Catherine Hutton Catherine Hutton Catherine Hutton (11 February 1756 – 13 March 1846) was an English novelist and letter-writer. Born in Birmingham, the daughter of historian William Hutton, Hutton became a friend of the scientist and discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley and the novelist Robert Bage. A keen letter-writer, she corresponded with, among others, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and her mathematician cousin Charles Hutton. She built up a collection of over two thousand letters, some of which were published after her death. Hutton published a number of novels including "The Miser Married: a Novel" (1813) - itself partly written as a series
William Hogarth enormous sirloin of beef arrives, destined for the English inn as a symbol of British prosperity and superiority. He claimed to have painted himself into the picture in the left corner sketching the gate, with a "soldier's hand upon my shoulder", running him in. Notable Hogarth engravings in the 1740s include "The Enraged Musician" (1741), the six prints of "Marriage à-la-mode" (1745; executed by French artists under Hogarth's inspection), and "The Stage Coach or The Country Inn Yard" (1747). In 1745 Hogarth painted a self-portrait with his pug dog Trump (now also in Tate Britain), which shows him as a