, with fome few exceptions, be applied to the defigns of Hogarth. " Their end, " both at the firft, and now, was, and is, to hold " as 'twere the mirror up to nature ; to Ihevv virtue *' her own feature, fcorn her own image, and the " very age and body of the time his own form and " preiiuje." I may p N Mapa is thj wtei KM flrf ) [ 453 ] I may add, that, fince the appearance of Mr. Wal- k's Catalogue, a difpofkion to attribute feveral lonymous plates, on ludicrous fubjedts, to Hogarth, as betrayed itfelf in more than a fingle inftance *; fuppofition has alfo prevailed that there was a time ihen Hogarth had the whole field of fatire to him- If, and we could boaft of no dcfigncrs whofe per- )0 )>rmances could be miilaken for his own. The latter it ] K ! otion is undoubtedly true, if real judges are to de- ;tde ; and yet many prints, very flightly impreg- ated with humour, continue to be afcribed to him. mould therefore be obferved, that, at the fame pe- iod, Bickbam, Vandergucht, Boitard, Grave lot, La- uierre the younger, &c. were occafionally publifhing atirical fketches, and engraving laughable frontif- ieces for books and pamphlets. To many of thefe, ofition, A work like The Har- lot's Progrefs will certainly remain unimitated as well as inimitable ; but it is in the power of every bungler to create trefh coats of arms, or fhop bills with our artift's name fubferibed to them : and wherein will the Lion or Griffin of Hogarth be difcovered to ex- cell the fame reprefentation by a meaner hand ? A crafty felection of paper, and a flight attention to chronology and choice of fubjects, with the aid of the hot-prefs, may, in the end, prove an overmatch for the fagacity of the ableft connoifTeur. A (ingle detection of fuch a forgery would at leafl give rife to fufpicions that might operate even where no fal- lacy had been defigned. How many fraudulent imi- tations of the fmaller works of Rembrandt are known to have been circulated with fuccefs ! — But it may be afked, perhaps, from what fource the author of this pamphlet derives his knowledge of fuch tranf- actions. His anfwer is, from the majority of col- lectors whom he has talked with in confequence of his prefent undertaking. He ought not, however, to conclude without ob- serving, that feveral genuine works of Hogarth yet remain [ 458 ] remain to be engraved. He is happy alfo to add, that a young artift, every way qualified for fuch a tafk, has already publifhed a few of thefe by fub- fcription. J.N. J, jV. had once thoughts of adding a lift of the copies made from the works of Hogarth; but finding them to be numerous, beyond expectation, has de- fifled from a tafk he could not eafily accomplifh. This purfuit, however, has enabled him to fuggeft yet another caution to his readers. Some of the early invaders of Hogarth's property were lefs audacious than the reft ; and, forbearing to make exact imita- tions of his plates, were content with only borrowing particular circumftances from each of them, which they worked up into a fimilar fable. A fet of The Rake y s Progrefs, in which the figures were thus dif- guifed and differently grouped, has been lately found. But fince the rage of collection broke out with its prefent vehemence, thofe dealers who have met with any fuch diversified copies, have been defirous of putting them off either as the firft thoughts of Hogarth, or as the inferior productions of elder ar- tifts on whofe defigns he had improved. There is alfo a very lmall fet of The Rake's Progrefs, contrived and executed with the varieties already mentioned ; and [ 459 ] and even this has been offered to fale under the for- mer of thefe descriptions. Thus, as Shakfpeare fays, While we jhut the gate upon one impofition, another knocks at the door. It may not be impertinent to conclude thefe cau- tions with another notice for the benefit of unexpe- rienced collectors, who in their choice of prints ufu- ally prefer the blackeft. The earlieft copies of Ho- garth's works are often fainter than fuch as have been retouched. The excellence of the former conlifts in clearnefs as well as ftrength ; but flrength only is the characteriftic of the latter. The firft and third copies of The Harlot's Frogrefs will abundantly illuf- trate my remark, which, however, is confined to good impreffions of the plates in either flate ; for fome are now to be met with that no more poflefs the re- commendation of tranfparency than that of force. I may add, that when plates are much worn, it is cuf- tomary to load them with a double quantity of co- lour, that their weaknefs, as far as pofTible, may ef- cape the eye of the purchafer. This practice the copper- plate printers facelioufly entitle — coaxing ; and, by the aid of it, the deeper ftrokes of the graver which 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 III. the armour, tent, and habit, continue to have consi- derable ftrength, though the delicate markings in the face, and the fhadows on the infide of the hand, have [ 46o ] Ibave long fince difappeared. Yet this print, even in its fainteft frate, is dill preferable to fuch fmutty im- pofitions as have been recently defcribed. The mo- dern impremons of The Fair, and The March to Finch- ley, will yet more forcibly iiluftrate the fame remark. To the original paintings of Hogarth already enu- merated may be added a Breakfaft-piece, preferved m Hill-Street, Berkeley-Square, in the poffeffion of William Strode, Efq; of Northaw, Herts* It contains portraits of his father the late William Strode, Efq; his mother Lady Anne (who was lifter to the late Earl of Salifbury), Colonel Strode, and Dr. Arthur Smith (afterwards Archbifhop of Dublin), ADDITION. Four times of the Day, p. 250. It fhould have been obferved, that the third of tfcefe plates was engraved by Baron, the figure of the girl excepted, which, being an after-thought, was jdded by our artift's own hand* APPEN< [ tfi 3 APPENDIX. N° I. [See p. 23.] * THE following letter, printed in The Public Ad- vertifer foon after the firft edition of the pre- fent work made its appearance, may pofiibly contain fome authentic particulars of the early life of the famous Monfieur St. Andre. Mr. fVoodfall*s inge- nious correfpondent does not, however, difpofe me to retract a fy liable of what is advanced in the text ; for he fails throughout in his attempts to exculpate our hero from any one of the charges alledged againft him. On the contrary, he confirms, with additions, a confiderable part of them, and flrives only to evade or overwhelm the reft by fludied amplifications of the little good which induftrious partiality could pick out of its favourite character. I mall now fub- join his epiflle, with a few unconnected remarks ap- pended to it. A rambling performance muft apolo- gize for a defultory refutation. "sir, "THE entertaining author of the laft biogra- " phy of the admirable Hogarth, in the excefs of " commendation of a particular rifible fubject for "his [ 4 6* ] u his pencil, has written too difadvantageoufly of " the late Mr. St. Andre. One who knew him inti- " mately (but was never under the fmallefl obliga- " tion to him) for the laft twenty years of his life, ff and has learned the tradition of his earlier con- f( duel, feemingly better than the editor of the article ie in queflion, takes the liberty to give a more tc favourable idea of him, and without intending to ■ c l enter into a controverfy with this agreeable Col- muft be admitted with xaution, for truth was by no means the charadteriftic of our hero's narrations *. Thefe circumftances there- fore may be regarded as gafconades of his own. The author of the defence pretends not to have received any part of his information from St. Andre's country- men or contemporaries ; but, on the contrary, con- feffes that both his early friends and enemies had long been dead. The affair of the Rabbit-breeder has no need of further illuftration. Several ballads, pamphlets, prints, &c. on the fubject, bear abundant teftimony to St. Andre's merits throijghout that bufinefs, as well as to the final opinion entertained of him by his con- temporaries, after Chefelden, by order of Queen Caro- line^ had aflifted in difcovering the deceit. Her Ma- jefty was urged to this ftep by finding the plaufibi-' lity of our hero had impofed on the King, and that fome of the pregnant ladies about her own perfon began to exprefs their fears of bringing into the world an unnatural progeny.