Note 30 — HOGARTH.

Among the small articles of furniture in the scenes of Hogarth, a few objects may speedily become unintelligible, because their archetypes, being out of use, and of perishable natures, can no longer be found. Such is the Dare for Larks (a circular board with pieces of looking-glass inserted in it), hung up over the chimney-piece of the Distress'd Poet; and the Jews Cake (a dry tasteless biscuit perforated with many holes, and formerly given away in great quantities at the Feast of Passover), generally used only as a fly-trap, and hung up as such against the wall in the sixth plate of the Harlot's Progress. I have frequently met with both these articles in mean houses.