1807.) 
is very engaging. This also is printed in 
colours; but, if the artist had transferred 
to the girl some of tliat safiness of eye 
and softness of colouring also, which. he 
has given to the boy, it would. have im- 
proved the appearance. We also think 
it would have been an improvement to > 
the eflect if he had given the figure in 
the open air, imstead ofa pannelled room, 
the lines of pronhhepas are formal and eialied 
gant. 
“tel Mocern Orpheus. VW. Hogarth del, 
‘etched & by D. Smith » from an original Sketch in 
the possession of the meee as of Bute. Pub- 
lished as the Act air ects, £y Marshall Stacey 
August 34, 1807. 
“Speedily willbe published, ineenibed 
to all iovers of Tweedl/edum Tweedlle, the 
art of playing on the People, or Memoirs 
‘of the: German Flute, HAre sin 28a with 
the character of Baroi Stee ang in which 
the effects of harmony will be shewn in 
instances of a more surprising nature 
than any repoited of Amplnon, Linus, 
Museus, or the most celebrated Flutists of 
antiquity.” 
¢¢ Music has charms to wheedle’ guineas 
forth: 
To draw, like loadstone, victuals, vee and 
clothes ; ; , 
Shirts, stockings, hats, ragiers, shoes, and 
boots. 
Tve heard that misers (griping sons of Mam- 
mon.) 
Have out of idol gold been oft cajoled 
By magic numbers and persuasive sounds.” 
Inthis strange print, Orpheus is seated 
in the centre, and a number of blackguard 
butchers, &c. &c, ave represented as pelt- 
ing him with guineas, The very curious 
inscription (which we have-copied). is 
printed on a separate picce of paper, and 
suspended to the print, Whether it is 
meant ta convey an allusion to any Lta- 
lian performer of that day, or has any 
other mystical meaning, we are not well 
enough read in the history of the minims, 
crotchets, and quavers of the time, to de- 
termine; neither can we pronounce any 
thing. respecting the origina! picture, 
from which the print 1s said to be copied, 
ha wing never seen or even heard of tt. be- 
Sore; neither is there any mentioniof it 
an Walpole’s, J, Nicholl’s, or J. freland’s 
accounts of Hegarth. It certainly doés 
hot carry any inter nal marks of tog arth’s 
eneil; the h win; our it there is any thing 
that can be so denominaged, is miserab ly 
coarse, and what is worse, it 15-10) iserably 
bald ; aud the lauds, which this a 
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artist invariably touched. with spirit and 
Judgement, have a feebleness and imdeci- 
sion, very unlike his usual style of drawe. 
“Ing. 
‘Soon after the'death of the celebrated 
Bishop of Salisbury, a book, entitled The 
Last Wordsof Bishop Bur nett, had a rapid 
and extensive ae: The consequence 
was, that in afew weeks there was ano- 
fhe publication, which was soon follows 
ed by a third, with the titles of More Last 
" Words of Bisnop Burnett. 
The fate of Hogarth. has been some- 
what similar, ‘With talents of a descrip- 
‘tion that in his peculiar walk have never 
equalled, bis works have forced them- 
selves into notice, and venerated a brood 
ot wretched apepetors, he have endea- 
voured to’ make his name a passport to 
miserable expedi- 
enthas heen attempted with different de- 
public. notice. This 
vrees of power, and attended with dif- 
‘ferent degress of success ar disgrace, and 
the history. of some of these precious pre- 
They are frequent- 
ly, indeed generally, so wretchedly con- 
ceived and-executed, that they are en- 
‘tirely neglected, -and none of the prints 
the copper on which the plate 
was ‘ensiaved is melted, and ajppropri- 
ated to more useful, though more ignoble 
purposes; the engraving “thns becomes @ 
scurce print, and obtains a place in the 
porte-folio of one of. those curious collec- 
~torsof Hogarth’s, who cannot distinguish 
between the artist and hisimitators (who, 
ductions is curicus. 
being sold, 
by the way; have generally about as much 
‘resemblance of hinvas a-monkey has to a 
man), and the collector has the pleasure 
of knowing that it woald be very difficult 
indeed to procure another impression 0. 
lis print. However, admitting that Ho- 
garth did not paimt this picture, we aro 
certain that im his time the musee mania 
was carried to a very high pitch, and ddo- 
garth has repeated!y ridiculed it. The 
presents which some of our nobles made 
to Farinelli, and other quaveriug exoties 
of the same description, would be hardly 
credible did we not see.a fever in a de- 
gree similar rage, at the present moment, 
Music, it must be acknowledged, aas lost 
much of 1s ancient power, It no longe 
moves stocks and stones, but 2 20ves the 
money out of the pockets of the public 
into that of the performers. This they 
have frequently carried to their novive 
place, where they modestly laugh at, 
and ridicule the people whe save ven- 
riched them. On one of them who 
sung im ee with Nicolini, 1 have 
somewhere. 
