I have just been assured by a gentleman of undoubted veracity, that he was once possessed of a set of plates engraved by _Hogarth_ for some treatise on mathematicks; but, considering them of little value, disposed of them at the price of the copper. As our artist could have displayed no marks of genius in representations of cycloids, diagrams, and equilateral triangles, the loss of these plates is not heavily to be lamented. [1] Mr. _Walpole_ enumerates only 12 plates. * * * * * 1724. 1. Seven small prints to "The New Metamorphosis of _Lucius Apuleius_ of _Medaura. London_, printed for _Sam. Briscoe_, 1724." 12mo. 2 vol. I. Frontispiece. II. Festivals of Gallantry, which the noblemen of _Rome_ make in the churches for the entertainment of their mistresses. III. The banditti's bringing home a beautiful virgin, called _Camilla_, from her mother's arms, the night before she was to have been married. Vol. I. p. 113. No name to this plate. IV. _Fantasio's_ arrival at the house of an old witch, who is afterwards changed into a beautiful young lady. V. The provincial of the Jesuits' recovery of his favourite dog from the cooper's wife. VI. _Psyche's_ admission of her unknown husband in the dark, who always departed before the return of light. VII. Cardinal _Ottoboni_ and his niece's visit to an Hermitage in the holy desart, called _Camaldule_; the Cardinal's discourse against solitude to the hermit, who had not been out of his cell, nor spoke a word, for forty years together. Plate IV. is the only one that has the least trait of character in it.