----I went and paid a moccinigo For mending my silk stockings; by the way I cheapen'd sprats, and at _St. Mark's_ I urin'd. Faith, these are politic notes! * * * * * 1752. 1. _Paul_ before _Felix_, from the original painting in _Lincoln's-Inn Hall_, painted by _W. Hogarth._ "_There is much less Dignity in this, than Wit in the preceding._" Under the inscription to the first impressions of this plate is "Published _Feb._ 5, 1752. Engraved by _Luke Sullivan._" To the second state of it was added the quotation which, in p. 64, I have printed from Dr. _Joseph Warton's_ Essay on the Genius of _Pope_. It was covered with paper in the third impression, and entirely effaced in the fourth. 2. The same, "_as first designed, but the wife of_ Felix _was afterwards omitted, because St_. Paul's _hand was very improperly placed before her._" I have seen a copy of it, on which _Hogarth_ had written, "A print off the plate that was set aside as insufficient. Engraved by _W. H._" On the appearance of Dr. _Warton's_ criticism on this plate, _Hogarth_ caused the whole of it to be engraved under both this and the next mentioned print, without any comment. 3. _Moses_ brought to _Pharaoh's_ daughter, from a picture at _The Foundling Hospital. Engraved by W. Hogarth and Luke Sullivan._ In the early impressions from this plate (exclusive of its necessary and usual inscription) the words "Published _February_ 5, 1752, according to Act of Parliament," and "_W. Hogarth pinxit_," are found. In subsequent copies they are obliterated; and we have only "Published as the Act directs" in their room. These were left out, however, only to make room for the quotation from Dr. _Warton's_ book already mentioned.[1] [1] It should here be remarked, that the heads of several of the figures in the original, differ widely from those in the engraving. The daughter of the _Egyptian_ Monarch appears to more advantage in the print than on the canvas, for there she resembles a wanton under-actress, who, half-undrest, and waiting for her keeper, employs the interval of time in settling accounts with a washerwoman, who has her bastard at nurse, and has just brought him home to convince her that young _Curl-pated Hugh_ has no shoes to his feet. The colouring of this piece is beneath criticism. I have just been told the head of _Pharaoh's_ daughter was copied from one _Seaton_, a smock-faced youth of our artist's acquaintance: a proper model, no doubt, for an _Eastern_ Princess! _Hogarth_ could not, like _Guido_, draw a _Venus_ from a common porter. * * * * * 1753. 1. _Columbus_ breaking the egg. "_The subscription-ticket to his Analysis._" First payment 5 _s. Hogarth_ published this print as a sarcasm on those artists who had been inclined to laugh at his boasted line of beauty, as a discovery which every one might have made.