Note 58 — HOGARTH.

At the Club of Artists, it was not unusual to reproach Hogarth with want of due attention to the Ancients, whom he always affected to despise. It accidentally happened that Mr. Basire, whilst this plate was in hand, was employed likewise in engraving, for the Society of Antiquaries, two plates of an antique bronze from the collection of Mr. Hollis, so remarkably grotesque, that Mr. Hogarth very readily consented that his plate should be postponed, and declared, "he could not have imagined that the Ancients had possessed so much humour."