The little drama by Mr. Garrick, in which this exquisite frontispiece first appeared, was thus prefaced: "The following interlude was prepared for the stage, merely with a view of assisting Mrs. Pritchard at her benefit; and the desire of serving so good an actress is a better excuse for its defects than the few days in which it was written and represented. Notwithstanding the favourable reception it has met with, the author would not have printed it, had not his friend Mr. Hogarth flattered him most agreeably, by thinking the farmer and his family not unworthy of a sketch of his pencil. To him, therefore, this trifle, which he has so much honoured, is inscribed, as a faint testimony of the sincere esteem which the writer bears him, both as a man and an artist." The original drawing was given to Mr. Garrick, and was in the possession of his widow during her life. The receipt for "The March to Finchley," which accompanies this plate, has been already described. [Illustration: INHABITANTS OF THE MOON.] [Illustration: _Rec'd._ _of_ _7^s 6^d being the whole_ _Payment for a Print Representing a March to Finchly in the Year 1746 which I promise to deliver when finished on sight hereof._ _N.B. Each Print will be half a Guinea after the Subscription is over._] [Illustration: A. _absolute Gravity._ B. Conatus _against absolute Gravity._ C. _partial Gravity._ D. _comparative Gravity._ E. _horizontal, or good sense._ F. _Wit._ G. _comparative Levity, or Coxcomb._ H. _partial Levity, or pert Fool._ I. _absolute Levity, or stark Fool._] TRISTRAM SHANDY. [Illustration: FRONTISPIECES TO TRISTRAM SHANDY.] For this popular work of his friend Lawrence Sterne, Hogarth furnished two frontispieces; one in 1759, for the second volume; the other in 1761, for the fourth. The first of these is taken from the chapter in which Corporal Trim is represented reading a sermon to Tristram's father, Uncle Toby, and Dr. Slop, the latter of whom is fallen asleep, and who was intended for Dr. John Burton, a physician of great eminence at York, well known as an able and industrious antiquary, and also as a sturdy Jacobite. The second frontispiece represents the christening, so humorously described in the fourteenth chapter of the fourth volume of _Tristram Shandy_. FOUR HEADS FROM THE CARTOONS. [Illustration: HEADS FROM RAFFAELLE'S CARTOONS.] These heads were copied from the cartoons at Hampton Court; and Mr. Walpole, speaking of Sir James Thornhill's attention to these celebrated pictures, has the following remark: "He made copious studies of the heads, hands, and feet, and intended to publish an exact account of the whole for the use of students; but his work never appeared." As this plate was found among others engraved by Hogarth, it might probably have been one of his early performances. His widow, in 1781, directed a few impressions to be taken from it; which were sold in Leicester Square. THE SHRIMP-GIRL.