malons

Updated: May 17, 2025

Lord Charlemont wrote to Edmund Malons from Dublin, June 29th, 1781: 'That men of task should wish for good impressions of Hogarth's prints is not at all surprising, as I look upon him to have been in his way, and that too an original way, one of the first of geniuses. Neither am I much surprised at the rage you mention, as I am by experience well acquainted with the collector's madness.

Dutton Cook - Art in England: Notes and Studies