snuff-box, designed and engraved by W. Hogarth." "Hogarth fecit. Reading sc." 1821. There are, however, two other impressions, both in the possession of J. Sheepshanks, Esq. But it is highly probable there are no others.

"Sir Francis Dashwood worshipping Venus." No letters. Well engraved by Platt, from the picture in the possession of the Diletanti Society.

"Garrick in the Green Room." "From the original of the same size (23 in. by 19) by Hogarth, in the possession of the publisher, J. W. Southgate. Painted by Hogarth. Engraved in mezzotinto by Wm. Ward, Jan. 1, 1829." This is from a carefully painted Picture, and is well engraved; but I cannot believe it to have been painted by Hogarth. It is not unlikely to be a French painting, with alterations adapted to the English market.

Seven Prints were in 1787 in the collection of J. C. Walker, Esq. of Dublin, with Hogarth's name attached to them. But as it is clear they are not by Hogarth, and that Mr. Walker must have either made some mistake or been taken in by Hogarth's name being written upon them, I shall only refer to the descriptions of these prints in Nichols, II. 315.

Mr. White, of Brownlow-street, Holborn, has engraved the following Plates, after designs said to be by Hogarth :

1. "Mrs. Butler, or Goldsmith's Hostess." 8vo. 5 in. wide by 6 high. Only 25 printed. Plate said to be destroyed. The painting is in possession of Mr. Graves.

2. "Marriage for Love." 8 in. by 6. No writing. From a drawing belonging to Mr. Willett.

3. "Study." A gentleman sitting in his library. 7 in. by 6. No writing.

4. "Four Loggerheads, or B-r Triumphant." From a sketch on the print of the Bruiser. 2 in. wide by 21.

5. "The Crying Child, in the Analysis of Beauty," surrounded by five Cherub heads, about 5 in. square. No writing. From a drawing in possession of Mr. Sheepshanks.

6. "Rake's Progress."-Scene different from the debauch plate. 8 in. wide by 7. No writing. From a drawing in possession of Mr. Willett.

7. "Chrononotonthologus." W. H. inv. A man standing on his hands, with a crown on his feet, and a lady, &c. 7 in. by 4. No writing.

8. "Tragedy and Comedy." Two plates. No writing. 8 in. wide by 14 high. There are also reduced copies of the above, 3 in. by 6.

Mr. Standly has the Court Cards of a Pack, with figures in nine of them, selected from Hogarth's plates. Engraved and sold by T. King, in St. Paul's Church-yard.

ILLUSTRATIVE PRINTS.

Hogarth's Tomb in Chiswick Church-yard, with his Epitaph, &c. was engraved by J. T. Smith, and published by N. Smith, Jan. 1795.

A smaller view of it, etched also by J. T. Smith, was published in 1817, in vol. III. of Nichols's Hogarth. It is also in Gent. Mag. Nov. 1822.

A Lithographic folio plate of Chiswick Church, Hogarth's Tomb, &c. was published by D. Walther, Bridges Street, Covent Garden, Aug. 1823.

Hogarth's Epitaph is printed in p. 146, and in p. 147 is an epitaph suggested by Dr. Johnson; but another version of the Doctor's epitaph occurs in the following letter to Garrick, lately published in the Garrick Correspondence: Streatham, Dec. 12, 1771.

"Dear Sir,

I have thought of your Epitaph, but without much effect: an epitaph is no easy task.

Of your three stanzas, the third is utterly unworthy of you: the first and third give no discriminative character; if the fifth alone were to stand, Hogarth would not be distinguished from any man of intellectual eminence. Suppose you settled upon something like this:

The Hand of Art here torpid lies,

That wav'd the' essential form of grace;
Here Death has clos'd the curious eyes,
That saw the manners in the face.

If Genius warm thee, Reader, stay;

If Merit touch thee, drop a tear;

Be vice and gladness far away—

Great Hogarth's honour'd dust is here.

