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

I was assured by the late Dr. Johnson, that Ward was the weakest, and Taylor the most ignorant, of the whole empiric tribe. The latter once asserted, that when he was at St. Petersburg, he travelled as far as Archangel to meet Prince Herculaneum. Now Archangel being the extreme point from European Asia, had the tale been true, the oculist must have marched so far backwards out of the route of Prince Heraclius, whose name he had blundered into Herculaneum.

The present likeness of our oculist, however, we may suppose to have been a strong one, as it much resembles a mezzotinto by Faber, from a picture painted at Rome by the Chevalier Riche. Under it is the following inscription: "Joannes Taylor, Medicus in Optica expertissimus multisque in Academiis celeberrimis Socius." Eight Latin verses follow, which are not worth transcription. Taylor made presents of this print to his friends. It is now become scarce.