Note 81 — DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINTS, Etc.
Reading edition
I think the reader will agree with me, that such assertions as the following demanded an apology:—
"His (Hogarth's) works are his history. As a painter he had but slender merit; in colouring he proved no greater a master: his force lay in expression, not in tints and chiaroscuro."—Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. p. 160.
How was it possible for Mr. Walpole to have written the foregoing lines after having seen the pictures of "Marriage à la Mode"?