William Hogarth

Original--Recto:In pencil inscribed, LR:IIVerso:in pencil inscribed, LL:9.10.52 A-2/Colnaghi ; inscribed, center of right half of sheet:2nd state[underlined].The word Horlot's corrected to Harlot's/ and with some additional shading in places, /including some dark III lines on dancing master's/coat near his hand which holds the fiddle. In Plate--Inscribed, LC:Invented & c by W.m Hogarth & Publish'd According to Act of Parliament June y.e 25.1735; numbered, LR:Plate.2.d ; inscribed, bottom margin:Prosperity, (with Harlot's,/Most pleasing; when she most beguiles,)/How soon, Sweet foe, can all thy Train/Of false, gay, frantick, lovd & vain,|Enter the unprovided Mind,/And Memory in fetters bind;/Load faith and love with golden chain,/And sprinkle Lethe o're the Brain!|Pleasure on her silver Throne/Smiling comes, nor comes alone ;/Venus moves with her along;/And smooth Lyceus, ever-young;|And in their Train, to fill the Press,/Come a

Marks: Stamped in brown ink on verso:R.I.S.D./MUSEUM/OF ARTsurrounded byPROVIDENCE/RHODE ISLANDall inscribed in a circle.