Note 133 — HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED. (continued 2)
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It has been said that this incomparable figure was designed as the representative of either a particular friend or a relation. Individual satire may be very gratifying to the public, but is frequently fatal to the satirst. Churchill, by the lines,
"Fam'd Vine Street, Where Heaven, the kindest wish of man to grant, Gave me an old house, and an older aunt,"
lost a considerable legacy; and it is related that Hogarth, by the introduction of this withered votary of Diana into this print, induced her to alter a will which had been made considerably in his favour: she was at first well enough satisfied with her resemblance, but some designing people taught her to be angry.