[9] This _A. R._ was _Allan Ramsay_, but having never met with his performance, I can give no account of it. * * * * * 1756. 1. _France_ and _England_, two plates; both etched by himself. Under them are the following verses, by Mr. _Garrick_: PLATE I. FRANCE. With lanthern jaws, and croaking gut, See how the half-starv'd _Frenchmen_ strut, And call us _English_ dogs! But soon we'll teach these bragging foes, That beef and beer give heavier blows Than soup and roasted frogs. The priests, inflam'd with righteous hopes, Prepare their axes, wheels, and ropes, To bend the stiff-neck'd sinner; But, should they sink in coming over, _Old Nick_ may fish 'twixt _France_ and _Dover_, And catch a glorious dinner. PLATE II. ENGLAND. See _John_ the Soldier, _Jack_ the Tar, With sword and pistol arm'd for war, Should Mounseer dare come here! The hungry slaves have smelt our food, They long to taste our flesh and blood, Old _England's_ beef and beer! _Britons_, to arms! and let 'em come, Be you but _Britons_ still, Strike home, And lion-like attack 'em; No power can stand the deadly stroke That's given from hands and hearts of oak, With Liberty to back 'em. 2. The Search Night, a copy. _J. Fielding sculp._ 21_st March_, 1756.[1] "_A very bad print, and I believe an imposition_." On this plate are sixteen stupid verses, not worth transcribing. It was afterwards copied again in two different sizes in miniature, and printed off on cards, by _Darly_, in 1766. The original, in a small oval, was an impression taken from the top of a silver tobacco-box; engraved by _Hogarth_ for one Captain _Johnson_, and never meant for publication. [1] There is also a copy of this print, engraved likewise by _Fielding_, and dated _August_ 11, 1746. * * * * * 1758. 1. His own portrait,[1] sitting, and painting the Muse of Comedy; Head profile, in a cap. The Analysis of Beauty on the floor. _W. Hogarth, serjeant-painter to his Majesty._ The face engraved by _W. Hogarth_. I should observe, that when this plate was left with the person employed to furnish the inscription, he, taking the whole for the production of our artist, wrote "Engraved by _W. Hogarth_" under it. _Hogarth_, being conscious that the face only had been touched by himself, added, with his own hand, "_The Face_" Engraved, &c. In the second impression "The Face Engraved by _W. Hogarth_" is totally omitted. In the third impression "Serjeant-painter, &c." is scratched over by the burin, but remains still sufficiently legible. The fourth impression has "_the face retouched, but not so like as the preceding.[2] Comedy also has the face and mask marked with black,[3] and inscribed,_ COMEDY, 1764. _No other inscription but his name,_ William Hogarth, 1764."