— If Mr. Boyle was oc- * The following ftory was told by St. Andre to an eminent bookfeller, from whom I received it : " Once when I was in Paris " fays our hero, " I went to a fale of MifTals, naoft of them bound in crimfon velvet. Among thefe, and in the fame binding, I difcovered a fine im- preivion of the Duke; of Orleans's celebrated publication of Lcs Amours Pajloraks dc Dapbnis et de C/jloe, &c. which I purchaied for a mere, trifle. On taking off the velvet, I found the cover underneath was ornamented with as many jewels as I fold af- terwards for five hundred pounds." Who can believe a eircumilance fo utterly improbable? cafionally C 479 3 cafionally mifled, his errors were foon abforbed ir* the blaze of his moral and literary excellence. St. Andre's blunder, alas ! had no fuch happy means of redemption. His credulity indeed was not confined to this fingle tr an faction. The following is a well- attefted flory — Two gentlemen at Southampton, who felt an inclination to banter him, broke a nutfhell afunder, filled the cavity with a large fwan-fhot, and clofed up the whole with glue fo nicely that no marks of feparation could be detected. This curio- fity, as they were walking with St. Andre, one of them pretended to pick up, admiring it as a nut uncommonly heavy as well as beautiful. Our hero fwallowed the bait, difTected the fubjedt, difcovered the lead, but not the impofition, and then proceeded to account philofophically for fo ftrange a phenome- non. The merry wags could fcarce reftrain their laughter, and foon quitted his company to enjoy the fuccefs of a flratagem they had fo adroitly practifed on his ignorance and cullibility. Were there any colour for fuppofing he had pa- tronized the fraud relative to Mary Tofts, with defign to ruin others of his profeffion (an inlinuation to his difcredit, which the foregoing pamphlet had not fur- nilhed), it was but juft that he mould fall by his own malevolence and treachery. From the imputa- tion of a fcheme refembling that contrived by the "Duke of Montagu, his want of equal wit will fuffi- eienrly abfolve him* 5 That t 480 3 That rabbits never were permitted to appear at any table where he dined, is a ftrong mark of the adulation paid to him by his entertainers. I hope, for limilar reafons, had he been feized with his laft illnefs in London (that his organs of hearing might efcape an equal mock), his attendants would not have called any phyTician named Warren to his bed- fide, fummoned an attorney from Coney Court Grays Inn to have made his will, or fent for the Rev. Mr. Bunny to pray by him. The banifhment of rabbits, however, from a neighbourhood that affords them in the higheft perfection, was a circumftance that might as juftly have been complained of, as Pythago- ras'? prohibition of beans, had it been publifhed in Lcicejlerjhire. I heartily wifh that the circumflantial author of the preceding epiftle, to relieve any doubts by which futurity may be perplexed, had informed us whether St. Andre was an eater of toafled cheefe, or not ; and if it was never afked for by its common title of a Welch Rabbit within his hearing. That he wrote any thing, unlefs by proxy, or with much afMance, may reafonably be doubted ; for the pamphlets that pafs under his name are diverted of thofe foreign idioms that marked his converfation. Indeed, if I may believe fome fpecimens of his pri- vate correfpondence, he was unacquainted with the very orthography of our language. The infolence of this lhallow Switzer's attempt to banter Mead, we may imagine, was treated with contempt, as the wprlc defcribed has not been handed down to us ; and few C 4Si ] few tradts are permitted to be fcarce for any other reafon than becaufe they are worthlefs. It is next remarked by our apologift, that St. An- dre's " confidence, &c. made him fuperior to all " clamour ; and lb 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 kerns, join in the Poet's prayer, Grant me an honeft fame, or grant me 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 obferved) in one particular inftancc, 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 palled upon him had no foundation. How Lord Peterborough happened to become his patron, &c. may be accounted for without any great degree of credit to either party. His lordfhip (as Lord Orrery obferves) " in his private life and con- *' dudt differed from mo ft men ;" and, having often capricious difputes with the court, was lure to favour thole who, like St. Andre, had been difmiiTed from its fervice. Our hero's mufical talents, indeed, if they were fuch as they have been reprefented, might procure him accefs to his lordfhip and many other I i nobis [ 432 ] noble adepts in the fublime and ufeful fcience of harmony. The lovers of a tune urge no fevere en- quiries concerning the heart of a fidler. If he be a mercenary, while he teaches female pupils, he is watched ; and, if he performs in concerts, he is paid. If above pecuniary gratifications, he is rewarded with hyperbolical compliments. Articulate for inarticu- late founds is ample retribution. His defender adds, that he was vifited by all flrangers and foreigners. It will be fuppofed then that his houfe was never free from company. May we not rather think, that if he was at any time fought after by thefe peregrine worthies, &c. it was becaufe the keepers of inns and miftrefTes of boarding-houfes had been inftru&ed to diffeminate attractive tales of his " capacity in all kinds/' his curiofities and good dinners ? Befides, all foreigners who have arrived in England have not travelled to Southampton, and con- fequently could not have feen St. Andre, who for upwards of the laft twenty years of his life had re- fided only there. It is nearer the truth to fay, that not a (ingle Frenchman, &c. in fifty thoufand, ever heard of his name. That " his profeflion as a furgcon, in a reafonable " term of years, would probably have put more " money in his pocket" than he gained by his union with Lady Betty Molyncux (i. e. /30,00c a fum that elevated him into a (late little fhort of madnefs), I cannot believe. The blaft his reputation had received refpecting the bufinefs at Godalming, being feconded by c 4S.5 : By his expulfiori from court, he muft have felt his bufinefs on the decline. Indeed, I am told that he {laid long enough in town to try the experiment. Marriage therefore might have been his dernier refort. The exaggerations of this impoftor's generofuy and accomplifhments, which are next brought forward by his pancgyrift with no fmall degree of pomp, are fuch as we may fuppofe himfelf would have furniih- ed, had he undertaken, like the Chevalier Taylor, to compile his own memoirs. The majority of cir- cumftances collected for the purpofe of proving him to have been GrammatkuS) rbetor, geomelres, piftor, aliptes, Augur, febcenobates, medicus, magus, could only have been derived from thofe very flatter- ing teftimonials 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* exprefs their belief that he could have beaten Hercules at quoits, played a better riddle than Apollo, Out-wit- ted Mercury , difarmed the God of IVar, and forged fuch chemic thunders, that, compared with the pro- duce of our hero's laboratory, the bolts of 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 occaflons to difplay. But the eulogiums of I i 2 others, [ 4»4 3 others, Iavifh as they might be, fell confiderably fhort of his own, fo that the fpectator retired with difguft from an objed: which the exceffive vanity of its owner would not permit to be enjoyed without the mod frequent and naufeous intrufions of felf-congra- tulation. As to the hiftory of his eye-lames, which he facri- ficed to vigilance, and his fudden proficiency in the very difficult game of chefs (provided his inftructor, whom he afterwards vanquifhed, was a ikilful one) eredat Jndams /ipella. — That his language did not want energy, may more eafily be allowed, for force is the charadteriftic of vulgar phrafcology.. Conceits, exprefTed with much vigour, are current among fai- lors; and fuch nervous denunciations of revenge may occafionally be heard at Billingjgate, as might emu- late the ravings of Drydens Maxim'in. No man wilfr be hardy enough to aflert that the figure, manners, and language, of St. Andre, were thofe of a gentleman. If one of his eyes was a " mafs of obfeurity" (not- withstanding the other, like that of Lady Fentzvea- zWs Great Aunt, might be a piercer), perhaps he ought to have been fparing of his fatire on the per-*, fonal difadvantages of his acquaintance. Yet, the la ft time my informant faw him was at the Theatre at Southampton, where, fitting near a gentleman and lady not remarkable for handfome faces, he had the modefty to expreis a doubt (and in a voice fufriciently audible) which of the two would furniih the moft comic maik. Mr. [ 4*5 1 Mr. St. Andre's apologift obfetves, that (t he can- *' not be reckoned to have been ignorant of any " thing." But the contrary may juftly be