William Hogarth Painter Engraver And Philosopher Essays On the Man the Work
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But Strange becomes grave and portly Sir Robert, engraver to his Majesty, a worthy knight- bachelor, with a grand collection of antique prints and drawings, dwelling in his own house in King Street, Covent Garden. And you shall hardly recognize the erratic young companion of the Romany Rye, in the handsome, thoughtful cavalier in his point-lace, velvet justaucorps, and swaling plume to his beaver- — the noble Jacques Callot, who lives near the Luxembourg, and draws martyrologies to the great de...light of the Petits Peres, and employs " M. Israel son amy " to grave his etching more forcibly. And who shall not marvel at 220 WILLIAM HOGARTH. the transformation of the ranting-club man of '93, long- haired, tricolour-sashed, nine-tenths sans-ailottc, into M. Le Baron Louis David, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, who calls in his chariot to beg sittings from his Eminence the Cardinal, and his Grandeur the Arch-Chancellor, and Monseigneur the Archbishop, and messieurs the marshals, the senators, and the councillors of State, for the portraits that are to be introduced into the colossal picture of the coronation of his Majesty the Emperor, destined for the Salle du Sacre of Versailles ?
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