...hurtful to their trade of continually importing ship loads " of dead Chrisls, holy families, Madcnas, and other dismal " dark subjects, neither entertaining...which they scrawl the terrible cramp names of some Ila" turn masters, and fix on us poor Englishmen the character " of universal dupes. If a man, naturally...

...There is another set of gentry, more noxious to the art than these, and those are your picture jobbers from abroad, who are always ready to raise a great...dupes. \ If a man, naturally a judge of painting, not bigotted to those empyrics, should cast his eye on one of their sham virtuoso i pieces, he would be...

...jobbers from abroad," who imported continually "ship-loads of dead Christs, Holy Families, Madonnas, and other dismal, dark subjects, neither entertaining...terrible cramp names of some Italian masters, and fix upon us Englishmen the name of universal dupes." He imagines a scene between one of those oldmaster...

...jobbers from abroad," who imported continually "ship-loads of dead Christs, Holy Families, Madonnas, and other dismal, dark subjects, neither entertaining...terrible cramp names of some Italian masters, and fix upon us Englishmen the name of universal dupes." lie imagines a scene between one of those old-master...

...hurtful to their trade, of continually importing shiploads of dead Christs, Holy Families, Madona's, and other dismal dark subjects, neither entertaining...man, naturally a judge of Painting, not bigoted to those empirics, should cast his eye on one of their sham virtuoso-pieces, he would be very apt to say,...

...hurtful to their trade, of continually importing ship-loads of dead Christs, Holy Families, Madonnas, and other dismal dark subjects, neither entertaining...masters, and fix on us poor Englishmen the character of univer*al dvpes. If a man, naturally a judge of Painting, not bigoted to those empirics, should cast...

...to their trade, of continually importing ship-loads of dead Christs, Holy Families, Madona's \sic~], and other dismal dark subjects, neither entertaining...ornamental ; on which they scrawl the terrible cramp 1 The authority for attributing this letter to Hogarth is the "London Magazine," which, reprinting...

...gentry," he writes to the "St. James's Evening Post" in 1737, " more noxious to the art than these. . . . It is their interest to depreciate every English work,...empirics, should cast his eye on one of their sham virtuoso pieces, he would be apt to say, ' Mr. Bubbleman, that grand Venus (as you are pleased to call...

...of the living as well as tion of foreign pictures."—(Hoof the dead?" Goldsmith also garth's note.) dark subjects, neither entertaining nor ornamental...man, naturally a judge of Painting, not bigoted to those empirics, should cast his eye on one of their sham virtuoso-pieces, he would be very apt to say,'...

...to their trade, of continually importing shiploads of dead Christs, Holy Families, Madona's [sic], and other dismal dark subjects, neither entertaining...Englishmen the character of universal dupes. If a Church " (" Works," by Scott, 1824, viii. pp. 17-27). It begins : " I have chosen these words [ie,...