Note 83 — HOGARTH. (continued 2)
Reading edition
It having been requested in the Catalogue of this exhibition (which was in Bow-Street, Covent-Garden) that all remarks on the artists, or their performances, might be sent to The St. James's Chronicle; the compiler of these Anecdotes transmitted a few hasty lines, which were printed in that paper April 29, 1762. They are not worth transcribing: but a short extract will preserve the assumed names of some of the artists—
"And Masmore, Lester's, Ward's, and Fishbourne's name, With thine, Vandyck, shall live to endless fame; In your collection Wit and Skill combine, And Humour flows in every well-chose Sign."