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

This collection, consisting of 241 prints, in three portfeuilles, was sold at Christie's, April 7, 1781, for 59 guineas, to Mr. Ingham Foster, a wealthy ironmonger, since dead. A set, containing only 100 prints, had been sold some time before, at the same place, for 47 guineas. The Hon. Topham Beauclerk's set, of only 99 prints, was sold in 1781 (while this note was printing off for the first edition) for 34l. 10s.