Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 1): William Hogarth (London, 1793)

184 JIR- GARRICK IN RICHARD III.

*' Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with
" this character of our common friend. But
" what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed
" by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the
" gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public
" stock of harmless pleasure." Life of Edmund
Smith.

Mr. Hogarth lived in habits of intimacy with
David Garrick, who being president of the Shak-
speare Club at the time of the Stratford jubilee,
our painter made him a drawing of a chair, which
was afterwards wrought in mahogany. A medal-
lion of Shakspeare, carved by Hogarth from a piece
of the Stratford mulberry-tree, is suspended to the
back of it.

The paintings of the Harlot's Progress, and
Strolling Players, produced little more than a
hundred guineas, but in such estimation are por-
traits, that the original picture from which this
print was copied, in every point of view inferior,
was purchased by the late Mr. Duncombe, of
Duncombe Park, Yorkshire, at two hundred pounds,'
it still remains in his family. The print, by Mr.
ftogarth's permission, was copied for a watery