fufpected, and for no inconclufive reafon. I aver, that on whatever fubject he was haranguing, the moment he ciifcovered any of the company preient underilood it as well as himfelf, he became filent, never choofing to defcant on art or fcience but before people whom he fuppofed to be utter ftrangers to all their princi- ples. For this reafon, he would have entertained Sir Jofbua Reynolds with remarks on the genera and cul- tivation of plants, and talked to Linnaus about the outline and colouring of pictures. That he died poor (for fuch was really the cafe), mould excite no aftonifhment. His fortune, like his good qualities, was chiefly in fuppofition. Much of his wealth he had expended on buildings, which he never long inhabited, and afteiwards fold to difad- vantage. His firft effays in architecture were made at Cbepftozv on the Severn, an eftate purchafed by Lady Betty Molyneux immediately after the death of her hufband. In fliort, our hero was a fugitive in- habitant of feveral counties, and never fettled till he reached Southampton ; for in no other place did he meet with that proportion of flattery which was need- ful to his happinefs, if not to his exigence. — About a mile from hence he eredted the whimfical baby- houfe dignified by him with the title of BelU-Vue, 2. receptacle every way inconvenient for the purpofes of a family. Being once aiked if this was not a very 1 i 3 lingular C 486 ] lingular manfion, — " Singular V s (replied lie) " by (l G — I hope it is, or I would pull it down immedi- " ately. 1 would have you to know, Sir, that it is " confhudted on the true principles of anatomy." The attempt to apply anatomical principles to the arrangement of paflages, doors, and windows, is too glaring an abfurdity to need animadverfion, or to ren- der itneceffary for me to deny in form, that he could ever be (t admired for his knowledge in architecture," except by fuch as knew not wherein its excellencies confuted. — He had, however, another dwelling within the walls of the town already mentioned. Here he pretended that his upper apartments were crowded with rarities, which he only wanted fpace to exhibit. But, alas ! after his deceafe, Mr. Chrift'ies audtioiir room bore abundant witnefs to the frivolity of his Collections. What became of his boailed library of books, which he always faid was packed up in boxes, 1 am yet to learn. Perhaps it exifted only in his defcription *. " Thofe who found out he loved praife (fays his apolagift) took care he mould have enough of it.'* I difcover little caufe for difpiiting this affertion, and mail only obferve on it, that adulation is a com- modity which weak old men, reputed rich, and with- out oftenfible heirs, are feldom in danger of wanting, * I am allured, on unquestionable authority, that Mr. St. Andre had a valuable library in the clafles of Natural HiF- tory and Medicine. A catalogue of it, drawn up by Mr. B. White, is now in the poiTeifion of Mr. St.A-uhfs executor, by whom it is referved fur the benefit of minors, 3 though C 487 ] though they may not enjoy fo much of it as fell to 67. Andre's mare. His'difburfements to the poor might be propor- tioned to the real (late of his fortune ; but yet they were conducted with cxcefs of oflentation. He may be faid to have given fhillings away with more parade than many other men would have mown in the dis- tribution of as many guineas. — What honour his apologift means to confer on him by faying that " the names of thofe whom he maintained might be " written alphabetically," is to me a fecret, becaufe names of every kind may be arranged according to the feries of the letters. — Sufpected characters, how- ever, often drive to redeem themfelvesby affectation of liberality. Few are more generous than opulent wantons toward their decline of life, who thus at- tempt to recover that refpect which they are confci- ous of having forfeited by the mifdeeds of their youth. The benefactions of fuch people may in truth be confidered as expiatory facrifices for paft offences, having no foundation in a natural propen- fity to relieve the indigent, or indulge the heart in the nobleit luxury, that of doing good. 67. Andre was accufed in J. JS's pamphlet of hav- ing frequently larded his pleafantry with obfcene ex- prcffions. This is a truth which his defender makes not the flighted: effort to deny ; but adds, that his converfation was hardly ever tinctured with prophane- nefs. We hence at leaft may infer that our hero's humour had fometimes this imperfection, which in- 1 i 4 deed [ -l3S ] deed might have efcaped notice, but for the zeal of his apologift. — As I am on this fubjedt, 1 cannot for- bear to mention a particular in Mr. 67. Andre s beha- viour, which hitherto has been overlooked. When at any time he received a reproof from women of fenfe, fafhion, and character, whofe ears he had in- fulted with his ribaldry, his confidence in a moment forfook him, nor had he a word to offer in extenua- tion of his offence. My informant has more than once beheld, with fecret fatisfacTtion, how effectually the frown of fteady virtue could awe this '* mighty " impudent" into filence. Notwith Handing what has been already faid concerning that indifference to cenfure which appeared in him towards the end of his life, I am mis-informed, if at an earlier period he was able to brave the ridicule of the place where he had been once employed and careiTed. When the imputations conlequent on his marriage, he. had rendered him flill lefs an object of refpe£c, he retired with his bride, and amufed himfclf at a diftanccrfYom London with additions to his houfe, and improve- ments in his garden ; nor did he appear in public again till what was known and fufpedted of him had ceafed to be the objed: of general enquiry and am- madverfion. It is difficult for a profligate man of an amorous conftitution to grow old with decency. J. N's pamphlet had taxed St. Andre with lafeivioufnefs unbecoming his years. This is filently admitted by his apologift, who adds, that the intrigues of his hero [ 4»9 ] hero were " fometimcs with the lower p?.rt of the •' fex." He gives us rcaibn alio to iuppole that our antiquated enamorato was a dupe to females in the very laft ftage of a life fo unufually protracted. Is Sf. Andre's memory much honoured by l'uch revela- tions ? Do not circumftances like thefe increafe that ftock of " injurious infinuations" which our apolo- gia profeffes to diminilh ? Our panegvrift, more than once in the courfe of his letter, has expreffed himfelf in favourable terms of 5"/. Andres colloquial talents. Now, as the me- mory of my entertaining opponent in refpetf. to cir- cumilances is remarkably tenacious, 'tis pity he has preferved no fplendid ebullition of his hero's wit, no lample of that fa tire and irony that feafoned his con- verfation, or of that wifdom which fo often rendered it inftru&ive. I flatter myfelf, that if any fpecimens of thefe diflinct excellencies could have been recol- lected, they would certainly have been arranged and recorded. That St. Andre expired without figns of terror, is but a doubtful proof of his innocence. Being, at belt, a free-thinker, he might regard death as anni- hilation, might have been infenlible to its immediate approaches, or have encountered it with a conilitu- tional firmnefs that was rather the gift of nature than the refult of confeience undifturbed. He who is become indifferent to the value of reputation, will not eafily be inclined to fuppofe that a want of the virtues on which it is founded will be punifhed in a future ftate. 