Mary Hogarth Dickens' first child was named Mary in her memory. Hogarth was the daughter of George Hogarth (1783–1870), a music critic, cellist and composer, and Georgina Hogarth Thompson (1793–1863). She was born in Edinburgh, where her father was a legal advisor to Walter Scott, whom the young Charles Dickens greatly admired. She was the fourth of ten children, and the third daughter. Hogarth was named after her paternal grandmother. The name Mary Scott had previously been given to George and Georgina's third child, born 1817 or 1818, who was an infant when she died. Mary and her sister Catherine first met
The Bench (Hogarth) Vinci – with his version of some Raphael characters (from the Cartoons) and a hundred of his own character profiles. After Hogarth's death the subscription ticket was reproduced as print in its own right, minus the subscription details for "Marriage a-la-mode", and came to be known as "Characters and Caricaturas" (from the inscription Hogarth had added at the foot of the original). Hogarth intended to formally address the point with "The Bench" by creating a print for sale that showed characters, caricatures and "outré". Hogarth dismissed "outré" as a subset of caricature, but considered caricature to be as far below