Catherine Dickens to publish his statement in "Punch" as they thought it unsuitable for a humorous periodical. Another public statement appeared in the "New York Tribune", which later found its way into several British newspapers. In this statement Dickens declared that it had been only Georgina Hogarth who had held the family together for some time: Dickens and Catherine had little correspondence after their separation, but she remained attached and loyal to her husband and to his memory until her own death from cancer. On her deathbed in 1879 Catherine gave the collection of letters she had received from Dickens to her
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