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treatife on the Fine Arts, publithed in the {ixteenth century." In
another caricature by Paul Sandby, with a vulgar title which I will not
repeat, Hogarth is vifited, in the midi? of his glory, by the ghoft of
Lomazzo, carrying in one hand his treatife on the arts, and with his other
holding up to view the line of beauty itfelf. In the infcriptions on the
plate, the principal figure is defcribed as "An author fmking under the
weight of his faturnine aualyfis;" and, indeed, H0garth's terror is broadly
painted, while the volume of his analyiis is reiting heavily upon a ftrong
fupport bent in the line of beauty by the mighty load upon it." Behde
Hogarth {tands " his faithful pug," and behind him "a friend of the
author endeavouring to prevent his linking to his natural lownefs." On
the
4" It was translated into English by Richard Haydockg, under thg title of ff The
Artes of Curious Paintings, Carvings, Bnildinge,"fo1. I598. This is one ofihe
earliest works on art in the English language.