The fire-screen is adorned with a drawing of a lady in a sedan chair—
"To conceive how she looks, you must call to your mind
The lady you've seen in a lobster confin'd,
Or a pagod in some little corner enshrin'd."
As Hogarth made this design from the ideas of Miss Edwards, it has been said that he had no great partiality for his own performance, and that, as he never would consent to its being engraved, the drawing from which the print is copied was made by the connivance of one of her servants.[93] Be that as it may, his ridicule on the absurdities of fashion,—on the folly of collecting old china,—cookery,—card-playing, etc., is pointed, and highly wrought.
At the sale of Miss Edwards' effects at Kensington, the original picture was purchased by the father of Mr. Birch, surgeon, of Essex Street, Strand.
FARINELLI, CUZZONI, AND SENESINO,
IN THE CHARACTERS OF
PTOLEMY, CLEOPATRA, AND JULIUS CÆSAR.
"To banish nature and to vary art,