7 THE [ 49° 3 THE whole narrative, publifhed by St. Andre in 1723, was confidered by his contemporaries as an oftentatious falfehood, invented only to render him an object of attention and commiferation. It fhould be remembered, that his depofitions were all deli- vered on oath ; and yet, being replete with facts to- tally improbable (for his apologift allows " they *' partake of the marvellous"), obtained no credit froi'O the world ; a fufficient proof of the eftimation in which his moral character was held by the people who were beft acquainted with it, though at that period (for the rabbit affair had not yet decided on his reputation) he poffeffed fufficient interefl as court-furgeon to engage the privy-council in his caufe. They readily enough confented to offer a fum which they might have been fure would never be demanded. All the poifon he was ever fuppofed to have fuffered from, was fuch as is commonly ad- miniflered in a more tempting vehicle than a glafs of ftrong liquor : " 'Twas that which taints the fweetefl joys, " And in the fhape of Love deftroys." The bare mention of Socrates in company with fuch a pretended victim as St. Andre, cannot fail to make the reader fmile. But " He's half abfolv'd who has confefs'd," con- tinues his advocate, fpeaking of the recantation St. Andre [ 49i ] Andre made by public advertifement. Yet, what did he confefs ? Why, what all the world concurred to believe, that he had been grofsly impofed on ; or perhaps that, out ot 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- solution therefore was not obtained on the molt cre- ditable terms. He adds, however, on this emer- gency, a freih proof of his difpofition to deceive. (l I think myfelf obliged (fays he) in Jlrift regard 4< to truths to acquaint the public that I intend, in a " Jhort time, to publifh a full account of the difco- (l very, with fome confiderations on the extraordi- *' nary circumftances of this cafe, which milled me f{ in my appreheniions thereof; and which, as I hope 11 they will, in fome meafure, excufe the miftakes " made by myfelf and others who have vifited the *' woman concerned therein, will alfo be acceptable (t to the world, in feparating the innocent from thofe i{ who have been guilty actors in the fraud." This work was never published, though 5/. Andre Sur- 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. Pcpe, on his return from Dawley in Lord Bolingbroke's coach, St. Andre was called in, becaufe he happened to be the furgeon nearefl at hand. No man choofes to be fcrupulous in the moment of danger. It might be urged that our hero had little to boaft on the oc- casion, C 492 ] caiion, becaufe his patient never recovered the ufe of his wounded fingers. But this calamity is not ftricltly chargeable on St. Andre's want of fkill ; for I have been affured, that though he flopped the ef- fufion of blood, the completion of the cure was en- trufted folely to another artift. The RABBITEER, having received his fee, was not admitted a fecond time into the Poet's company. To conclude, I differ as much with our ingenious apologift at the clofe of his Epiftle as throughout the foregoing parts of it, being of opinion that his hero no more deferves to be admired than to be co- pied. There is always hazard left wonder Ihould generate imitation ; and the world would not be much obliged to any circumftance that produced a fecond being fabricated on the model of St. Andre. N°II. [Seep. 137.] THE kindnefs of a friend has enabled me to lay before the reader feme extracts from the fcarce pamphlet mentioned in p. 137. The following is the exact title of it : " A Letter from a Pa- *' rilhioner of St. Clement Danes , to the Right *' Reverend Father in God Edmund, Lord Bifhop " of London, occasioned by his Lordlhip's caufing 61 the Pidure over the Altar to be taken down. sf With C 493 ] " With fome Obfervations on the Ufe and Abufe " of Church Paintings in General, and of that " Picture in particular. " Exodus, Chap, xxxii. Ver. 20. And he took (i the Calf which they had made, and burnt it in " the Fire, and ground it to powder, and ftrawed it JI-Bcy and Daily Journal of Saturday ;, Septcmher 4. Kk3 N°III. t 5°* 3 N°III. [Seep. 414.] An Account of what Teemed molt remarkable in the Five Days' Peregrination of the Five following Per- fons, viz. Meflieurs Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill, and Forrest; begun on Saturday, May 27, 1732, and finifhed on the 31ft of the fame Month. Imitated in Hudibraflicks by one well acquainted with fome of the Travellers, and of the Places here celebrated, with Liberty of fome Additions. " Abi tu, et fac fimiliter." Infcription on Dultuicb College Porch* J'TT^WAS firft of morn on Saturday, \_ The feven-and-twentieth day of May, When Hogarth, Tbornhill, Tothall, Scott, And Forreft, who this journal wrote, From Covent-Garden took departure, 5 To fee the world by land and water. Our march we with a fopg begin ; Our hearts were light, our breeches thin. We meet with nothing of adventure Till Billing fgatc*s Dark-houfe we enter ; 10 Where we diverted were, while baiting, With ribaldry, not worth relating, (Quire fuited to the dirty place) : But what mo{t pleas'd us was his Grace Of Puddle Dock, a porter grim, 1$ Whofe portrait Hogarth, in a whim, Prefented him in caricature, He palled on the cellar-door *. * This drawing unluckily has not been prefei ved. But C S°3 ] But hark 1 the Watchman cries " Pail one I'* T Tis time that we on board were gone. ao Clean ftraw we find laid for our bed, A tilt for (belter over head. The boat is loon got under fail, Wind near S. E. a mackrel gale, Attended by a heavy rain ; 15 We try to lleep, but try in vain, So fing a fong, and then begin To fealton bifcuit, beef, and gin. At Purjlcet find three men of war, The Durjley galley, Gibraltar , 30 And Tartar pink, and of this laft The pilot begg'd of us a caft To Gravefend> which he greatly wanted, And readily by us was granted. The grateful man, to make amends, 35 Told how the officers and friends Of England were by Spaniards treated, And fhameful iniiances repeated. While he thefe infults was deploring, Hogarth, like Premier, fell to fnoring, 40 But waking cry'd, " I dream'd" — and then Fell fait afleep, and fnor'd again. The morn cleared up, and after five At port of Grave/end we arrive, But found it hard to get on fhore ; 45 His boat a young fon of a whore Had fix'd jult at our landing-place, And fwore we fhould not o'er it pais ; But, fpite of all the rafcal's tricks, We made a (hi ft to land by fix, |0 And up to Mrs. Brambles go [A houfe that we (hall better know], There get a barber for our wigs, Warn hands and faces, (Iretch our legs, Had toaft and butter, and a pot , $£ Of coffee (our third breakfaft) got : Then, paying what we had to pay, For Rochcfier we took our way, Viewing the new church as we went, Aud th' unknown perfon's monument. 60 K k 4 The C 504 3 The beauteous profpecls found us talk, And fhorten'd much our two hours walk, Though by the way we did not fail To flop and take three pots of ale, And this enabled ns by ten 6e At Rochejlcr to drink again. Now, Mule, affift, while I declare (Like a true Engtijh traveller) What vail variety we furvey In the fhort compafs of one day. 70 We fcarce had loft the fight of Thames, When the fair Medways winding ftreams, And far-extending Rochefter, Before our longing eyes appear : The Caftle and Cathedral grace yr One profpedl, fo we mend our pace ; Impatient for a nearer view, But firft muft Strood's rough ftreet trudge through, And this our feet no fhort one find ; However, with a cheerful mind, 80 All difficulties we get o'er, And foon are on the Mednxay's fhore. New objects here before us rife, And more than fatisfy our eyes, The (lately Bridge from fide to fide, %t The roaring catarafts of the tide, Deafen our ears, and charm our fisht. And terrify while they delight. Thefe we pafs over to the Town, And take our Quarters at The Crown, 00 To which the Caftle is fo near, That we all in a hurry were The grand remains on't to be viewing; It is indeed a noble ruin, Muft h?,ve been very ftrong, but length 9$ Of time has much impair'd its ftrength : The lofty Tower as high or higher Seems than the old Cathedral's fpire j Yet we determin'd were to gain Its top, which coft fome care and pain ; joo When there arriv'd, vve found a well, The depth of which I cannot tell j Small [ 5°5 3 Small holes cut in on every fide Some hold for hands and feet provide, By which a little boy we faw io£ Go down, and bring up a jack- daw. All round about us then we gaze, Obferving, not without amaze, How towns here undiftinguifh'd join, .And one raft One to form combine. no Chatham with Rocheftcr feems but one, Unlefs we're fliewn the boundary-ftone. That and its Yards contiguous lie To pleafant Brompton {landing high j The Bridge acrofs the raging flood 115 Which Rochefter divides from Strood, Extenfive Strood, on t'other fide, To Frhidjbury quite clofe ally'd : The country round, and river fair, Our profpecls made beyond compare, 120 Which quite in raptures we admire ; Then down to face of earth retire. Up the Street walking, firft of all We take a view of the Town-Hall. Proceeding farther on, we fpy 125 A houfe, defign'd to catch the eye, With front fo rich, by plaflick (kill, As made us for a while fland ftill : Four huge Hobgoblins grace the wall, Which we four Bas Relievo's call ; 130 They the four Seafons reprefent, At lead were form'd for that intent. Then Watts s.Hofphal we fee (No common curioiity) : Kndow'd (as on the front appears) 135 In favour of poor travellers; Six fuch it every night receives, Supper and lodging gratis gives, And to each man next morn does pay A groat, to keep him on his way : 140 But the contagioufly infected, And rogues and proctors, are rejected. It gave us too fome enteitainmenc To find out what