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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2056#0397
ROAST BEEF AT THE GATE OF (
22 J
The original picture is in the possession of Lord
Charlemont.
Soon after this painting was finished, a nail was
by some accident run through the cross at the top
of the gate. Hogarth strove in vain to repair the
blemish with paint of the same colour; he there-
fore introduced a half-starved crow looking down
en the beef, and thus completely covered the defect.
From the press of
\T. BULMER&CO.
22 J
The original picture is in the possession of Lord
Charlemont.
Soon after this painting was finished, a nail was
by some accident run through the cross at the top
of the gate. Hogarth strove in vain to repair the
blemish with paint of the same colour; he there-
fore introduced a half-starved crow looking down
en the beef, and thus completely covered the defect.
From the press of
\T. BULMER&CO.