1737.
1. The Lecture. "Datur vacuum." The person reading is well known to be the late Mr. Fisher, of Jesus College, Oxford, and Registrar of that University. This portrait was taken with the free consent of Mr. Fisher; who died March 18, 1761. There are some impressions in which "Datur vacuum" is not printed, that leaf being entirely blank; published January 20, 1736-7; the other March 3, 1736. Hogarth at first marked these words in with a pen and ink.
2. Æneas in a Storm. The following advertisement appeared in The London Daily Post, January 17, 1736-7.
"This day is published, price sixpence, a hieroglyphical print called Æneas in a Storm.
"Tanta hæc mulier potuit suadere malorum.
"Sold by the booksellers and printsellers in town and country. Of whom may be had, a print called Tartuff's Banquet, or Codex's Entertainment. Price one shilling.
"—populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi."
The same paper mentions the King's arrival at Loestoff on the 16th of January, and afterwards at St. James's on the 17th.
The author of this print, whoever he was, did not venture to put his name to so ludicrous a representation of the tempest which happened on King George the Second's return from Hanover. His Majesty is supposed to have kicked his hat overboard. This, it seems, was an action customary to him when he was in a passion. To the same circumstance Loveling has alluded in his Sapphic Ode ad Carolum B——.[1]
Concinet majore poeta plectro
Georgium,[2] quandoque calens furore
Gestiet circa thalamum ferire
Calce galerum.