In this the artist is represented at his easel, with Lomazzo in his pocket, and with a satyr's feet (one of which rests on some copies of his Analysis), and painting the picture of "Pharaoh's Daughter." He is accompanied by a fat and a lean connoisseur; the former shows evident marks of admiration, but the latter holds the Analysis in his left hand, and appears rather puzzled. A figure in the background, who, to show that he is a judge, is arrayed in a gown, a band, and ample periwig, shows evident marks of disgust. Three naked and most filthy female figures, one of them fat as was Bright of Malden, and another tall and thin as a splinter of the Monument, are intended to represent "Pugg's graceless Graces." One of these beauties rests her foot on a box inscribed, "For the March presented to the Foundling Hospital, with a gilded frame for the admiration of the public." The other is seated on a chest of drawers, on which are written under the word FOLLY, "Bid for by Pugg's friends, £50, £100, £120." This most pointed piece of wit evidently alludes to the auction of "Marriage à la Mode," which has been already noticed. On the upper part of the print is a head, entitled "A modern cherubin," with a bag-wig on, and a stick bent into a waving line in his mouth, a satyr holding a medallion, on which is a head with a cap and bells, and many other curious allusions to the serpentine line. On the floor are a pair of stays, a pair of boots, a pair of candlesticks, etc. etc., allusive to the prints to the Analysis. Beneath is a grotesque figure of a devil, with a little incubus, masks, etc., holding in his hand a piece of paper, which seems a leaf of the book, and is inscribed, "To be continued."
A. C. Invt. et Sculp.—Published according to Act of Parliament, 1753-4.
On the back of this delicate satire is printed the following address:—
"TO THE PUBLIC.
"I propose to publish by subscription an Analysis of the Sun, in which I will show the constituent parts of which it is composed, and of which it ought to have been composed.
"I will compute exactly its magnitude and quantity of matter, both as it is, and as it ought to have been constructed.
"As to the supposed motion of the sun or earth, I shall prove that Ptolemy and Copernicus were neither of them right in any part of their conjectures; and that consequently Kepler, Des Cartes, Cassini, Leibnitz, and Sir Isaac Newton are absolutely wrong.
"I will likewise refute that vulgar error, that the sun, with respect to our earth, is the cause of light and heat; and I will show how they are caused.
"I will prove that the figure of our earth is an inverted
