Note 1 — CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1] (continued 3)

It should here be remarked, that the heads of several of the figures in the original, differ widely from those in the engraving. The daughter of the Egyptian Monarch appears to more advantage in the print than on the canvas, for there she resembles a wanton under-actress, who, half-undrest, and waiting for her keeper, employs the interval of time in settling accounts with a washerwoman, who has her bastard at nurse, and has just brought him home to convince her that young Curl-pated Hugh has no shoes to his feet. The colouring of this piece is beneath criticism. I have just been told the head of Pharaoh's daughter was copied from one Seaton, a smock-faced youth of our artist's acquaintance: a proper model, no doubt, for an Eastern Princess! Hogarth could not, like Guido, draw a Venus from a common porter.