this bounteous man meant, Yet C 5°* ] Yet were we not fo highly feafled, 14^ But that we back to dinner hafled. By twelve again we reach The Crown f But find our meat not yet laid down, So (fpite of " Gentlemen, d'ye call ?") On chairs quite faft afleep we fall, 150 And with clos'd eyes again furvey, In dreams, what we have feen to-day : Till dinner's coming up, when we As ready arc as that can be. If we defcribe it not, we're updone, 1$$ You 11 fcarce believe we came from London, With due attention then prepare Yourfelf to hear our bill of fare. For our firft courfe a difh there was Of foles and flounders with crab-fauce, 160 A ftuff'd and roaft calf's-heart befide, With 'purt'nance mine'd, and liver fry'd ; And for a fecond courfe, they put on Green peafe and roafted leg of mutton : The cook was much commended for't ; i6| Frefh was the beer, and found the port : So that nem. con. we all agree (Whatever more we have to fee) From table we'll not rife till three. Our fhoes are clean'd, 'tis three o'clock, 170 Come let's away to Chatham-Dock ; We fhan't get there till almoft four, To fee't will take at leaft an hour ; Yet Scott and Hogarth needs mud ftop At the Court-Hall to play Scotch hop. i;ij To Chatham got, ourfelves we treat With Shrimps, which as we walk we eat. For fpeed we take a round-a-bout- »-wav, as we afterwards found out : At length reach the King's yards and docks, 180 Admire the (hips there on the flocks, The men of war afloat we view, Find means to get aboard of two * ; But here I muft not be prolix, For we went home again at fix, 18$ • The Royal Sovereign and Marlborough. There } [ 5°7 ] There fmoak'd our pipes, and drank our wine, And comfortably fat till nine, Then, with our travels much improv'd, To our refpe£tive beds we mov'd. Sunday at feven we rub our eyes, 190 But are too lazy yet to rife : Hogarth and Tbombill tell their dreams, And, reafoning deeply on thofe themes, After much learned fpeculation, Quite fuitable to the occafion, 19$ Left off as wife as they begun, Which made for us in bed good fun. But by and by, when up we got, Sam Scott was miffing, '* Where's Sam Scott?" Oh ! here he comes. Well ! whence come you ?'* 200 Why from the bridge, taking a view * Of fomething that did highly pleafe me* But people paffing by would teaze me With ' Do you work on Sundays, friend ?' So that I could not make an end." 205 At this we laugh'd, for 'twas our will Like men of tafte that day to kill. So after breakfaft we thought good To crofs the bridge again to Strood: Thence eaftward we refolve to go, 210 And through the Hundred march of Hoo t Wafli'd on the north fide by the Thames, And on the fouth by Medvoay*s ftreams, Which to each other here incline, Till at The Nore in one they join, j 215 Before we Frindjbuty could gain, There fell a heavy fhower of rain, When crafty Scott a ihelter found Under a hedge upon the ground, There of his friends a joke he made, 220 But rofe mod woefully bewray'd ; How againfl him the laugh was turn'd, And he the vile difafter mourn'd ! We work, all hands, to make him clean, And fitter to be fmelt and feen. 22$ * Drawing II. But, C 50S 3 But, while we fcrap'd his back a-nd fide, All on a fudden, out he cried, *•' I've loft my cambrick handkercher, ** 'Twas lent me by my wife fo dear : " What I fhall do I can't devife, 239 *' I've nothing left to wipe my eyes." At laft the handkerchief was found, To his great comfort, fafe and found, He's now recover'd and alive ; So in high fpirits all arrive 23 £ At FrinJJbuiy, farn'd for profpects fair, But we much more diverted were With what the parifh church did grace, *' A lift of fome who lov'd the place, ** In memory of their good actions, 34$ *' And gratitude for their benefactions. " Witnefs our hands — Will Gibbons, Vicar — " And no one elfe. — This made us fnicker : At length, with countenances ferious, We all agreed it was myfterious, 24^ ■ Not gueffing that the reafon might Be, the Churchwardens could not write. At ten, in council it was mov'd, Whoe'er was tir'd, or difapprov'd Of our proceedings, might go back, 250 And cafii to bear his charges take. With indignation this was heard: Each was for all events prepar'd. So all with one confent agreed To Upnor.Caftk to proceed, 25$ And at the futler's there we dia'd On fuch coarfe fare as we could find. The Caftle * was not large, but ftrong, And feems to be of ftanding long. Twenty-four men its garrilbn, 260 And juft for every man a gun ; Eight guns were mounted, eight men active, The reft were rated non-effective. Here an old couple, who had brought Some cockles in their boat, befought 26$ * Drawing III. The Caftle by Hogarth^ and fome fhipping, riding near it, by Scott* That [ 5^9 3 That one of us would buy a few, For they were very frefli and new. I did fo, and 'twas charity ; He was quite blind, and half blind flie. Now growing frolickfome and gay, 270 Like boys, we, after dinner, play, But, as the fcene lay in a fort, Something like war mud be our fport .* Sticks, ftones, and hogs-dung, were our weapons, And, as in fuch frays oft it happens, 27$ Poor TctbaWs cloaths here went to pot, So that he could not laugh at Scott. From hence all conquerors we go To vifit the church-yard at Hoo. At Hoo we found an Epitaph, 280 Which made us (as 'twill make you) laugh : A fervant maid, turn'd poetafter, Wrote it in honour of her matter ; I therefore give you (and I hope you Will like it well) a Vera Copia: 285 " And . wHen . he . Died . You plainly . fee Hee . freely . gave . al . to . Sara . paflaWee. And . in . Doing . fo . it DoTh . prevail . that . Ion . him . can . well . bes . Tow . this Rayel . On . Year . farved . him . it is well . none . 290 BuT Thanks . beto . God . it . is . all my . One." While here among the Graves we flumble, Our HogartJis guts began to grumble, Which he to eafe, turn'd up his tail Over a monumental rail ; 295 Totball, for this indecent action, Bellowing on him juft correction With nettles, as there was no birch, He fled for refuge to the church, And fliamefully the door belli — t ; 300 O filthy dauber ! filthy wit ! Long at one place we muft not ftay, 'Tis almofl: four, let 's hafie away. But here 's a fign ; 'tis rafh we think, To leave the place before we drink. £o£ We meet with liquor to our mind, Our hoflefs cornplaifant and kind : She C 510 ] She was a widow, who, we found, Had (as the phrafe is) been (hod round, That is, had buried hufbands four, 310 And had no want of charms for more ; Yet her we leave, and, as we go, Scott bravely undertook to fhow That through the world we could not pafs, How thin foe'er our breeches was ; 315; '* 'Tis true, indeed, we may go round, " But through" — then pointed to the ground, So well he manag'd the debate, We own'd he was a man of weight : And fo indeed he was this once, 320 His pockets we had filPd with nones : But here we'd ferv'd ourfelves a trick, Of which he might have made us fick : We'd furnifh'd him with ammunition Fit to knock down all oppofition ; 325 And, knowing well his warmth of temper, Out of his reach began to fcamper, Till, growing cooler, he pretends His paffion feign'd, fo all are friends. Our danger now becomes a joke, 330 And peaceably we go to Stoke, About the church we nothing can fee To ftrike or entertain our fancy : But near a farm, on an elm tree, A long pole fix'd upright we fee, 335 And tow'rd the top of it was plac'd A weathercock, quite in high tafte, Which all of us, ere we go further, Pronounce of the Compofite order. Firft, on a board turn'd by the wind, 340 A painter had a cock defign'd, A common weather-cock was above it, This turn'd too as the wind did move it ; Then on the fpindle's point fo fmall A fliuttlecock ituck o'ertopp'd them all. 345 This triple alliance gaveoccafion To much improving (peculation. Alas ! wc ne'er know when we are well, So at Nortbjlcct again muft quarrel j But t 5" ] But fought not here with flicks and ftones 350 (For thofe, you know, might break our bones) ! A well juft by, full to the brim, Did fitter for our purpofe feem ; So furioufly we went to dafliing, Till our coats wanted no more warning; 35$ . But this our heat and courage cooling, 'Twas foon high time to leave fuch fooling. To The Nag's Head we therefore hie, To drink, and to be turn'd adry. At fix, while fupper was preparing, 360 And we about the marfh-lands flaring, Our two game-cocks, Totball and Scott, To battling once again were got : But here no weapons could they find, Save what the cows dropp'd from behind ; 365 With thefe they pelted, till we fancy Their cloaths look'd fomething like a tanfy. At feven we all come home again, Totball and Scott their garments clean; Supper we get, and, when that's o'er, 3-70 A tiff of punch drink