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HOGARTH. 353
than a fig-leaf; a Cupid paring down a
fat lady to a thin proportion, and another
Cupid blowing up a fire to burn a hoop
petticoat, muff, bag, and queue wig, etc.
On the dexter side, is another picture, re-
presenting Monsieur Desnoyer, operatically
habited, dancing in a grand ballet, and sur-
rounded by butterflies, etc., inscribed insects,
and evidently of the same genus with this
deity of dance. On the sinister, is a drawing
denominated exotics, consisting of queue and
bag-wigs, muffs, solitaires, petticoats, French
heeled shoes, and other fantastic fripperies.
Beneath this is a lady in a pyramidical
habit walking the Park; and as the compa-
nion picture, we have a blind man walking
the streets.
The fire-screen is adorned with a drawing
of a lady in a sedan chair—
" To conceive how she looks, you must call to your mind -\
" The lady you've seen in a lobster confin'd, I
" Or a pagod in some little earner inshfzn'd." J
As Hogarth made this design from the
ideas of Miss Edwards, it has been said that
than a fig-leaf; a Cupid paring down a
fat lady to a thin proportion, and another
Cupid blowing up a fire to burn a hoop
petticoat, muff, bag, and queue wig, etc.
On the dexter side, is another picture, re-
presenting Monsieur Desnoyer, operatically
habited, dancing in a grand ballet, and sur-
rounded by butterflies, etc., inscribed insects,
and evidently of the same genus with this
deity of dance. On the sinister, is a drawing
denominated exotics, consisting of queue and
bag-wigs, muffs, solitaires, petticoats, French
heeled shoes, and other fantastic fripperies.
Beneath this is a lady in a pyramidical
habit walking the Park; and as the compa-
nion picture, we have a blind man walking
the streets.
The fire-screen is adorned with a drawing
of a lady in a sedan chair—
" To conceive how she looks, you must call to your mind -\
" The lady you've seen in a lobster confin'd, I
" Or a pagod in some little earner inshfzn'd." J
As Hogarth made this design from the
ideas of Miss Edwards, it has been said that