Editorial note — CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1] (continued 2)

[1] London Daily Post, April 7, 1743. "Mr. Hogarth intends to publish by subscription Six Prints from copper plates, engraved by the best masters in Paris, after his own paintings (the heads, for the better preservation of the characters and expressions, to be done by the author), representing a variety of modern occurrences in high life, and called Marriage a-la-mode.

"Particular care is taken that the whole work shall not be liable to exception on account of any indecency or inelegancy, and that none of the characters represented shall be personal. The subscription will be one guinea; half, &c."