Inscription
East side: Here lieth the body / of WILLIAM HOGARTH, Esq. / who died October 26th, 1764 / aged 67 years / Mrs. JANE HOGARTH / wife of WILLIAM HOGARTH, Esq. / Obit 13th November, 1789 / aetat 80 years.
South side: Here lieth the body / of Mrs. ANNE HOGARTH, sister / to WILLIAM HOGARTH, Esq. / She died August 13th, 1771 / aged 70 years / Also, the body of / MARY LEWIS, spinster / died 25th March, 1808 / aged 88 years.
West side: Here lieth the body / of Dame JUDITH THORNHILL / relict of Sir JAMES THORNHILL, Knight, of Thornhill, in the county of Dorset / She died Nov. 12, 1757 / aged 84 years.
North side: [In basso-relievo, are the laurel wreath, rest-stick, palette with the line of beauty, pencils, a book inscribed "Analysis of Beauty", a mask, portfolio decorated with oak-leaves and acorns, under which are the following lines, by his friend Mr. GARRICK].
Farewell, great painter of mankind;
Who reach'd the noblest point of art,
Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind,
And through the eye correct the heart.
If genius fire thee, reader, stay;
If nature touch thee, drop a tear;
If neither move thee, turn away,
For HOGARTH'S honour'd dust lies here.
D. GARRICK / Restored by WILLIAM HOGARTH of Aberdeen in 1856.
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