_Sterne_ probably was indebted for these plates (especially the first of them) to the following compliment he had paid our author in the first volume of _Tristram Shandy_. "Such were the outlines of Dr. _Slop's_ figure, which, if you have read _Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty_, and, if you have not, I wish you would, you must know, may as certainly be caracatured, and conveyed to the mind by three strokes as three hundred." 2. Frontispiece to _Brook Taylor's_ Perspective of Architecture.[1] With an attempt at a new order. _W. Hogarth, July_ 1760. _W. Woollet sculp._ Lest any reader should suppose that this idea of forming a new capital out of the Star of St. _George_, the Prince of _Wales's_ Feather,[2] and a regal Coronet, was hatched in the mind of _Hogarth_ after he had been appointed Serjeant Painter, the following passage in the _Analysis_ will prove that many years before he had conceived the practicability of such an attempt: see p. 40. "I am thoroughly convinced in myself, however it may startle some, that a completely new and harmonious order of architecture in all its parts might be produced, &c." Again, p. 46. "Even a capital, composed of the aukward and confined forms of hats and perriwigs, as Fig. 48. Plate I. in a skilful hand might be made to have some beauty." Mr. _S. Ireland_ has the original sketch. [1] Published in two volumes, folio, 1761, by _Joshua Kirby_, Designer in Perspective to his Majesty.--"Here is a curious frontispiece, designed by Mr. _Hogarth_; but not in the same ludicrous style as the former (see p. 333): it were to be wished that he had explained its meaning; for, being symbolical, the meaning of it is not so obvious as the other. To me it conveys the idea, which _Milton_ so poetically describes, of the angel _Uriel_ gliding down to Paradise on a sun-beam; but the young gentleman has dropped off before he had arrived at his journey's end, with _Palladio's_ book of architecture on his knees. A ray of light from the sun, rising over a distant mountain, is directed to a scroll on the ground, on which are two or three scraps of perspective; over which, supported by a large block of stone, is the upper part of a sceptre, broke off; the shaft very obliquely and absurdly inclined, somewhat resembling the _Roman_ fasces, and girt above with the Prince of _Wales's_ coronet, as an astragal, through which the fasces rise, and swell into a crown, adorned with embroidered stars; this is the principal object, but most vilely drawn. The ray passes through a round temple, at a considerable distance, which is also falsly represented, the curves being for the distance too round, and consequently the diminution of the columns is too great. It appears to pass over a piece of water; on this side the ground is fertile and luxuriant with vegetation, abounding with trees and shrubs; on the other side it is rocky and barren.[A] What is indicated by this seems to be, that, where the arts are encouraged by the rays of royal favour,