Mr. Charles Grignion (whose professional talents have for more than half a century been an honour to the arts) informed me that Hogarth etched the head and hand, but finding the head too large, he erased it and etched it a second time, when seeing it wrong placed upon the shoulders, he again rubbed it out, and replaced it as it now stands, remarking--"I never was right until I had been wrong." 3. Subscription-ticket to the March to Finchley, which was originally published at 7s. 6d. Among a stand of various weapons, bagpipes, etc., the artist has introduced a pair of scissors cutting out the Arms of Scotland. 1747. 1. The Stage Coach, or Country Inn Yard. In the very earliest impressions, a flag behind the wheel of the coach is without an inscription. In the second, "No Old Baby;" which words, in the present state of the plate, are done away, and the flag obliterated. 2. Industry and Idleness, in twelve plates, designed and engraved by Wm. Hogarth. Plate 1. In the very early impressions, Plate 1 is not inserted. _Second state_--Shadows strengthened. Plate 2. _Second state_--Shadows on the organ, etc. deeper. Plate 3. _Second state_--Lines stronger. Plate 4. _Second state_--Lines strengthened. The cat in this print is vilely drawn. Plate 5. Tender lines in the offing worn out, broader lines in the faces. Lavater has introduced a small outline of this print in his _Essays on Physiognomy_. Plate 6. _First state_--Goodchild and West, instead of West and Goodchild, to which the sign was afterwards altered. Plate 7. _Second state_--Darker shadows behind the broken cup, and bottles on the chimney-piece, etc. Plate 8. _Second state_--Shadows strengthened. The head of the fat Citizen in a tie-wig has been copied in a larger size by Bartolozzi. The scene is laid in Fishmonger's Hall, where the effigies of Sir William Walworth still remain, with the following quaint and memorable inscription beneath:-- "Brave Walworth, knight, Lord Maior, that slew Rebellious Tyler in his alarms; The king therefore did give in lieu, The dagger to the city arms." Plate 9. _Second state_--Character of the woman taking a bribe altered; the whole print more black. Plate 10. _Second state_--Shadows heightened. Plate 11. _Second state_--Shadows in the parson's face, pigeon, etc., stronger. Plate 12. _Second state_--Coachman's coat darker, and a stripe of lace down the arm obliterated. The mass of figures that surround the coach made much darker. In the original they come too forward, but the characters are now hurt by the intersecting lines. Of these twelve plates there are tolerably correct copies of the same size. The following memoranda relative to this series, which I found among Hogarth's papers, seems addressed to some one whom he intended to continue Rouquet's descriptions:--