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Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 66 — HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED.

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It has been generally said that this is an appraiser and undertaker; let not these venerable dealers in dust any longer suffer the disgrace of so unjust an insinuation. That the artist intended to delineate a lawyer, is clearly intimated by his old, uncurled tie-wig and the baize bag. We cannot mistake these obtrusive ensigns of the craft, or mystery, or profession, of which this hoary villain is a member.

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