The Works of William Hogarth: in a Series of Engravings
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The poor animal, between a man and a monkey, piping harshdiscords upon a hautboy, the girl whirling her _crepitaculum_, orrattle, and the boy beating his drum, conclude the catalogue of thisharmonious band.
This delineation originated in a story which was told to Hogarth by thelate Mr. John Festin, who is the hero of the print. He was eminent forhis skill in playing upon the German flute and hautboy, and muchemployed as a teacher of music. To each of his scholars he devoted onehour each day. "A...t nine o'clock in the morning, " said he, "I once waitedupon my lord Spencer, but his lordship being out of town, from him Iwent to Mr. V----n. It was so early that he was not arisen. I went intohis chamber, and, opening a shutter, sat down in the window-seat. Beforethe rails was a fellow playing upon the hautboy. A man with a barrowfull of onions offered the piper an onion if he would play him a tune. That ended, he offered a second onion for a second tune; the same for athird, and was going on: but this was too much; I could not bear it; itangered my very soul--'Zounds!' said I, 'stop here!
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The poor animal, between a man and a monkey, piping harshdiscords upon a hautboy, the girl whirling her _crepitaculum_, orrattle, and the boy beating his drum, conclude the catalogue of thisharmonious band.
This delineation originated in a story which was told to Hogarth by thelate Mr. John Festin, who is the hero of the print. He was eminent forhis skill in playing upon the German flute and hautboy, and muchemployed as a teacher of music. To each of his scholars he devoted onehour each day. "A...t nine o'clock in the morning, " said he, "I once waitedupon my lord Spencer, but his lordship being out of town, from him Iwent to Mr. V----n. It was so early that he was not arisen. I went intohis chamber, and, opening a shutter, sat down in the window-seat. Beforethe rails was a fellow playing upon the hautboy. A man with a barrowfull of onions offered the piper an onion if he would play him a tune. That ended, he offered a second onion for a second tune; the same for athird, and was going on: but this was too much; I could not bear it; itangered my very soul--'Zounds!' said I, 'stop here!
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