Feast. Though Don Quixote is the ostensible hero of this admirable history, I have sometimes thought that Sancho was the author's favourite character. He is here represented as governor of Barataria, and seated in the spacious hall of a sumptuous palace, surrounded with all the pompous parade of high rank, and encircled by numerous attendants. A band of musicians in an adjoining gallery strike up a symphony to gratify his ear; and a table is spread with every dainty, to feast his eye and fret his soul; for however magnificent the appendages of this mock-monarch, the instant he attempts to taste the solid comforts of government, the loaves and fishes evade his grasp, are touched by the black rod, and vanish!

In plenty starving, tantaliz'd in state,

he curses the gaudy unsubstantial pageant, vows vengeance on the doctor, and swears, that he will offer up both him and every physical impostor in the island, as a sacrifice to his injured and insulted appetite. Hogarth has here caught the true spirit of the author, and given to this scene the genuine humour of Cervantes. The rising choler of our governor, is admirably contrasted by the assumed gravity of Doctor Pedro Rezio. The starch and serious solemnity of a straight-haired student, who officiates as chaplain, is well opposed by the broad grin of a curl-pated blackamoor. The suppressed laughter of a man who holds a napkin to his mouth, forms a good antithesis to the open chuckle of a fat cook. Sancho's two pages bear a strong resemblance to the little punchmaker in the Election Feast, and though well conceived, might have had more variety; they present a front and back view of the same figure. To two females on the viceroy's right hand, there may be a similar objection. The original print was designed and engraved at a very early period of Hogarth's life. As it was finished with more neatness than any of the eight which he afterwards etched for the same work, the copy is attempted in a similar style. In the drawing, Sancho was originally pourtrayed with a full face but Hogarth judiciously thinking a profile would be pre

:

ferable, fixed a bit of paper over his first thought, and altered it to the state in which it is here engraved. The design that Vanderbank made of the same scene, is cold and uninteresting; in another, by Hayman, prefixed to Smollett's coarse translation, Sancho is fat enough for Falstaff, and the doctor looks like a fellow dressed up to play the part of a conjuror in a puppet-show. Vide Shelton, p. 221." J. IReland.

"Sancho at the Feast starved by his Physician." Hogarth, inv. et sculp."

Hoole."

..W.

"Printed for H. Overton and J.

Sancho's Feast, two impressions, one with inscription cut off, sold for £5. 15s. 6d. in Baker's sale.

A copy of "Sancho's Feast," from the original drawing by Hogarth, with variations from the common print, has lately been engraved in aquatinta, and it is said only six impressions are to be taken from this plate.

[N.]"The Foundlings."

1739.

Hogarth, by presenting some of his works to the Foundling Hospital, was, in fact, an early benefactor to the Charity; he made the annexed design for the use of this Institution; it was engraved by F. Morrellon la Cave, as the head-piece to a power of an attorney from the trustees of the Charity to those gentlemen who were appointed to receive subscriptions towards the building, &c. The artist has made his old friend Captain Coram a principal figure, and as this excellent and venerable man was, in fact, the founder of the Charity, it is with great propriety he is introduced. Before him the Beadle of the Hospital carries an infant, whose mother, having dropped a dagger, with which she might have been momentarily tempted to destroy her child, kneels at his feet, while he, with that benevolence with which his countenance was so emi

nently marked, bids her to be comforted, for her babe will be nursed and protected. On the dexter side of the print is a new-born infant, left close to a stream of water, which runs under the arch of a bridge. Near a gate, on a little eminence in the path-way, above, a woman leaves another child to the casual care of the next person who passes by. In the distance is a village with a church. In the other corner are three boys, coming out of a door, with the king's arms over it: as emblems of their future employments, one of them poizes a plummet, a second holds a trowel, and a third, whose mother is fondly pressing him to her bosom, has in his hand a card for combing wool. The next group, headed by a lad elevating a mathematical instrument, are in sailors' jacket and trowsers; those on their right hand, one of whom has a rake, are in the uniform of the school. The attributes of the three little girls in the foreground, a spinning wheel, sampler, and broom, indicate female industry and ingenuity. It must be admitted, that the scene here represented is a painter's anticipation, for the charter was not granted until October 1739, and this design was made only three years afterwards; but the manner in which the Charity has been since conducted has realized the scene." J. IRELAND.

The same design was engraved from the original drawing in possession of Robert Wilkinson, by 1. Stow, and published in 1826.

1741.

sup

[B., N., & M.] "The Enraged Musician." This has been posed to be intended for Corvetto, well known by the name of Nosee; but according to others, Dr. Arne. Mr. John Ireland says, "Mr. John Foster is the hero of the Print." He was eminent on the German flute and hautboy. Mr. Dallaway says, Signior Castrucci was intended.

"Of vocal performers, we have the dustman, shouting 'Dust ho! dust ho!' the wandering fishmonger, calling Flounders;' a

P