A writer in the Public Advertiser, March 7, 1761, honours it with the following stanzas:—
"Upon seeing the picture of 'Sigismunda,' painted by Hogarth.
"Antiquity, be dumb! no longer boast
Arts yet unrivall'd or invention lost:
From Greece, whose taste was fashion'd into law,
From far-fam'd Greece, one instance let us draw.
Atrides' grief Timanthes strove to paint,
But found his art was foil'd, his colours faint:
A veil conceal'd the inexpressive face,
And what was want of power was call'd 'a grace.'