at the door; Then, as the beds were only three, Draw cuts who fhall fo lucky be As here to fleep without a chum ; To Totbalfs fhare the prize did come 375 Hogarth and Tbornbill, Scott and I, In pairs, like man and wife, rauft lie. Then mighty frolickfome they grow, At Scott and me the Hocking throw, Fight with their wigs, in which perhaps 3H0 They fleep, for here we found no caps. Up at eleven again we get, Our fheets were fo confounded wet ; We drefs, and lie down in our cloaths ; Monday, at three, awak'd and rofe, 385 And of the curled gnats complain, "Yet make a (hi ft to fleep again. Till fix o'clock we quiet lay, And then got out for the whole day ; To fetch a barber, out we fend ; 390 Stripp'd, and ia boots, he does attend, For I! 512 3 For he's a fifherman by trade ; Tann'd was his face, (hock was his head j He flours our wigs, and trims our faces, And the top barber of the place is. 30? The cloth is for our breakfaft fpread ; A bowl of milk and toafted bread Are brought, of which while Forreji eats. To draw our pictures Hogarth fits * ; Thomhill is in the barber's hands, 400 Shaving himfelf Will Tothall Hands j "While Scott is in a corner fitting, And an unfinifh'd piece completing. Our reckoning about eight we pay, And take for Ifle of Grcane our way ; 40J To keep the road we were directed, But, as 'twas bad, this rule neglected ; A tempting path over a flile Let us aftray above a mile ; Yet the right road at laft we gain, 410 And joy to find ourfelves at Greane ; Where my Dame Hujbands, at The Chequer^ Refrefh'd us with fome good malt liquor; Into her larder then flie runs, Brings out fait pork, butter and buns, 415 And coarfe black bread ; but that's no matter, 'Twill fortify us for the water. Here Scott fo carefully laid down His penknife which had colt a crown, That all in vain we fought to find it, 420 And, for his comfort, fay, " Ne'er mind it ;** For to Sbcernefs we now mufl: go : To this the ferryman fays, " No." We to another man repair'd : He too fays, " No — it blows too hard." 25 But, while we ftudy how to get there In fpite of this tempeftuous weather, Our landlady a fcheme propos'd, With which we fortunately clos'd, Was to the fhore to go, and try 4^0 To hail the fhips in ordinary, * Drawing IV, C 513 ] So we might get, for no great matter, A boat to take us o'er the water. We hafte, and foon the fhore we tread, With various kinds of (hells befpread, 4?* And in a little time we fpy'd A boat approaching on our fide ; The man to take us in agreed, But that was difficult indeed, Till, holding in each hand an oar, 44.O He made a fort of bridge to fhore, O'er which on hands and knees we crawl *, And fo get fate on board the yawl* In little time we ieated were, And now to Shepeys coaft draw near; 44.5 When iuddenly, with loud report, The cannons roar from mips and fort, And, like tall fellows, we impute To our approach this grand falute : But foon, alas ! our pride was humbled, 450 And from this fancy'd height we tumbled, On recollecting that the day The nine and twentieth was of May. The firing had not long been ended. Before at Sbeernefs we were landed, 45* Where on the battery while we walk, And of the charming profpect talk, Scott from us in a hurry runs, And, getting to the new-fir'd guns, TJnto their touch-holes clapp'd his nofe j 4(30 Hogarth fits down, and trims his toes ; Thefe whims when we had made our fpoi t, Our turn we finifli round the fort, And are at one for Qucenborougb going: Bleak was the walk, the wind fierce blowing, 46: And driving o'er our heads the fpray ; On loofe beach (tones, our pebbly way, But Tbornhill only got a fall, Which hurt him little, if at all : So merrily along we go, 470 And reach that famous town by two. " Drawing V, L 1 ^ueenijrcugb C 5 J 4 ] Sluccnlorough confifls of one {hort ftrcet*, Broad, and well -pav'd, and very neat; Nothing like dirt offends the eye, Scarce any people could we fpy : 47 £ The town-houfe, for the better fhow, Is mounted on a portico Of piers and arches, number four, And crown'd at top with'a cloc-ktower j But all this did not reach fo high 489 As a flag-naff, that flood juft by, On which a flandard huge was flying (The borough's arms, the king's fupplying), Which on high feflivals they difplay To do the honours of the day. 485 As for falutes, excus'd they are, Becaufe they have no cannon there. To the church-yard wefirft repair, And hunt for choice infcriptions there, Search (tones and rails, till almoft weary all, 490 In hopes to find fomething material* When one at laft, of pyebald ftyle (Though grave the fubjecl) made lis fmile i Telling us firfl, in humble profe, " That Henry Knight doth here repofe, 495 " A Greenland Trader twice twelve year, " As m after and as harpooneer;" Then, in as humble verfe, we read (As by himfelf in perfon faid) " In Greenland\ whales, fea-horfe, and bears did flay, £CO *' Though now my body is intombed in clay.'* The houfc at which we were to quarter Is call'd The S-zvans ; this rais'd our laughter, Becauie the fign is The Red Lion, So flrange a blunder we cry ** Fie on !'* 5C5 But, going in, all neat we fee And clean ; fo was our landlady : With great civility flie told 11s, She had not beds enough to hold us. But a good neighbour had juft by, - 510 Where fome of us perhaps might lie. She fends to afk. The merry dame Away to us dire&ly came, * Drawing VI. 1 Quite C 5^5 1 Quite ready our defires to grant, And furnilh us with vvhat we want. £i£ Rack to the church again we go ; Which is bur fmall, ill built, and low, View'd the iniide, but ftill fee we Nothing or' curiofity Unlefs we fuffer the grave-digger 1520 In this our work ro make a figure, Whom juft bclide us now we have, Employ'd in opening )f a grave. A prating fpark indeed he was, Knew all the fcandal of the place, < 2 S And often refted from his labours, To, give the hiftory of his neighbours ; Told who was who, and what was what, Till on him we beftow'd a pot (For he forgot not, you may think, 530 " Matters, I hope, you'll make me drink !"), At this his fcurrilous tongue rim fader, Till " a fad dog" he call'd his mailer, Told us the worfhipful t'ue Mayor Was but a cullom-houfe officer ; 535 Still rattling on till we departed, Not only with his tales diverted, But fo much wifdom we had got, We treated him with t'other pot. Return we now to the town-hall. 540 That, like the borough, is but fmall. Under its portico's a fpace, Which you may call the market-place, Juft big enough to hold the ftock.s, And one, if not two, butcher's blocks, 545 Emblems of plenty and excefs, Though vou can no where meet with lefs : For though 'tis call'd a market-town (As they are not afham'd to own) Yet we law neither butcher's meat, ^o Nor fifh, nor fowl, nor aught to eat. Once in feven years, they fay, there's plenty, When itrangers come to reprefent ye. Hard at The Swans had been our fare, But that fome Harwich men were there, 55$ L 1 2 Who C 516 1 Who lately had fome lobfters taken> With which, and eke fome eggs and bacon, Our bellies we defign to fill ; But firft will clamber up the hill, A mod delightful fpot of ground, 560 O'erlooking all the country round ; On which there formerly has been The palace of Philippa, queen To the third Ed-xvard> as they tell, Now nought remains on 't but a well : r6c But 'tis from hence, fays common fame, The borough gets its royal name. Two failors at this well we meet, And do each other kindly greet : " What brings you here, my lads ?" cry we. C70 ' Thirft, pleafe your honours, as you fee; * For (adds thefpokefman) we are here ' Waiting for our young officer, ' A midlhipman on board The Rofc, * (For General S 's fon he goes) : eye * We and our meflmates, fix in all, ' Yefterday brought him in our yawl, ' And when, as we had been commanded^ * Quite fafe and dry we had him landed, ' By running of her fa ft aground c8o * At tide of ebb, he quickly found * That he might go and fee Sbeerr.efs, * So here he left us pennylefs, * To feaft on £>ueenborough air and water, < Or ftarve, to him 'tis no great matter ; $3r « While he among his friends at eafe is, * And will return juft when he pleafes ; * Perhaps he may come back to-day ; * If not, he knows that we mull ftay.' So one of us gave him a teller, rq& When both cried out, " God blefs you, mafter I" Then ran to roufe their fleeping fellows, To (hare their fortune at the alehoufe. Hence to the creek-fide, one and all 5 We go to fee TheRofe's yawl, eg* And found her bedded in the mud, Immovable till tide of flood. The C 517 ] The failors here had cockles got y Which gratefully to us they brought, 'Twas all with which they could regale us ; 600 This t' other fixpence lent to th' alehoufe : So merrily they went their way, And we were no lefs plcai'd than they. At feven about the town we walk, And with fomc pretty damfels talk. 605 Beautiful nymphs indeed, I ween, Who came to fee, and to be feen. Then to our Swans returning, there We bonow'd a great wooden chair, And plac'd it in the open ftreet, 610 Where, in much ftate, did Hogarth fit To draw the townhoufe, church, and {leeple *, Surrounded by a crowd of people ; Tag, rag, and bobtail, flood quite thick there, And cry'd, " What a fweet pretty picture!" 