HOGARTH. 



pretty, but her features were uneducated. She might 

 have' attracted notice as a chambermaid, bat would 

 have failed to extort applause as a woman of rash ion. 

 The parson and his culinary associates were more la- 

 boured than any other parts of the picture. The pain- 

 ter sat down with a resolution to delineate beauty im- 

 proved by art, but seems, m usual, to have deviated into 

 , or could not help neglecting his original pur- 

 i to luxuriate m more congenial ideas. He found 

 , in short, oat of his dement in the parlour, and 

 e hastened in quest of ease and amusement to 

 ;.'n- kitrhrn f ; .-r. 



Soon after the peace of Aix-la-C hanelle, he went over 

 to France, end was taken into custody while he was 

 drawing the gate of that town ; a circumstance which 

 he ha* reemded in bis picture, entitled, O tke Roatt 

 Serf of (JU -0*s*4 published 1749- He was ac- 

 tually carried before the governor as a spy ; and after 

 a very strict examination, committed a prisoner to 

 Grsndsire bis landlord, on bis promising that Hogarth 

 should not go out of the boose nil he was to embark 

 (br England. Previous to this commitment, be had be- 

 bared with a (tardiness and saoctness which be thought 

 > an Efigfebman, bat which betray the extreme 

 of his num. In the streets be was often 

 . rude. A tattered bag, or a pair of silk 

 locking* with holes in them, drew a torrent of iin].r,i- 

 dent tannage from him, and which there w< 

 and Irish emigrants on the spot who CM 

 to the French. But his 



by whet happened when be WM drawing the g* f 

 Calais; far though the iimmissui of 



perfectly 



which were by'no i 

 > of an engineer, be was 



, . , . 

 srtsmtiyaigiicd. he should have been obliged to have 



il'in;; hi in up uriM'-iii.iti I y on the r.un| - ir* - I \* i > 



CVeVQi wciv tiien provKMil to cnurty him on if up* 

 board ; nor did they quit him till he was three miles 

 from the shorn They then spun him round like a top 

 OB the deck, and told him he wa* at liberty to proceed 

 yaeje without ft 



Thr 



to be offensive! to < 



In 1733, be appeared m the character of an author, 

 and published quarto volume, entitled, Tke At 

 mf ffaeacjr. written with a view of fixing UK 

 idea* of taste. His intention wa* to shew n\ 

 is the line of beauty, and the* round swdli 

 are most plssem*. to the ere. He received 



in thia work fro. Dr 

 and the Bev. Mr Townley corrected the preface. The 

 tamOy of Heewrth r~d when the k-TshoK of hi. 

 Analysis wa* printed off. aa the frequent disnrtn he 

 had with his coadjutors in th* course of the work, did 

 not much hamuuni Us itimiiitinu. If beauty really 



kind of lines, there were 

 ver them than Hogarth, 

 but the refutation of an 

 now mnutmmt. 



About 1737. his brother-in-law. Mr Thomhill, re- 

 sigiiedtheplaceof JUng'sssmant painter, in favon of 

 Hogarth, who soon after made an experiment in paint- 



confusion. The collection 

 waa sold ia 1756, by pub- 



did cawist in any particular 

 few painters lea. likely to dis 

 and be wa* no Mtaphvsicun ; 

 theory would be no 



lie auction ; and the celebrated painting of Sigisminula, Hogarth. 

 said to be the work of Corregio, (Mr \Valpple thought ^ "V* 1 * 

 that it was by Furino.) excited his emulation. From 

 a contempt of the ignorant virtuosi of the age, many of 

 whom he had seen bubbled by vile copies, as well ns 

 from having never studied the great Italian masters, lu- 

 persuaded himself that the praises bestowed on their 

 glorious works were only the effects of prejudice. He 

 went farther, he determined to rival the ancients, and 

 unfortunately chose the subject we have mentioned. 

 - gisraunda is described by \Valnole as the repre- 

 sentation of a maudlin strumpet, just turned out of 

 keeping, and with eyes ret! with rage and usquebaugh. 

 Her fingers blood red by her lover's heart, ( the blood 

 wa* afterwards expunged from her fingers,) that lay 

 before her like that of a sheep for dinner. None of the 

 sober grief; no dignity of suppressed anguish ; no 

 settled meditation of the fate she meant to meet ; no 

 amorous warmth turned holy by despair ; in short, nil 

 was wanting that should have been there ; all was 

 there that such a story would have banished from 

 a mind capable of conceiving such complicated woe, 

 woe so sternly frit, and yet so tenderly. Hogarth's 

 performance was more ridiculous than any thing he 

 had ever ridiculed. He *rt the price of 400 on it. 

 and bad it returned on his hands by the person for 

 whom it wa* painted. This unfortunate picture, which 

 was the source' of so much vexation to Hogarth, at 

 kmst made versifier of li "Idressed an epistle 



to a friend, occasioned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (now 

 Lord,) returning the picture on the artist'* bend*. The 

 verse* an splenetic and conceited, without a particle 

 Oi wit or nuiTiour. 



The last memorable event in hi* life, was his quarrel 

 with Mr WUke*. His connection with the Court pro. 

 bably induced him to quit the line of party neutrality 

 he had hitherto observed, and to engage against 

 .le< and his friend* in a print, September 1763, 

 entrtletl Tkt Ttmrt. He wa* attacked m return, in a 

 number of the \orth Briton, which produced his cari- 

 cature of Wilke*. At an early penod of In- career, 

 Hogarth had ventured to assail Pope himself in the 

 blase of hi* poetical reputation,* and from hi* exaspe. 

 ration be escaped, either by hi* obscurity, or by the 

 prudence of the port. But he was now destined to feel 

 the lash of a writer, inferior indeed in fame, bat equal 

 in the talents of vituperation. Churchill avenged thr 

 caricature of bis natron Wilke*. by his EpuiU to Ho. 

 gmrih. not, indeed, the brightest of bis works, and in 

 which the severest of bis strokes fell upon hi* age. 

 Hogarth retaliated by caricaturing Churchill under the 

 form of a canonical bear, with a dub end a pot of por- 

 ter. Never, as Walpole truly remarks, did two angry 

 mm, of their abuities, throw mud with less dexterity. 



It deserves to be noticed, that, amidst the bitterest 

 invectives on Hogarth, hi* enemy, Churchill, conceded 

 sVgris of merit to him with which his warmest ad- 

 mirer* may be contented, and a description of his ge- 

 nius to which they would find it difficult to add a ms- 



U-ri.il 



In walks of humour, in thai ea*t of styla, 



Whkb. probing to the quick, j makes us imilt j 



In roBMdj. hi. nituri! rod lo fern*. 



Nor tot me rail II by s meaner name, 



VS her, . ha1slaa;. middk. nd an end. 



An aptly join'ds where pens on parts depend. 



In piat*. ewuikd. 7I ,V ^ 



tW 

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