nestness and force, that it
elicits sparks of fire. This, added to the agonizing howls of his
unfortunate dog, must afford a perfect specimen of the ancient
chromatic. The poor animal, between a man and a monkey, piping harsh
discords upon a hautboy, the girl whirling her _crepitaculum_, or
rattle, and the boy beating his drum, conclude the catalogue of this
harmonious band.

This delineation originated in a story which was told to Hogarth by the
late Mr. John Festin, who is the hero of the print. He was eminent for
his skill in playing upon the German flute and hautboy, and much
employed as a teacher of music. To each of his scholars he devoted one
hour each day. "At nine o'clock in the morning," said he, "I once waited
upon my lord Spencer, but his lordship being out of town, from him I
went to Mr. V----n. It was so early that he was not arisen. I went into
his chamber, and, opening a shutter, sat down in the window-seat. Before
the rails was a fellow playing upon the hautboy. A man with a barrow
full of onions offered the piper an onion if he would play him a tune.
That ended, he offered a second onion for a second tune; the same for a
third, and was going on: but this was too much; I could not bear it; it
angered my very soul--'Zounds!' said I, 'stop here! This fellow is
ridiculing my profession; he is playing on the hautboy for onions!'"

The whole of this bravura scene is admirably represented. A person
quaintly enough observed, that it deafens one to look at it.

[Illustration: THE ENRAGED MUSICIAN.]

MASQUERADES AND OPERAS.

BURLINGTON GATE.

This print appeared in 1723. Of the three small figures in the centre
the middle one is Lord Burlington, a man of considerable taste in
painting and architecture, but who ranked Mr. Kent, an indifferent
artist, above his merit. On one side of the peer is Mr. Campbell, the
architect; on the other, his lordship's postilion. On a show-cloth in
this plate is also supposed to be the portrait of king George II. who
gave 1000_l._ towards the Masquerade; together with that of the earl of
Peterborough, who offers Cuzzoni, the Italian singer, 8000_l._ and she
spurns at him. Mr. Heidegger, the regulator of the Masquerade, is also
exhibited, looking out of a window, with the letter H under him.

The substance of the foregoing remarks is taken from a collection lately
belonging to Captain Baillie, where it is said that they were furnished
by an eminent connoisseur.

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