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HYMEN AND CUPID.

This plate, representing Hymen and Cupid, with a view of a magnificent villa at a
distance, was intended as a ticket for Sigismunda, which Hogarth proposed to be rallied
for. It is often marked with ink 21. 2s. The number of each ticket was to have been
inserted on the scroll hanging down from the knee of the principal figure. Perhaps
none of them were ever disposed of. This plate, however, must have been engraved
about 1762 or 1763. Mr. Nichols observes of this plate, that had he not seen many
copies marked by the hand of Hogarth, he should have supposed it to be only a ticket
for a concert or music meeting.