-------nec Gwynnam valebat
Angliaco placuisse regi.Mersa est acerbo funere sanguinis
Vanella clari: nec grave spiculum
Averteret fati Machaon,
Nec madido Fredericus ore.
2. The same plate without any verses, but with an inscription added in their room. Ramsay seems to have been particularly attached to Hogarth. He subscribed, as I have already observed, for thirty copies of the large Hudibras.
The original picture was at Vauxhall, in the portico of the old great room on the right-hand of the entry into the garden. See p. [29].
3. Frontispiece to the "Humours of Oxford," a comedy by James Miller; acted at Drury-Lane, and published in 8vo, 1729.[1] W. Hogarth inv. G. Vandergucht sc. The Vice-chancellor, attended by his beadle, surprizing two Fellows of a College, one of them much intoxicated, at a tavern.
[1] It met with but moderate success in the theatre; but drew on Mr. Miller the resentment of some of the heads of the colleges in Oxford, who looked on themselves as satirized in it.
1730.
1. Perseus, and Medusa dead, and Pegasus. Frontispiece to Perseus and Andromeda. W. H. fec.
2. Another print to the same piece, of Perseus descending. Mr. Walpole mentions only one.
3. A half-starved boy. (The same as is represented in the print of Morning.) W. H. pinx. F. Sykes sc. Sykes was a pupil of Thornhill or Hogarth. This print bears the date of 1730; but I suspect the 0 was designed for an 8, and that the upper part of it is wanting, because the aqua fortis failed; or, that the pupil copied the figure from a sketch of his master, which at that time was unappropriated. No one will easily suspect Hogarth of such plagiarism as he might justly be charged with, could he afterwards have adopted this complete design as his own; neither is it probable that any youth could have produced a figure so characteristic as this; or, if he could, that he should have published it without any concomitant circumstances to explain its meaning. The above title, which some collector has bestowed on this etching, is not of a discriminative kind. Who can tell from it whether he is to look for a boy emaciated by hunger, or shivering with cold? It is mentioned here, only that it may be reprobated. If every young practitioner's imitation of a single figure by Hogarth were to be admitted among his works, they would never be complete.