Key Plate to ditto. PERFORMERS.-Macheath, Mr. Walker; Lockitt, Mr. Hall; Peachum, Mr. Hippisley; Lucy, Mrs. Egleton; Polly, Miss Fenton, afterwards Duchess of Bolton. AUDIENCE.-Duke of Bolton; Major Paunceford; Sir Robert Fagg; Mr. Rich, the manager, Mr. Cock, the auctioneer: Mr. Gay; Lady Jane Cook; Anthony Henley, Esq.; Lord Gage; Sir Conyers D'Arcy; Sir Thos. Robinson, 1730. [N.] Frontispiece to "Perseus and Andromeda." Perseus, and Medusa dead, and Pegasus. W. Hogarth fec. [N.] Another print of the same, "Perseus descending." [N.] "Gulliver presented to the Queen of Babilary. W. Hogarth inv.; Ger. Vandergucht sculp." Frontispiece to Lockman's translation from the French of John Gulliver's Travels. 1731. A Frontispiece to "Moliere's L'Avare." A copy of the original drawing of the Miser appeared in Sam, Ireland's "Graphic Illustrations," vol. II. p. 76. Frontispiece to his "Le Cocû Imaginaire." These two Plates were parts of the embellishments to the Plays of Moliere, in French and English, 8 vols. Frontispiece to Fielding's "Tom Thumb." "W. Hogarth inv.; Ger. Vandergucht sculp." 66 Grotesque and good." J. IRELand. Frontispiece to Joseph Mitchell's opera of "The Highland Fair, or the Union of the Clans." "W. Hogarth inv.; Ger. Vandergucht sculp." [B.] "The Indian Emperor; or the Conquest of Mexico." Painted in 1731. Engraved by Dodd in 1792, from the original picture in the collection of Lord Holland. The Key Plate to the above, 1732. PERFORMERS.-Cortez, Lord Lempster; Cydaria, Lady Caroline Lenox; Almeria, Lady Sophia Fermor; Alibech, Miss Conduit, afterwards Lady Lymington. AUDIENCE.-Duke of Cumberland, Princess Mary, Princess Louisa, Lady Deloraine, her daughters, Duchess of Richmond, Duke of Richmond, Earl of Pomfret, Duke of Montague, Tom Hill (or, it has been said, Captain Poyntz), Dr. Desaguliers, bust of Sir Isaac Newton. 1732. [B. & N.] "The Man of Taste." The Gate of Burlington House. Pope with a tie wig on. "This design presents a view of Burlington-gate. On the front, as a crooked compliment to the noble proprietor, Hogarth has inscribed the word TASTE, and as a standing proof of the Projector being entitled to the appellation, placed a statue of his grand favourite William Kent, triumphantly brandishing his palette and pencils on the summit, with two reclining figures, representing Raphael and Michael Angelo, for his supporters. Standing on a scaffold board beneath them, Mr. Pope, in the character of a plasterer, is white-washing the front, and whirling his brush with a spirit that produces a shower of liquid pearl, which dismays and defiles the passengers beneath; the principal of these, intended for the Duke of Chandos, holds his hat over his head to shelter himself in his retreat. The torrent is not confined to his Grace's person, but lavishly scattered over his carriage and attendants, among whom is a Blackamoor in the way of being whitewashed. The clergyman, whom I believe intended for the Duke's chaplain, A.Pope a plasterer whitewashing & bespattering B. any body that comes in his way. C. Not a Dukes Coach as appears by the crescent at one corner. D.Taste. is escaping round the carriage.-An old military character, who as well as the chaplain is got out of the poet's vortex, is rubbing off the stains which he has previously contracted.-Climbing a ladder reared against the scaffold, we have Lord Burlington, doing the office of a labourer, and arrayed in a tie-wig, with a pair of compasses suspended to the riband of his order, and carrying to his little active workman a hand-hawk, on which is a portion of what I am told the bricklayers call fine stuff, to mix up more whitening for beautifying the front of his own gate, and defiling the garments of every passenger. This it must be acknowledged our poetical plasterer performs with distinguished dexterity: he at the same time covers the corrosions on the front, dashes a plenteous shower on those that come near it, and so kicks the bottom of a pail which hangs to his short ladder, that a copious stream flows on the head of a gentleman beneath. This double distribution of flattery and satire is amply exemplified in the epistle to Lord Burlington; where the poet, by contrasting the feeble and imperfect efforts of those he abuses, with the superior and superlative genius of the peer, elevates the powers of his own patron, and sinks those of all his competitors." J. IRELAND. The same, Pope in a cap. Prefixed to "A Miscellany of Taste, by Mr. Pope," &c. The same, still smaller size, coarsely engraved. [B. & N.] "Sarah Malcolm;" executed March 7, 1732-3. "W. Hogarth (ad Vivum) pinxit et sculpsit." An engraved copy. "W. Hogarth ad vivum pinxit." Another, part graven and part mezzotinto. Another copy, by T. Cook. Another сору, with the addition of a clergyman hold N |