1761.
1. Frontispiece and tail-piece to the catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens. W. Hogarth inv. C. Grignion sculp. There is a variation of this print; a Latin motto under each in the second edition. In the earliest impressions obit, corrected afterwards to obiit. The same mark of ignorance, however, remains unamended over the monument of the Judge in the first plate of the Analysis.
2. Time blackening a picture. Subscription-ticket for his Sigismunda. "This, and the preceding tail-piece, are satires on Connoisseurs."
3. The Five Orders of Perriwigs at the Coronation of George III.[1] Many of the heads, as well as wigs, were known at the time. The first head of the second row was designed to represent Lord Melcombe; and those of Bishops Warburton, Mawson, and Squire, are found in the groupe. The advertisement annexed, as well as the whole print, is said to have been a ridicule on Mr. Stewart's Antiquities of Athens, in which, with minute accuracy, are given the measurements of all the members of the Greek Architecture. The inscription under the print affords a plentiful crop of false spellings—volumns—advertisment—baso—&c. The second e in advertisement was afterwards added on the neck of the female figure just over it. The first and subsequent impressions will be known by this distinction.
[1] A Dissertation on Mr. Hogarth's print of the Order of Perriwigs, viz. the Episcopal, Aldermanic, and Lexonic, is printed in The Beauties of all the Magazines, 1761, p. 52.
4. Frontispiece to the Farmer's Return from London, an Interlude by Mr. Garrick,[1] acted at Drury Lane. W. Hogarth delin. J. Basire sculp. In Mr. Foster's collection is a bad copy of this plate, no name, the figures reversed. The original drawing was given to Mr. Garrick, and is supposed to be in the possession of his widow at Hampton. Mr. S. Ireland has a sketch of it. An excellent copy of this plate is sometimes sold as the original.
[1] Mr. Garrick' publication was thus prefaced: "The following interlude was prepared for the stage, merely with a view of assisting Mrs. Pritchard at her benefit; and the desire of serving so good an actress is a better excuse for its defects, than the few days in which it was written and represented. Notwithstanding the favourable reception it has met with, the author would not have printed it, had not his friend, Mr. Hogarth, flattered him most agreeably, by thinking the Farmer and his Family not unworthy of a sketch of his pencil. To him, therefore, this trifle, which he has so much honoured, is inscribed, as a faint testimony of the sincere esteem which the writer bears him, both as a man and an artist."
5. Another frontispiece to Tristram Shandy (for the second volume). His christening. F. Ravenet sculp.
6. The same engraved by Ryland. This, as I am informed, was the first, but was too coarsely executed to suit that prepared for the first volume of the same work.