They are both classed here, because the original drawing (see under the year 1781) is dated in 1747. * * * * * 1748. 1. A monk leading an ass with a _Scotch_ man and woman on it, &c. A wooden cut. Head-piece to the "Jacobite's Journal." This was a news-paper set up and supported by _Henry Fielding_, and carried on for a few months with some success. The wooden-cut was only prefixed to six or seven of the papers. Being faintly executed, it was soon worn out, and has lately been copied in aqua tinta by Mr. _Livesay_. 2. Pool of _Bethesda_, from the picture[1] he painted for _St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Engraved by Ravenet for S. Austen_, as a frontispiece for _Stackhouse's_ Bible. In this plate, I am assured by an old acquaintance of Mr. _Hogarth_, is a faithful portrait of _Nell Robinson_, a celebrated courtezan, with whom, in early life, they had both been intimately acquainted. [1] Of this picture Mr. _S. Ireland_ has a large sketch in oil. * * * * * 1749. 1.[1] The Gate of _Calais_.[2] Engraved by C. _Mosley_ and _W. Hogarth. "His own head sketching the view. He was arrested when he was making the drawing, but set at liberty when his purpose was known."_ See above, p. 49. Mr. _Walpole_ also observes, that in this piece, though it has great merit, "the caricatura is carried to excess." Mr. _Pine_ the engraver sat for the portrait of the Friar, a circumstance of which he afterwards repented;[3] for, thereby obtaining the nick-name of _Friar Pine_, and being much persecuted and laughed at, he strove to prevail on _Hogarth_ to give his Ghostly father another face. Indeed, when he sat to our artist, he did not know to what purpose his similitude would afterwards be applied. The original picture is in the possession of the Earl of _Charlemont_. Soon after it was finished, it fell down by accident, and a nail ran through the cross on the top of the gate. _Hogarth_ strove in vain to mend it with the same colour, so as to conceal the blemish. He therefore introduced a starved crow, looking down on the roast-beef, and thus completely covered the defect. The figure of the half-starved _French_ centinel has since been copied at the top of more than one of the printed advertisements for recruits, where it is opposed to the representation of a well-fed _British_ soldier. Thus the genius of _Hogarth_ still militates in the cause of his country. A copy of this print was likewise engraved at the top of a Cantata, intituled, _The Roast Beef of Old England_. As it is probable that the latter was published under the sanction of our artist, I shall, without scruple, transcribe it.