Note 37 — HOGARTH.

"That Huggins penned the statute, I was told by Mr. Hogarth himself. The determination of Lord Hardwicke was thus occasioned. Jefferys, the printseller at the corner of St. Martin's Lane, had employed an artist to draw and engrave a print representing the British Herring Fishery; and, having paid him for it, took an assignment of the right to the property in it accruing to the artist by the act of parliament. The proprietors of one of the magazines pirated it in a similar size, and Jefferys brought his bill for an injunction, to which the defendants demurred: and, upon argument of the demurrer, the same was allowed, for the reason abovementioned, and the bill dismissed. Hogarth attended the hearing; and lamented to me that he had employed Huggins to draw the act, adding, that, when he first projected it, he hoped it would be such an encouragement to engraving and printselling, that printsellers would soon become as numerous as bakers' shops; which hope, notwithstanding the above check, does at this time seem to be pretty nearly gratified." For this note my readers are indebted to Sir John Hawkins.