Note 57 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
Among Hogarth's papers I found the following notice, in which he evidently glances at Athenian Stuart:—
"Now in hand, and will be published in about two months' time, a short addenda or supplement to the Analysis of Beauty, wherein, by the doctrine of varying lines, it will plainly be shown that a man who had never seen or heard of Roman architecture might, by adhering to these lines, produce new and original forms.
"The number of pompous and expensive books of architecture which have been lately published, consist of little more than examples of the variations that were made among the ancients; and nice and useless disputes about which were the most elegant, without assigning any other reason for their choice than the authority of the columns they have measured, which gives them no other merit than that of mere pattern drawers."