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
32. A living Dog is better than a dead Lion; or, the Vanity of Human
Glory: a design for the monument of General Wolfe, 1760.
33. The Five Muscovites. Copied from De la Mottraye's _Travels_.
A full-length print of a Savoyard Girl has been lately engraved from
a picture painted by Hogarth.
PRINTS PUBLISHED TO RIDICULE THE "ANALYSIS," "TIMES," ETC.
1. "A New _Dunciad_; done with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas
of taste," etc.
2. A Mountebank demonstrating to his admiring audience that
crookedness is most beautiful.
3. The Author run mad.
4. An Author sinking under the weight of his _Analysis_.
5. "The Analyst," etc. etc. "in his own Taste." A vile, nauseous, and
vulgar print.
6. Pugg's Graces, etched from his original daubing.
7. The Temple of Ephesus in Flames, etc.; inscribed "A self-conceited
Dauber," etc., and extremely well etched.
8. "Burlesque sur le Burlesque," with a French inscription: a large
print.
9. "The second edition," with an English inscription, and some slight
variations.
10. Burlesque of the Burlesque Paul; magic lantern, etc.
11. The Painter's March from Finchley. "Dedicated to the King of the
Gypsies, as an encourager of Art, etc."
12. The Butifyer, a touch upon the Times, Plate 1.
13. The Times, Plate 2.
14. The Times, Plate 1, 1762. Hogarth's head, with the body of an
ass, at the top of a ballad.
15. The Raree Show, a political contrast to the Times.
16. The Boot and the Blockhead.
17. The Vision, or M----n--st--l Monster.
18. John Bull's House in Flames.
19. The Bruiser Triumphant, with a curtain inscribed, "A Harlot
blubbering over a Bullock's Heart."
20. Tit for Tat.
21. The Bear and Pugg: a small print.
22. The Snarling Cur chastised.
23. The Hungry Tribe of Scribblers and Etchers.
24. The Grand Triumvirate, or Champions of Liberty; with three
foolish acrostics of Wilkes, Bute, and Hogarth.
I had nearly forgotten two curiosities, which, though received in all
the catalogues, and unquestionably genuine, can hardly be classed as
prints. One is entitled Hogarth's Cottage, engraved for Mr. Camfield,
a surgeon, on a breeches button the size of a half-crown, from
Hogarth's design, of which an etched copy by S. Ireland was published
March 1, 1786. The other, being impressions taken from nine quadrille
fish, was published in 1792, with the title of--
Pisces, one of the signs of the Zodiac.
To enter into the spirit of the last article, the reader must be
informed that Hogarth never played at cards; and that while his wife
and a party of friends were so employed, he occasionally took the
quadrille fish, and cut upon them scales, fins, heads, etc., so as
to give them some degree of character. Three of these little aquatic
curiosities which remained in the possession of Mrs. Lewis, she
presented to me, and I have ventured to insert them as
A TAIL-PIECE.
[Illustration]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Dedication, of which I have prefixed a fac-simile, was
written for that work.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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