Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3)Ireland, John
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Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3)
Ireland, John
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
1. Two Prints for _Perseus and Andromeda_.
2. Gulliver presented to the Queen of Babilary; engraved by
Vandergucht. Frontispiece to Lockman's translation of _John
Gulliver's Travels_. A wretched design.
1731.
1. Frontispiece to Molière's _L'Avare_.
2. To _Le Cocu Imaginaire_; prefixed to Molière's Plays in French and
English.
3. Frontispiece to Fielding's _Tom Thumb_; engraved by Vandergucht.
Grotesque, and good.
4. Frontispiece to Mitchell's _Opera of the Highland Fair_; engraved
by Vandergucht.
1732.
1. Sarah Malcolm, executed March 7th, 1732, etc.; W. Hogarth (_ad
vivum_), _pinxit et sculpsit_.
2. An engraved copy of ditto.
3. Ditto mezzotinto.
4. Part graven and part mezzotinto.
5. Another copy, with the addition of a clergyman holding a ring.
6. A wooden cut in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for March 1733.
7. A small copy from a small whole length, in the possession of
Josiah Boydell, Esq.
The first, Hogarth _sculpsit_, is very scarce.
8. The Man of Taste. Pope with a tie-wig on.
9. The same in a smaller size; Pope in a cap. Prefixed to a pamphlet
entitled "_A Miscellany of Taste_, by Mr. Pope, etc." _Vide_ p. 201.
10. The same, in a still smaller size, coarsely engraved.
1733.
1. The Laughing Audience. Subscription-ticket to the Rake's Progress,
and Southwark Fair, which were originally delivered to subscribers at
a guinea and a half.
The receipt was afterwards cut off. Of this print there is a coarse
copy.
2. Southwark Fair. The show-cloth, representing the Stage Mutiny, is
copied from an etching by John Laguerre. The paint-pot and brushes,
which Hogarth has added to the figure with a cudgel in his hand, has
been said to allude to John Ellis the painter; is it not quite as
probable that it alludes to Jack Laguerre?
3. Judith and Holofernes. Engraved by Vandergucht. Frontispiece to
the Oratorio of Judith, by William Huggins, Esq.
4. Boys Peeping at Nature. Subscription-ticket to the Harlot's
Progress. The receipt was afterwards erased, and the following
receipt, very neatly engraved, supplied its place:
"Received ----, 1737, half a guinea, being the first payment for
five large prints--one representing a Strolling Company of Actresses
dressing themselves in a barn; and the other four--Morning, Noon,
Evening, and Night; which I promise to deliver on Lady-day next, on
receiving half a guinea more."
"_N.B._--They will be twenty-five shillings after the subscription is
over."
A modern copy of this receipt in aquatinta was published in 1781.
2. Another print on the same subject, with considerable variations,
designed as a receipt for Moses brought to Pharaoh's Daughter, and
St. Paul before Felix, for which he afterwards substituted the
burlesque Paul.
In one of Hogarth's MSS., introductory to his intended description
of his prints, I find the following notices of the pictures of the
Harlot's and Rake's Progresses:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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