BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF WILLIAM HOGARTH; WITH A CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED; AND OCCASIONAL REMARKS. [BY JOHN NICHOLS.] THE THIRD EDITION, ENLARGED AND CORRECTED. LONDON: PRINTED BY AND FOR JOHN NICHOLS, IN RED-LION-PASSAGE, FLEET-STREET. M DCC LXXXV. CONTENTS Page MEMORANDUM. iii ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. v ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. vii DETAILS OF MR. CRAYEN'S GERMAN EDITION. viii INDIVIDUALS CONSULTED BY THE AUTHOR. xv COLLECTORS OF HOGARTH. xvi CONCERNING HOGARTH'S ORIGINAL WORKS. xvii BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF HOGARTH. 1 CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS. 120 POSTSCRIPT. 455 ADDITION. 460 APPENDIX NO. 1. 461 NO. 2. 492 NO. 3. 502 GENERAL INDEX TO HOGARTH'S PLATES. 527 NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED BY J. NICHOLS. MEMORANDUM. Respect and gratitude having engaged me to compile a memoir of my deceased Master and Patron Mr. BOWYER, in the same performance I included anecdotes of all the eminent persons any way connected with him. A note of about a page's length was allotted to HOGARTH. While it was printing, Mr. WALPOLE'S Fourth Volume on the subject of English Painters came out, and was followed by an immediate rage for collecting every scrap of our Artist's designs. Persevering in my enquiries among my friends, I had now amassed so much intelligence relative to these engravings, that it could no longer be crowded into the situation originally meant for it. I was therefore advised to publish it in the form of a sixpenny pamphlet. This intended publication, however, grew up by degrees into a three-shilling book, and, within a year and a half afterwards, was swelled into almost its present bulk, at the price of six shillings. Such was the origin and progress of the following sheets, which, with many corrections, &c. have now reached a Third Edition. _J. N._ _Nov._ 10, 1785. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.