Excerpt from Hogarth
By way of preface to this brief account of Hogarth"s life and works, it is only necessary to say that all the authorities named in the following list - most of them collected during many years" patient admiration of this great artist"s genius - have been diligently consulted in preparing it. Those which may be fairly described as "recent" are, it will be seen, but few in number. To the most considerable of these, however, the Author desires to make especial reference. No one who may hereafter work at Hogarth on a large scale will be able to neglect the mass of minute information which has been brought together in Mr. F. G. Stephens" "Catalogue of the Satirical Prints and Drawings in the British Museum;" and when the next portion, carrying the chronicle from 1761 onwards, shall have been issued, it will be practically useless to consult any antecedent work for information respecting the history and production of those of Hogarth"s engravings which are covered by the scheme of the series. This being so, the Author has of necessity gratefully availed himself, for purposes of revision and correction, of the volumes already published.
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