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104 AN ELECTION ENTERTAINMENT.
suffering patients, that we naturally infer each of
them is in great practice.
Hogarth was fond of making, experiments; and
it has been said, that when engraving this plate.
he determined to attempt what no artist had ever
performed, i. e. finish the plate without taking a
single proof during ibe process. The consequence
was such as might be expected; he made some
mistakes that it was scarcely possible to rectify,
and on discovering the errors, violently exclaim-
ed that he was ruined. On his passion subsiding,
a brother engraver assisted him to correct the
faults occasioned by trying to perform an impos-
sibility. Notwithstanding all this, it is the highest
finished print he ever engraved.
In the first state of the plate some lemons and
oranges are lying by the side of the tub, but Ho-
garth being informed that vitriol and cream of
tartar, are the usual acids in Election Punch,
erazed them from the copper.
suffering patients, that we naturally infer each of
them is in great practice.
Hogarth was fond of making, experiments; and
it has been said, that when engraving this plate.
he determined to attempt what no artist had ever
performed, i. e. finish the plate without taking a
single proof during ibe process. The consequence
was such as might be expected; he made some
mistakes that it was scarcely possible to rectify,
and on discovering the errors, violently exclaim-
ed that he was ruined. On his passion subsiding,
a brother engraver assisted him to correct the
faults occasioned by trying to perform an impos-
sibility. Notwithstanding all this, it is the highest
finished print he ever engraved.
In the first state of the plate some lemons and
oranges are lying by the side of the tub, but Ho-
garth being informed that vitriol and cream of
tartar, are the usual acids in Election Punch,
erazed them from the copper.