"Dear Sir,—I was this day informed by a friend of mine in the city that seventy-five pounds only was bid for your pictures of 'Marriage à la Mode;' and this I hope will excuse my bidding you so small a sum as one hundred and twenty pounds for them; so much are they worth of my money; with a promise never to sell them to any picture-trader or connoisseur-monger so long as you or I shall live.
"If in this foolish and grossly-imposed on generation there should not be found one man wiser than myself, I must insist on having this bidding deposited in your cabinet.—I am, dear Sir, your most obedient servant,
Car. Perry.
"May 15, 1751."
CHAPTER IV.
THE MOTIVES BY WHICH HOGARTH WAS INDUCED TO PUBLISH HIS ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY; THE ABUSE IT DREW UPON HIM, AND HIS VINDICATION OF HIMSELF AND THE VOLUME. HE IS ELECTED A MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY AT AUGSBURG, AND APPOINTED SERJEANT PAINTER TO THE KING.
