t A N EXPLANATION OF SEVERAL OF Mr. HOGARTH's PRINTS. "While England lives, his fame can never die." "Hogarth unrival'd ftands, and shall engage GARRICK. CHURCHILL. "It was character, the paffions, the foul, that his genius AND SOLD BY J. WALTER, CHARING-CROSS. M DCC LXXXV. T is not the intention of the writer of this trifling work, to trespass on any one performance on the fubject of Hogarth. He defigns it merely as an addition, or fupplement, to the other publications. It points out fome minutiæ, which, added to the explanatory remarks of Mr. Walpole, Mr. Nichols, Mr. Gilpin, and Dr. Trufler, will form a full and complete explanation of the most confiderable of Mr. Hogarth's prints. The excellent pamphlet of Rouquet is transfused by an indifferent tranflation into Dr. Trufler's book. Some few of the prints are treated more fully in the following little work; which is liable, however, to mary objections, from the writer not being in poffeffion a 2 iv PREFACE. feffion of any other fet than that published by the widow of Mr. Hogarth (except indeed a few first impreffions); of course fome remarks in the enfuing pages may not apply to the old impreffions: fo true is the obfervation of Mr. Nichols, that "the "collector who contents himself with the later im"preffions of his works, will not confult our artist's "reputation." |