Plate 7. In the very earliest impressions, Plate 7 is not inserted in the margin.
Plate 8. Second state—Head of the woman with a fan altered, and affectedly turning away from the mad monarch. A halfpenny, with a figure of Britannia, 1763, fixed against the wall, to intimate what the artist thought the state of the nation. "Retouch'd by the author, 1763."
It should seem that the man sitting by the figure inscribed "Charming Betty Careless," went mad for love. Dr. Monro, I am told, asserts that not more than one or two men have become mad from love in the course of a hundred years. Shakspeare has not, as I recollect, drawn one man mad from that cause. I find by Hogarth's memorandum that the original pictures were sold to Francis Beckford, Esq., for £184, 16s.
1736.
1. Two prints of Before and After. [See p. 26.]
2. The Sleeping Congregation.
First state—"Dieu et mon droit," under the king's arms, not inserted: the angel has a pipe in his mouth. Second state—The above motto added, the angel's pipe effaced, and the lines of the triangle doubled. Third state—Inscribed on the side of the print: "Retouched and improved, April 21, 1762, by the author."
3. The Distressed Poet.
First state—Pope thrashing Curl, and four lines from the Dunciad inscribed under the print. Second state—In the place of Pope, etc., view of the gold mines of Peru; and the four lines from the Dunciad erased. This has been conjectured to be a portrait of Lewis Theobald, and in 1794 a copy of the head with his name annexed to it was published for Richardson. The original picture is in the collection of Lord Grosvenor.
4. Right Honourable Frances Lady Byron.