To your charge the other day
- DMI number:
- 33501
- First Line:
- To your charge the other day
- Last Line:
- And make me then what Guido's now
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Epistle
- Themes:
- Art / painting and Money / wealth
- Author:
- Paul Whitehead
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- An additional 43 lines, presumably by Whitehead, accompanied the poem in its later form. Query: source?
- Author:
- William Hogarth
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- In a letter of 1759 Hogarth reports that he scribbled the verses, which were then 'turn'd into english by [his] friend Paul Whitehead'. See Ronald Paulson, Hogarth: Art and Politics, 1750-64 (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1993), v.3, pp. 232-233, p. 491.
- Title:
- The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse [vol 1] [T118867] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.47-49
- Poem Title:
- Epistle to a friend by the late William Hogarth, occasioned by a Picture's being returned on his hands by Sir R. G.
- Attribution:
- by the late William Hogarth
- Attributed To:
- William Hogarth
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