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Lettered above image, upper center: 'TAIL PIECE"; inside image, center: "FINIS." center: "The Worlds End."; lower center: "- all and every | Atom there= | =of to [xxxxx] | Chaos whom | I appoint my sole Executor, | Clotho. | Witness Lachesis. | Atropos."; lower right: "THE TIMES"; lower left: "H Nature | Bankrupt."; lower left: "Exeunt Omnes."; below image, lower left: "Design'd and Engrav'd by Wm. Hogarth. | The Conic Form in w'ch the Goddess of | Beauty was worship'd by the Ancients | at Paphos in y'e. Island of Cyrpus. | See the Medals struck when | a Roman Empe- ror visited | the Temple.--"; lower center: "THE BATHOS, | or, Manner of Sinking, in Sublime Paintings, | inscribed to the Dealers in Dark Pictures. -- † | "Simulacrum Deæ non effigie humanâ: | continuus orbis latiore initio tenuem in | ambitum, metæ modo; exsurgens, et ratio | in obscuro." Tacit: Hist: Lib: 2 | "Venus a Paphiis colitur; cujus Simula= | =crum nulli rei magis assimile, quam | albæ Pyramidi" | Maximus Tyrius: Anni: 157. | † See the manner of disgracing y'e, most Se= | =rious Subjects, in many celebrated Old | Pictures; by introducing Low, absurd, ob= | =scene & often prophane Circumstances into them."; lower right: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. March 3d. 1764. | A Copy of the precise Line of Beauty, as it | is represented on the 1st. explanatory | Plate of the A= =nalysis of Beauty, | Note, the familia= =rity of these two | Conic Figures, did not occur to | the Author; till two or three Years - | after his publicati= =on on the Analy= | sis, in 1754. | * fig. 26."