Note 227 — ESSAYS. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Book XXXV. ch. 7. A passage in one of Horace’s Satires describes pictures, whether on cloth or wood, suspended at the entrances to the public shows at Rome, nearly as we should now describe the pictures exhibited for the same purposes by Gingel and his ingenious brethren, to invite spectators to their itinerant playhouses, and such as the lamented Pidcock used to allure them to the shows of elephants and tigers.
If some fam’d piece the painter’s art displays, Transfix’d you stand, with admiration gaze[228];