A coloured sketch of a Family Picture, with ten whole-length figures, most insipidly employed. A Head of a Sleeping Child, in colours, as large as life, &c. &c. &c. When _Hogarth_ designed the print intituled _Morning_, his idea of an _Old Maid_ appears to have been adopted from one of that forlorn sisterhood, when emaciated by corroding appetites, or, to borrow _Dryden's_ more forcible language, by "agony of unaccomplished love." But there is in being, and perhaps in _Leicester-fields_, a second portrait by our artist, exhibiting the influence of the same misfortune on a more fleshy carcase. The ancient virgin[84] now treated of, is corpulent even to shapelessness. Her neck resembles a collar of brawn; and had her arms been admitted on the canvas, they must have rivalled in magnitude the thighs of the _Farnesian_ god. Her bosom, luckily for the spectator, is covered; as a display of it would have served only to provoke abhorrence. But what words can paint the excess of malice and vulgarity predominant in her visage!--an inflated hide that seems bursting with venom--a brow wrinkled by a _Sardonic_ grin that threatens all the vengeance an affronted Fury would rejoice to execute. Such ideas also of warmth does this mountain of quaggy flesh communicate, that, without hyperbole, one might swear she would parch the earth she trod on, thaw a frozen post-boy, or over-heat a glasshouse. "How dreadful," said a bystander, "would be this creature's hatred!" "How much more formidable," replied his companion, "would be her love!"--Such, however, was the skill of _Hogarth_, that he could impress similar indications of stale virginity on features directly contrasted, and force us to acknowledge one identical character in the brim-full and exhausted representative of involuntary female celibacy. Mr. _S. Ireland_ has likewise a sketch in chalk, on blue paper, of _Falstaff_ and his companions; two sketches intended for the "Happy Marriage;" a sketch for a picture to shew the pernicious effects of masquerading; sketch of King _George_ II. and the royal family; sketch of his present Majesty, taken hastily on seeing the new coinage of 1764; portrait of _Hogarth_ by himself, with a palette; of Justice _Welsh_;[85] of Sir _James Thornhill_; of Sir _Edward Walpole_;[86] of his friend _George Lambert_, the landscape-painter; of a boy; of a girl's head, in the character of _Diana_, finished according to _Hogarth's_ idea of beauty; of a black girl; and of Governor _Rogers_ and his family, a conversation-piece; eleven Sketches from Nature, designed for Mr. _Lambert_; four drawings of conversations at _Button's Coffee-house_; _Cymon_ and _Iphigenia_; two black chalk drawings (landscapes) given to Mr. _Kirby_ in 1762; three heads, slightly drawn with a pen by _Hogarth_, to exemplify his distinction between _Character_ and _Caricature_, done at the desire of Mr. _Townley_, whose son gave them to Dr. _Schomberg_; a landscape in oil: with several other sketches in oil.