[1] The following description of Hogarth's design is copied from his own hand-writing: "Industry and Idleness exemplified in the conduct of two Fellow 'Prentices: where the one, by taking good courses, and pursuing points for which he was put apprentice, becomes a valuable man and an ornament to his country; the other, by giving way to idleness, naturally falls into poverty, and ends fatally, as is expressed in the last print. As the prints were intended more for use than ornament, they were done in a way that might bring them within the purchase of whom they might most concern; and, lest any print should be mistaken, the description of each print is engraved at top."
3. Jacobus Gibbs, architectus. W. Hogarth delin. B. Baron sculp.
4. Jacobus Gibbs, architectus. W. Hogarth delin. J. Mc Ardell fec. Partly mezzotinto, partly graved. No date.
5. To this period may be referred the arms of The Foundling Hospital, printed off on the tops of the indentures; together with
6. The same, but smaller; employed as a frontispiece to "Psalms, Hymns, and Anthems; for the Use of the Children of the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of exposed and deserted Young Children."
They are both classed here, because the original drawing (see under the year [1781]) is dated in 1747.
1748.
1. A monk leading an ass with a Scotch man and woman on it, &c. A wooden cut. Head-piece to the "Jacobite's Journal." This was a news-paper set up and supported by Henry Fielding, and carried on for a few months with some success. The wooden-cut was only prefixed to six or seven of the papers. Being faintly executed, it was soon worn out, and has lately been copied in aqua tinta by Mr. Livesay.
2. Pool of Bethesda, from the picture[1] he painted for St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Engraved by Ravenet for S. Austen, as a frontispiece for Stackhouse's Bible. In this plate, I am assured by an old acquaintance of Mr. Hogarth, is a faithful portrait of Nell Robinson, a celebrated courtezan, with whom, in early life, they had both been intimately acquainted.