Note 9 — HOGARTH.
Reading edition
This picture is noticed in the article Thornhill, in the Biographia Britannica, where, instead of Wanstead, it is called the Wandsworth assembly. There seems to be a reference to it in "A Poetical Epistle to Mr. Hogarth, an eminent History and Conversation Painter," written June 1730, and published by the author (Mr. Mitchell), with two other epistles, in 1731, 4to.
"Large families obey your hand; Assemblies rise at your command."
Mr. Hogarth designed that year the frontispiece to Mr. Mitchell's Opera, The Highland Clans.