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  HOGARTH'S WORKS:

  WITH

  _LIFE AND ANECDOTAL DESCRIPTIONS OF HIS PICTURES_.

  FIRST SERIES.

[Illustration: WILLIAM HOGARTH & HIS DOG TRUMP.]




  HOGARTH'S WORKS:

  WITH

  _LIFE AND ANECDOTAL DESCRIPTIONS OF
  HIS PICTURES_.

  BY

  JOHN IRELAND AND JOHN NICHOLS, F.S.A.

  [Illustration: (publisher's colophon)]

  _THE WHOLE OF THE PLATES REDUCED IN EXACT
  FAC-SIMILE OF THE ORIGINALS._

  First Series.

  London

  CHATTO AND WINDUS, PUBLISHERS.
  (_SUCCESSORS TO JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN._)




LIST OF PLATES

DESCRIBED IN THE FIRST SERIES.


                                                                  PAGE

  PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HOGARTH, WITH HIS DOG
  TRUMP,                                                _Frontispiece_

  FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HOGARTH, BY HIMSELF,
  ENGAGED IN PAINTING THE COMIC MUSE,                               18

  THE BATTLE OF THE PICTURES,                                       44

  ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY--

      PLATE I.,                                                     60

      PLATE II.,                                                    64

  SIGISMUNDA,                                                       76

  TIME SMOKING A PICTURE,                                           80

  THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS--

      PLATE I. At the Bell Inn, in Wood Street--Mary Hackabout
      and the Procuress,                                           102

      PLATE II. The Jew's Mistress quarrelling with her Keeper,    106

      PLATE III. The Lodging in Drury Lane--Visit of the
      Constables,                                                  110

      PLATE IV. Mary Hackabout beating Hemp in Bridewell,          112

      PLATE V. The Harlot's Death--Quacks Disputing,               114

      PLATE VI. The Funeral,                                       118

  THE RAKE'S PROGRESS--

      PLATE I. Tom Rakewell taking possession of the rich
      Miser's effects,                                             124

      PLATE II. The young Squire's Levee,                          128

      PLATE III. The Night House,                                  132

      PLATE IV. The Spendthrift arrested for Debt--Released
      by his forsaken Sweetheart,                                  136

      PLATE V. Marylebone Church--Rakewell married to a Shrew,     140

      PLATE VI. The Fire at the Gambling Hell,                     144

      PLATE VII. The Fleet Prison,                                 148

      PLATE VIII. The Madhouse--The Faithful Friend,               154

  SOUTHWARK FAIR,                                                  162

  A MIDNIGHT MODERN CONVERSATION,                                  184

  THE SLEEPING CONGREGATION,                                       192

  THE DISTRESSED POET,                                             200

  THE ENRAGED MUSICIAN,                                            206

  THE FOUR TIMES OF THE DAY--

      MORNING. Miss Bridget Alworthy on her way to Church,         216

      NOON. A Motley Congregation leaving Service,                 222

      EVENING. The Shrew and her Husband going home--By
      the New River at Islington,                                  226

      NIGHT. The Drunken Freemason taken care of by the
      Waiter at the Rummer Tavern,                                 230

  STROLLING ACTRESSES DRESSING IN A BARN,                          240

  MR. GARRICK IN THE CHARACTER OF RICHARD THE THIRD,               255

  INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS--

      PLATE I. The Fellow-apprentices,
      Thomas Goodchild and Thomas Idle, at their Looms,            270

      PLATE II. The Industrious Apprentice performing the duty
      of a Christian,                                              272

      PLATE III. The Idle Apprentice at play in the Churchyard
      during Divine Service,                                       274

      PLATE IV. The Industrious Apprentice a favourite, and
      trusted by his Master,                                       276

      PLATE V. The Idle Apprentice turned away and sent to
      sea,                                                         278

      PLATE VI. The Industrious Apprentice out of his time,
      and married to his Master's Daughter,                        280

      PLATE VII. The Idle Apprentice returned from sea,
      and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute,                    282

      PLATE VIII. The Industrious Apprentice grown rich, and
      Sheriff of London,                                           284

      PLATE IX. The Idle Apprentice betrayed by a Prostitute,
      and taken in a Night-cellar with his Accomplice,             286

      PLATE X. The Industrious Apprentice Alderman of London--The
      Idle one brought before him and impeached
      by his Accomplice,                                           288

      PLATE XI. The Idle Apprentice Executed at Tyburn,            290

      PLATE XII. The Industrious Apprentice Lord Mayor of
      London,                                                      292

  ROAST BEEF AT THE GATE OF CALAIS,                                298

  THE COUNTRY INN YARD--PREPARING TO START THE COACH,              306




PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.


It is a singular fact, that, notwithstanding the enormous popularity
enjoyed by Hogarth in the minds of English people, no perfectly
popular edition has been hitherto brought before the public. Were
a foreigner to ask an ordinary Briton who was the most thoroughly
national painter in the roll of English artists, the answer would be
undoubtedly William Hogarth; but the chances are that our countryman
would not have at command a tangible proof that his statement was
correct. Such editions as have hitherto appeared have been either
expensive or unsatisfactory,--even the handsome and costly volume by
Nichols is far from complete. To supply the want, the present issue
has been projected. The illustrative text of Ireland--undoubtedly the
best in