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caricaturas of those makers who have sometimes amused themselves
with patching together an assemblage of features from their own
ideas; such are Spaniolet's, which, though admirably executed, ap-
pear plainly to have no architypes in nature. Hogarth's, on the
other hand, are collections of natural Curiosities, the Oxford heads,
the physician's arms, and some of his other pieces, are expressly
of this humorous kind; they are truly comic, though ill-natured
effusions of mirth more entertaining than Spaniolet's, as they are
pure nature but less innocent, as they contain ill directed ridicule;
but the species of expression in which this maker mod excels is, that
happy art of catching those peculiarities of air and gesture, which
the ridiculous part of every profession contrast, and which, for that
reason, become charaHerikic; of the whole, his counsellors, his
undertakers, his lawyers, his usurers, are all conspicuous at sight;
in a word, almost all professions may see in bis works that particular
species of affectation which they ssiould endeavour to avoid; the
execution of this maker is well suited to his subje&s and manner of
treating them; he etches with great spirit, and never gives one un-
necessary broke, there is great spirit in his little print of a corner
of a play-house.
CAUTIONS in collecting PRINTS.
Th E collector of prints may be first cautioned againk indulging
a desire of becoming possesfed of all the works of any master; there
is no maker whose works in the gross deserve notice; no man is
equal to himself in all his compositions. I have known a collector
of Rembrandt give two or three guineas for a print of that maker
to complete his collection, which would have been greatly to Rem-
brandt's credit if it had been left out: one third of the works of
this maker will not bear just criticism. Prince Eugene piqued him-
self
caricaturas of those makers who have sometimes amused themselves
with patching together an assemblage of features from their own
ideas; such are Spaniolet's, which, though admirably executed, ap-
pear plainly to have no architypes in nature. Hogarth's, on the
other hand, are collections of natural Curiosities, the Oxford heads,
the physician's arms, and some of his other pieces, are expressly
of this humorous kind; they are truly comic, though ill-natured
effusions of mirth more entertaining than Spaniolet's, as they are
pure nature but less innocent, as they contain ill directed ridicule;
but the species of expression in which this maker mod excels is, that
happy art of catching those peculiarities of air and gesture, which
the ridiculous part of every profession contrast, and which, for that
reason, become charaHerikic; of the whole, his counsellors, his
undertakers, his lawyers, his usurers, are all conspicuous at sight;
in a word, almost all professions may see in bis works that particular
species of affectation which they ssiould endeavour to avoid; the
execution of this maker is well suited to his subje&s and manner of
treating them; he etches with great spirit, and never gives one un-
necessary broke, there is great spirit in his little print of a corner
of a play-house.
CAUTIONS in collecting PRINTS.
Th E collector of prints may be first cautioned againk indulging
a desire of becoming possesfed of all the works of any master; there
is no maker whose works in the gross deserve notice; no man is
equal to himself in all his compositions. I have known a collector
of Rembrandt give two or three guineas for a print of that maker
to complete his collection, which would have been greatly to Rem-
brandt's credit if it had been left out: one third of the works of
this maker will not bear just criticism. Prince Eugene piqued him-
self