Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 3): Variety (London, 1798)

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who is generally candid and liberal in his
praise, declares him totally devoid of the
principle, and, quoting the first plate of his
Analysis as an example, concludes the sen-
tence by remarking, that the two figures of
a young lord and lady, which are added as
samples oj 'grace, are strikingly stiff and
affected. I do not know that the artist in-
tended them to be otherwise; be has not
referred to them as models in his book, and
it is but fair to think, meant them as lead-
ing figures, less outre in their forms, but
nearly as affected in their graces, as the
other dancers. His object seems to be, ex-
emplifying grace by what it is not, rather
than by what it is. Whatever were his
motives for thus amplijy'mgazvkxvardness in
*he Wandsworth assembly,* the annexed de-
sign, which may be considered as its con-
trast, he has either composed on a different
principle, or by a most happy and singular
accident, grouped some very easy and ele-
gant forms with much taste.

* Which he is said to have caricatured in this plate.