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Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, With a Catalogue of His Works

Note 11 — CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1] (continued 5)

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This story is quoted by Mr. Grose in his Antiquities, Vol. II. art. Minster Monastery. "The legend," says Mr. Grose, "has, by a worthy friend of mine, been hitched into doggrel rhyme. It would be paying the reader but a bad compliment to attempt seriously to examine the credibility of the story."

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