England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . icersof the guards, who were in attendance upon the King,insisted upon kicking the musicians out, had not theDuke of Cumberland, who, as well as his father, wasprivy to the plot, restrained them. Heidegger nowcame forward and offered to discharge his band; whenthe impostor advanced, and cried in a plaintive tone, Sire, the whole fault lies with that devil in mylikeness. This was too much ; poor Heidegger turn-ed round, grew pale, but could not speak. TheDuke of Montagu, seeing it take so ser
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . icersof the guards, who were in attendance upon the King,insisted upon kicking the musicians out, had not theDuke of Cumberland, who, as well as his father, wasprivy to the plot, restrained them. Heidegger nowcame forward and offered to discharge his band; whenthe impostor advanced, and cried in a plaintive tone, Sire, the whole fault lies with that devil in mylikeness. This was too much ; poor Heidegger turn-ed round, grew pale, but could not speak. TheDuke of Montagu, seeing it take so serious a turn,ordered the fellow to unmask. Heidegger retired in 1723.] HOGARTH. 101 great ^\Tath, seated himself in an arm-chair, furiouslycommanded his attendants to extinguish the lights,and swore he would never agani superni-tend the masquerade,unless the mask wasdefaced and the mouldbroken in his sketch by Hogarthhas preserved and im-mortalised the face ofHeidegger on this oc-casion, when it trulymerited the descriptiongiven in one of the sa-tirical attacks on themanager of the Opera:. HEIDEGGER IN A RAGE, With a hundred deep wrinkles impressd on thy front,Like a map with a great many rivers upon W It was the degeneracy of the stage at this periodwhich brought forward the satirical talents of Hogarth*then a young man. In 1723, immediately after theappearance of the pantomime of Dr. Faustus at Lin-colns Inn Fields, he published his plate of Masque-rades and Operas/ with the gate of Burlington Housein the background, as a lampoon upon the bad taste ofthe age in every branch of art. On one side, Satan isrepresented as dragging a multitude of people througha gateway to the masquerade and opera, while Hei-degger is looking down upon them from a window withan air of satisfaction. A large sign-board above has arepresentation of Cuzzoni on the stage, to whom theEarl of Peterborough is making an offer of eight thou- 102 CARICATURES ON THE STAGE, [1725. sand pounds. On the
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