[1] Mr. Devoto was scene-painter to Drury-Lane or Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and also to Goodman's Fields Theatre. There is a mezzotinto of him with the following title: "Johannes Devoto Historicus Scenicusque Pictor." Vincenso Damini pinxit. J. Faber fecit, 1736.
[2] Dr. Faustus and Harlequin Shepherd were pantomimes contrived by Thurmond the dancing-master, and acted at Drury-Lane in 1725.
[3]—Halters, &c.; The same idea is introduced in the 9th plate of the apprentices.
1726.
1. Frontispiece to Terræ-filius. W. Hogarth fec. This work was printed in two volumes 12°, at Oxford, and is a satire on the Tory principles of that University. It was written by Nicholas Amherst, author of The Craftsman, and was originally published in one volume.
2. Twelve prints for Hudibras; the large set. W. Hogarth inv. pinx. et sculp. Under the head of Butler: "The basso relievo of the pedestal represents the general design of Mr. Butler, in his incomparable poem of Hudibras; viz. Butler's Genious in a Car lashing around Mount Parnassus, in the persons of Hudibras and Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and Ignorance, the reigning vices of his time." This set of prints was published by subscription, by P. Overton and J. Cooper. Mr. S. Ireland has seven of the original drawings; three others are known to be preserved in Holland; and two more were lately existing in this kingdom. The plates, as has been mentioned already in p. [11], are now the property of Mr. Sayer, whose name, as publisher, is subjoined. The Rev. Mr. Bowle, F. A. S. had a set with the list of the subscribers, which he purchased at the Duke of Beaufort's sale in Wiltshire. The printed title to them is, "Twelve excellent and most diverting Prints; taken from the celebrated Poem of Hudibras, wrote by Mr. Samuel Butler. Exposing the Villany and Hypocrisy of the Times. Invented and Engraved on Twelve Copper-plates, by William Hogarth, and are humbly dedicated to William Ward, Esq. of Great Houghton in Northamptonshire; and Mr. Allan Ramsay, of Edinburgh.
"What excellence can Brass or Marble claim!
These Papers better do secure thy Fame:
Thy Verse all Monuments does far surpass,
No Mausoleum's like thy Hudibras.
"Printed and sold by Philip Overton, Print and Map-seller, at the Golden Buck near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street; and John Cooper, in James-street, Covent Garden, 1726."