In your second stanza, "pictur'd morals" is a beautiful expression which I would wish to remain, but

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and * cannot stand for rhymes; art and nature have been together so often. In the first stanza is "feeling;" in the second, "feel." "Feeling," for tenderness or sensibility, is a word surely colloquial, of late introduction, not yet sure enough of its own existence to claim a place upon a stone. "If you hast neither" is quite prose; and prose of the most familiar kind. Thus easy is it to find faults, but hard to make an Epitaph. When you have revised it, let me see it again. You are welcome to any help I can give or [borrow]. Make my compliments to Mrs. Garrick. I am, dear Sir, your most, &c.

SAM. JOHNSON."

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ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS

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HOGARTH'S PRINTS.

P. 37, 1. 1, for Basson, read Bassan.

P. 60-67. Since these pages were printed, which are copied from Vol. III. of "Hogarth Illustrated," by J. Ireland, I have had an opportunity of ascertaining that the remarks by Hogarth on his various prints were most incorrectly copied from the original MS. which is now in the possession of H. P. Standly, esq. Ireland has in many places altered the wording, and has inserted passages in some of them which are not in the original MS, particularly in the remarks on the "Gate of Calais," p. 63. Ireland says, “it was not thought necessary to send me back to Paris; I was only closely confined to my own lodgings till the wind changed for England." The word Paris is not even mentioned; so that J. Ireland's note, "this proves he had reached Paris," goes for nothing. The five first words, "After the March to Finchley," are not in the original MS.

P. 66. The best account of "Character," or rather the genuine one, is at the back of an impression of the print of "The Bench," in Hogarth's own handwriting, sold at Baker's sale, and bought by Mr. Holford, of Lincoln's-inn-fields. It differs from what Ireland has here given as Hogarth's

words.

P. 62. Industry and Idleness. It is Ireland who has added, "I have found them sell more rapidly at Christmas than at any other season."

P. 64, line 18. The word "Porter" in "Beer Street," is Ireland's, and not Hogarth's.

P. 160. Rape of the Lock. — S. Ireland copied the Rape of the Lock in a large 4to plate, with the following dedication: "To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. These Etchings, from original Prints and Drawings of Hogarth (never before made public) in the collection of Sam. Ireland, are with permission dedicated to His Highness (an admirer of our artist), with all due respect, by His Royal Highness's very much obliged and devoted servant, Sam. Ireland. As a proof of the high estimation in which the name of that original genius, Hogarth, is now held, an etching is here traced from an engraving of his on the lid of a snuff box, an impression of which sold at Mr. Gulston's sale of Prints, Feb. 7, 1786, for 331. The subject is from Pope's "Rape of the Lock." London: re-published March 1, 1786, by W. Dickinson, 158, New Bond Street."

Second state. Altered to a dedication "To the Admirers of Hogarth," March 1, 1786.

Mr. S. Ireland also inserted the copy of the Rape of the Lock in vol. I. of his "Graphic Illustrations."

The original print, formerly Mr. Gulston's, is now in the Strawberry Hill collection.

P. 160. Hogarth's Card.-This card and Angel shop bill sold in Gulston's sale, 1786, for 11. 15s. The card sold in S. Ireland's sale, 1797, for 21. 12s. 6d.; and in Baker's sale, 1825, for 18l. 7s. 6d.

P. 160. South Sea.-Second state. With "S. Simpson." Third, with "John Bowles, at Black Horse, &c. price one shilling." Fourth," John Bowles, 13, Cornhill.” Fifth, without any publisher's name or price.

P. 161. Lottery-First state, "Sold by Mrs. Chilcot." Second, "Chilcot and Caldwell." Third, "Sympson." Fourth, "Bowles, at Black Horse." Fifth, "Bowles, Cornhill." Sixth, without publisher's name.

In sale at Sotheby's, March 1, 1826, "Lottery" first state, and three other copies, with "Who'll Ride," bought by Colnaghi for 71. 2s. 6d. In sale of duplicates, 1826, "Lottery," first state, bought by Mr. Walker for 1l. 1s. P. 162. Mottraye's Travels, line 17, read Argentea not Argentea; line 20, Ferrea Dammonensis, not Terrea Donmorensis.

Omitted. A Lapland Hut with Rein Deer: this has Hogarth's name to it. P. 162. Five Muscovites.-They are not Muscovites: g. is a Circassian, with two young Circassian maidens e. and f. which he is offering to sell to the