615 This was not finifhM long, before We faw, about the Mayor's fore-door, Our honeft failors in a throng : We call'd one of them from among The reft, to tell us the occafion ; 620 Of which he gave us this relation : ** Our midfhipman is jult come back, And chanc'd to meet or overtake A failor walking with a woman (May be, file's honeft, may be, common) : 625 He thought her handfome, fo his honour Would needs be very fweet upon her : But this the feaman would not fuf- -fer, and this put him in a huff. " Lubber, avail," fays fturdy Jobn y 630 *' Avail, I fay, let her alone ; " You mail not board her, fire's my wife. " Sheer off, Sir, if you love your life : " I've a great mind your back to lick ;" And up he held his oaken flick. 63 " Our midfhip hero this did fcare : •* I'll fwear the peace before the Mayor," Says he ; fo to the Mayor's they trudge : How lucu a cafe by luch a judge . Drawing VI. L 1 3 Determin'd [ 6iS J Determin'd was, T cannot fay, 640 We thought it not worth while to flay: For it firikes nine, " How th' evening r pends ! *' C 'iTie, let us drink to ail our friends " A chearful glafs, and eat a bit." So tc ou perd'i'.vn we fit ; 645; When fomething merry check'd our mirth : The Harwich men had got a birth Cloiely adjoining to our room And were to upend cheir evening come : The wall was thin, find they fo near, 650 That all they lay, or hug, we hear. We fung our fongs, wecrack'd our jokes, Their emulation this provokes ; And they perfornvd fo joj oniiy, As diftane'd hollow all our glee ; 655 So (were it nota bull) I'dfay, This night they fairly won the dayj Now plenteoufly we drink of flip. In hopes we fliall the better fleep ; Some reft the long day's work requires ; 66p Scott to his lodging firft retires ; His landlady is waiting for him, And to his chamber walks before him j In her fair hand a light file bears, And (hows him up the garret- flairs j 665 Away comes he greatly affronted, And his dilgrace to us recounted. This makes us game, we roaft him for it, *' Scotth too high-minded for a garret.'' But Totbr.ll more humanely faid, 67© *' Come, Scott i be eafy, take my bed, *' And to your garret I will go." (This great good-nature fure did ihow) : There finding nought him to entertain But a flock-bed without a curtain, 673 He too in hafle came back, and got Away to fliare his bed with &-e>t de Sbur- land, who by Edivard I. was created a Knight banneret for his gallant behaviour at the liege of Carlaverock in Scotland. He lico under a Gothic arch in the fouth-wal], having an armed page at his feet, and on his right fide the head of a horfe emerging out of the waves of the fca, as in the action of fwimming. Grose, Our E s™ 3 Our fliirts dry'd at The George we get, We dine there, and till four we fit ; And now in earneft think of home : So to Shcernefs again we come. Where for a bum-boat we agree, 8#3 And about five put off to fea. We prefently were under fail, The tide our friend, fouth-eaft the gale, Quite wind enough, and fome to fpare, But we to that accuftom'd were. 805 When we had now got pait The AV:j Foor Hogarth makes wry faces too (Worfe faces than he ever drew). You'll guefs what were the confequences, Not overpleafiug to our fenfes ; And this misfortune was augmented 830 By Matter TothaWs being acquainted With the commander of a iloop, At Holy Haven near 7 he Hope. *' There's Captain Robin/on" fays he, " A friend, whom I muft call and fee," 835 Up the fhip's fide he nimbly goes, While we lay overwhelmed with woes Sick. t 5 2 3 3 Sick, and of winds and waves the fport, But then he made his vifit fhort, And when a fup of punch he'd got, 84Q Some lighted match to us he brought, A Sovereign cordial this, no doubt, To men whole pipes had long been out. Bv feyen o'clock our lick recover, And all are glad this trouble's over. 845 Now jovially we fail along, Our cockfwaio giving long for fong. But fc on our notes are chang'd ; we found Our boat was on Bty'~f.nd agrdund, Jull in the middle of the river; 850 Here 7(;fba/l Hiew'd himfelf quite clever : And, knowing we muft elfe abide Till lifted by the flowing tide, Worked with our (kippers, till the boat Was once more happily afloat. 855 We all applaud his care and ikill, So do the boatmen his good-will. Ere long the tide made upward, (o * With that before the wind we go, And, dilembarking about ten, 860 Q\u Grave fend quarters reach again. Here Madam, finding, comes to tell How glad fhe is to fee us well : This kind reception we commended, And now thought all our troubles ended; 865 But, when for what we want we call, Something unlucky did befall. When we our travels firft began §cott (who's a very prudent man) Thought a great coat could do no harm, 870 And in the boat might keep him warm ; So far perhaps you think him right, As we took water in the night : But when from hence we took our way On foot, the latter end of May, 87$ He, quite as reasonably, thought 'Twould be too heavy or too hot : «« I'll leave it here," fays he, " and take ?' It v/ith me at our coming back." And [ 5M ] And hetnod certainly defign'd it : £80 But now the thing was, how to find it * We told him, he had been miftaken, And did without his hoftefs reckon. To him it was no jell ; he fwore " He left it there three days before, 885 «* This Mrs. Bramble can't deny." 1 Sir, we (hall find it by and by :' So out fhe goes, and rends her throat With " Molly go find the gem'man's coat." The houfe M?//fearches round and round, 8oe At laft, with much ado, 'twas found — 'Twas found, that, to the owner's coft, Or Scott's, the borrow 'd coat was loft. " Coat loft !" fays he, ftamping and flaring, Then flood like dumb, then fell to fwearing : 89c He curs'd the ill-concluding ramble, He curs'd Grave/end and mother Bramble, But, while his rage he thus exprefs'd, And we his anger made our jeft, Till wrath had almoft got the upper- 900 •hand of his reafon, in camefupper: To this at once his ftomach turn'd, No longer it with fury burn'd, But hunger took the place of rage, And a good meal did both afluage. go£ He eat and drank, he drank and eat, The wine commended, and the meat ; So we did all, and fat fo late, That Wcdnefday morn we lay till eight. Tobaoco then, and wine provide, 910 Enough to ferve us for this tide. Get breakfaft, and our reckoning pay, And next prepare for London hey ; So, hiring to ourfelves a wherry, We put off, all alive and merry. 91c, The tide was ftrong, fair was the wind, Grave/end is foon left far behind, Under the tilt on ftraw we lay, Obferving what a charming day, There flretch'd at eafe we fmoke and drink, 920 Londoners like, and now we think Our t 5*5 1 Our crofs adventures all are pair, And that at Gr avej end was the laft : But cruel Fate to that fays no ; One yet fliall Fortune find his foe. 92^ While we (with various profpecls cloy'd) In clouds of fmoke ourfelves enjoy 'd, More diligent and curious, Scott Into the forecaftle had got, And took his papers out, to draw 93O Some fhips which right ahead he faw. There fat he, on his work intent, When, to increafe our merriment, So luckily we fhipp'd a fea, That he got fous'd, and only he. 935 This bringing to his mind a thought How much he wanted the great coat, Reuew'd his anger and his grief; He curs'd Grav?fend, the coat, and thief; And, ftill to heighten his regret, 940 His fhirt was in his breeches wet : He draws it out, and lets it fly, Like a French cnfign, till 'tis dry, Then, creeping into fhelter fafe, Joins with the company and laugh. 