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Excerpt from Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Vol. 2 of 2: Historical Painter, From His Autobiography and Journals
He was now at work on Bucles, when a new subject sug gested itself as adapted to that Hogarthian faculty which he ?attered himself might have developed itself in the Mock Election. He thus describes the subject and the circum stances under which it occurred to his mind.
February lst. For this last week I thought I should have gone mad at the prospect of losing dearest Frank - a fellow string of the same instrument as myself. 0 Frank - dear little intellectual, keen, poetic soul 3 One night, as I was sit ting by the fire in his room - his still room - sobbing quietly, in bitter grief, and resolving, if he died, to glory in letting my faculties rot over my blasted hopes, when - Will it be believed - Punch, as the subject for a picture, darted into my thoughts, and I composed it, quite lost to every thing else, till dear lit tle Frank's feeble voice recalled me.
This involuntary power it is which has always saved me. To God I offer my gratitude for its possession.
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