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

Note 31 — Chapter III

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The designer of a print which was published in 1753, and intended to burlesque some of the figures in the Analysis of Beauty, seems to have believed that Hogarth intended to have published his objections to the establishment of the academy. The print is entitled "Pugg's Graces," and the artist is represented with the legs of a satyr, and painting "Moses before Pharaoh's Daughter." One of his hoofs rests on three books, the lowest of which is labelled Analysis of Beauty. A little lower in the print is an open volume, on one page of which is written, Reasons against a Public Academy, 1753; and on the other, No Salary.

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