945 Nothing more happen'd worthy note : At Billingsgate we change our boat, And in another through bridge get, By two, to Stairs of Somerfct, "Welcome each other to the ihore, 950 To Convent Garden walk once more, Ar.d, as from Bedford Arms we ftarted, There w.et our whiftles ere we parted. With pleafure I obferve, none idle Were in our travels, or employed ill, 955 ■'jTothall, our trcafurer, was juft, And -worthily difcharg'd his truit ; {We all fign'd his accounts as fair) : Sam Scott and Hogartb t for their fnare, The profpecls of the fea and land did ; 96$? As Tbornbill of our tour the plan did ; And Forrcjl wrote this true relation Of our five days peregrination. This to atteft, our names we've wrote all, Viz. Tbornbill % Hogarth ; Scott, and TotbalL 965 William [ 5*6 J William Tothall's Account of Dlfburfemehts for Meffieurs Hogarth and Co. viz. t 73 2, May 27. To paid at the Dark-houfe, Billingsgate, To paid for a pint of Geneva Hollands, To paid waterman to Grave/aid, To paid barber ditto, To paid for break fail: at ditto, To paid for beer on the road to Rochejler, To paid for fhrimps at Chatham, To paid at the gunnery and dock, To paid bill at Roche/ur, 28* To gave at Upnor for information, To p^id at the Smack at dittOj To paid at Hoo, To paid at Stoke, 29. To paid at Mother Hubbard's at Grain, To paid for paflage over to Sheemefs, To paid for lobfters at Shieenborough, To paid for two pots of beer to treat thefexton, o To paid for dinner, &c. To charity, gave the failors, 30. To paid for lodgings and maid^ To paid for break f-nltj- To paid for wafhing fhirts, To paid at M'mJIer, To paid at Sheer nefs, To paid for a boat to Grave/end, 31. To paid barber at ditto, To paid for lundry at ditto, To paid for paflage to Somerfet-houfe, Vouchers produced, examined, and allowed, Per E. Forrest. Sam. Scott, W. Hocarth, John Tkormiiill. GENERAL £• s. J 8| I 5 10 2 2 9 9 b 1 6 1 7 5 3 4 3 1 8 1 1 6 3 2 iO 1 b >o 6 6 6 1 4 6 2 6 1 8 9 2. 1 3 / 1 2 1 3| 5 6 :.6 6 [ 5 2 7 3 GENERAL INDEX T O HOGARTH'S PLATES. A. *-jENEAS in a Storm, 24;. Agriculture and Arts, 4.23. Altar-piece, St. Clement's, 136. 492. Analvfis of Beauty, 325. Apuleius, 127. Arms, &c. 418. 422. 438. B. Battle of the Pictures, 281. Heaver's Military Puniihments, 134. Beer-Street, 312. Before and After, 233. * Beggar's Opera, 164. Bench, 367. 403. * Blackivell's Figures, 439. Booth, IVilks, and Cibber, 141. Boyne, Lord Vifcount, 433. Boys peeping at Nature, 18S. 319. **Broad Bottoms, 449. * Bullock. William, 407. Burial Ticket, 419. Burlington Gate, 28. 175. Butler, 442. Bjron, Lady Frances, 236. **Carroons, Heads from, 437. CajfanJra, 134 Catalogue, Frqijtifpiece and Tail- piece to, 3 73. Characters ;uid Caricaturas, 262. Cbarlemont, Earl of, 411. Charmers of the Age, 250. Chrilt and his Difciplcs, &c. large, 435. Chart, &c. fmall, 43?. with London Hofpital, 436. Churchill, Charles, 387. with Political Print, 400. Cockpit, 367. Columbus, 324. Concert, St. Mary's Chapel, 445. Confultation of Phvficians, 236. Coram, Captain, 260. *'•• Cottage. 441. Credulity, &c. 375. Crowns, &c. Subfcription Ticket for Elections, 332. D. Debates on Palmiltry, 413. *Diicovery, 440. Diiirefled Poet, 235. Don 2}uixote, 435. E. Elections, 334. Enraged Mufician, 254. 'Eta Beta Pi, Tale-page, 63. 415. F. Fa\i\fiouthvjark,noiBartfjolomei# as Mi - .IPalpoledefcribcs it] , 1 80. Farmer's Return, 374, ' :t *Farinelli, Citzzoni, and Senefino, &c. 138. 439. Feftoofi, 2x.c. Subfcription Ticket for Richard 111. 281, FieUing, Henry, 385. Finchley, March ts 299. ' Fifties for Cares, 349. Folus, Martin, 257, F Mr. Rogers. Qin-d rinkers, J Cartoons, Heads, 7 ,-■ . . . , c „t t r (Mr. Livrfay. horn Two figures, i JJ Oratory, ? M „. . , Malta, Scene, &c. 5 "'"*"• j»Mr. Bullock, Butler, Pellet, North and South, Thant. N NEW BOOKS publiflied by J. NICHOLS. I. Biographical ami Literary Anecdotes of William Bow. ver, Printer, F. S. A. and of many of his Learned Friends ; containing an incidental View of the Progrefs and Advance- ment of Literature in this Kingdom, from the Beginning of the prefent Century to the End of the Year 1777. By John Nichols, his Apprentice, Partner, and Succefibr. Price One Guinea, adorned with an elegant Portrait by Bafire. IT. Miscellaneous Tracts, by the late William Bow- yer, printer, F. S. A. and feveral of his Learned Friends j including Letters, on Literary Subjects, by Mr. Markland, Mr. Clarke, &c. &c. Collected, and illuftrated with occa- sional Notes, by John Nichols, F. S. A. Edinb. and Perth, " 'Tis my chief wifli, my joy, my only plan, " To lofe no drop of this immortal man." III. Conjectures and Obfervations on the New Teftament ; collected from various Authors, as well in regard to Words as Pointing. By Mr. Bowyer. The Third Edition. Price One Guinea in Boards. IV. A Collection of all the Wills, now known to be extant, of the Kings and Queens in England, Princes and Princefles of Wales, and every Branch of the Blood Royal, from the Reign of William the Conqueror to that of Henry the Seventh, excluiive ; with Explanatory Notes, and a very copious Gloflary. By J. Nichols. Quarto. Price Eighteen Shillings in Boards. V. A Supplement to Dean Swift's Works. By J. Nichols. In One r large Quarto Volume ; and re-printed in every fmaller Size, to fuit the various Editions. # # The latter Volumes of any Size may be had, to complete Setts. VI. The NEW BOOKS published by J. NICHOLS. IX. The Hiftory and Antiquities of Hinckley, in the County of Leiccfter, including the Hamlets of Stoke, Dad- lington, Wykin, and The Hyde ; fome Particulars of the an- cient Abbey of Lira in Normandy ; Aftronomieal Remarks, and Biographical Memoirs. By J. Nichols, F. S. A. Edifib. and Perth, and Printer to the Society of Antiquaries of London, Quarto, Price 7s. 6d. adorned with Thirteen elegant Plates. *^* This Work forms the Seventh Number of a Series of Local Antiquities, under the Title of Bibliotheca Topo- graphica Britannica, of which every feparate Number is a diftincl: Work ; and which is intended to be comprifed in Six Volumes. In this form have already appeared, 1. Rowe-Mores's Hiitory of Tunstall. Price 5s, 1. Reliqjh/E GALEANiE, in Three Parts. 15s, 3. Hiftory of Aberdeen. 5s. 4. Memoirs of Sir John Hawkwood. 2s. 5. Ducarel's Hiftory of St. Katharine's near the Tower. ios.6J. 6. Thorpe's Antiquities in Kent. Two Parts. 6s. 7. Nichols's Hiftory of Hinckley, Stoke, &c. 7s. 6d. 8. Collections towards the Hiftory of Bedfordshire. 6-s. 9. Hiftory of Holyhead, is. 6d. 10. Hiftorv of Stoke Newington. 2s. 6d. 11. Couch's Hiftory of Croyland. 7s. 6d. 12. Due arel's Hiftory of Croydon. 7s. 6d. 13. Hiftory of Great Coxwell, Berks. 2s. 6d. 14. Additions to the Hiftory of Stoke Newington. 6d. 15. Extracts from the MS. Journal of Sir Simonds D'EwES. 3s. 16. Rowe-Mores's Collections for Berkshire. 5s. 17. Extracts from the Black Book of Warwick, &c. is. 6d. 18. Buncombe's Hiftory of Reculver and Herne. 5s. 19. Additions to the Memoirs of Sir John Hawkwood. 6d. 20. Hiftory of the Gentleman's SocitTY at Spalding. 5s. 21. Pegce's Hiitory of Eccleshall Castle, is. 22. Essex's Obfervations on Croyland Abbey, is. 6d. 23. Sir John Cullum's Hiftory of Hawsted. 9s. 24. Pegge op the Roman Roads, and on the Coritani. is. 6d. 25. Pecge on the Textus Roffensis,oii the Elstobs,&c is.'6d, " 26. Collections towards the Hiftory of Bedfordshire continued, is. 27. Ducarel's Hiftory and Antiquities of LaMBETH Palace. 9s. 28. Ducarel's Account of Suffragan Bishops in England. 29. Hiftorical Account ot the Pariih of Wimmington. is. 6. 30. Duncombe's Hiftory of the Archicpifcopal Ilofpitals. 10s. 6d. 31. Genealogical View of the Family of Oli vi. kCuomwell. 2 ". ' Many other Articles arc in the prefs, for fucceeding Numbers. . VII. The NEW BOOKS publifhed by J. NICHOLS. VII. The Epiftolary Correspondence, Vifitation Charges, Speeches, and Mifcellanies, of the Right Reverend Francis, Atterbury, D. D. Lord Bifhop of Rochefter : great Part of which are now firft printed from the Originals. With Hifto- rical Notes by J. Nichols. In Three Volumes, Octavo, Price Fifteen Shillings in Boards. *£* The Third Volume may be had Separately. VIII. A Select Collection of Poems ; with Notes Biographi- cal and Hiftorica!, by J. Nichols. Completed in Eight Vo. lumes ; adorned with Portraits, by Bafire, Cook, and Collyer. Price One Guinea in Boards. IX. Biographical Memoirs of William Ged. By J. Ni- chols. 0<5tavo, Price One Shilling. X. The Hiftory of Thetford. By the late Mr. Thomas Martin, of Palgrave. Publifhed by Mr. Gough. Printed in Quarto, uniformly with the above Local Hiftories. Price One Guinea in Boards. XI. British Topography; or, an Hiftorical Account of what has been done for illuflrating the Topographical Anti- quities of Great-Britain and Ireland. By Mr. Gough. Two Volumes, Quarto, Price 2I. 12s. 6d. in Boards. XII. Medals, Coins, Great Seals, and other Works of Tho- mas Simon; engraved and defcribed by George Vertue. The Second Edition, improved ; with additional Plates, Notes, and an Appendix by Mr. Gough. Quarto, Price One Guinea. XIII. A Comparative View of the Ancient Monuments of India, particularly thofe in the Ifland of Salset near Bombay, as defcribed by different Writers. In Quarto, illus- trated with Ten Plates. Price cs. fewed. ^ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Los Angeles This book is DUE on the last date stamped below. JAN l6 - RECFlv*|n DEC 7 1995 ARTSL1BRAH (7fc2 315 3 1158 00240 3219 ifrjJMi