"This day is published, price 5s. A Print, designed and engraved by Mr. Hogarth, representing a Prodigy which lately appeared before the Gate of Calais.
"O the Roast Beef of Old England!
"To be had at the Golden-Head, in Leicester-Square, and at the Print Shops."
[2] The following lines were written by the Rev. Mr. Townley, Master of Merchant Taylors' School, and spoken by one of the Scholars, October 22, 1767,
ASSA BUBULA.
Littore in opposito, quâ turrim Dubris in altum
Ostentans, undas imperiosa regit,
Ferrea stat, multo cum milite, porta Calesi:
(Ingenium pinxit talia, Hogarthe, tuum).
Eo! sudans carnis portat latus ille bovile,
Quem, trepidis genibus, grande fatigat onus;
Obstupet hic fixis oculis atque ore patenti,
Et tenue, invitus, jus cito mittit humi:
Accedit monachus, digito tangente rubentem
Carnem, divinum prodigiumque colit.
Omnia visa placent animum; non pascis inani
Picturâ, pariter quæ placet atque docet.
Egregius patriæ proprios dat pictor honores;
Et palmam jussa est ferre bovina caro.
[3] Mr. Walpole's new edition of his "Anecdotes of Painting" having been published whilst the present page was preparing for the second edition, I took the earliest opportunity of letting that admirable writer speak for himself, in answer to a particular in which I had presumed to differ from him. "If Hogarth indulged his spirit of ridicule in personalities," (I now use the words of Mr. Walpole) "it never proceeded beyond sketches and drawings; his prints touched the folly, but spared the person. Early he drew a noted miser, one of the sheriffs, trying a mastiff that had robbed his kitchen, but the magistrate's son went to his house and cut the picture in pieces.[A] I have been reproved for this assertion," continues our agreeable Biographer, "and instances have been pointed out that contradict me. I am far from persevering in an error, and do allow that my position was too positive. Still some of the instances adduced were by no means caricaturas. Sir John Gonson and Dr. Misaubin in the Harlot's Progress were rather examples identified than satires. Others, as Mr. Pine's, were mere portraits, introduced by their own desire, or with their consent."
2. Portrait of John Palmer, esq. lord of the manor of Cogenhoe or Cooknoe, and patron of the church, of Ecton in Northamptonshire. W. Hogarth pinx. B. Baron sculp. This small head is inserted under a view of Ecton Church.
3. His own head in a cap, a pug-dog, and a palette with the line of beauty, &c. inscribed Gulielmus Hogarth. Seipse pinxit & sculpsit. Very scarce, because Hogarth erased his own portrait, and introduced that of Mr. Churchill, under the character of a bear, in its room. See under the year [1763].
On this print, in its original state, the Scandalizade, a satire published about 1749, has the following lines. The author represents himself as standing before the window of a print-shop.