[2] The thrusting an arrow up the fundament of a dog, is not an idea of _English_ growth. No man ever beheld the same act of cruelty practised on any animal in _London. Hogarth_, however, met with this circumstance in _Callot's Temptation of St. Antony_, and transplanted it, without the least propriety, into its present situation. [3] In the last of these plates, "how delicate and superior," as Mr. _Walpole_ observes, "is _Hogarth's_ satire, when he intimates, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons that preside at a dissection, how the legal habitude of viewing shocking scenes hardens the human mind, and renders it unfeeling. The president maintains the dignity of insensibility over an executed corpse, and considers it but as the object of a lecture. In the print of the Sleeping Judges, this habitual indifference only excites our laughter." To render his spectacle, however, more shocking, our artist has perhaps deviated from nature, against whose laws he so rarely offends. He has impressed marks of agony on the face of the criminal under dissection; whereas it is well known, that, the most violent death once past, the tumult of the features subsides for ever. But, in _Hogarth's_ print, the wretch who has been executed, seems to feel the subsequent operation. Of this plate Mr. _S. Ireland_ has the original drawing. 3. Boys peeping at Nature, with Variations. Receipt for _Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter_, and St. _Paul before Felix_. The burlesque _Paul_, &c. being the current receipt for these two prints, I know not why our artist should have altered and vamped up his _Boys peeping at Nature_ (see p. 188.) for the same purpose. This plate was lately found at Mrs. _Hogarth's_, but no former impressions from it appear to have been circulated. It might have been a first thought, before the idea of its ludicrous successor occurred. _Hogarth_, however, with propriety, effaced all the wit in his original design, before he meant to offer it as a prologue to his uninteresting serious productions.