his mouth, the last whiff of smoke going out--a play-book opened, with _Exeunt omnes_ stamped in the corner--an empty purse--and a statute of bankruptcy taken out against Nature.--"So far, so good," cried _Hogarth_; "nothing remains but this,"--taking his pencil in a sort of prophetic fury, and dashing off the similitude of a _painter's pallet broken_--"_Finis_," exclaimed _Hogarth_, "_the deed is done--all is over._"--It is remarkable, that he died in about a month after this tail-piece. It is also well known he never again took the pencil in hand. 2. The Bench.[1] The same described under the year 1758; but with additions. The plate thus varied occurs in two states. In the first of these we have only "This plate could have been better explained, had the author lived a week longer." In the second impression of it we are told, that "The unfinished group of heads, in the upper part of this print, was added by the author in _October_ 1764; and was intended as a farther illustration of what is here said concerning _Character, Caracatura,_ and _Outrè_. He worked upon it a day before his death, which happened the 26th of that month." This plate exhibits the inside of the _Common Pleas_, with portraits of the following judges then belonging to that court: Hon. _Wm. Sir _Edw. Sir _John Hon. Mr. Justice Noel_. Clive_. Willes_, Ld. (now Earl) Ch. Justice. _Bathurst_. Mr. _Edwards's_ picture on this subject (see p. 367.) differs from both the plates. [1] A term peculiarly appropriated to the Court of _Common Pleas_. 3. Hell-Gate, Satan, Sin, and Death. _Milton's Paradise Lost._ Book II. A large print. Engraved by _C. Townley_, and intended to have been published _April_ 15, 1767. It was dedicated to the late Mr. _Garrick_, who possessed the original (unfinished) picture painted by _Hogarth_. The plate was destroyed, and only a few of the prints are now remaining. The original is in the possession of Mrs. _Garrick_. It is impossible to conclude my account of it without observing, that the united labours of _Teniers, Heemskirk,_ and _Callot,_ could not have furnished a more absolute burlesque of this noble subject, than _Hogarth_, who went seriously to work on it, has here produced. "How art thou fallen, O _Lucifer_, thou son of the Morning!" will be the exclamation of every observer, on seeing this unaccountable performance, in which _Satan_ and _Death_ have lost their terrors, and _Sin_ herself is divested of all the powers of temptation. * * * * * 1772. 1. The Good Samaritan; by _Ravenet_ and _Delatre_.