. Tolle Bilder, wie gesehen und von berühmten Schriftstellern beschrieben. tion der Malerei die STÖRUNGEN andfollies seiner Zeit, er war die herausragende pictorialchronicler der Moden und seine Möbel. Die folliesendure; aber die Moden vergehen. In unserem Tag-a daywhich hat den Abriss von NorthumberlandHouse, das Verschwinden von Temple Bar erlebt, und die removalof Wir wissen nicht, was andere altehrwürdige und veneratedlandmarks - viel in Hogarths Platten müssen asobscure scheinen wie die Kartuschen auf kleopatras Nadel. Muchmore rasch so immer; und werden ohne einige guidancethe Student kaum Ve
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. Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers. tion to painting the faults andfollies of his time, he was pre-eminently the pictorialchronicler of its fashions and its furniture. The folliesendure ; but the fashions pass away. In our day — a daywhich has witnessed the demolition of NorthumberlandHouse, the disappearance of Temple Bar, and the removalof we know not what other time-honoured and veneratedlandmarks — much in Hogarths plates must seem asobscure as the cartouches on Cleopatras Needle. Muchmore is speedily becoming so; and without some guidancethe student will scarcely venture into that dark and doubt-ful rookery of tortuous streets and unnumbered houses —the London of the Eighteenth Century. Were it not beyond the reasonable compass of a methodi-cal memoir, it would be a pleasant task to loiter for a whilein that vanished London of Hogarth, of Fielding, of Gar-rick ;—that London of Rocques famous map of 1746, when cits had their country-boxes and gazebos atIslington and Hackney, and fine gentlemen their villas at. MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE 2IO, Mary bone and Cbelsey; when duels were fought in the fields behind the British Museum, and there was awindmill at the bottom of Rathbone Place. We shouldfind the Thames swarming with noisy watermen, and thestreets with thick-calved Irish chairmen; we should seethe old dusky oil-lamps lighted feebly with the oil thatdribbled on the Rake when he went to Court; and thegreat creaking sign-boards that obscured the sky, andoccasionally toppled on the heads of his Majestys liegesbeneath. We should note the sluggish kennels and theill-paved streets; and rejoice in the additional facilitiesafforded for foot-passengers at the new Buildings nearHanover Square. We might watch King George II.yawning in his Chapel Royal of St. Jamess, or followQueen Caroline of Anspach in her walk on ConstitutionHill. Or we might turn into the Mall, which is filled onsummer evenings with a Beau-Monde of cinnamon-colouredcoats and pin
