Hogarth's London, Pictures of the Manners of the Eighteenth Century
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Mr. Stephens describes the plate fuUy and writes, ' It is certain that whatever might have been the direction of the satire in " The Times, Plate 1," it was opposed in more than one direction by the sequel to that design.' ^ Hogarth was wisely dissuaded by his friends from publishing the print, and Mrs. Hogarth, knowing the reasons urged to her husband, adhered to the same resolution. At her death only one impression had been taken, and that had been sold to Lord Exeter for ten guineas. AU the ...property was left to Mrs. Lewis, Hogarth's cousin, and she sold the plate to Alderman Boydell, who struck off prints from it in 1790: 'Designed & engraved by W. Hogarth. Pubhshed May 29, 1790, by J. & J. BoydeU, Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall MaU, London.' John Ireland writes of Mrs. Hogarth's decision : ' In withholding this print from the public she acted prudently, in attempting to describe it, I may be thought to act otherwise.' In a large open space among buildings, the centre of which is a platform surrounded by a trench, the sides of which are supported by a brick wall, is a statue of George ui, ' British Museum CkUalogue, vol.
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