Mary Hogarth beautiful and light-hearted". When Robert Story visited the Hogarth household in 1836, he described Hogarth as "the fairest flower of spring". Dickens showed particular affection to Hogarth, and described her as "a close friend, an exceptional sister, a companion at home." It is believed that Hogarth was the first person to read "The Pickwick Papers" and "Oliver Twist", as Dickens valued Hogarth's input and feedback more than his wife's. In the early hours of 7 May 1837, after Hogarth had returned from a showing of "Is She His Wife?" at the St James's Theatre with the Dickens couple, she collapsed
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