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fOUR PRINT3 OF AN ELECTION. t)3
*■ hands, yet none ever gave him so much satis-
" faction as the present performance.
" John Smith.'**
Had Mr. Hogarth's taste for poetry been in
any degree equal to his skill in painting, he would
scarcely have given so strong a sanction to this
wretched attempt at Hudibrastic humour, which is
coarse, dull, mean, and every way unworthy of
the scenes which it professes to celebrate.*
• These prints were promised to the subscribers sooner
than they could be completed, and in consequence of their
being delayed, the following advertisement was inserted in
the Public Advertiser of Feb. 23, 1757.
" Mr. Hogarth is obliged to inform the subscribers to his
" Election prints, that the three last cannot be published till
" about Christmas next, which delay is entirely owing to
" the difficulties he has met with to procure able hands to
" engrave the plates: but that he neither may have any
" more apologies ro make on such an account, nor trespass
" any further on the indulgence of the public, by increasing
" a collection already sufficiently large, he intends to employ
" the rest of his time in portrait painting ; chiefly this no-
'■ tice seems mcr;- rvcos;:i;y, ;:s suvtral spurious and scanda,-
" lous prints have lately been published in his name," etc.
This fretful appeal must have been written under the in-
fluence of momentary spleen, which might possibly originate
in his coadjutor's disappointing, and by that means forcing
him to violate his, engagements with the public. There is no
other apology for his indulging a thought of quitting that
walk in which he indisputably led, for another in which he
"lust not mAyfailow, but bs far behind, many of his con-
temporaries.
*■ hands, yet none ever gave him so much satis-
" faction as the present performance.
" John Smith.'**
Had Mr. Hogarth's taste for poetry been in
any degree equal to his skill in painting, he would
scarcely have given so strong a sanction to this
wretched attempt at Hudibrastic humour, which is
coarse, dull, mean, and every way unworthy of
the scenes which it professes to celebrate.*
• These prints were promised to the subscribers sooner
than they could be completed, and in consequence of their
being delayed, the following advertisement was inserted in
the Public Advertiser of Feb. 23, 1757.
" Mr. Hogarth is obliged to inform the subscribers to his
" Election prints, that the three last cannot be published till
" about Christmas next, which delay is entirely owing to
" the difficulties he has met with to procure able hands to
" engrave the plates: but that he neither may have any
" more apologies ro make on such an account, nor trespass
" any further on the indulgence of the public, by increasing
" a collection already sufficiently large, he intends to employ
" the rest of his time in portrait painting ; chiefly this no-
'■ tice seems mcr;- rvcos;:i;y, ;:s suvtral spurious and scanda,-
" lous prints have lately been published in his name," etc.
This fretful appeal must have been written under the in-
fluence of momentary spleen, which might possibly originate
in his coadjutor's disappointing, and by that means forcing
him to violate his, engagements with the public. There is no
other apology for his indulging a thought of quitting that
walk in which he indisputably led, for another in which he
"lust not mAyfailow, but bs far behind, many of his con-
temporaries.