John Thomas Smith The Illustrated Life of Hogarth, 1817.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 1 | Hogarth
carrying his Master's | sick child round Leicester fields | The Spot of ground
| Leicester house"
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: "W H";
inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 2. | Hogarth engraving his
Master's | Shop-bills the sign of the Angel"
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 4 | Hogarth
declaring his love | to Miss Thornhill."
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 5 | Hogarth
after his wife had | put on a new night shift, Ties | up her things to send to
sir James | Thornhill with a letter in which | she told him "He took his
Daughter | without a Smock to her a--e"
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No. 6.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 6 | Hogarth
has made breakfast | and sends up a cup to his wife | at the same time ordering
the | little dog to be admitted to her | mistresses bedchamber"
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No. 7.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 7 | Hogarth
drinking the first | glass of wine with his wife | ---their dogs keeping |
respectful distances"
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No. 8.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 8 | Sir James
Thornhill's boy entering | his Master's painting room to | deliver the bundle
and a letter in | the presence of Lady Thornhill"
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No 9.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 9 | The Smock exposed"
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No 10.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 10 | The
reconsiliation".
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No 11.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 11 | Hogarth
drawing Sarah Malcolm".
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No 12.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 12 | Hogarth
painting in Vauxhall | gdens in the presence of | Jonathan Tyers"
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No 13.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 13 | Hogarth painting his | picture of Capt Coram for the | Foundling Hospital"
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No 14.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 14 | Hogarth solicits his Patron | Bishop Hoadley to look over | his M.S of "Analysis of beauty"
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no 15.
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 15 | Hogarth making up a portrait of H. Fielding, | for a Bookseller, from the features of | Garrick who borrowed one of the Author's | wigs for that particular purpose there | being no genuine portrait of him".
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Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 17 | Hogarth
sitting to Ronbeliac for | his Bust".
Inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "No 18 | Hogarth
at Old Slaughter's | hobbing with Highmore | the painter."